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The race for governor, Push-Me-Pull-You edition
By adamg on Wed, 10/11/2006 - 9:28am
Charles Foster Kane gets a Healey push poll that brings up everything from LaGuer to Ameriquest:
... Why on earth would I vote from anyone who would authorize such a poll or associate with people who would authorize such a poll? We already knew Kerry Healey is pathetic and desperate. Now we know she's a fraud as well.
Oh, but of course there's more in this very special, all new episode:
Kimberly Atkins looks at the state's public financing law and figures out how Christy Mihos is already a spoiler, at least when it comes to public funds available to Deval Patrick.
Hub Politics explains why people who want to reform, or as Hub Politics puts it, weaken, state laws related to access to criminal records, support Patrick, the Radical Left-Wing Civil Right Ideologue:
... Make no mistake about it, these CORI reform activists--or better yet let's call them anti-CORI activists--support Deval Patrick because his idea of reform will weaken CORI to make it easier for an ex-con with a record of violent crime to get a job at a school. ...
Rachel Blake says both Patrick and his supporters are delusional.
Jim Karalis on Blue Mass. Group starts to analyze Healey's 50 points of light.
Jay Fitzgerald says forget LaGuer; what he can't get out of his mind is Patrick making a point of meeting with Billy Bulger:
... The issue came to mind this morning while reading a Southie native's take on 'The Departed' and how those in the 'halls of power' and in 'the highest offices in government' allowed Whitey to wreak havoc within an entire city neighborhood. Isn't it strange that after all these years victims and survivors are still hesitant to name names? ... Anyway, these are my other questions: Do you think Deval has read 'Black Mass'? Doubt it. 'Brothers Bulger'? ...
The Outraged Liberal begins to get a bit, er, miffed, at Patrick:
... Taking a few days away, I thought I would return to find a rejuvenated Patrick, ready to blast away at Healey for the Romney-Healey hypocrisy of rejecting taxes while promising the sun, moon and stars. The transportation finance commission proposal to raise the gas tax and reinstate Mass Pike tolls would reflect the emptiness of the GOP free lunch promise.
But Healey has so defined this race with the GOP mantra of crime and taxes that Patrick could not take the honest road. ...
Dan Kennedy sees the glass half full:
Here's one good thing that will likely come out of the latest revelation about Deval Patrick: If he hangs on and wins the governor's race, he's not going to begin his 2012 presidential campaign the next day. ...
Devone predicts talk radio will get Healey elected.
Secretly Ironic takes Healey's cop-killer ad to task for bad grammar:
Is Kerry Healy's campaign trying to imply that Deval is a cop-killer, or a lawyer? And which is worse in the eyes of the public?
Hoss is inspired by Green lieutenant-governor candidate Martina Robinson; Democrats should be ashamed to let her go.
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Comments
Yup
Yup, that's what Healey is right now...desperate and pathetic.
Tricksy antecedents
Charlie Pierce also comments on the grammar of Healey's ad
[Sorry if this double-posts; it didn't seem to go thru from Opera.]
Some one explain the CORI thing to me again
So conservatives bitch about people who want to reform CORI and don't acknowledge the impact it has on people who supposedly "paid their debts to society via prison", and then when these people can't find employment and need government assistence, conservatives call them leeches, or people who are abusing the system. Conservatives say "get a job", but this law that is so championed by conservatives prevents these people from getting a job. I'm not saying eliminte CORI, I'm just saying that there has to be a way to get these people back to work. And Kerry Healey feels the same way:
http://www.bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=...
Totally
We have a lot of folks in our residences who can't get jobs because, at one time, while they were living with untreated mental illness, they peed in public. Why does peeing keep someone from getting a job, you ask? Well, because peeing, particularly if one is male, can lead to a charge of indecent exposure. It's an even more serious charge if one pees near a school, even if it is at 2am.
Unfortunately, the law doesn't REALLY differentiate between whipping it out to take a leak and whipping it out to stroke it while peering around a corner at children. Intention and circumstances and all that are supposed to play into the picture, but the law generally equates "disheveled and a bit odd" with "creepy and dangerous."
So these folks end up in our residences, where in a lot of cases, professionals who are licensed to diagnose various mental illnesses -- including sexual offending -- all assess that the folks aren't malicious, aren't attracted to children, aren't exhibitionists, have good impulse control, and so forth. But our clinical assessment doesn't go on the CORI. The CORI only says that the person was convicted of indecent exposure. Employers are allowed to set their own policies regarding what CORI information is grounds for choosing not to hire. Many employers do this without any consultation with an expert, based only on their layperson's beliefs about people's likelihood of violence and whatnot.
What needs to happen is that any convictions listed on the CORI also need to include a brief clinical summary -- not a whole narrative detailing the person's personal business, but a sentence like "approved for all employment except for unsupervised contact with children" or whatever the case may be. The law could then require that employers abide by the recommendations in the CORI.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
You've Got A Lot of Nerve
How dare you make sense! Don't you know that Kerry Healey is an eminent criminologist and doesn't need anyone else's help in figuring out how to reform CORI? I mean, she spearheaded the Romney administration's efforts to fight crime and just look at the crime rate since they took office. Wait--it has gone up dramatically? Wow. Nevermind.
Heh.
I tend to be a fan of a good amount of government regulation, but with politicians sticking to representative and administrative jobs. There's something wrong with, say, healthcare policy being debated by a group of 200 politicians and 4 healthcare providers. Regulate the hell out of things, but have the regulations drawn up primarily by experts in the relevant field.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
Thanks, eeka...
for breking it down for me yet again.