2006 elections

Map of Boston primary results

JeremyBThompson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:40:16 -0500

Precinct maps of Boston primary results here.

Hey, somebody tell the Healey campaign it's over and they need to turn out the lights

adamg — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:39:01 -0500

You wouldn't know the election was more than two months ago, based on the Google text ads that keep popping up on sites that mention Kerry Healey or Mitt Romney. Take, for example, the 2008 page on Patrick Ruffini's site, which had this at the top a few minutes ago:

Inaugablogging

adamg — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:01:52 -0500

That's what the Globe's Political Intelligence will be doing over the next couple of days.

Shouldn't the Bostonian of the Year live in Boston?

adamg — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:54:49 -0500

Nothing against Deval Patrick - I voted for the guy, after all - but the Globe's Bostonian of the Year doesn't actually live in Boston. Maybe they should have named him Miltonian of the Year? OK, OK, makes more sense than Time's inane decision to make me person of the year, but still.

Beating Beat the Press

adamg — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:16:02 -0500

On Blue Mass. Group, David reports learning two things from a "Beat the Press" show on political bloggers: John Carroll has a broken sarcasm meter (unable to figure out a joke even when it's explained to him) and Joe Sciacca of the Herald is under the impression that the Patrick campaign was disappointed when Blue Mass. Group endorsed Patrick.

Interview with the Man Who Would Be GOP Chairman

adamg — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:18:22 -0500

Hub Politics interviews Peter Torkildsen, who wants to take over the chairmanship of the Massachusetts Republican Party.

Grass-roots government?

adamg — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:13:49 -0500

David Kravitz of Blue Mass. Group is co-chair of Deval Patrick's civic-engagagement:

... Our group been asked to consider three general "principles" in going about our task:

Converting the grassroots campaign into a way of governing;

Increasing civic engagement; and

Rebuilding communities throughout the state. ...

Could somebody please explain the Massachusetts constitution to Hub Politics?

adamg — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:51:54 -0500

Regular visitors to Hub Politics might be forgiven for thinking that exactly 30 seconds after he takes his oath of office, Deval Patrick will jump into his limo and drive out to Shirley to personally free Benjamin LaGuer (and then point him in the direction of the white women).

Unfortunately for Hub Politics' finely developed sense of schadenfreude, Patrick could not unlock LaGuer's cell door on Jan. 1 even if he wanted to. Unlike, say, the governors of Texas or Alabama, Massachusetts governors can only recommend commutations to the Governor's Council, an elected holdover from pre-Revolution days that must approve all commutations (thanks to that pesky Part 2, Chapter II, Section I, Article VIII of the state constitution).

There are nine councilors - the lieutenant governor and councilors elected from eight districts across the state. The council doesn't always do what the governor wants. Just ask Norman Porter, who fled Massachusetts after the governor's council rejected Michael Dukakis's proposed commutation of a murder charge.

Need a job with the state?

adamg — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:38:24 -0500

The Deval Patrick Transition (hmm, sounds like a 1980s rock group, no?).

How Republicans can come back in Massachusetts

adamg — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:39:48 -0500

Peter Morin knows something about how to get elected as a Republican in Massachusetts - he served as a state representative from the Cape between 1985 and 1991. On Wave Maker, he discusses ways Massachusetts Republicans can climb out of the basement (and admits he voted for Patrick because he seemed far more human than Healey):