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Jim McKenna Wins Write-In Primary Campaign for Attorney General

September 15, 2010 in Attorney General by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Jim McKenna

It’s looking like Jim McKenna will have enough write-in votes to be on the ballot for Attorney General in November. McKenna needs 10,000 votes to get on the ballot. Complete results are not out yet, but with about 10% of towns reporting it looks like McKenna already has 5,922 votes.

McKenna’s web site is has a big banner up on it:

WE DID IT
It is Big! I Mean Really Big!
We didn’t just make it – We Crushed it!
Record-Breaking – Historical – Undisputable!
Will be fun for all of us to watch over next couple of days as Massachusetts media and the Coakley Machine finally discovers it, verifies it, then verifies it again…

Martha Coakley has an opponent
and his name is Jim McKenna.

Thank You all Very Much -
You made this happen!

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Karyn Polito Candidate for State Treasurer Interviewed By Emily Rooney

September 13, 2010 in Treasurer by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Polito discusses one of her more interesting policy proposals – eliminating state pensions for elected officials:

As a result of our unfunded pension obligations, Massachusetts taxpayers are required to pay about $1.4 billion each year to make up the difference in the system, which translates to a liability of about $1,000 for every household across the state. Those costs are only expected to grow over time. If we could eliminate this unfunded liability, we would have enough money to not only roll back the sales tax to 5.0%, but almost double the amount of unrestricted local aid we pay to cities and towns every year. More local aid means fewer layoffs of police, firefighters and teachers.

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Newspapers Across America Endorse Susanne Bump for State Auditor

September 11, 2010 in State Auditor, Suzanne Bump by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Editor: We got this message from the Campaign of Susanne Bump for State Auditor
 

Suzanne Bump

Candidate for State Auditor Favored By Newspapers from Every Region of the Commonwealth

Suzanne Bump, a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts State Auditor, has received the endorsement of more newspapers in the Democratic Primary than both of her opponents combined, and is favored by a wide array of newspapers from every region of the Commonwealth. Her list of endorsements include:

The Boston Globe – “Bump has a clearer fix than her opponents on how the auditor’s office might be used for the public good.”

The Salem Evening News – “Suzanne Bump….has impressive service in both the public and private sectors and the credentials to serve in this important watchdog role.”

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Jim McKenna Candidate for Attorney General Interviewed By Hector Montalvo

September 8, 2010 in Attorney General by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

McKenna Critical of Coakley over Public Corruption and Cape Wind Contract Details

 

Hector Montalvo has posted an interesting interview with Jim McKenna, the Republican write-in Candidate running against Martha Coakley for Attorney General.

It’s worth watching the whole interview. Jim hit Martha Coakley hard on two issues.

In the years while Coakely has been Attorney General, she has not been aggressive in fighting public corruption. The most visible issue has been the patronage scandal at Probation. For years it has been an open secret that certain key legislators, like Thomas Petrolati, Robert DeLeo and others, were using the Probation Department to give jobs to friends, family and political supporters.

Martha Coakley hasn’t done anything about it. Chief Justice Robert Mulligan finally had to intervene himself, suspend the Probation Commissioner, John O’Brien, and appoint his own investigator Paul Ware. One of the attorney generals primary functions is to prosesute public corruption.

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Globe Endorses Jim McKenna for Attorney General

September 8, 2010 in Attorney General by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Jim McKenna

Martha Coakley is currently running unopposed for Attorney General. That is not because she is incredibly popular – and it represents a missed opportunity to have a real race for AG in November.

In a surprising move, the Boston Globe has today endorsed Jim McKenna for Attorney General. The Globe agrees that having a viable Republican candidate for AG is good for Democracy:

No office as important as AG should go unchallenged; giving even the most committed public servants a free pass at election time is a recipe for excesses and abuses of power.

So on Tuesday, Republican voters should do a favor to their party and the greater cause of electoral competition and write in a candidate for attorney general. If a candidate were to receive 10,000 votes — a tall order — he or she would be on the ballot in November. Two Republicans are waging write-in campaigns, and the more forward-looking choice would be Millbury attorney James McKenna, a former prosecutor and GOP party activist in central Massachusetts.

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Governor’s Council District 1 Candidates Overview

September 6, 2010 in Governor's Council 1st District by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Joe Ureneck

South Coast Today published an excellent overview of the Governor’s Council 1st District race. This is the most contested of the Governor’s Council races with 7 candidates running. It is also the most confusing – as there are two brothers running with the same name – Oliver Cipollini – one as a Democract and one as a Republican:

In the midst of a campaign season Joseph A. Ureneck, like the other six candidates vying for Governor’s Council District 1, finds himself having to clear one major hurdle: voter incomprehension.

“The Governor’s Council is a black hole for most people,” said Ureneck recently. “It exists and they have no idea what it does.”

The council’s main duty is to confirm approval of gubernatorial appointments — namely judges, notaries, justices of the peace — weigh in on criminal pardons and act on payments from the state treasury.

The body, comprised of eight members with the lieutenant governor serving as an ex officio member, meets once a week, at noon on Wednesday in the State House Chamber.

Council members, elected every two years, draw a salary of $26,025.

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Glodis will “Reign” in Wasteful Spending

September 6, 2010 in Guy Glodis, State Auditor by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Glodis has mailed out a brochure with a spectacular gaffe in the title. David Bernstein at the Phoenix quips that the title was meant to read “Glodis Will Reign Over Wasteful Spending.”

How a typo as bad as this one went out in a mailing to voters is beyond comprehension. You’d think that with $800k campaign cash Glodis would be able to afford a copy editor.

 

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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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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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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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