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Gary Lowell: About me

October 12, 2010 – 10:35 pm
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Gary Lowell

Gary Lowell was born and raised in Weymouth.  He has lived in Weymouth his whole life and went to Weymouth public schools from K-12.  After graduating from high school, Gary moved on to Bridgewater State University to study for his Bachelors degree.  He is currently in his last year at Bridgewater State University and is set to graduate in May of 2011.

While attending BSU, Gary has become heavily involved in both the University administration and student clubs.  In his role writing for the University’s newspaper, Gary has written many articles challenging the University administration on not respecting student rights.  He is a big proponent of free speech rights and other rights guaranteed in the U.S. and Massachusetts Constitutions and has worked extensively to bring University policies in compliance with those rights.

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Bob Monty on Nassour’s MassGOPolicy: FAIL!

August 25, 2010 – 1:25 am

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Massachusetts’ voters are purportedly all fired up and eager to throw out all the incumbents this November – but not the MassGOP. Its concentration is on the top-tier offices of governor, light governor, a smattering of other constitutional state offices and a couple of congressional seats – just not the state Legislature.

The absurdity that gubernatorial candidate and health care multi-millionaire Charlie Baker and his new BFF and former New York political operative and now MassGOP leader, Jennifer Nassour, is proposing, is to get the top ticket jobs and worry about the state’s House and Senate seats two years from now – when he will be just another lame duck (if he wins). He’ll never be able to sustain a veto (if he wins) – just like his Democrat predecessor, DeFault Patrick (if he loses); and all those before him. All of our recent governors have been woeful pawns to the whims of the Legislature, so why is no one aiming to control it instead of the Corner Office? Must be the drapes – yeah… that’s it – they like the drapes.

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Bob Monty on Rep. Ron Mariano Part 2: Livin’ La Dolce Vida

August 12, 2010 – 11:55 pm

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I want to follow up my last critique – Through the Looking Glass – about one of our most excellent bon vivants and state representatives. In it I presented some of his campaign finance information and a supposition that turned out to be true (I have a tendency to be conjecturally spot-on about 96 percent of the time).

I don’t have any personal vendettas for our elected patricians – what I do is highlight times when I think they’re either under-performing or just sleeping too late in the day to be of real use. Such is the case with of both of Weymouth’s state reps, who I call the M&M twins. What I write might be seen by some as mean spirited but somebody has to wake them up and get them to do the jobs they were elected to do – which to this point have been far less than worth mentioning.

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Bob Monty on Rep. Ron Mariano's Campaign Finance: Through the Looking Glass

August 12, 2010 – 1:04 pm

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Anyone who is interested enough to look through Rep. Ron Mariano’s (D-Quincy, Weymouth, Holbrook and possibly the planet Mars) campaign spending reports for the first reporting period of 2008 will find that he spent $5,713 for ”lunches and dinners with legislators” – those dreaded part-time lawmakers – and most were paid with his AMEX credit card. Some were in very intimate North End Italian settings of all places.

You’ll find all that you need in his campaign finance reports here.

For the same time period he gave about $200 bucks to charities – proving once and for all the old axiom that ”Charity begins at home” – or at least on ”home” cooked meals at pricey Boston restaurants. Many of them are among the well-known cozy Italian cucinas… uhhh, sorry, I hinted at that above.

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Gary Lowell criticizes Bill Keating's Residency in the 10th Congressional District

July 21, 2010 – 12:03 am

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Gary Lowell, a candidate for the 3rd Norfolk Representative District, sent us the following message:

William R. Keating is running against Robert A. O’Leary for the Democratic nomination for Massachusetts’s 10th Congressional District. The only problem for Keating when deciding whether to run for the seat was that he did not actually live in the 10th district.

The current holder of the seat, William D. Delahunt, decided not to run for reelection this year. Even though Keating lived in the Fourth Congressional District, he decided to move to Quincy so that he would be eligible to run for the 10th seat.

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Gary Lowell Running Against Rep. Ron Mariano in the 3rd Norfolk District

April 1, 2010 – 2:15 am
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» Ron Mariano (D) $372,161 incumbent
» Gary Lowell (I)

Ron Mariano

Ronald Mariano was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in December 1991 in a special election. The 3rd Norfolk District he represents includes parts of Quincy, Weymouth, and Holbrook. Mariano was appointed Assistant Majority Leader in February 2009 and formerly served as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Financial Services.

Gary Lowell

Gary Lowell sent us the following statement about his candidacy:

“I am running for state representative to try and put Massachusetts on a sustainable path.  Right now, the Massachusetts government, both legislative and executive, continues to run budget deficits.  They do not seem to understand that this is simply not sustainable and it needs to be stopped if we do not want it to eventually come crashing down.

When they are growing up, everyone is taught by their parents about fiscal responsibility and not spending more money than you have.  Somewhere along the way, our representatives in the Massachusetts general court seem to have forgotten that.  In doing so, they are seriously harming the future of the state and the future of its citizens, since their overspending is not sustainable.

If elected, I would work to reduce the amount of government overspending to stop the seemingly endless years of deficits.  Only then will Massachusetts be able to get on a sustainable path.”

Lowell has a longer statement about his political principles on his facebook page:

The political parties of today have failed America. They no longer look out for the interests of everyday Americans, but the interests of huge corporations, and themselves. Today’s two major political parties, the Republican and Democratic Parties, spend more time bickering with each other than they do actually getting things done. They spend more time looking out for the interests of big money than they do looking out for the interests of Americans that don’t happen to be within the top one half of 1% of the rich in the country.

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