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Posted by: PBC FL Cop

Friday, October 27, 2006
Worcester T&G letter to the editor
Readers offer endorsements for upcoming elections

Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey’s negative campaigning raises some serious issues.

Since white Southerners lynched and portrayed all black men as rapists and murderers, racists have linked successful African Americans with black criminals to keep them in their place.

The Republican Party has repeatedly played the race card, especially in racially manipulating the issue of crime.

I hope voters of the commonwealth will reject this crude attack on Deval L. Patrick. While Mr. Patrick’s campaign appeals to the better angels of our nature, the Healey campaign is determined to bring out the worst in us by stoking racial fears and biases.

MANISHA SINHA

Sturbridge

Un"fuc*ing"real. What an ignorant statement!!

Posted by: SinePari

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwflatbed

A new Boston Globe-WBZ-TV poll released Friday showed Patrick leading Healey 54 percent to 29 percent among 585 likely voters interviewed Sunday through Wednesday by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Independent candidate Christy Mihos had 8 percent, and Green-Rainbow Party candidate Grace Ross 2 percent, with 6 percent undecided. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percent.

The University of New Hampshire Survey Center? What the hell is that? First the Suffolk University poll, now the UNH poll...hmmm...starting to see a pattern here...

Posted by: MM1799

Thank god, I didn't know if I'd be able to go to sleep tonight without knowing what the University of New Hampshire voters thought about the Massachusetts gubernatorial election.

Posted by: SinePari

Quote:

Originally Posted by MM1799

Thank god, I didn't know if I'd be able to go to sleep tonight without knowing what the University of New Hampshire voters thought about the Massachusetts gubernatorial election.

Exactly.

My wife started a poll at the mall. Amongst "likely voters" she found that the shoes she just bought would match nicely with her new outfit.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Lt. gov: Just the two of us: Healey pushes for one-on-one with Patrick
By Dave Wedge
Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter
Saturday, October 28, 2006 - Updated: 12:06 AM EST

Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey again demanded that Democratic front-runner Deval Patrick debate her one-on-one yesterday, as a judge crushed a bid by an independent candidate for lieutenant governor to force his way into a televised debate.
“I wonder what Deval Patrick is so afraid of,” said Healey campaign spokesman Tim O’Brien. “It’s clear that Deval Patrick does not want a one-on-one debate. And it’s clear why. He’s on the wrong side of most of the important issues.”
During a campaign stop in Bolton yesterday, Healey renewed her call to hold one final debate without independent candidate Christy Mihos and Green-Rainbow candidate Grace Ross. Patrick has repeatedly deflected the challenge.

“We’ve been consistent from day one that we felt that all candidates who qualified for the ballot should be included in the debates,” Patrick campaign adviser Doug Rubin said last night. “It’s a position that Lt. Gov. Healey shared with us until very recently.”
Healey’s latest challenge came as Mihos’ running mate, John Sullivan, lost a court battle to be included in a debate with Patrick’s partner, Tim Murray, and Healey’s sidekick, Reed Hillman. Sullivan filed a federal lawsuit earlier this week alleging that his First Amendment rights were being violated by CBS4-TV for barring him from the debate. The suit was thrown out yesterday.
The decision upholds a precedent set in the 2002 gubernatorial election when fringe party candidates unsuccessfully sought to be included in a final debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and former state Treasurer Shannon O’Brien.
Despite the rulings, Ross said she would challenge any attempt to ban her from a debate.
“To me, it’s an issue of democracy and of reclaiming the use of the airwaves for a democracy,” she said. “Anyone who is willing to do the work to run a legitimate campaign should be included. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says you have to be a multimillionaire and you have to be from one of the two major parties.”
Mihos spokeswoman Carolyn Kane refused to speculate what the campaign would do if a tete-a-tete were arranged between Healey and Patrick, noting that there is only one final debate scheduled with all four candidates.
“It’s not an issue,” Kane said. “We’ve been invited and we’re attending. I think it’s important the voters have an opportunity to hear from all the candidates.”

Posted by: kwflatbed

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Posted by: gooday

Everyone I talk to says they are voting healey but they all say Patrick is going to win and it seems like it may be so. We may be in for alot of trouble in this state boys. The crime rate will go up with our taxes and the inmates and the perps will have more rights if he gets in.I'm getting worried ,the general public dont know any better. They cant read this guy like we can what are we going to do. Its not about making money or getting a raise, its about the safety of the public and the safety of our fellow officers in the jails and on the streets. I'll take a 6% over 3 years if I know my family and friends are safe. I guess its that mantality that makes us good at what we do. But this guy could make that task a harder goal to reach by being so left liberal and so pro convict. I have a bad feeling fellas.

Posted by: ntskingz

Patrick picks up police endorsements
By HILLARY CHABOT, Sun Statehouse Bureau
Article Last Updated:10/28/2006 01:26:17 PM EDT

LOWELL -- Seven-year-old Tyrus Cooper tugged on Deval Patrick's sleeve as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate toured the Greater Lowell Boys and Girls club.
"I saw you on TV," Tyrus said.
"Oh, yeah?" Patrick said, bending down. "I was a lot taller, huh? I'm a lot taller on TV."
Patrick chatted with several of the children as he strolled past the powder-blue walls of the club yesterday, checking out the computer room and the pool tables.
He later toured the police precinct next door, saying the partnership between the club and the police is a great way to prevent crime.
"It will take all of us if we're actually going to move Massachusetts forward," Patrick said.
Patrick picked up endorsements from the Lowell Patrolmen and the Middlesex County Sheriff's superior officers unions after the tour.
"I've called for 1,000 new cops on the street because I know, like the officers behind me, that community policing works," Patrick said.
He was accompanied by a crowd of about 50 supporters, along

with U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan, Sens. Steven Panagiotakos and Steve Baddour, Rep. Bill Greene, Mayor Bill Martin, Attorney General candidate Martha Coakley and City Councilor George Ramirez. "It's quite an honor to have the next governor show up to see what we really do in Lowell to stop crime," Martin said. "It's no secret to these folks what we need to do in places like Lowell to fight crime, in spite of what you might see on some of the commercials."
Republican candidate Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey has released several negative ads accusing Patrick of being soft on crime.
"I've heard enough of the rhetoric," Patrick said later. "Tough on crime or soft on crime, the point is to be effective on crime."
Michelle Hatem Meehan, president of the Boys and Girls club, said Patrick was impressed by the club's dedication to local children.
"He realizes this really is about crime prevention and police collaboration, because we certainly know (that) partnership works," Hatem Meehan said.
Westford resident Marilyn Frank, 71, held a sign outside the club as Patrick arrived earlier. Frank first met Patrick at the Democratic Convention in June.
"He's very refreshing. He's created a grass-roots campaign and he's someone I can relate to," Frank said. "He's worth fighting for."
Patrick left Lowell to meet with the mayor of Haverhill and a stop in Lawrence, then returned for a fundraiser at Marty Meehan's home and a rally with the Southeast Asian community in the Lower Highlands neighborhood.
Former City Councilor Rithy Uong gathered more than 200 supporters at the Pailin City Restaurant on Branch Street with just two days warning.
Patrick's message of hope is working with potential voters, Panagiotakos said.
"He's a great messenger," said the Lowell Democrat.
They cheered wildly for Patrick when he greeted them in Khmer.
During brief remarks he called for pragmatism and cooperation in government.
"You see we must honor our elders but we must govern for our future and for the young people all over the commonwealth," Patrick said.
Meehan, who was with Patrick much of the day, said he was surprised by the crowds that turned out.
"I haven't seen in 20 years this kind of enthusiasm for a candidate for governor," he said. "It is just remarkable."
As Patrick wrapped up his speech at the Boys and Girls Club, supporter Kate Tyndall yelled, "Lowell loves you!"
Patrick smiled and looked back.
"I love Lowell," he yelled back.
Sun staff writer Jack Minch contributed to this report.
Hillary Chabot's e-mail address is hchabot@lowellsun.com.

Posted by: crazy irish

The crime rate has gone no where but up under Republican Govenors in this State. This is due in part to cutbacks in all area of public saftey. Healey, like every Repulican Govenor before her has no solution. Patrick on the other hand wants to put more cops on the street. I work for a Republican Sheriff who backs Healey. I can tell you they are no friends to public safety. Our members voted to give back 1.5 million dollars in pay and benefits a few years ago in order to avoid layoffs due to budget cuts by Romney/ Healey. So what does our Republican sheriff do? Hire three high paying Deputy's at around 80,000 a year. They created do nothing jobs for them while we went without a pay raise for two years. Then he paid six people he didnt like to stay home and ride out the final two years untillthey reached retirement leaving the place short staffed.
Oh yes lets not forget the pay upgrades he gave all his top administrators.
This guy is one of Kerry Healey biggest supporters. when this guy was appointed sheriff by another Republican Bill Weld, He had literaly no public saftey background. His education was limited to a GED. Yes a freakin drop out was appointed Sheriff by a Republican Govenor. This is the best she's got? We all know the SPA is backing her. Gee it doesn't take a genious to see that they signed a contract with big money attached not long before the campaign started......you following me here guys?
Other than backing her I havent seen them anywhere for her.
She will do what every Republican Govenor has done for public saftey in the past NOTHING. As far as Patrick letting all the criminals out of prison goes? That just shows you the mentality of Kerry Healey and her supporters. They want to scare every one into think Oh my god! he gonna let them all out! but in reality that won't happen and she has absolutly no solution to rise in violent crime or crime in general.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Dem hacks ready to pig out on Deval meal ticket
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
Sunday, October 29, 2006

For Charlie Lincoln, an annual public pension of $77,090.45 wasn’t enough.
Oh sure, it’s four or five times what the average Social Security recipient gets, but Charlie Lincoln wanted that big, Billy Bulger-type kiss in the mail.
He had it coming, after all. He was a hack.
He was a Brockton police lieutenant, but in 2000 the tax-fattened hyena was also the campaign manager for the new Democratic sheriff of Plymouth County, who now also sits on the Plymouth County Retirement Board.
Why settle for a pension of $77,090.45 when you can grab $139,787.08 ???

