Christy Mihos has unequivocally declared his opposition to MCAS as a graduation requirement, and has said the test should be discontinued. From his press release:Independent gubernatorial candidate Christy Mihos attended a … [Read more...]
Ginny Buckingham: Patrick’s a threat to Healey; Mihos is not
Ginny Buckingham, the Herald's Republican-est columnist, has been assessing the field of Gov candidates lately, with some interesting results. She thinks that the Healey backers who are hoping and praying for Deval Patrick to win the … [Read more...]
Give war a chance
Updated to reflect the actual text of the ad.A few days ago just about every major politician in Massachusetts signed onto an ad declaring support for Israel's right to defend itself from unprovoked aggression. As concerned citizens, we … [Read more...]
My first endorsement: Christy Mihos – for State Auditor
Jon Keller wrote on his blog (and reiterated in last night's conversation with us) that Christy Mihos, for all of his faults as a gubernatorial candidate, "has an interesting habit of being proven right about virtually everything he says … [Read more...]
Romney seeks to oust Amorello from Turnpike Authority
AP is reporting that at a press conference a few minutes ago Governor Romney indicated that he wants to force Matt Amorello out as chairman of the Turnpike Authority.Someone ought to ask Christy Mihos what he thinks about Romney's … [Read more...]
Tom, where’s the $500 mill?
One of Tom Reilly's favorite "moderate" riffs is that if the personal income tax were rolled back to 5.0%, the next governor would still have $500 million to play with. And of course, Healey, Mihos -- and to an even vaguer extent Gabrieli … [Read more...]
Talk about trying to have it both ways!
Kim Atkins at the Herald noticed that Christy Mihos has rolled out a whole slew of his positions on various hot-button issues (with little or no elaboration on his reasons for taking those positions). Here are a couple of … [Read more...]
Polls — we’re late to the party
Channel 7/Suffolk poll out yesterday. sco, as always, has the slice-'n'-dice.Among Dems, Patrick's in the lead:Deval Patrick 31%Tom Reilly 25%Chris Gabrieli 22%Undecided 21%And check out the cool tracking graph from Suffolk.Tom Reilly said … [Read more...]
Christy Mihos’ Announcement on Campaign Spending?
Seems like Christy's missing a great opportunity for some free PR. Also, I've been peeking at ChristyVison Cam and I'm wondering, since Christy is watching Governor Romney working in the corner office "so closely", why doesn't … [Read more...]
Thoughts on Thursday’s debate
I finally got a chance to catch Thursday's gubernatorial candidates' forum at the NECN website; kudos to NECN for keeping it up there. Here are my thoughts:Of all the candidates, I consistently found Chris Gabrieli the easiest to listen to. … [Read more...]