The Globe reports from Patrick’s Town Hall meeting yesterday:
Barney Keller, the spokesman for the state Republican Party, trained a video camera on Patrick the entire time, hoping to capture an embarrassing YouTube moment.
This kind of thing just makes the Massachusetts GOP look desperate and out of ideas. If the best they can do is hope to catch our Governor in a gaffe maybe they should just hang up their spurs as the opposition. Our Republican party does occasionally have a sound policy suggestion, and our pals at Red Mass Group know a thing or two from time to time (although I disagree with their recent complaint about higher cigarette prices ), but trolling public meetings for YouTube moments rather than, as challenged below, presenting substantive issues of policy disagreement? Tragic.
Maybe he’s looking for material for McCain’s campaign, since Patrick is an Obama campaign co-chair.
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One of Maryland’s political stars, former lieutenant governor Michael S. Steele, will deliver the headline speech at the Silver Anniversary Dinner Saturday as part of the Republican Party of Virginia’s GOP Advance. The Advance, an annual gathering of Republican activists in Virginia, will be held this weekend at the Homestead [...]
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ALBANY—Representative Kirsten Gillibrand's name is persistently circulating --along with many others--as a possible replacement for Hillary Clinton in the Senate, but the idea may dissolve if Democrats think that would mean sacrificing a congressional seat.
Gillibrand's district, the 20th, is spread across 10 upstate counties from Columbia to Essex and was represented by conservative Republicans from 1978--when Republican Gerald Solomon defeated Representative Ned Pattison, ... more
Great op-ed from Dallas News:
… But the truth is, if U.S. economic policy looked a lot more like Ron Paul’s ideal than what we’ve had these past decades, the nation wouldn’t be tottering on the financial abyss. Dr. Paul has long argued that an economy built on easy credit, insatiable consumption and deficit spending is a time bomb. He backs a national economic model based on savings, investment and production.
An economy that depends so heavily on government interve... more
Look at the maps in this slideshow at the NY Times . Study it. Did you learn something?
The map represents areas that increased their share of the Republican vote versus 2004 - ie. Democrats voting for McCain. Without looking at demographics, I’m going to presume more white, more rural, lower education levels, and more evangelicals. I’m also going to hazzard a guess that the GOP will learn too, but based on their bad heads, they will interpret it the wrong way.
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Jeff Beatty issued a press release that a letter was hand delivered to Bill Galvin to investigate voter fraud by the Ogonowski campaign. As to the letter, (which is listed under the press release with affidavit) states:
The letter points to an affidavit signed by a registered Republican voter in Chelmsford, MA stating that his signature was fraudulently placed on nomination papers for Mr. Ogonowski’s campaign. This voter was also told that, in addition to his fa... more
I know, I know. Why get off our butts? We like sitting there. It’s the perfect position to try to turn EB3’s latest bulletin on State House wives into a screenplay (Eva Longoria as Ms. Petro?)
But you, yes you, can start a Commonwealth Corps operation. Even Republicans! Well, I’m not sure about that, but probably.
I’m not in any way affiliated with CC, but it’s modeled on AmeriCorps, and I am involved with an ... more
Why do so few people vote? Is this because people don’t take personal responsibility? Or is this because of how our elections are structured?
One clear cut example of how to remove barriers to participation was in North Carolina’s primary just a few weeks ago
From a recent Demos study:
North Carolina’s new "Same Day Registration" (SDR) law allowed 22,293 new voters to participate in the state’s high-turnout, May 6 primary election
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In a May 1 article about DiMasi, Cashman and ethics, Globe reporter Frank Phillips wrote:
"While the nature of the cable TV show business relationship is not known, if Deborah DiMasi accepted money in the business relationship, it could pose a violation of state ethics laws that prohibit people with interests before the Legislature from providing anything of more than $50 in value to lawmakers. The prohibition extends to lawmakers’ spouses and to their business relationships, as wel... more
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