Any fool knows the State House Cafe is the only place on Beacon Hill to go when you’re in need of cheap-ass hot dogs served in a buttery roll, or a copy of the NY Post, or some coffee that will burn a hole through the lining of your stomach. Moreover,unlike some other budget-eats places [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Legislature'
Harshbarger to Galluccio: Go to Rehab
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Wow, not much subtlety in this one, huh? “I know you, and your ass is drunk.” Or something to that effect.
Tags:Legislature
Comment of the Week
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
It comes in response to this Globe story about the escalating slap-fight between a governor feeling the heat of a reelection race and a legislature that will allow no crisis to spoil its seven-week winter boozecation: “Is Deval just now finding out what tremendous d-bags the legislature is comprised of?”
Tags:Boston Globe·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Savagery
Brad Jones, Comedy Superstar
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
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 [...]
Tags:Brad Jones·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Sal DiMasi·State House News·You Just Got Nailed
Destiny, Aborted
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
That didn’t take long.
Nine months after he came crashing into state government, Jim Aloisi has been tossed overboard. Or, rather, he’s, uh, decided that his work here is done. And by “work here,” we mean, “alienating the legislature he was brought on board to woo, and driving down his boss’s poll numbers for good measure.”
The [...]
Tags:Deval Patrick·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Therese Murray
Pie, Meet Senator’s Face
July 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Steve Baddour takes a cream pie to the face. Only on Fox.
Tags:Legislature
What Crisis?
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Here’s what’s happening on Beacon Hill this week while the world hurtles toward its untimely end, courtesy of the invaluable State House News Service: “Fiscal crisis or not, it’s school vacation week, which means an unofficial vacation for many in the building. There’s little in the way of committee activity and informal sessions, lightly attended [...]
Tags:Legislature·Vacations
DeLeo Cracks Wise, Pans Earmarks
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
A couple quick notes from new speaker Bob DeLeo’s first appearance before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce this morning.
DeLeo tried hard to reinforce the “hamburger guy” image he’s crafting for himself, mentioning that he still goes to the post office himself and does his own errands in Winthrop and Revere. Congrats on that count, [...]
Tags:Bob DeLeo·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Sal DiMasi
A Word for the Kids’ Table
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
CNN got Governor Deval Patrick to pimp his gas tax proposal yesterday. He said, basically, that roads cost money, lots of it, and it’s OK to say as much, to be “candid about our choices and none of them are pleasant.”
“Grownups know that you can’t have something for nothing,” he said.
Michael Graham flogs Patrick in [...]
Tags:Deval Patrick·Legislature
New Majority Leader Could Really Hurt You
February 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Here’s one point that hasn’t surfaced yet in the postmortems on new Speaker Bob DeLeo’s new leadership team.
James Vallee, whose ascension to Majority Leader sends John Rogers to the back benches, wasn’t just one of DeLeo’s top leg-breakers during the long, drawn-out battle to succeed Sal DiMasi. He was also (allegedly!) the rep who threatened [...]