Why merely feed at the public trough when you can lick the plate?

Charlie Lincoln’s candidate defeated the incumbent Republican sheriff in November 2000. Two months later, after the traditional nationwide search, Lincoln was hired by the new Democratic sheriff as director of security at the Plymouth County House of Correction.

But sadly, as soon as he became a double-dipper, Lincoln’s health began to fail him. In his final three years on the Brockton PD, he called in sick 222 times, although on 148 of those days he was somehow able to drag himself to work at the jail.

Another 29 days, he worked his shift at the Brockton PD but banged in sick at the jail.

Fortunately, as his health declined, Lt. Lincoln’s pay went up more than somewhat, to an average of $177.569.91 a year. That’ll buy you a lot of aspirin.

Did Charlie Lincoln have a nickname? Abe, perhaps, although it seems unlikely anyone ever called him Honest Abe. Because, as the federal mail-fraud indictment handed up Friday put it, Lincoln was engaged in a pattern of falsely claiming he was sick and unable to work.

How dare the feds make such an outrageous claim! Haven’t you ever had a cold you just couldn’t shake? For three years.

Lincoln’s attorney, Thomas Dreschler, issued the customary denials Friday on behalf of Honest Abe. A pre-election political ploy, he harrumphed. Why aren’t the feds going after the fakers at the Mass Pike? Why pick on Honest Abe?

Everything he did, his lawyer said, was transparent, open and public.

Indeed it was. This wasn’t your average stealing-cocaine-from-the-evidence-locker cop rip-off. He left the ultimate paper trail - his time cards. In 2003, Lincoln worked only 60 full days and 14 partial days at the Brockton PD, yet got pension credit for an entire year. For those 36 months on the Plymouth County payroll, Honest Abe has been collecting an additional $5,000 a month - your tax dollars at work.

Despite it all, Lincoln still gets cut way more slack than the average perp. He wasn’t even arrested Friday. According to the indictment, the feds aren’t going after his Brockton pension of $77,090.45 a year.

Indictment, where is thy sting?

By the way, Lincoln’s scheme began to unravel as soon as the Republicans won back the sheriff’s department in 2004. The Democratic ex-sheriff still sits on the county retirement board, but now recuses himself from any votes on the matter of his dear friend Lt. Lincoln.

Meanwhile, Deval Patrick said Friday he’s already getting job requests from the local hackerama, although of course he would never use such a derogatory term. You have to ask yourself, how many more Democrat operatives like Charlie Lincoln are waiting in the wings now, anticipating the return to power of the old Bulger-Dukakis gang?
Granted, the Republicans have done a lousy job of policing these greed-crazed layabouts. But when you ponder how much worse it could get, don’t forget Charles Bradshaw Lincoln and the $139,787.08-a-year pension that you’re paying for.

Posted by: crazy irish

You forgot to mention Reed Hilmans 107,000 dollar a year pention.
Dem or Rep. a hacks a hack

Posted by: firefighter39

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Originally Posted by crazy irish

You forgot to mention Reed Hilmans 107,000 dollar a year pention.
Dem or Rep. a hacks a hack

Of which he EARNED every penny. He put in his time, and now is getting what he earned. Sounds like your bitter and jealous!

Posted by: crazy irish

What the hell are you talking about? The guy is ok with his pension but he wants to take away everyone elses thats not in law enforcement? and you guys wonder why Healey is behind in every poll? So if your not a Cop or Fireman you don't derserve a decent pension? So If you do have a decent pension and your not a Cop or fireman then your a hack right? You people are giving votes away wholesale to Patrick with this bullshit. I got news for ya. You guys might think your the most important people in this state. But the public doesn't and it's realy starting to show.

Posted by: Unregistered

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

What the hell are you talking about? The guy is ok with his pension but he wants to take away everyone elses thats not in law enforcement? and you guys wonder why Healey is behind in every poll? So if your not a Cop or Fireman you don't derserve a decent pension? So If you do have a decent pension and your not a Cop or fireman then your a hack right? You people are giving votes away wholesale to Patrick with this bullshit. I got news for ya. You guys might think your the most important people in this state. But the public doesn't and it's realy starting to show.

When did he say he wanted to take it away - they want pension reform. I have never said, nor has the Healy camp said that unlsee your a PO or FF you don't deserve a pension.

It is pretty obvious from your ranting that you are an angy young man, who is jealous of those of us who have city/state jobs.

So my sugestion to you, is study harded - maybe someday you too will pass an entrance exam, and then get through an interview and have a job as a cop.

Posted by: bbelichick

Deval Patrick and Consent Decree Activism Mr. Lee’s supporters have characterized him as a "pragmatist" – a "practical litigator," rather than a pro-preference ideologue. That is a familiar tune in this debate. Three years ago, the President nominated another individual who was widely hailed as a pragmatist. Deval Patrick, another man for whom I have a high personal regard, was described by one paper as "a practically oriented working lawyer." Based upon those assurances, I resolved to set aside my concerns about Mr. Patrick’s views, gave him the benefit of the doubt, and supported his nomination.
But upon assuming the reigns of the Civil Rights Division, Mr. Patrick revealed himself to be a liberal civil rights ideologue. He used statistical racial imbalances and the vast resources of the Justice Department to extract race-conscious settlements from businesses and governments, large and small. For example, he undertook a credit-bias probe of Chevy Chase Savings & Loan in Maryland based largely on the fact that the bank had opened branch offices in the District of Columbia suburbs, but not in the city itself. There was no evidence that the bank had discriminated against qualified individuals seeking bank services. Nevertheless, Mr. Patrick entered into a consent decree that essentially forced the bank to open a branch in a low-income District neighborhood, and measures the bank’s compliance with the decree by assessing whether the the bank achieves a loan market share in minority neighborhoods that is "reasonably comparable" to its share in non-minority neighborhoods. Mr. Patrick’s Civil Rights Division took it upon itself to decide where a bank must do business, and then implemented dubious statistical measurements to determine whether the bank’s efforts stayed clear of the Division’s view of the law.
Mr. Patrick also forced municipalities across the country to abandon tests used to evaluate candidates for local police forces. In Nassau County, New York, Patrick entered into a consent decree that forced the county to abandon a rigorous test that yielded a differential passage rate for different ethnic groups. The test now used by the County, after the expenditure of millions of dollars in the action, is so weak that the reading portion of the exam is now graded on a pass/fail basis. A candidate passes the reading test if he or she reads at the level of the lowest 1 percent of existing officers. (The Wall Street Journal, 10/24/96, p.A16.) So much for high standards.
In another case, Mr. Patrick ordered Fullerton, California to set-aside 9 percent of its police and fire department positions for African-Americans, despite the fact that fewer than two percent of the city’s residents are black.
These cases suggest the damage that can be done when the resources of the Justice Department are brought to bear to force defendants into consent decrees. Such decrees are often attractive to both parties. Preference ideologues in the Justice Department win so-called "voluntary" commitments to undertake constitutionally suspect race-conscious action to eliminate racial disparities; defendants save millions of dollars in legal fees and receive a public disclaimer of liability. Everyone wins, except for consumers and individuals on the losing end of the racial or gender goals and preferences.
Given Deval Patrick’s excesses in the Department, I am unprepared to again give the benefit of the doubt to a liberal activist nominee described by political allies as a "pragmatist" and a "conciliator." When asked at his hearing how he would differentiate his views from those of Mr. Patrick, Bill Lee was unable to muster a response.

http://www.wpost.com/wp-srv/politics...docs/hatch.htm

Posted by: bbelichick

...In a 13-page letter to Maryland governor Parris Glendening, Deval Patrick charged that Supermax was violating inmates' constitutional rights through a range of offenses from inadequate exercise equipment to lukewarm meals. He gave the state 49 days to comply with a three-page list of "necessary remedial measures," or else face a federal lawsuit.

...Prisoner litigation typically germinates in the expansive environs of the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment." Federal civil rights investigators, Maryland officials charge, seem to believe that supermaximum facilities by their very existence are cruel and unusual. In his letter to Glendening, Patrick admitted he was "unable to find evidence of a pattern of physical abuse by Supermax staff against inmates."

