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Baker by a nose; Everett to get casino
By adamg on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 8:37pm
The city as a whole went heavily Democratic in statewide races. In fact, all of the state's largest cities went for Coakley, if not all at the same 66-30 margin Boston gave her. But that wasn't enough to overcome Baker's wins across the suburbs and exurbs between 128 and I-91.
Carlo Basile beat Celeste Ribeiro Myers to retain his state rep's seat in East Boston.
Up on the North Shore, Seth Moulton won the 6th District congressional seat. State House News Service quotes him:
We can expand the Blue Line to Lynn.
Looks like Steve Wynn will get to build his casino in Everett.
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You missed the boat on this one
It's a Superfund site. You know, toxic waste and whatnot. We are in the most literal sense talking about the health of the local community.
Even I see that, and I somehow remain a Suffolk Downs supporter who probably will never set foot in Wynn's casino.
Same
Same here.. was all about a casino when it was at Suffolk. Everett.. no thanks. All set with Wynn and his 'casino'
In my omnipotent point of
In my omnipotent point of view , I would have preferred that the gambling transition to the Suffolk Downs site. But the population of East Boston rejected the casino. Then the manipulation to reconfigure the site to a Revere only Suffolk Down facilities muddied the waters.And the people of Revere were down with it. But Everett was next in line, and the people were willing. You were going to get gambling somewhere over there from the get go, Everett won , and the Monsanto site gets cleaned up. So there are some negative aspects, but there is a big positive one. The people have spoken, so there you go. Sometimes you eat the bear , sometimes the bear eat you!
You actually trust casino
You actually trust casino developers to properly clean up a toxic waste mess? ha ha ha!!!
They will because they agreed to it
There will be oversight by the involved agencies and environmental groups during the process.
There will be lawsuits and enforcement actions if they don't get it done and get it done right.
I hope you're right.
I hope you're right.
Gee, can't wait till
Gee, can't wait till Massachusetts tax payers get to subsidize 3 casinos like Rhode Islanders do. You got scammed, voters!
http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20140522-twin-riv...
Martha Chokeley has lost the
Martha Chokeley has lost the race, we could have chosen a better candidate besides her for the Democratic ticket, What were these people thinking in voting for her, first for Attorney General and for Governor.
Well... This is what happens...
This is what happens when someone like Coakley, of all people, is the nominee. She done too many failures and committed too many wrongs. It boggles how she somehow got to get a second shot. Let's never nominate her again.
It does make me have an amusing thought if Scott Brown have chosen to run for governor rather than overextend his hand showing himself as a politically expedient carpetbagger in NH. If losing to Baker means she could lose to Brown, than it's kinda an amusing thought to imagine to be in the rare club someone to lose twice, to the same person... in two different offices.
Edit: One more thought. Crazy to notice that Scott Lively manage to not be in last place. Somehow he got more votes than Jeff McCormick.
Brown's accomplishment
It's one for the record books: He's managed to lose Senate races in two different states, two years apart, to two different women.
Heckofa job, Brownie!
He lost to a girl!?
What a wuss.
Let's face it - he had a massive uphill battle in both cases. Love him or hate him - running as a Republican in Mass is almost a political death sentence.
Less so in NH - but you had a fairly popular incumbent. Running against any incumbent is very hard especially if you just moved there (which Hillary Clinton did in NY and she had ZERO prior ties to the state).
For the record - he seems like a nice guy, not the brightest bulb on the planet and while I'm happy the Senate tips right, I like the fact that it's still close so not at all unhappy with Shaheen taking the election.
Will be interesting to see what the President does now. How much are both sides willing to compromise? The Republicans have already come out and said they are not going to wholesale dump Obamacare - just the bad parts. That's a good start.
Whats wrong to losing to a
Whats wrong to losing to a girl? Does that make him less of a man?
It's 2014 and "He lost to a girl" is kind of out dated, no?
(and I'm not even that easily offended).
Blame the medium
My sarcasm button was firmly in the "on" position. The poster made a comment about losing to "two women".
running as a Republican in
That must explain why the Commonwealth has had so many Democratic governors over the last 24 years.
The exception
Does not make the rule:
Secretary - D
Treasurer - D
Atty General - D
Auditor - D
Both senators - D
All congresspeeps - D
State Senate - Overwhelmingly D
State House - Overwhelmingly D
Every mayor of every major city - D
City Council of Boston - D
No wonder we don't pronounce our R's - they've been officially removed from everything. I'm surprised there's even one on my keyboard.
You're facing the wrong way
If you'll recall, he was an incumbent with many years of election campaigns behind him when he lost to the neophyte Warren. I'd say she's the one who had an uphill battle.
As for "nice guy," do you remember him cursing at a school assembly?
There is an opening
on the Wrentham Board of Selectmen. Go back home Scotto. Wrentham needs you in its minute of need.
Why I didn't vote for Coakley
She had a very sinister appearance. She had a battery behind her, and wires.
"Theres a...
Fragrance its here today and they call it.........CHARLEY."
Dammit - my write in didn't win!
But I'm not sure Dukakis was up for more State Silliness....
"Fish.....
Rots at the head."
A dish to be served with 4 fingers of....Isopropyl, NEAT.
I like this
http://www.wbur.org/2014/11/05/falchuck-united-independent-party-votes
I did too
I'll be honest, I voted for him. I knew he didnt stand a chance, but I liked what he said and how he spun his campaign. "more of the same or a new direction". I liked that a lot. I just saw Martha and Charlie as 'more of the same". I wanted some thing difference this election. Oh well.. its back to "more of the same".
What's sad is, he wins now but (according to that article) his party needs to keep that momentum up to stay on the ballot in the next few elections. The Democrats AND Republicans have gerryrigged elections so much that its almost IMPOSSIBLE for a third part candidate to succeed without jumping thru so many useless hoops. Very sad that its like this.. very sad. Viable people have no chance at all.
I liked what he said and how
Yeah, he's, like, the first politician to campaign on that theme ever.
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