Yesterday, I’m standing outside the 21st Amendment, and I see these two mid-level bureaucrat guys walking up the street.
One looks over at the Fill-A-Buster, laughs, and points. “Be careful what you say around here,” he says. “They’re listening!”
Entries Tagged as 'Dianne Wilkerson'
They’re Listening!
January 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted, for the last time, from Boston Daily)
It’s been a hell of a year for scandal on Beacon Hill. Jim Marzilli went on a sexy rampage, there’s a grand jury investigating the Speaker’s former campaign treasurer, and the House Majority Leader might not be far behind.
The man who’s opposing him for control of the House [...]
Tags:Allegedly!·Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Crooks·Demagoguery·Dianne Wilkerson·Legislature·Overheard·Therese Murray·You Just Got Nailed
Google Ads Read the Newspapers
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Politics
The following Google ad just plopped itself atop my Gmail inbox. Right after I’d wrapped up a couple hours of phone calls about Dianne Wilkerson, everybody’s favorite knee-cracking, bra-$tuffing state senator.
Dictionary.com Word of the Day – hubris: overbearing pride or presumption.
Huh. Hell of a coincidence, that.
One Falls on the Right…
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
…And now one on the left.
Ted Stevens: Guilty.
Dianne Wilkerson: Not close behind.
Tags:Crooks·Dianne Wilkerson
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Governor Deval Patrick put on his most seriousest face Thursday morning and warned everybody that his ambitious agenda, which was a bit beyond everybody’s reach to begin with, will remain even more so for the time being. That’s because of all the hot Dust Bowl action happening out there. “It’s not that [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Deval Patrick·Dianne Wilkerson·Pike·Sarah Palin·Therese Murray
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
This city is dying for a great political race. What we’re getting instead is a race about race. And it’s going to be filthy.
Dianne Wilkerson is scrambling to retain her Senate seat. She lost last week’s Democratic primary to Sonia Chang-Diaz, and responded in familiar fashion: Surrounded by adoring supporters, she spoke [...]
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Dianne Wilkerson·Idle Speculation·Mayor Menino·Politics as Bloodsport
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Democracy happened on Tuesday, and what a mess it left behind. John Kerry beat back some RFK lookalike. Longtime Senate fixture Dianne Wilkerson was overthrown by an astronaut’s daughter in a low-turnout race that broke largely along racial and neighborhood lines.
A machine boss’s daughter brought gubernatorial hellfire upon her head in [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Dianne Wilkerson·Ed O'Reilly·John Kerry·John Rogers·Legislature·Mayor Menino·Mitt Romney·Sal DiMasi
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
And you thought John Tomase had it bad.
On Wednesday morning, the Herald splashed with a terrifying scoop: The City Council was “mulling a scheme to keep their business secret from the taxpayers who elected them, creating a cone of silence that would make the Hub the only city in the commonwealth [...]
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Dianne Wilkerson·Herald·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Therese Murray
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Deval Patrick has got to hate St. Patrick’s week. This time a year ago, House Speaker Sal DiMasi appeared before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and absolutely brutalized the governor – much to the delight of the assemblage of reporters and rich people in nice suits.
And now, no sooner had [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Casinos·Cheryl Jacques·Deval Patrick·Dianne Wilkerson·Sal DiMasi