What he did find, however, was a host of violations of prisoners' "rights." Among them were the "rights" to outdoor exercise, piping hot meals, and daily visits by medical personnel. In a sharply worded rejoinder, the Maryland attorney general's office told Patrick that his charges reflect his civil rights division's "philosophical opposition to 'super maximum' facilities without regard to constitutional criteria." They noted that the law allows the Department of Justice to redress only "egregious" constitutional violations, a standard, they argued, that was not met by the charges leveled by Patrick. Former New York prisons commissioner Coughlin agrees that the Justice Department too often acts without legal cause. "Look up the word 'egregious' and the meaning is not lukewarm food," says Coughlin. "There is no constitutional right to rehabilitation. You have to protect people from harm -- that's the constitutional right. The Department of Justice says isolating prisoners is causing harm. But as far as I'm concerned, if officers are not hitting individuals with sticks, there is no constitutional harm being done."...

http://www.policyreview.org/sept96/abuses.html

Posted by: bbelichick

Critics say Deval was out to coddle cons: Crusaded for prisoner perks under Clinton
Source: The Boston Herald
http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg? articleid=161728
Published: Oct 11, 2006
Author: Dave Wedge

Critics say Deval was out to coddle cons: Crusaded for prisoner perks under Clinton By Dave Wedge Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter

Democrat Deval Patrick has championed the constitutional “rights” of convicted rapists and murderers, demanding they be given juice, clean sheets, cold tuna sandwiches, white underwear and properly inflated basketballs, records show.

While working as President Clinton’s top civil rights lawyer in the mid-1990s, Patrick sent letters to prison officials in several states, alleging violations from inadequate air conditioning and insufficient recreation time to denying cons juice or milk at lunch and requiring inmates to make $2 medical co-payments.

In one 1994 Department of Justice letter, Patrick chastised correction officials in Syracuse, N.Y., for not providing “sufficient sporting/recreation equipment to afford prisoners the opportunity to participate in large muscular activity.” Among the injustices cited by the DOJ were “under inflated basketballs” and “only 1 operative basketball hoop.”

Other alleged constitutional violations cited by Patrick:

In a 1995 letter to Lee County, Miss., prison officials he complained that air conditioners in individual cells “do not provide minimum ventilation for the purposes of fresh air supply, air exchange and overall cooling.” The jail was also cited for not serving juice or milk.

In a July 1995 letter to Grenada City, Miss., jail officials he called for clean linens weekly. A month later Patrick sent another letter to Virginia jail officials saying clean linens should be provided three times per week.

Tuna sandwiches were served too warm in a tiny jail in Dooly County, Georgia.

Meals at a Mitchell County, Georgia., jail were served too cold in styrofoam or plastic containers “not designed to maintain proper food temperatures.”

Virginia Beach officials failed to provide white underwear to inmates.

One of Patrick’s sharpest attacks was on the Maryland prison system for alleged mistreatment of inmates at the state’s “Supermax” facility, which at the time housed 105 killers and 19 rapists. The facility includes solitary units where violent inmates are sent for jailhouse violations, including attempted escapes and assaults on staff.

In a 1996 letter obtained by the Herald, Patrick slammed Maryland prison officials for serving “lukewarm” food and denying inmates their rights to “exercise,” “fresh air” and “natural light.” He also complained about a requirement that psychiatric visits be supervised by guards, a rule put in place because inmates masturbated in front of a female doctor.

Maryland prison officials blasted the report and Patrick was ripped by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) for helming a “criminal coddling” program under Clinton.

In a statement last night, Patrick said he “is proud of his work on behalf of President Clinton.”

“As head of the Civil Rights Division in the Clinton White House, Deval Patrick was responsible for

He also complained about a requirement that psychiatric visits be supervised by guards, a rule put in place because inmates masturbated in front of a female doctor.

Posted by: Mongo

Ya man you cant shut that nit wit CI up no matter what, he and Deval must be lovers.

Posted by: crazy irish

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

He said it the other night during the LT. Govenors debate and it's only been talked about for months. Read much junior?

I have a State job as a CO and I'm vested in the retirement system and unlike most of you I put my time in. I believe every state employee should be in the same retirement system. Your no better than anyone else or havent you figured that out yet based on public opinion?

Posted by: crazy irish

This is what it's come to for you people huh? posting right wing news paper articles about the guy? Again I can't say it enough.
You are the reason the public hates Healey. Good job guys!

Posted by: gooday

The articles above are fact, and tell the history of this man. By the way basketballs are a privledge not a right, so he realy does know nothing about corrections.

On another subject, the cocent decree, better known here in ma as a part 10 list under civil service. Why should the standards be lower for minority groups? Is that not another way of segragating those people by not treating everyone as equells. This is just a very bad way of giving a person a job that dont deserve it. Then when they get it they wont apretiate it just like most thing that are given to people that dont earn anything. Kind of like illegals in public housing that Patrick says dont exsist. Funny thing is that my aunt works for a housing authority and says it is about 30 % noncitizens living in that housing and half of them get family members to stay there also that are not supposed to be there. On top of that they get Ma health. What the hell do I bother working for, they end up with more then I got after they work there under the table job. They get a welfare check, free rent, free medical, food stamps and then still probably take home about $375 a week of spending cash from work. I dont got that left over in my check every week.

Posted by: bbelichick

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Originally Posted by crazy irish

This is what it's come to for you people huh? posting right wing news paper articles about the guy? Again I can't say it enough.
You are the reason the public hates Healey. Good job guys!

So you deny the FACTS in those articles? Or you are so blinded you don't care? You think things are bad now, just wait until Deval is Governor. Corrections will be the hardest hit. Inmate Advocacy groups will love Deval. I wouldn't be shocked if he kept Dennehy.

P.S. You seemto keep harping on how the public doesn't care about cops. Face it, the public doesn't know or care that C/O's even exist. They would rather not even think about it.

Posted by: bbelichick

Meet Crazy Irish's man...

Patrick wants to add 1,000 police officers throughout the state, and to both reduce property taxes and allow cities and towns to impose local taxes.

He is opposed to reducing the state income tax from 5.3 percent to 5 percent, though voters approved lowering the tax in a 2000 ballot question.

Patrick also favors the issuing of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

Patrick's legal career includes working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and being a partner in two Boston law firms. In 1994, Clinton appointed Patrick assistant attorney general for civil rights. He served until the end of 1996.

After leaving Washington, D.C., Patrick was general counsel for Texaco from 1999 to 2001 and for Coca-Cola from 2001 to 2004.

I thought he said he had "experience in Criminal Justice" ??

This State is in trouble...

Posted by: USMCTrooper

"Patrick" is an irish name.........and deval is crazy.

Anyone here think that we've been dealing with the devil in disguise all along here????

Posted by: crazy irish

Thanks for proving my point AGAIN!

Posted by: kwflatbed

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Originally Posted by crazy irish

Thanks for proving my point AGAIN!

What that you are A-Hole Patrick ?????

Posted by: kwflatbed

Candidates launch final full week of campaig rallying supporters

By STEVE LeBLANC
Associated Press Writer

LYNN, Mass. (AP) -- Kerry Healey warned the election of Democrat Deval Patrick would usher in an era of one-party rule on Beacon Hill, while Patrick said Healey sounded increasingly "desperate" as the candidates for governor entered the last full week of campaigning.
Healey, stumping for votes Sunday at a Halloween costume parade at Boston's Castle Island, said only she, as a Republican, could hold back the Democratic appetite for higher taxes, lax crime laws and a poor business environment.
It's a theme Healey hopes will help her close a more than 20-point gap with Patrick in the final week of the campaign.
"People have perhaps gotten to the point where they take balance on Beacon Hill for granted. They just assume that there's going to be somebody on Beacon Hill who's going to speak out in favor of the taxpayer," Healey said.

Republicans have held the governor's office for the past 16 years, while Democrats have ruled the Massachusetts House and Senate.
"We're going to lose that if Deval Patrick is elected," she said. "There's a lot of danger to one-party government."
Patrick, speaking to about 500 supporters at North Shore Community College in Lynn, said Healey's argument is a red herring designed to distract voters.
Patrick said Massachusetts has little to show after four years of "balanced government" under the administration of Gov. Mitt Romney and Healey, his lieutenant governor. The state has lost population, fallen to 42nd in the country in job growth and "radically defunded" support for public colleges and universities, he said.
"That all came and is coming during this so-called balanced government," Patrick said. "Forget about party. That's the point. I'm not just running to be governor of Democrats. I'm running to be governor of the whole commonwealth."
He added, "there's a lot that seems desperate about her campaign and seems about changing the subject."
Independent Christy Mihos and Grace Ross of the Green-Rainbow Party are also running for governor, but polls have shown both stuck in the single digits in terms of voter support.
As they gear up for the final push, both major party candidates had clear tasks ahead. Healey is faced with overcoming Patrick's hefty lead in the polls while Patrick has to guard against his backers being overconfident and taking the election for granted.
That momentum grew Sunday as Patrick won the endorsements of three newspapers: The Boston Globe, the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester and the MetroWest Daily News of Framingham. Healey called the endorsements "not surprising."
Confidence mixed with caution was a message Patrick emphasized during his 20-minute speech, as he joked about the early days of his long-shot campaign, and urged supporters to "go get 'em."
After the Lynn rally, Patrick headed to another rally in Healey's hometown of Beverly and then onto Methuen.
Healey and Patrick also used the day to take shots at each other.
Healey again tried to push Patrick into a one-on-one debate, saying "he wants to simply get into office without telling anybody what it is, in fact, that he intends to do." Patrick said Healey "has a million excuses for why the campaign she's running is not her responsibility."
Patrick also said he hopes voters "fire" him and running mate Tim Murray in four years if they don't deliver on their promises.
One of those who turned out to hear Patrick was Esther Vargas, 29, an office manager at a charter school, who was urged to come to the rally by her 9-year-old daughter, Raeshean.
Vargas was impressed.
"I think he's great. If he hadn't convinced me yet, he's convinced me now," the Lynn woman said after the rally. "He's seems to be very down to earth, in it for the little people. He seems to understand that we might not have it all, but he's going to help us out."
Her daughter, Raeshean, said she became interested in Patrick after watching political advertisements and listening to his ideas.
"I think he knows what he's saying and that he knows what he wants to do and he wants to help everybody and he's in it for a good cause," she said.
Healey also picked up support on Sunday, winning the backing of a Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Brian Wallace, who represents the South Boston neighborhood.
Wallace said he's never spoken to Patrick, but when he needed help saving a drug treatment center or opening a high school for young people trying to stay off drugs, Healey was there.
"As far as I'm concerned her word is good. I think she's honest ... and I also like (Healey running mate) Reed Hillman. I served with him in the Legislature and he's a standup guy. That's why I'm standing up." Wallace said. "With me it's all about loyalty. She's been good to me and she's been good to my community ... when we needed her, she was there."
Healey has her work cut out for her. Polls released this past week by WHDH-TV and Suffolk University, as well as WBZ-TV and The Boston Globe, showed Patrick leading Healey by 25 points and 24 points, respectively.
The lieutenant governor's unfavorability rating has also spiked, with poll respondents citing her use of negative advertising.

