Mike Lake Calls for Sheriff Guy Glodis to Resign Over his Refusal to Pay Taxes

September 3, 2010 in Guy Glodis, Mary Connaughton, Mike Lake, Patronage Jobs, State Auditor, Uncategorized by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Suzanne Bump Issues a Statement Condemning Glodis’ Failure to Pay Taxes

Plus a list of Guy Glodis’ “top 10″ other Ethics Problems

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The Globe published an article today about political campaign committees who have failed to pay taxes on earnings from the investments made with campaign money. Most of the candidates (Tim Cahill, Tim Murray, and Martha Coakley), have acknowledged the oversight and said they will pay their taxes immediately.

Guy Glodis’ campaign is also named, but he is taking a very strange position – he claims that it wasn’t an oversight – and he won’t pay.

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Massachusetts Democratic Party has a Snarky New Website about Charlie Baker

September 3, 2010 in Charlie Baker, Governor by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

The Massachusetts Democratic Party has been developing a new web site about Charlie Baker called Charlie Baker’s World. It’s a pretty funny take at attacking Charlie Baker. They have been collecting a lot of the funnier anti-Baker virals running around the net, and making some of  their own. Definitely worth taking a look at.

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Plymouth County Republican Straw Poll Results

September 3, 2010 in 10th - Perry Malone Keating, 4th - Frank Bielat Sholley, 9th - Lynch D'Alessandro Lepor, Calter Truschelli Quelle, Joyce Burr Livingston, Kamal Jain, Mary Connaughton, Nyman Valanzola Welch Davis, State Auditor by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

The Plymouth County GOP held a straw poll last night that gives us some insight into a number of Plymouth County Republican primaries.

Not a lot of surprises here, but except maybe how lopsided some of the results were. Results after the jump.

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Senate candidate Michael Walsh calls for an apology from opponent Mike Rush

September 2, 2010 in Rush Williams Walsh by Mike Walsh | View Comments

Mike Walsh

In his interview with the editorial board for the Community Newspapers Company (posted August 30, 2010), my opponent Mike Rush was asked about debating me, Michael F. Walsh. I have outspokenly requested several debates prior to the democratic primary on September 14th. Rush responded:

“Going to Dunkin Donuts and (having) a street brawl debate, I don’t think that anyone benefits from it.”

Those words are condescending and egotistical, especially since on September 1, 2010, I attended a candidate forum for the Suffolk and Norfolk District Senate seat hosted by the Newbridge on the Charles in Dedham, moderated by Dorothy Kelly-Gay, a respected professional and former Mayor of Somerville.

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Ben Quelle: Without Checks and Balances, We Just Keep Writing the Checks

September 2, 2010 in Calter Truschelli Quelle by Ben Quelle | View Comments

Ben Quelle

I am Ben Quelle and I am a Republican running for State Representative for the 12th Plymouth District. This year, more than any other, is so important to the voters of Massachusetts.

The balance of power on Beacon Hill has become so out of whack that there is no true debate on any of the issues that are important to the people of Massachusetts and especially those of us in the 12th Plymouth District. It is clear that there are staged arguments between Governor Patrick and the 90 percent Democratic legislature, but generally, the governor and the Legislature can and do pass any law without fear of recourse or veto override.

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Dan Winslow Endorses Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation’s Reforms for Public Pension and Benefits

September 2, 2010 in Winslow Fennessy by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Rep Candidate Calls for “Real Reform to Avert Fiscal Failure”

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Dan Winslow

State Representative candidate Dan Winslow, the former Presiding Justice of the Wrentham District Court, today endorsed the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation’s (MTF) proposed reforms of the state’s public pension and benefit systems. “Massachusetts taxpayers are paying more and more to support public sector employees with compensation, pensions and benefits that most private sector employees do not have and never will be able to afford for themselves and their own families,” Winslow said. “We need to end this imbalance as a matter of fairness as well as a matter of fiscal prudence.”

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Cynthia Creem’s Campaign Manager Lies About Creem’s Record on Family Court Reform

August 31, 2010 in Alimony Reform, Creem Rudnick, Shared Parenting by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Editor: The Globe article has been corrected. Sherry was either misquoted or retracted the statement. The correction isn’t clear about what happened. We don’t have any issue with the Creem campaign’s current statement.
 

Cynthia Creem

Following today’s endorsement of Charles Rudnick by Warren Tolman and George Bachrach, the Globe contacted the Creem Campaign for a reaction.

Toward the end of the article, Mike Sherry, Cynthia Creem’s campaign manager, tells a whopper:

“Sherry said Creem has set up a task force that is going to report back with a proposal to change state child custody and alimony laws, and he said that by this time next year the senator expects consensus legislation will be passed.”

Creem is in a very tough race, with Rudnick probably in the lead. (See the Newton Tab’s online poll). And she finds herself on the defensive about her failure to make progress on two popular family court reform bills for Alimony Reform (H1785) and Shared Parenting (H1400).

Creem has tried to portray her obstructionist record, and the fact that she belatedly organized a lobbyist filled task force to study Alimony Reform as a record of leading on Alimony Reform. And she has parsed her words carefully minimizing her work as a divorce lawyer by saying she only “litigated” a few divorces this year. Anyone with experience in family law knows that only about one case in 20 is litigated. For each case litigated probably 20 were represented.

But her campaign has avoided saying outright untruths – until now.

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Warren Tolman and George Bachrach Endorse Charles Rudnick

August 31, 2010 in Creem Rudnick by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Editor: Former State Senators Warren Tolman and George Bachrach have issued the following statement endorsing Charles Rudnick for State Senate
 

Charles Rudnick and Cynthia Creem

To the Editor:

We have great respect for state Senator Cynthia Creem.  We share her progressive values and we appreciate her progressive voting record.  But we strongly support Charles Rudnick for election to the state Senate representing Brookline, Newton and Wellesley.

Why?

We have both served in the state Senate.  We understand how it works.  There are two kinds of state senators…those who lead and those who follow.  Leadership is hard.  It requires courage and creativity and independence.

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Rep. Thomas Petrolati Trying to Block Investigation of the Probation Patronage Scandal

August 30, 2010 in Attorney General, Baddour Downing Cole, Cynthia Creem, Patronage Jobs, Rush Williams Walsh by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Thomas Petrolati

The Globe on Sunday has a very important article about Rep. Thomas Petrolati’s attempts to thwart the investigation into the patronage scandal at the probation department.

Petrolati is at the center of some of the most egregious patronage abuses. His wife Kathleen is a top manager at Probation. A former aide, Andre Pereira, and the husband of his current aide, Colleen Ryan all have Probation jobs that pay more than $74,000.  Scores of financial supporters have also received jobs at the Probation Department. And Petrolati is a close friend of Probation Commissioner John “Jack” O’Brien, who was suspended in May after the Globe revealed a pattern of political favoritism in hiring.

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The Tea Party: Radical Extremists or Educators?

August 29, 2010 in Uncategorized by Paul Roy Jr | View Comments

With the November elections not far away, I want to take a look at the Tea Party Movement and and share my thoughts on what I see the movement as.

The first question one has to ask is what is the Tea Party movement. It certainly has been described as many things, a third political party, a racist organization, a bunch of right-wingers bent on ousting the current president, a movement to overthrow the Government by violent means. While every group has their fringe elements, this is not how I see the Tea Party movement, certainly not at the local level here in Massachusetts. This is based on my having attended various Tea Party group meetings and events. I have never seen any evidence of racism, violence, talk of impeachment or any of the things the Tea Party movement is accused of. Being a sceptic,  I have looked for this evidence and have found none.

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