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Last year, Tom Menino raised $1,171,133 in campaign contributions -- a fairly impressive sum when you remember that the maximum individual donation in a calendar year is $500.
He's a little behing that this year. Menino's report for mid-December puts him at $828,647 for the year through 12/15, according to my math. He had already hit the ...
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Congressional Quarterly's latest roll-call vote analysis confirms yet again what we already know -- that Maine's Republican Senators are out of step with their party.
In fact, they are the most out of step, and are the only two to vote against their party more than they vote with it. Olympia Snowe voted with the majority ...
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I agree with Dan that David Gregory's debut as Meet the Press host was inauspicious. Gregory did seem to go easy on Condi Rice. He also continued the Russert prediliction -- in both the interview and the roundtable -- of spending an awful lot of time reading quotes and showing clips in the process of getting around to asking a question.
More ...
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Jim Ogonowski's bid for US Senate ended in embarrassment when he failed to get enough signatures to qualify for the Republican primary ballot. Today comes news that he's facing an FEC complaint and lawsuit over unpaid bills.
Roll Call reports that Jamestown Associates, a Republican consulting firm in DC, claims that Ogo owes them roughly ...
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You probably know that Eric Holdren of Harvard's Kennedy School has been picked to be Barack Obama's top science advisor. Today Obama named a few more members of his "science and technology team," and guess what smarty-pants campus they all have some connection to?
Jane Lubchenco, nominee to head the National Oceanic and ...
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It is Friday afternoon heading into Christmas week, as the first flakes of a massive snowstorm start falling, so for all you Massachusetts pols out there: this is the perfect time to release controversial news that you don't want anyone to pay any attention to.
Oh, hey -- look what just showed up in my email inbox:
Moving forward in his ...
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Some ten months after Deval Patrick took office as Massachusetts Governor -- in large part due to the hard work of grassroots progressives -- I wrote an article called The Left, Left Out?, reporting on how those very progressives felt like they were losing steam, and influence, as a movement.
Will something similar happen on a national scale ...
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AG Martha Coakley has scheduled a 2:30 press conference to announce "the indictment of Richard Vitale on lobbying and campaign finance violations in
connection with work on behalf of ticket brokers’ organization."
This can't be good news for Speaker Sal, at least in the short term. In the longer term, if he's got truly clean ...
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In the new issue of the Boston Phoenix -- in print tomorrow, online now -- I have a feature story looking at some of the many, many reasons that George W. Bush has been, and continues to be, bad for the environment. I call it "20 Reasons The Earth Will Be Glad To See Bush Go," and I invite you to check it out.
I also encourage you to ...
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I've generally give short shrift thus far to the 2009 at-large city council campaign of Douglas Bennett, a young, enthusiastic Republican who works at the Suffolk County Criminal Clerk's office. Unfortunately, that will continue tonight, as I am unable to get to his Campaign Christmas Bash in Southie.
So, I want to encourage you all to go ...