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Posted by: Unregistered

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwflatbed

"As far as I'm concerned her word is good. I think she's honest ... and I also like (Healey running mate) Reed Hillman. I served with him in the Legislature and he's a standup guy. That's why I'm standing up." Wallace said. "With me it's all about loyalty. She's been good to me and she's been good to my community ... when we needed her, she was there."

Interestingly enough, where did Tom Reilly and Chris Gabrieli disappear too? In almost every election, after the primary the losing candidates rally behind their party's choice. Why haven't we seen that here?????

Posted by: morlok99

Thats a good question. I'd bet that they feel the same way I do- both candidates for governor are no good. They're both back-and-forth on issues, and seem to tailor their responses to the questions posed to them to what the audience at the time wants to hear.
Neither candidate is going to do any good for the law enforcement community in the Commonwealth.

Posted by: crazy irish

Quote:

Originally Posted by gooday

The articles above are fact, and tell the history of this man. By the way basketballs are a privledge not a right, so he realy does know nothing about corrections.

On another subject, the cocent decree, better known here in ma as a part 10 list under civil service. Why should the standards be lower for minority groups? Is that not another way of segragating those people by not treating everyone as equells. This is just a very bad way of giving a person a job that dont deserve it. Then when they get it they wont apretiate it just like most thing that are given to people that dont earn anything. Kind of like illegals in public housing that Patrick says dont exsist. Funny thing is that my aunt works for a housing authority and says it is about 30 % noncitizens living in that housing and half of them get family members to stay there also that are not supposed to be there. On top of that they get Ma health. What the hell do I bother working for, they end up with more then I got after they work there under the table job. They get a welfare check, free rent, free medical, food stamps and then still probably take home about $375 a week of spending cash from work. I dont got that left over in my check every week.

lol lol lol You sound more ignorant than the illegals your complaigning about. I think I would rather have them in this Country than you! With friends like you Healey doesn't need enemies!

Posted by: djgj200

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

lol lol lol You sound more ignorant than the illegals your complaigning about.

Ur kidding me right?

We have people that are here legally and work the system like that. I wouldn't put it past any illegal to be doing the same thing.

You tell me why an illegal should get in-state tuition when someone who is in this country legally but lives out of state has to pay more?

Here is a quote from Patrick on the issue with driver's licenses for illegals:
"people are not coming to Massachusetts to get a drivers license, they're coming to get jobs."

He is so full of BS it comes out of his pores. There is a world outside those concrete walls and barbed wire fences, explore it.

Posted by: Mongo

Quote:

Originally Posted by djgj200

Attaboy Dig,

Anybody gives you any shit just come to me buddy.

Posted by: crazy irish

Hey did ya hear the latest? Mass. is in no way ready for a terrorist attack. Way to go Romney / Healey. Oh and lets not forget the two little girls shot in there home by stray bullets yesterday. Wow i'm so glad kerry healey has been fighting crime in this state. Imagine how bad it would be if we didn't have Romney/ Healey. boy they sure have been on top of things huh?

Posted by: Mongo

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

Hey did ya hear the latest? Mass. is in no way ready for a terrorist attack. Way to go Romney / Healey. Oh and lets not forget the two little girls shot in there home by stray bullets yesterday. Wow i'm so glad kerry healey has been fighting crime in this state. Imagine how bad it would be if we didn't have Romney/ Healey. boy they sure have been on top of things huh?

Deval Patrick wants to coddle the terrorists and let them eat Tuna,and play Basketball with properly inflated balls when they come.

Then when we catch the assholes that shot those poor little babies he will defend them and make sure they don't do any time.

Of course if they did time in your house you would give them extra blankets and tell them how much you understand their plight.

Liberal freakshow.

Posted by: djgj200

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mongo

Damn straight.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Healey-Hillman for Corner Office
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Kerry Healey is a far better candidate and a far better person than the campaign she waged.
The Kerry Healey we have gotten to know during her years as lieutenant governor is smart, committed and passionate about the issues that are important to the people of Massachusetts - issues like education and lower taxes and keeping your word to the voters. But it is an unfortunate fact of political life that few people in this state got to know that woman and her able running mate, Reed Hillman, former head of the state police and a former legislator.

It is even more unfortunate that this campaign hardly ever focused on issues, because there Healey is clearly the strongest candidate. Not only does she support the voter-approved tax rollback of the state income tax to 5 percent, she also took a no new taxes pledge. It doesn’t get much clearer than that. Contrast that with the utter arrogance of a candidate who thinks it’s perfectly fine to ignore the will of the voters. The Democratic-dominated Legislature has already done that. Do we really want someone in the Corner Office openly enabling that kind of behavior even before an election?
On every education issue that is important to the parents and students of Massachusetts Healey sides with them and not with the teachers’ unions, which have opposed everything about education reform except pay raises.
Healey is for lifting the cap on the number of charter schools, often citing the more than 15,000 students on waiting lists for existing schools. She is for merit pay for individual teachers, especially those in hard-to-find specialties like math and sciences. And she supports MCAS as a graduation requirement. All of this she has done without reservation - and without a laundry list of qualifying phrases.
Her 50-point plan lets voters know exactly where she stands on a variety of other issues. Her proposals for freeing cities and towns from the financial burden of their own pension systems and allowing them to contract with the state’s Group Insurance Commission for health care would mean a cost savings of millions of dollars at the local level.
That’s what we mean about her thoughtful, clear and principled stands on the issues. You can agree or disgree, but at least voters know what kind of administration Kerry Healey would preside over. And, at the end of the day, she would indeed be a brake on the free-spending ways of the Democratic leadership of the Legislature. Or do we really want a gazebo on every town green, courtesy of the taxpayers?
The Boston Herald is pleased to endorse the real Kerry Healey, a woman who is fully qualified to lead this state as governor.

Posted by: djgj200

I have already filled out my absentee ballot and Healey got my vote without any second guessing.

Posted by: CJIS

Anyone here voting for me?

Posted by: crazy irish

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mongo

Sorry wannabe but our Republican Kerry Healey deciple Sheriff has been the one hugging inmates for years and Kerry Healey has done nothing but support it. We on the other hand have fought against such things for years.
Romney/Healey appointed the DOC commisioner who let cons have a freakin Circus, birthday parties and a big Christmas parties for lifers. You have no idea what the hell your talking about.
Oh yeah just read how the Govenors panel on domestic violence wants Healey to resign! I love it, Romney appointed them and they wont even back her sorry ass.

Posted by: Andy0921

Posted by: Mongo

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

When you say we,is that like your other personality,cuz I have yet to hear anyone in your profession spu out such disgusting bullshit support for Devil except you.

If Devil does make it you will be choking on the foolish bullshit you have been spuing you unhappy little man.

You really need to retire and get in touch with reality so you don't implode.

You should seek counciling.

I hope your gonna be allright.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Convicted Rapist Speaks Out on Behalf of Patrick

The convicted rapist at the center of Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey's negative ad campaign speaks out on behalf of Democrat Deval Patrick. Ben Laguer wrote a letter to a Fitchburg newspaper, saying Healey doesn't know all the facts of his case.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1331792&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1

Posted by: bbelichick

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

Oh yeah just read

Now what little credibility you had is gone. We all know you can't read.

Posted by: JoninNH

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mongo

When you say we,is that like your other personality,cuz I have yet to hear anyone in your profession spu out such disgusting bullshit support for Devil except you....

I hope your gonna be allright.

I don't. I hope he explodes from a terminal case of fullofis bullshitis.

Posted by: crazy irish

lol Thats it dummies don't even address the points I brought up just start using profanity and calling people names.............and you call yourselfs cops? Man are we in trouble. Maybe you people are why the crime rate is soaring.
Oh yeah you forgot to mention how Kerry Healey hired an attorney in her administration named Golberg. He was that rapists attorney. You know the rapist you keep talking about..............awwww whats the matter boys? no comment?

Posted by: bbelichick

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

Oh yeah just read how the Govenors panel on domestic violence wants Healey to resign! I love it, Romney appointed them and they wont even back her sorry ass.

You are such a feebleminded idiot. That was just to take a shot at Healey and support Deval. It was because Healey attacked Deval for his rapist buddy, Legeur.

"Several signers of the letter are registered Democrats and made donations to Patrick. "

http://news.bostonherald.com/localPo...ticleid=164966

Posted by: bbelichick

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

Oh yeah you forgot to mention how Kerry Healey hired an attorney in her administration named Golberg. He was that rapists attorney. You know the rapist you keep talking about..............awwww whats the matter boys? no comment?

