The wife checks in from Castle Island, where GOP Senate candidate Jeff Beatty is working the hot dog-eating, weekend dog-walking crowd for votes.
His pitch: “I need your support. I’m running against John Kerry. I’m Irish!”
Entries Tagged as 'John Kerry'
But I’m Irish!!!
October 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Tags:John Kerry·Overheard
Taking the Fight to the Enemy
October 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
I just drove past one lonely guy waving a Jeff Beatty sign. On a Mass. Ave. median deep in Cambridge.
I didn’t get a cellphone picture, because I might’ve run the dude over. And he didn’t deserve that. He’s got it bad enough. If there’s a worse place for a hopeless protest candidate to scrounge for [...]
Tags:Communism·John Kerry
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
Talking Head Trades Up
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Here’s David Wade, one of the two Democratic operatives assigned to shadow VP nominee Joe Biden, telling the Times why voters will just plum fall in love with a guy who tells paraplegics to stand up, marvels at the sea change immigration has wrought behind the counters of 7-Eleven, and who has been known to [...]
Tags:John Kerry
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily. Act like you know.)
Between Bunker Hill Day Week, the Green’s run for 17, and the hazy celebration that followed, absolutely nothing got done on Beacon Hill this week. It didn’t hurt that the three people who make the State House halfway functional were in California, courting biotech bigwigs and learning the [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Deval Patrick·Ed O'Reilly·John Kerry·Legislature
Not Qualified, No Hopes Whatsoever
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Fantastic item from the recently-orphaned Wonkette: John McCain and Joe Lieberman are running around pimping their new Citizens for McCain campaign. They’ve eagerly told the press that dozens of “prominent Democrats and Independents” have already joined the fight. One of these prominent Dems is a dude by the name of Icky Frye. He once ran [...]
