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  • April 27, 2006
    Keller on "Saint Patrick and his Devils"
    By webteam

    First off, a big fat mea culpa--between wrapping up this week's Phoenix story on the logjam in the State House, putting together an item on Mitt Romney's Mormon P.R. campaign for Slate, and moving to lovely Lynn (or Ocean Park, as I like to call it) earlier this week, I've neglected this blog. Criminally, even.

    Having said that, let me draw everyone's attention to Jon Keller's piece on Deval Patrick in the May issue of Boston Magazine.

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  • April 26, 2006
    A meeting only North Enders could love
    By Adam Reilly

    [Deirdre Fulton guest-blogging.]

    11:43 a.m.: Scapicchio calls the meeting to order --- it's his last city council meeting.

    12:01 p.m.: I promise, not one interesting thing has happened. Sorry. All councilors have a copy of Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times on their desks. Was Lincoln so dull?

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  • April 21, 2006
    St. Patrick, indeed
    By Adam Reilly

    Deval Patrick's campaign just distributed a letter from their guy to the other Democratic candidates for the Massachusetts governor's job.

    Strategically, this is a good move on Patrick's part. If his suggestions are accepted, he gets credit for keeping the race clean and helping the MA Democratic Party out; if they're rejected, he looks high-minded compared to his opponents.

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  • April 21, 2006
    Against nativism
    By Adam Reilly

    Aaron at Mass Democracy raises an interesting question: is it better to have a governor who was born in Massachusetts? His answer is a resounding yes--but he doesn't back up his argument.

    Not to be harsh, but maybe that's because it doesn't make much sense.

    Don't get me wrong. If a candidate whose attachment to Massachusetts is questionable picks our state for expediency's sake (see: Mitt Romney, 2002), it's valid to point that out.

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  • April 20, 2006
    Greatest Romney gaffes--add your own!
    By Adam Reilly

    I've got my top ten in this week's Phoenix, but I'm sure I've missed a few. Anyone care to add to the list?

    Here's a good one to get the ball rolling: on the campaign trail in '02, as Romney waxes eloquent about the importance of the MCAS, Jon Keller asks the candidate if he knows what "MCAS" stands for. He does not.
  • April 19, 2006
    Grading the Gabrieli ads
    By Adam Reilly

    So, two TV spots from the Wonkish One started running today. "Change" takes an Erroll Morris-esque tack, with Gabrieli looking directly at the camera and giving his spiel to voters (Massachusetts is stuck, he doesn't have all the answers but does have lots of ideas, etc.). Every few seconds, the screen goes black and a catch phrase we're supposed to remember about Gabrieli--"Solving Problems," "New Ideas," and later, in case we missed the point the first time, "Solves Problems.

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  • April 18, 2006
    The Healey camp's tax fib
    By Adam Reilly

    Ladies and gentlemen of the electorate....We have the first big distortion of the governor's race!

    In a press release that came out earlier today--issued in conjunction with Republican Kerry Healey's photo-op calling for the state income tax to be rolled back to five percent-- the Healey camp said Democrat Deval Patrick "opposes tax relief and wants to increase taxes and state spending."

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  • April 14, 2006
    The voluble Douglas Bennett
    By Adam Reilly

    Which bon mot from the baggage-laden Republican legislative candidate is your favorite? Let's be interactive here, people!

    Here are the choices, drawn from the aforementioned article and Howie Carr's complimentary column:

    1. "The people will elect Bennett to the Senate because the truth comes out."

    2. "I don't see color.

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  • April 14, 2006
    My new favorite Republican
    By Adam Reilly

    Because I'm a shameless slacker, I just read this week's Laura Kiritsy column in Bay Windows--and what did I learn? Samiyah Diaz, who's challenging incumbent Dianne Wilkerson for the Second Suffolk state senate seat, says she'll work to repeal the law that bars out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts if she's elected.

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  • April 12, 2006
    Kahlil Byrd leaves the Patrick campaign
    By Adam Reilly

    Odd timing on this one. Here's the press release the Patrick camp just issued:

    Byrd to Return to Business Interests

    BOSTON-Wednesday, April 12, 2006—The Deval Patrick campaign today announced that Deputy Campaign Manager and Communications Director Kahlil Byrd is leaving his full-time position to return to business and foreign policy interests he suspended when he joined the campaign.

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  • April 12, 2006
    On Dapper O'Neil's birthday, budget talks begin
    By Adam Reilly

    It's budget season!

    11:43 a.m.: Nine councilors present when the gavel bangs.

    11:47 a.m.: Rich Rogers, of the Greater Boston Labor Council brings two labor leaders from New Orleans to the podium, who tell us about workers'-rights abuses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "People over there are trying to get their lives back together, and it's very, very hard," says Robert Hammond, president of New Orleans' International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 130.

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  • April 12, 2006
    Can I get an amen?
    By Adam Reilly
    The best thing I've read today: this post, by David at Blue Mass Group, arguing that any Democrat who takes part in Mitt Romney's healthcare photo-op at Faneuil Hall is a masochistic bonehead (my words, not his). Great stuff.
  • April 11, 2006
    Bashing Mitt: a preview
    By Adam Reilly

    Want a preview of what anti-Romney Republicans will say in '08? Check out this item from the conservative Republican blog RedState.com. Interesting stuff--and a welcome change of pace from the Romney lovefest that's been going on the last few days.

    p.s.--Seems I posted a bum link earlier, but it should be working now. Mea culpa.
  • April 11, 2006
    Grading the Patrick ad
    By Adam Reilly

    So, the Deval Patrick campaign unveiled its first web ad (and the first video ad of the governor's race) a few minutes ago. My quick take: leading with the bio is a nice swipe at Tom Reilly; swelling synth music sounds too much like the theme from St. Elmo's Fire; the "Less focused on right and left...more focused on right and wrong" line should play well with independents who make it that far.

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  • April 10, 2006
    Gabrieli's revenge
    By Adam Reilly

    Not that that's his motivation, necessarily, but this new poll strongly suggests that Chris Gabrieli is sucking tons of support from Tom Reilly and barely any from Deval Patrick.

    Consider: five weeks ago, Reilly led Patrick, 47 percent to 37 percent, among likely Democratic primary voters. Now Patrick's at 36 percent and Reilly at 33, with Gabrieli at 19 and undecideds at 11.

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