You mean, his ACTUAL attorney, the one appointed to represent him? Or the rich bleeding heart liberal cop hater that spent his own time and money in an attempt to free him (despite not being his Attorney or being assigned to his case)

See the difference, dope? Some of us have actually testified in court and not just watched as some guy stood there leg shackled. We know how the system works. There is a HUGE difference between an Attorney doing their job and what Patrick did. Patrick wasn't acting as an Attorney for Legeur, he was an ACTIVIST.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Healey seeks traction in bid to be Mass. governor

By STEVE LeBLANC , Associated Press writer

WORCESTER — It was a pivotal moment in the race for governor and Kerry Healey was just where she wanted to be: surrounded by the families of crime victims in a hotel conference room about 40 miles away from Boston and the "insiders" on Beacon Hill.
Healey, trying to chip away at Democratic rival Deval Patrick's lead in the polls, was at the height of a hard-charging drive to portray Patrick as soft on crime.
The focus of the attack was Patrick's past support for convicted rapist Benjamin LaGuer. Patrick had acknowledged writing letters on behalf of LaGuer, convicted of tying up and raping a 59-year-old Leominster neighbor in 1983, and contributing money for DNA tests.
Standing next to Healey were Bob and Beth Barry, the children of LaGuer's victim, who painted Patrick as uncaring.
"Deval Patrick called our home to apologize for this becoming a campaign issue. He did not apologize for supporting Ben LaGuer," Bob Barry said. "Our family asks why are you helping any (convicts)? What side are you on?"
Healey echoed Barry's words.
"These families have suffered terrible losses and they needed a willing partner to help them make changes to the system," Healey said. "Deval Patrick has made it a pattern of putting the interests of criminals ahead of the rights of victims."
It was a highlight of a campaign in which Healey has struggled to find her footing as she seeks to succeed Republican Gov. Mitt Romney. She's been walking a fine line between trumpeting the administration's successes and distancing herself from Romney as his popularity slid among voters.
It wasn't supposed to be like this.
Throughout much of the year, Healey was a political afterthought to the fierce, three-way race for the Democratic nomination, waiting to see who would come out on top. In past elections, the winner of the Democratic primary has emerged beaten and bloodied — easy political prey for the Republican nominee.
This year, Patrick roared out of the primary with a strong win. Adding to Healey's woes were the presence in the Nov. 7 general election of two other candidates — independent Christy Mihos and Green-Rainbow Party candidate Grace Ross.
Healey tried to compensate by drawing sharp distinctions with Patrick. She favors lifting the state limit on charter schools; he doesn't. She would crack down on illegal immigrants; he would give them driver's licenses. She signed a "no new taxes" pledge; he didn't.
But her most telling decision was to return repeatedly to the issue of Patrick's handling of the LaGuer case.
In one of her campaign's sharpest attacks, Healey ran a television ad showing a woman walking alone in a deserted parking garage against a clip of a television interview during which Patrick described LaGuer as "eloquent" and "thoughtful." A female narrator asks "Have you ever heard a woman compliment a rapist?"
The ads drew fire from some who said they played on women's fears of being raped, but Healey defended it as fair game.
"I have always felt these weren't negative ads. These were ads that presented negative information and important information," Healey told reporters before one debate. "I believe that contrasts are never negative."
But the ads appeared to backfire. In a poll taken after the ads began running, Healey's popularity fell and her double-digit gap with Patrick widened.
It was a tough political lesson for Healey, who burst onto the state's political scene when Romney tapped her to be his choice for running mate in 2002.
Healey, 46, was head of the Massachusetts Republican Party at the time and jumped at the chance. She handily beat a fellow GOP challenger to be paired with Romney in the final election.
In the administration, Healey was given the task of being the liaison to cities and towns at a time when local aid was being slashed. She was also forced to take a back seat to Romney, but remained a loyal second-in-command, particularly when it came to battles with the Democrat-controlled state Legislature.
But Healey gradually found herself at odds with Romney on other key issues, especially as Romney adopted increasingly conservative positions as he geared up for a possible run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Healey continued to support abortion rights even as Romney shifted his stand. She also supported civil unions for gay couples and embryonic stem cell research, both of which Romney opposed.
Healey's political transition from lieutenant governor to gubernatorial candidate has had its awkward moments, with Healey forced to take a back seat to Romney during one of the biggest stories of the year, the deadly collapse of ceiling panels in Boston's Big Dig highway project.
More recently, Healey had to deal alone with the revelations that engineers working for the Big Dig's private project manager Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff were taking part in the tunnel inspections. Romney was out of town at the time.
Healey would be the first women elected governor in Massachusetts if she wins; former acting Gov. Jane Swift was elected lieutenant governor and elevated to the post when Gov. Paul Cellucci left to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.
But Healey's gender has done little to endear her to women voters. In polls, she trails far behind Patrick among likely women voters.
Even some women who support Healey say they're drawn to her policies and experience rather than the prospect of seeing a woman at the state's helm.
"It really doesn't matter that he's a black male and that she's a white female," said Kirsten Anderson, 33, of Boston, "She knows what to do, now it's just a matter of doing it."
Anderson, who works for a downtown auditing firm, said she was also drawn to Healey's work ethic.
"Sometimes I get the sense from politicians that once they're in they're happy just to have one, they're not quite sure what to do with themselves," she said. "I think she already knows what she needs to do."
Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the nonpartisan center for women in politics and public policy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, said the race has been tough for women voters and others who would like to see the state elected its first female governor.
"This is really in many ways such a difficult race for women who cared about breaking through that ultimate glass ceiling of getting a woman elected governor," said Hardy-Fanta. "It would be great to have a woman governor. It would be a dream."
Healey faces more than a few hurdles, according to Hardy-Fanta. She's a Republican in a state with far fewer registered Republicans than Democrats. She had little electoral experience other than a pair of failed state representative races. And she could sometimes appear stiff.
Healey's also had to contend with the plummeting popularity of Romney. Hardy-Fanta faulted Romney for failing to help groom Healey for her own shot at the governor's office.
"Romney should have used Kerry Healey much more strongly during the four years of his administration," Hardy-Fanta said.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Patrick and Healey each pick up two newspaper endorsements

The Patriot Ledger of Quincy and The Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield on Tuesday endorsed Democrat Deval Patrick's campaign for governor, while Republican Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey picked up endorsements from The Republican of Springfield and The Eagle-Tribune Co. newspapers.
The Springfield newspaper warned that Patrick's election would usher in one-party rule in Massachusetts after 16 years with a Republican governor and a Democratic Legislature.
"In a one-party government in Massachusetts, there is no one to save the Democrats from themselves," the Republican wrote in its endorsement.
The Springfield newspaper also wrote that Healey "lets voters know where she stands, while Patrick is better known for his rhetoric and feel-good talk."

In endorsing Patrick, The Patriot Ledger said that Democrat "would bring to the governorship a range of experience that has allowed him to crisscross the state and make connections to people from all walks of life, people looking for a change of culture on Beacon Hill."
The Patriot Ledger also wrote that Patrick "has a fervor that drives his quest for public office and clearly registers with voters."
The Berkshire Eagle said Patrick "will do far better by the towns and cities of the Berkshires than has Gov. Romney or will Lieutenant Gov. Healey."
The Eagle also said Patrick "will challenge the Legislature when necessary and work with it when called upon, ending the political gamesmanship of the past 16 years."
"Healey is the only candidate who promises to keep the state and its cities and towns on an even fiscal keel," said the Eagle-Tribune in an editorial running Wednesday in The Eagle-Tribune, The Gloucester Daily Times, The Salem News, and The Daily News of Newburyport.
The Eagle-Tribune said Healey's positions on social issues are "squarely in the mainstream of public opinion statewide."
"Voters have a choice of keeping the state on a steady course by electing Healey, or risking the wild ride Patrick's candidacy represents," the newspaper group said.
Independent Christy Mihos and Grace Ross of the Green-Rainbow Party are also running for governor.

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Posted by: kwflatbed

GOP faces tough Tuesday
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
Wednesday, November 1, 2006

It was Saturday, and I was at the Paper Store in West Roxbury signing copies of my book, when in walks a damp Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey. She was early for a scheduled rally around the corner. So she grabs a hardcover and hands it to me. I ask her what inscription she wants on the title page.
“I think it’ll have to be ‘To Muffy,’ ” she said. “That’s the way I’ll always remember you.”
Remember me? Is one of us leaving town, Kerry?
Sure, it was just a momentary lapse in the public facade of confidence all pols have to maintain, no matter how bleak the polls. But the reality is, someone may be leaving town next Tuesday, and it looks like it’s the state Republican Party.

The Massachusetts GOP has had a number of near-death experiences in recent years, but this time it really looks like the next stop could be Whig-ville, or maybe Federalist Junction.

It’s a bad sign when the Green-Rainbow party has more statewide candidates on the ballot than the Republicans. And when probably only five Republicans will be left in the 40-person state Senate come January - the lowest number since before the Civil War. In the 160-member House, only 21 Republicans remain, and two of them aren’t seeking re-election.

The problem is, next Tuesday could be one of those tidal waves, like 1990. That was the year all sorts of otherwise unelectable Republicans ousted veteran Democrats far down the ballot. A Bible salesman was elected to the Senate from Taunton, an egg farmer won a county office in Essex and a woman from Natick with a phobia about “germs” took the Middlesex Registry of Probate, even though I’m not sure she knew what it was.

