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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 [...]

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Mitt Romney Unveils Geriatric-Looking Portrait of Mitt Romney

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

Mitt Romney (who has not recently been to Argentina, and thus is having himself a pretty good month) breezed into the State House last night to unveil a portrait of what appears to be an old-ass version of himself. Haha, at least they got the hair right.
Romney’s gubernatorial portrait boasts two props, and [...]

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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, [...]

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Foxwoods Scares Braude

February 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics

I checked out MassINC’s Starting Line 09 forum this morning, starring Craig Sandler, Scot Lehigh, Hillary Chabot, and Jim Braude. And here’s what happened.
There was talk of policy and personality politics (Deval Patrick still needs help dealing with reporters, Bob DeLeo likes hamburgers and term limits and doesn’t seem as evil as Tom Finneran), and [...]

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Rogers Camp: There was no DiMasi Succession Deal

February 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics

Here’s one last nail in the coffin to close out this 15-month long John Rogers-Bob DeLeo soap opera.
Adam Reilly rightly laughed off Rogers’s last-minute denunciation of DeLeo’s coronation. The soon to be ex-Majority Leader claimed, on the one hand, that DeLeo was being installed by the DiMasi-Petrolati machine, while on the other, he whined about [...]

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Patrick Ethics Panel to Physically Abuse the Unethical

November 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics

Governor Deval Patrick formally established his task force on public integrity today. There’s a bunch of good names on the list – Pam Wilmot, Scott Harshbarger, Charlie Baker, Peter Sturgis, Andrew Tarsy, among others.
Patrick also tapped four current lawmakers. The panel’s apparent enforcer is Taunton Rep. James Fagan, who’s famous around these parts for being [...]

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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 [...]

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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics

(Cross-posted from the slick new Boston Daily)
How hard has the legislature been working? On Thursday, the thirstiest day of the week, the House and the Senate both missed last call. Now that’s public service. As Governor Deval Patrick told a group of kids who were regaling him with birthday wishes, “It’s insane down there right [...]

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The Hill and the Hall Half-Year in Review

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Politics

(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
There’s still a couple weeks left in the current legislative session, but since we’ve just passed the year’s halfway point – and since some of us are going to the beach a few days early – now seems as good a time as any to tally up the winners and losers from [...]

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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
A whole mess of pols in expensive suits showed up at the State House on Wednesday to witness the unveiling of a portrait of former Senate President Robert Travaglini. Headliners included former Governor Paul Cellucci, former Pike official and son of Eastie James Aloisi, Boston Mayor Tom Menino, former House Speakers Tom [...]

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