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Tag Archives: Martha Coakley
Martha Coakley Is Not Going To D.C.
A couple of weeks ago the hardworking staff was first in Boston to note that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley was on the short list to become director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Turns out that was the … Continue reading
When The (Paul) Levy Breaks
So Paul Levy, embattled chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has finally deigned to talk to the press about stashing his – we’re just guessing here, because Levy “declined to detail the exact nature of the relationship with … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, girlfriend, Martha Coakley, Paul Levy
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Boston Globe Un-Unlikes Martha
Post in haste, repent at leisure. The hardworking staff’s rare midday post on Thursday, which detailed New York Times op-ed bridesmaid Gail Collins’ drive-by snarking of Martha Coakley, went up before we caught that day’s Boston Globe Coakley-palooza. Page One … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Gail Collins, Joan Vennochi, Martha Coakley, Martha's Mulligan Tour, yeah but graf
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Gail Unlikes Martha
New York Times op-ed bridesmaid Gail Collins takes a whack at Arlen Specter in today’s piece, which explores the limits of Barack Obama’s support for the embattled born-again Democrat. The president appreciated Specter’s help in shoving the stimulus bill over … Continue reading
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Tagged Gail Collins, Martha Coakley, New York Times, op-ed bridesmaid
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Dead Blogging the Massachusetts Senate Election
All day Tuesday, you got the sense that only the Ladies Who Lunch in the People’s Republic of Brookline still believed that Martha Coakley could actually win the U.S. Senate race. It was special, alright: • When the polls closed … Continue reading
Typo o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Headline of Bill O’Reilly’s column in Sunday’s Boston Herald op-ed page: Palin’s back and bigger then ever It was corrected on the Herald website, but still . . . The same edition of the Herald featured a piece about the … Continue reading
Beauty Call, Part 2
Well the Missus got a phone call from a former president on Saturday and here’s what he said (in a surprisingly lackluster way; then again he does have some other things going on): Hello. This is Bill Clinton. I’m calling … Continue reading
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Tagged chin-stroking racket, Martha Coakley, Massachusettes, Scott Brown
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Op-Odd Page
Is it just me, or was the Boston Globe’s Wednesday op-ed page a bit of a train wreck? At the top of the page was this: WHY I SHOULD BE YOUR NEXT SENATOR Below that appeared short pieces from the … Continue reading
Dead Blogging the (Deadly) Massachusetts Senate Debate
Monday night’s Senate debate was only slightly less jangly than the average David Gergen sentence. Gergen, who moderated the debate, started off with a litany of luminaries who had occupied this particular U.S. Senate seat over the years: Ted Kennedy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Joseph L. Kennedy, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Senate race, Scott Brown
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Dead Blogging the Massachusetts Senate Primary
The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is always stretched thin on Election Day, and Dec. 8th was no exception. Regardless, we started combing the streets of Brookline at the crack of 10. At Precinct 6, there were zero campaign supporters … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Khazei, Martha Coakley, Mike Capuano, Scott Brown, Steve Pagliuca
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