This could be one of those years. And that’s why it’s important to preserve at least some vestige of an opposition that can perhaps one day rise from the ashes.

On Sunday, when I was down on the Cape signing more books, I ran into more Republicans running against the tide. There was Aaron Maloy, seeking a state rep’s seat against Sarah Peake, the limousine liberal Provincetown selectwoman who last year demanded that a Max Bohm painting of the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact be removed from Town Hall. The reason: No women were voting. It was 1620, Sarah, OK?

Another candidate was Will Crocker, who’s running against the incumbent Demetrius Atsalis, the rep who claimed he was running a golf tournament for his charity, only at the time he didn’t have a charity. There was congressional candidate Jeff Beatty, a veteran who’s taking on Bill Delahunt, whose nomination papers also describe him as a “vetran.”

Wherever you live, think about throwing some votes to these guys. Even if you think the Republican can’t win, don’t vote Democratic. It only encourages them.

Another office to think about when you show up at your precinct Tuesday - Governor’s Council. Can you imagine the sort of moonbats Deval Patrick is going to appoint to the bench? You need somebody there to at least stand up every Wednesday and say, “Not through me.”

My pal Ted Sarandis is running for the Council as an independent against America’s Bartender, Mike Callahan. Ted Nation will make it hot for them. Down in Bristol County, a guy named Phil Paleologos is trying to oust the flyweight Councilor Carole Fiola. How can you not like a guy whose signs say “Shawmut Diner” - which he owns.
I wish I had space to list everybody. Rick Barton against U.S. Rep. John Tierney, Larry Frisoli against Martha Coakley, Will Whittlesey against state Rep. David Linsky of Natick, yet another tax-deadbeat Democrat.
As for you, Kerry Healey, thanks for buying my book. And no matter what happens, stick around. Things can change a lot in four years, especially when moonbats are running the show.

Posted by: CJIS

Don't forget to vote for me!

Posted by: gooday

Crazy are you a state c/o, maybe a mcofu eboard member I here so much about. They are the only ones that hate Healey as much as you and out of all the state screws I talk to they dont suport alot of the eboards ideas. You seem to take this Governors race way to personal. It seems that you are more driven by the hate of one candadate more then the issues brought apon by another. I Gave Patrick a chance and listened to him and I got nothing out of it. Dreams and vissions of a better state dont get the job done and thats all he has. All of his ideas have no plan or substance behind them, not a one. If you know of one please do tell. I just dont get fooled because he is a good talker , well so are car salesmen that dont meen they should run the state. Just because he uses the words candor and frankly an awfull lot means nothng to me.

Posted by: Mongo

Don't bother trying to get in his head Gooday.

An Inmate threw some poo poo at him and it entered through the orifice we call an ear.

Now he is a shithead.

Posted by: crazy irish

Quote:

Originally Posted by gooday

Crazy are you a state c/o, maybe a mcofu eboard member I here so much about. They are the only ones that hate Healey as much as you and out of all the state screws I talk to they dont suport alot of the eboards ideas. You seem to take this Governors race way to personal. It seems that you are more driven by the hate of one candadate more then the issues brought apon by another. I Gave Patrick a chance and listened to him and I got nothing out of it. Dreams and vissions of a better state dont get the job done and thats all he has. All of his ideas have no plan or substance behind them, not a one. If you know of one please do tell. I just dont get fooled because he is a good talker , well so are car salesmen that dont meen they should run the state. Just because he uses the words candor and frankly an awfull lot means nothng to me.

No I work for Essex County We endorsed Patrick and incase you missed it we took out an ad in the Herald on tues. oct 30.
Funny you talk about used car salesman. Thats what Republican inmate hugging Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins was before he got into politics and was apointed by Weld.
Middlesex County is represented by the IBCO. They also endorsed Patrick. Oh yes the IBCO represents everyone Capt. or above in our Dept as well.
You Say Dreams and vision don't get the job done. Well niether did Romney/Healey's failed policies and cut backs. We already gave Healey a chance and there is no way in hell we would back her. We have already paid to high a price. We have no choice but to go in another direction.
Again you people have no idea what the hell your talking about.
Hey Mall cop Mongo they need you in the food court asap! IDIOT

Posted by: kwflatbed

"No I work for Essex County"

He must be one of the s--t house janitors and a$$ wipers with the amount
of smarts that he shows in his posis.

Posted by: Mongo

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

Hey Mall cop Mongo they need you in the food court asap! IDIOT

Must be cuz Crazy Irish is shoving cucumbers up his ass again screaming out Devals name.

Crazy cleanup isle 5.

Posted by: djgj200

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

You Say Dreams and vision don't get the job done. Well niether did Romney/Healey's failed policies and cut backs. We already gave Healey a chance and there is no way in hell we would back her. We have already paid to high a price. We have no choice but to go in another direction.
Again you people have no idea what the hell your talking about.
Hey Mall cop Mongo they need you in the food court asap! IDIOT

Posted by: djgj200

Red-hot Healey scores vs. Deval in debate...finally
By Kimberly Atkins and Dave Wedge
Thursday, November 2, 2006 - Updated: 02:35 AM EST

Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey battled to pin down rival Deval Patrick on taxes, crime and immigration last night, demanding that he “tell the truth” as she saved her strongest debate performance for their final prime-time clash.
Throwing barbs and often ignoring the rigid rules limiting back-and-forth exchanges, Healey pointedly challenged Patrick’s criticism of her as a mere “criminologist” while touting his own prosecutorial experience.
“I’d like you to please name for us a case in which you were a criminal prosecutor in a court where you put away a criminal,” Healey demanded.
Patrick, who recently said he has never personally tried a criminal case in court, fired back: “Let me tell you what a prosecutor does.
“I’ve had to make judgments about whom to charge and with what,” Patrick, a former assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, said as Healey gave him a fixed stare from across the podium at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. “Those hard cases, about what the evidence is and what is firm and fair. I had to make hard judgments about sentencing, including the death penalty, when I was with the Justice Department.”
“I will not have you trivialize the other part of the work that I have done, which is on occasion represent the unsavory defendant,” Patrick added.
But Healey - fighting against Patrick’s double-digit lead in the polls - shot back. “Deval, this isn’t about whether or not you were a prosecutor. It’s about telling the truth. That is something a governor must do.”
“A governor must be able to look the people of the commonwealth in the eye and tell the truth even when it isn’t convenient,” Healey added. “Like you were just asking me about the Big Dig. It wasn’t convenient, but I answered that question. And I will always tell the truth.”
Patrick, allowed by moderator and ABC News commentator Cokie Roberts to rebut, called Healey’s assail “extraordinary.”
“You spent all this time trying to distract us all from a record of failed leadership on the economy, on education and health care, and then you come here and talk to me and preach to me about telling the truth,” he said as Roberts cut him off.
Patrick, put on the defensive by a barrage from Healey on immigration issues - including her claim that he wanted to give illegal immigrants “a driver’s license so they can disappear into society and get on airplanes” - spoke to the live TV camera, not Healey, in response.
“I have made this point before, and I just don’t think you’re listening,” Patrick said. “First of all, I don’t support voting for illegal (immigrants), no one does. Citizens get to vote and only citizens get to vote. (And) I think the issue of driver’s licenses is off the table because of new legislation, but I do believe that in-state tuition (is) an issue of fundamental fairness.”
During the debate, independent candidate Christy Mihos and Green-Rainbow candidate Grace Ross clamored to get attention, with Ross even joking that no one was listening to them, so she’d direct her questions to Mihos alone.
Afterward, Healey said she wasn’t concerned about “old polls” that had her behind. Healey’s campaign manger Tim O’Brien said their internal polls had the race “neck and neck.”
Patrick too dismissed polls that showed him far ahead. “Polls don’t win an election, voters do,” he said. “It’s not over until it’s over.”

Posted by: dcs2244

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazy irish

Thats what Republican inmate hugging Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins was before he got into politics and was apointed by Weld.

Crazy, do you mean to tell us that Sheriff Cousins was appointed for life by Governor Weld? It seems to me that unless that is the case, he must have had to stand for election at some time since his appointment. So he was a "car salesman"...my barracks commander was a butcher...my first coach was a radioman...my boot was an investment banker. We all came from somewhere...not many were lawmen from day one.

Regarding your comment about 18 members of the council demading Healey resign from same: There are 300 members, the demand was made by 18 people who are "running dogs" for Deval. Eighteen out of three hundred...that's what dhimmicrats call a "mandate".

Sorry about that kid that got killed by "stray gunshots"...we've put Healey in remedial firearms training to avoid that in the future.

No one wants to take your pension away. They want to consolidate and centralize it. Hey, consolidation was good for the MSP, MDC, Registry and Capitol PD's, right? Consolidation and centralization are Deval's "Holy Grail", right? One would think that a collectivist such as yourself would applaud a move to consolidate and centralize pensions and healthcare...Deval does. Regardless of who is elected...change is coming...and it will not benefit you or us. We will all ...PAY.

