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Sen. Eldridge Talks Dark Money

November 26, 2013 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

One of Left Ahead's favorite guests, MA Sen. James (Jamie) Eldridge joined us to talk campaign-finance reform, specifically disclosure of contributions. He’s as appalled as we about the Citizens United decision. He is a leader in nibbling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, campaign-finance, citizens-united, clean-elections, eldridge, election-reform, elections, left-ahead, massachusetts, s.321, senate

Ethics and Transparency Plank of Democratic Platform Draft a Disgrace

June 29, 2013 By progressivemax 4 Comments

 Compared to the rest of the platform there is very little substance to the Ethics and Transparency Plank of Democratic Platform Draft ETHICS AND TRANSPARENCY Massachusetts Democrats believe that public officials should be held to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: convention, deleo, eldridge, john-walsh, mike-lake, platform, reform, setti-warren, transparency

Eldridge’s Two-Level Attack on Citizens United

October 25, 2011 By massmarrier 3 Comments

MA Sen. James (Jamie) Eldridge did not throw up his hands last year when the SCOTUS passed Citizens United by five to four. He proposed commonwealth and federal fixes to unlimited, undisclosed campaign and advertising contributions under … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: advertising, campaign-finance, citizens-united, congress, constitutional-amendment, eldridge, General-court, massachusetts

Video Illustration of How Culture of Corruption Is Maintained

October 3, 2011 By scout 16 Comments

The recent State Senate debate about the amendment proposing to establish a 5 year “cooling off period” before any legislator could go to work for the proposed casinos has been the biggest news-maker of the process thus far and the first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Candaras, casinos, culture-of-corruption, eldridge, murray, rosenberg

Thank you, Senators Eldridge and Chang Diaz for the courage to talk about taxation in public

May 17, 2009 By AmberPaw 21 Comments

Today's Boston Globe contains an Op Ed written jointly by Senator Eldridge and Senator Chang-Diaz.  Their courage and straight talk makes me proud to be a democrat. Among other things, they point out that a 1% increase in the personal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chang-diaz, cuts, eldridge, progressive-taxation, recession, revenue

Stop pending cuts to the already bare bones Disabled Persons Protection Commission [DPPC] –

April 8, 2009 By AmberPaw 3 Comments

Quote from yesterday's rally at the State House on behalf of the disabled: COFAR President David J. Hart  presided, pointing to two budget cuts under $200,000 each that affected hundreds or thousands of disabled people, one to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cofa, disabled-persons-protection-commission, dppc, eldridge, fernald, natural-law, social-compact, tufts-dental-facilities-program

Jamie Eldridge is in Denver??

August 25, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 81 Comments

Curious thing about the convention: It gathers more of the major Massachusetts Democrats in one place than just about any event in Massachusetts -- including the Mass Dems convention. We ran into State Rep. and State Senate candidate Jamie … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: eldridge, ma-senate, massachusetts, senate

Jen Benson Endorsed by Rep. Jamie Eldridge

June 12, 2008 By chrissmason 2 Comments

Eldridge announced his "full-hearted endorsement" in front of a full house at a political forum hosted by the Boxborough Democratic Town Committee on Monday, June 9. The event was co-sponsored by the six Democratic town committees in the … [Read more...]

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My campaign for State Senate

February 11, 2008 By Jamie Eldridge 22 Comments

Hello to the BMG community, I want you to be among the first to know that I am announcing today I am running for the Middlesex-Worcester Senate seat after last week's announcement by Senator Pam Resor that she will not be running for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: announcement, eldridge, state-senate

MA-05 candidates clash on experience

August 28, 2007 By Charley on the MTA 20 Comments

Dick Howe's got a rundown of the final debate between the MA-05 candidates. Eileen Donoghue is making a run at Niki Tsongas' experience -- portraying herself as a seasoned public servant and Tsongas as, well, a political wife who didn't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: donoghue, eldridge, finegold, ma-05, miceli, ogonowski, tsongas

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