It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. No one has accused Mitt Romney of wrongdoing. It’s been established that Romney aides operated within the bounds of Massachusetts law when 11 of them purchased their hard drives and that the governor’s predecessors also destroyed electronic communications. The Boston Globe reports that tens of thousands of emails […]
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The inside games of Murray and Bump
Here’s a question for everybody out there who wants to be governor, as well as the people who are in the business of charging this first group of people several thousand dollars per month in consulting fees: If Massachusetts voters have a clear pattern of choosing political outsiders over ladder-climbing, machine-building pols, where’s the upside […]
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Patrick’s compensation philosophy and Mullan
State Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Mullan is leaving his job later this year because Gov. Deval Patrick refused to give him a raise. The Globe broke the story, reporting that Mullan asked for a raise in May and Patrick turned him down. Mullan, who has two children in college and a third at a private high […]
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Immigration showdown
Gov. Deval Patrick waded back into the immigration quagmire again yesterday, saying Massachusetts won’t join a program sharing the fingerprints of arrested individuals with federal immigration agencies. Patrick said he’d initially signaled his intention to join the program because the feds had told him the program was mandatory, “not because I thought it was good […]
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The Download: Heralding Patrick’s new book
As the Boston Herald hits the midway point in its tour through Gov. Deval Patrick’s wobbly early years in office, the governor is showing he’s now a far different politician than he was at the start of his first term. Yesterday’s Herald piece recalled Patrick’s dramatic post-election swoon — the Cadillac, the drapes, the Ameriquest […]
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The Download: Patrick as political analyst
Gov. Deval Patrick spent the weekend in Washington, DC, raising his national profile, raising cash, and getting some practice in the role of campaign surrogate for President Obama. The trip allowed him to plant an unwanted kiss on the mug of one Willard Mitt Romney, but it also caused a stir back home when the […]
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The Download: Deval’s road map
increased crime in the region, says a Cape Cod Times editorial.
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The Download: Whose Constitution?
It couldn’t be termed a constitutional crisis but the decision by the new Republican-controlled House to read the Constitution into the Congressional Record was as much hysterical as historical. In a nod to the Tea Party, the new House rules require a constitutional rationale for any bill introduced in the House and to emphasize the […]
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Crazy like a fox? Christy Mihos’s big RMV idea
By Gabrielle Gurley With all eyes on the big dogs in the governor’s race, the underdog can afford to go out on a limb. Christy Mihos, who is challenging Charles Baker for the Republican nod, has proposed relocating Registries of Motor Vehicles to city and town halls, all 351 of them. (Baker suggested allowing some […]