Posted by: djgj200

Memo to Mihos: A big ‘no sale’
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Thursday, November 2, 2006 - Updated: 12:00 AM EST

One thing is clear after last night’s final gubernatorial debate: It’s time for the voting public to send Christy Mihos a message. Yes, you read that right, send him a message. His name may be on the ballot, can’t stop that now, but he’s going nowhere - ever.
A sensible person would have left the race long ago. But Mihos isn’t by anyone’s definition sensible. He has been tolerated by the hosts of this year’s debates. He has been tolerated by his fellow candidates. But last night he went over the line, insisting it’s Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey who should leave the race.
What arrogance! What unmitigated gall from a know-nothing who is only in the race because he can write the checks to finance his own shabby, ego-driven effort. He should never have been allowed on the same stage as Healey and Democratic candidate Deval Patrick and last night he proved it.
By his gazillionth reference to his Massachusetts roots, even the audience was groaning.
Healey was absolutely right when she shot back that this election “shouldn’t be taken frivolously.” It may be all one big joke to Mihos, but it’s also true that times like these require serious candidates with a commanding grasp of the issues.
Healey and Patrick have each shown they have that. They have battled over budgets and spending, as they did once again last night. And Healey scored a good solid hit by insisting that the income tax rollback she supports is “only taking money off the table so the Legislature can’t spend it” and putting it back into the hands of taxpayers who will put it back into the economy.
Patrick insisted, “I’ve been very clear that I have no plans to raise taxes.” That word “plans” gives us pause, as it should voters.
Politics is a sport best played by grownups. We are fortunate to have two such smart, committed people in the game who have proven track records in public service. That’s where the race must be joined.

Posted by: kwflatbed

'Why don't you tell the truth?'

Healey comes out swinging in final televised debate

By DAVID KIBBE, Standard-Times staff writer

BOSTON — Trailing badly in the polls, Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey last night accused Deval Patrick of not telling the truth during the final televised gubernatorial debate last night at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
She challenged Patrick, who was chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division, to name a case he argued in court. Patrick has said repeatedly he is the only candidate for governor to put criminals in prison. But published reports said he spent little time in the courtroom.
Patrick said he made important decisions about criminal charges and sentencing, including the death penalty, while managing a team of prosecutors in the civil rights division.
Healey, a Republican, also criticized Patrick's one-time advocacy for convicted rapist Benjamin LaGuer, which Patrick initially downplayed.
"Deval, this isn't about whether or not you were a prosecutor. It's about telling the truth, and that is something a governor must do "¦" Healey said. "I will always tell the truth. Why don't you tell the truth about your involvement in the LaGuer case? Why don't you tell the truth about the state of the economy here in Massachusetts? You need to start telling the truth."
Patrick, a Democrat, accused Healey of trying to draw attention away from the performance of the Romney administration.
"You are better than the campaign you have run," Patrick told Healey. "I will tell you, you spend all this time trying to distract us all from a record of failed leadership on the economy, on education."
He also told her: "Quit trying to scare people into voting for you."
Healey said Patrick's promises totaled $8 billion in spending, and he had no plan to pay for it.
"You are going to have to raise taxes in order to fund the $8 billion in new spending you proposed," Healey said.
Patrick asserted he had no plans to raise taxes. He said all his proposals would not be done at once. He said putting 1,000 new police officers on the street, restoring local aid and providing full-day kindergarten were priorities.
Patrick opposes completing the final stage of a voter-approved income tax cut, which would drop the rate from 5.3 percent to 5 percent, saying it would hurt local needs. Healey supports the income tax cut.
Healey entered the debate needing to score a knockout blow, with several major polls putting her down to Patrick by 25 points. She made a direct appeal to fiscal conservatives and moderate voters last night, urging those who support independent Christy Mihos to vote for her instead.
The debate format allowed the candidates to ask questions. Patrick and Healey focused on each other, drawing a complaint from Green-Rainbow candidate Grace Ross that she and Mihos were being left on the sidelines.
Mihos and Patrick hit Healey on the revelation that Big Dig engineers from Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff were used to inspect repairs to the collapsed connector tunnel.
The candidates also tussled over next Thursday's scheduled vote by the state Legislature on a proposal to ban gay marriage. Healey and Mihos both called for the Legislature to send it to a statewide vote, while Patrick and Ross opposed putting gay marriage on the ballot.
Ross, the only candidate in the race who is not a millionaire, spoke directly to voters, saying she understood their concerns.
"The other candidates don't go through what we go through every day," she said. "They've got a lot of money and they aren't necessary in touch with what we struggle with."
Mihos said the Republican and Democratic parties were beholden to special interests and had failed the state.
He also had a surprising request for Healey earlier in the debate.
"You can't win," Mihos told her. "At this point, why don't you drop out and support me and let me take on Deval as the only alternative?"
Last night's debate was sponsored by a media consortium that included the Boston Globe and Boston-area television stations. It was moderated by Cokie Roberts, a political commentator for NPR and ABC News.
The four candidates will appear in a forum at 9 a.m. tomorrow at UMass Dartmouth. The forum is sponsored by the SouthCoast Alliance, a newly formed coalition that advocates for Greater New Bedford and Fall River. The alliance includes The Standard-Times and the Herald-News, as well as business, religious, educational and neighborhood organizations.
Tomorrow's forum is expected to focus heavily on SouthCoast issues, including commuter rail, the economy and the siting of a liquefied natural gas terminal in Fall River.

Posted by: O-302

Troopers buck union, volunteer for Patrick
By HILLARY CHABOT, Sun Statehouse Bureau
Article Last Updated:11/01/2006 01:42:23 PM EST

Several Massachusetts state police officers are volunteering for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick's campaign despite the fact that a state police union endorsed his opponent, Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey.

State police Capt. Dermot Quinn confirmed that "several" officers are volunteering their time to Patrick's campaign, but he did not say how many.

State police Lt. Carmelo Ayuso volunteers for Patrick's campaign, but stressed that he does so as a private citizen and not as a state police employee.

"I like his views, I like what he has to say and I like his plans to govern the state," Ayuso said about Patrick.

State troopers are allowed to volunteer during their private time for any political candidate so long as they are not involved in "active roles in management, organization, or financial activities," according to Quinn.

The volunteer work is different than the protective state police details available to the governor and the lieutenant governor. State police have no record of a request for

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a detail from Patrick.
Patrick spokeswoman Libby DeVecchi refused to comment on the volunteers, saying only, "there are some people helping with crowd control and logistics and they are volunteering their time."

Ayuso, who was at a Patrick event in Lowell last week along with two other troopers, admits he sometimes attends the events armed.

"We don't do security, we do logistics. We do whatever we're asked to do. Hold signs, whatever," Ayuso said.

State officers can carry their guns off duty, but the Massachusetts police department assumes no liability for the officers' actions when they are volunteering for another organization, Quinn said in a statement.

Quinn did not respond to questions asking if it's a conflict of interest to use a publicly funded state gun at a political candidate's event if they are not paying for a detail.

The State Police Association of Massachusetts endorsed Healey earlier this month. John Coflesky, president of the union, called Healey a champion of tough sex-offender and gang laws on Healey's official campaign Web site.

Healey's running mate, Reed Hillman, formerly headed the state police. "They have the experience, leadership and tough on crime records that are focused on keeping our streets and communities safe," Coflesky was quoted as saying.

Officials from the union did not return three calls for comment yesterday about the Patrick volunteers.

Ayuso is not a member of the State Police Association of Massachusetts because he is a lieutenant. All state police officers with the rank of sergeant and below are in SPAM, those who rank as a lieutenant or higher belong to the Massachusetts Commissioned Officers Association.

Statehouse Bureau Chief Rebecca Fater contributed to this report.

Posted by: O-302

Healey for governor
The Lowell Sun
Article Last Updated:11/02/2006 01:18:34 PM EST

We have no doubt that Kerry Healey is the best candidate in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race. She is intelligent, articulate, thoughtful and exceptionally qualified to lead the Bay State toward a bright future.

Unfortunately, Healey's qualities have been blurred by a campaign that did well to expose Patrick's weaknesses on key issues but did not work hard enough to highlight Healey's many strengths. Healey the governor will be far superior to Healey the candidate.

Her 50-point plan is a detailed blueprint for how she will govern, while her Democratic opponent, Deval Patrick, has been evasive about what he will actually do and how he means to do it. He speaks generally of bringing "hope," but we can't help but wonder how expensive that hope will be to the taxpayers of Massachusetts.

On education, Healey supports merit pay for the best teachers, particularly for those working in underperforming schools and those teaching math and science. She wants to lift the cap on charter schools to give parents and students more options, raise the mandatory age of school attendance to 18 to keep kids from dropping out, and retain the MCAS as a graduation requirement.

Unlike other candidates, Healey won't water down public education in Massachusetts. She understands that a solid academic foundation will allow students to attend college, excel in their careers and boost the state's economic growth.

Healey supports rolling back the income tax to 5 percent, as approved by voters in 2000. She took a no-new-taxes pledge, will work to reform the state's pension system to eliminate fraud and abuse, will penalize businesses that hire illegal immigrants and will push to allow municipalities to purchase health-care insurance through the state, a move that would save struggling communities millions.

It is clear Healey understands the concerns and needs of Massachusetts taxpayers and municipalities. She knows residents need good schools, lower taxes and safe neighborhoods, and she will strive to provide those necessities.

Healey would fight for lifetime parole for Level 2 sex offenders, to reinstate the death penalty for felons convicted of killing law-enforcement personnel, provide loan forgiveness for students pursuing in-demand careers like engineering and forensic sciences, and to make housing more affordable for first-time home buyers. Unlike Patrick, Healey has concrete plans that, with the support of the Legislature, will allow such changes to occur without piling more taxes on overburdened residents.

There's a lot to be said for checks and balances in government. It's the reason the GOP has held a lock on the corner office for 16 years. The people of Massachusetts know that the Democrat-dominated Legislature is less inclined to bust open the piggy bank and reach for the taxpayers' wallets with a Republican governor standing guard.

