Courtesy of State House News, here’s everyone’s favorite House minority leader, Brad Jones, explaining why the legislature shouldn’t pass a bill letting Deval Patrick fill an empty Senate seat. Even though everyone knows the legislature is going to pass the thing anyway: “The governor’s track record with [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Brad Jones'
Brad Jones, Comedy Superstar
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Tags:Brad Jones·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Sal DiMasi·State House News·You Just Got Nailed
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
August 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from the red-eyed Boston Daily)
World traveler/embattled ex-public servant Matt Amorello was not in India last week. That’s because he was stuck on Beacon Hill, very nearly weeping while angrily insisting that he’s not a crook. Don’t laugh yet. Amorello isn’t just a not-crook; he’s also a sound manager who has the state’s best financial [...]
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Brad Jones·Legislature·Mayor Menino·Mitt Romney
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily, ’cause the feds don’t care about stopping us)
This week, bizarre sexcapades yielded to the palace intrigue, paranoia, denunciations of the plebiscite, and scrambling to cram in work before vacation that normally dominates Beacon Hill. It was just as well. Journalists and political gossips had more than enough material to work with, [...]
Tags:Brad Jones·Casinos·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Sal DiMasi
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
April 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from the mighty mighty Boston Daily)
It’s budget season on Beacon Hill again. And it’s apt that it should coincide, roughly, with the run-up to area colleges’ final exams. After a semester of lying around and drinking, the legislature now has to pull a week of harried all-nighters before it can knock off work for [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Brad Jones·Casinos·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Sal DiMasi
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
February 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted to Boston Daily)
Mitt Romney’s campaign for president has ended. Who’ll we make fun of now?
It was, by all accounts, a bizarre scene at City Hall on Wednesday when the Boston firefighters union met with members of the City Council.
“What they really should’ve done is convene the Council psychologist,” says a source. “They seem [...]
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Brad Jones·MBTA·Mitt Romney
