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Boston Herald A Day Late, $500,000 Short On Mayoral Race
Preliminary indications are that our feisty local tabloid is taking a pass on the Boston mayoral race. The first competitive City Hall election in 20 years is apparently less important than the non-existent political career of a certain Scott Brown … Continue reading
Baker’s ‘Doesn’t’ In U.S. Senate Speculation
Lots of political prognostication in the local dailies today about who might do what in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat about to be vacated by John Kerry (D-Am I Secretary of State Now?). Start with the the Boston … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Weld, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Charlie Baker, Ed Markey, Frank Phillips, Hillary Chabot, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Joe Battenfeld, John Kerry, Kerry Healey, Michael Levenson, ML Strategies, Scott Brown, Stephen Lynch, The Newseum, Tom Menino
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Boston Herald: Scott Brown For Governor?
Up until now, conventional wisdom in the Bay State held that Scott Brown (R-Tickle Me Grover) had first GOP dibs on the U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by John Kerry (D-So Long, Suckers), while Good (Next) Time Charlie … Continue reading
Charlie Baker Doesn’t Count
For a guy who was Administration & Finance Secretary for four years, Charlie Baker’s not so good with numbers. Witness his latest TV spot in the Massachusetts governor’s race. Did you get that? 21,000 Massachusetts jobs lost last month alone. … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (pat. pending)
From Wednesday’s Boston Globe: “If I walked on water,’’ [Gov. Deval Patrick] said, “Charlie Baker’s response would be, ‘See? I told you Patrick can’t swim.’ ’’ Just one more indication that Patrick’s reelection campaign is going along swimmingly.
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Tagged Boston Globe, Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick, walk on water
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Dead Blogging The Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate
How boring was the final (maybe) debate in the Massachusetts governor’s race? This boring: You couldn’t even get a decent drinking game out of it. I blame Charlie Gibson. Entirely. Gibson presided over a rambling hour of been-there-heard-that with the … Continue reading
Deval Patrick Gets Free WSJ Ad
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page featured this piece headlined: Four Governors on How to Cut Spending Among them: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Staples) on smart shopping for office supplies ($14 million saved!); California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Am I Retired … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bob McDonnell, Charlie Baker, CNBC, Deval Patrick, Ed Rendell, Wall Street Journal
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Dead Blogging The Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate #2
The first Boston Media Consortium bakeoff (accent on Con, since it required participants to raise $100,000 by October 1, even though the debate took place on September 21), proceeded smartly last night, thanks in no small part to moderator John … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Media Consortium, Charlie Baker, CNN, Deval Patrick, Jill Stein, John King, Tim Cahill
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Dead Blogging The Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate
The bell rang last night on WBZ-TV for the real opening round of the Massachusetts governor’s race (up to now it’s been mostly about money and media). The main event was Gov. Deval Patrick (D-We’re Number Whatever!) vs. GOP challenger … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick, Jill Stein, Jon Keller, Laffer Curve, supply-sider, Tim Cahill, WBZ-TV
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