Taking office amid a recession in 2002, Gov. Mitt Romney and Lt. Gov. Healey refused to tax their way out of a fiscal crisis, and for the past two years the state budget has included a $1 billion surplus.

Although Patrick claims that the state has lost 148,000 jobs under Romney-Healey, his numbers are just plain wrong. The state has 148,000 fewer jobs now than when the state reached its peak, but that peak was reached in February 2001 -- nearly two years before Romney and Healey took office. According to the Department of Workforce Development, the state's job market has rebounded by 61,000 jobs since it bottomed out in December 2003.

A moderate Republican, Healey will continue to halt some of the Legislature's financial extravagance while reaching out across party lines to get things done and unify our polarized political arena.

The Sun is pleased to endorse Kerry Healey to be Massachusetts' next governor.

Posted by: gooday

Troopers hopping on the Patrick bandwagon
Well I guess we know whos going for the next driving position for the Governor lol. No offense guys I dont even know how you get apointed. But things are looking pretty ugly for Healy even though she kicked the sh%$ out of Patrick in the Debate. Make sure your friends and families get out to vote at least give it a fighting chance.

Posted by: bbelichick

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Originally Posted by gooday

Troopers hopping on the Patrick bandwagon
Well I guess we know whos going for the next driving position for the Governor lol. No offense guys I dont even know how you get apointed. But things are looking pretty ugly for Healy even though she kicked the sh%$ out of Patrick in the Debate. Make sure your friends and families get out to vote at least give it a fighting chance.

FYI the Minority "Troopers" Association probably has 20 or so SPAM members TOPS, the rest are Commissioned Officers, Correction Officers, etc. It's a misnomer. Deval brags that the Minority Trooper's Association backs him, meanwhile there's 20 of them. Whoopidee doo.

Posted by: MM1799

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Originally Posted by gooday

Troopers hopping on the Patrick bandwagon

Technically its just private citizens who happen to be Troopers who are with Patrick. As stated, they are not in any official capacity nor do they represent the State Police. What Troopers do in there time off is their business.

Posted by: dcs2244

It doesn't take a cop or a CO to be a Sheriff, anymore than it takes a lawyer to be a judge. The sheriff is merely an administrator. I'm not saying that it is not desirable to have an administrator who has a criminal justice background...just that it's not necessary.

In any event, one can hardly blame Weld or Healey for Sheriff Cousins: the people freely chose him during an election. If this guy is as big a mess as you aver, then the fault is partially yours (collectively) for not convincing the lemmings about his shortcomings in order to see your guy elected. Blaming Healey (or anyone else) for the guy is like yelling at the sun to prevent nightfall.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Race for governor shifts to region
4 candidates to meet in SouthCoast forum today
By DAVID KIBBE, Standard-Times staff writer

Stephan Savoia/The Associated PressFormer Republican Gov. William Weld endorses the candidacy of Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, right, in her bid for office against Deval Patrick in Boston yesterday. BOSTON — The final sprint to Election Day begins this morning, when the four candidates for Massachusetts governor clash at the UMass Dartmouth auditorium in a forum sponsored by the SouthCoast Alliance.
Democrat Deval Patrick and Republican Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey will barnstorm the state in the next four days, but they won't necessarily leave Southeastern Massachusetts behind.
Patrick is planning campaign stops in Fall River and Wareham on Saturday, and Healey's campaign is tentatively planning another foray into Southeastern Massachusetts before the weekend is over.
Independent candidate Christy Mihos isn't wasting any time rounding up more SouthCoast votes. After this morning's forum, Mihos is scheduled to meet with representatives of New Bedford's fishing industry from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Waterfront Visitors Center at 106 Co-Op Wharf.
Patrick is hosting a community meeting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Bristol Community College cafeteria in Fall River, then swinging by Wareham High School at noon to meet and greet supporters.
This morning's UMass Dartmouth forum will focus on SouthCoast issues such as commuter rail, the regional economy, education and the siting of an LNG terminal in Fall River. As the candidates streak across the state in the coming days, they are expected to focus on more general themes.
A Healey aide called it "closing arguments."
Healey's campaign is running an upbeat TV ad featuring an endorsement by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Patrick is rolling out a new, feel-good ad with footage of his October campaign rally on Boston Common. The ad, which highlights newspaper endorsements, ends with Patrick asking the crowd: "Are you ready for a change?"
Healey, who spent much of the campaign criticizing Patrick's record on crime, is focusing on traditionally successful Massachusetts GOP themes heading into the final weekend: accusing Patrick of being a tax-and-spend liberal, and saying the state would suffer under one-party rule.
To underscore those points, she brought former Republican Gov. William Weld to her campaign headquarters yesterday. Weld contrasted his tenure in the governor's office in the 1990s to the economic and tax woes that befell that state in the late 1980s under his Democratic predecessor, former Gov. Michael Dukakis.
Healey proudly declared herself a "Weld Republican. I'm a social moderate. I'm a fiscal conservative."
They stood in front of a blow-up of a mock postcard that read "Greetings from Taxachusetts" with the faces of Dukakis, Patrick, House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini carved on Mount Rushmore.
Copies of the postcards were later handed out to reporters.
Healey, trailing badly to Patrick in polls, closed the gap slightly in a CBS4 poll released yesterday. It showed Patrick ahead by 21 points, 55 percent to 34 percent. Previous polls had Patrick up by 25 percent.
The poll of 664 likely voters had a margin of error of 4 percent. It showed Mihos at 6 percent and Green-Rainbow candidate Grace Ross at 3 percent.
Patrick did not have any public events yesterday. His campaign said he was busy meeting with staff members and making calls to thank supporters.
But the pause will end this morning, when all four candidates take the stage at UMass Dartmouth. Later, Patrick has a rally in Boston with U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
"We've been a grassroots campaign for 19 months, and we are continuing grassroots outreach," said Patrick's spokeswoman, Libby DeVecchi. "Deval has a number of community meetings and rallies where he is going to continue to reach out to voters."

Posted by: kwflatbed

"Sorry but going from used car salesman to Sheriff is unaceptible"

What did you do for a living befor the CO job that you claim to work at now??????????

Posted by: kwflatbed

Healey eyes big finishing kick at polls

By DAVID WEBER , Associated Press writer

BOSTON — Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey has two framed newspaper front pages side-by-side on her office wall. The first one is from primary election day 2002 and proclaims her in a "dead heat" with her opponent. The next day's headline touts her 28-point win over James Rappaport.
With five days left before this year's election, Healey finds herself in a similar position with one key difference: Two recent polls show her some 25 points behind instead of even with Deval Patrick in race for governor.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Healey said her experience taught her not to put much stock in polls. Instead, she is trying to hammer home her message that a Republican governor would serve as a "stop sign" to the Democratic Legislature's profligate spending. At the same time, she has been working to equate Patrick with Michael Dukakis, whose tenure as governor represents the days of "Taxachusetts" in the eyes of some voters.
Yesterday, the man who succeeded Dukakis — former Gov. William Weld — said Massachusetts needs another Republican to hold the line on taxation and to attract new businesses.
"In the late 1980s and into 1990, it was a time of sharply increasing taxation," said Weld, who took office in 1991 and was re-elected in 1994. Weld, who mounted a failed attempt for the gubernatorial nomination in New York earlier this year, said one of the key missions of a Republican governor "is preventing tax increases in a high-tax state like this."
With Weld at her side, Healey stood next to a giant postcard of Mount Rushmore, altered to show the heads of Dukakis, Patrick, House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini. "Greetings from Taxachusetts" was emblazoned across the top of the card. "Mount Taxmore, Beacon Hill, MA," was printed along the bottom.
"The Dukakis administration had doubled the gas tax. It had increased the income tax four times, and yet, services were cut," Healey said. She said Patrick's reply to her question at Wednesday night's debate about whether he would raise taxes was illuminating.
"To stand there, as he did last night, and say he didn't have any plans to raise taxes, that is code for, 'The door's open,'" she said.
The Patrick campaign responded by noting that two high-ranking Republicans who worked in Weld's administration, Mark Robinson and Gloria Larson, endorsed Patrick earlier this week.
"What will (Healey) do next for a gimmick: jump into the Charles?" Patrick spokesman Richard Chacon said, referring to the time Weld dived fully clothed into the river to demonstrate how clean it was.
Meanwhile, Patrick scheduled no public events yesterday, preferring to use the day to rally his own troops for the final push toward the Tuesday election. An aide said Patrick gave "pep talks" to his volunteers and staffers in person and by phone in anticipation of an appearance with rising Democratic star Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., this evening in Roxbury.
Patrick also released a new TV ad entitled, "A new beginning," and picked up the endorsement of the North Adams Transcript as well as several weekly newspapers.
Patrick's running mate, Worcester Mayor Tim Murray, was on the road for the ticket yesterday, making appearances in Natick, Framingham and Milford. Patrick was scheduled return to the campaign trail Saturday with trips to Plymouth, Brockton and Fall River for rallies of his supporters.
Independent candidate Christy Mihos visited Stonehill College and was slated to appear on radio and cable TV news shows yesterday.
Healey, Patrick, Mihos and Green-Rainbow candidate Grace Ross are scheduled to have one final debate this morning at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. The 9 a.m. debate is not being televised.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Brace yourselves for Duke redux
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald Columnist
Friday, November 3, 2006 - Updated: 12:25 AM EST

Mike Dukakis was a good governor. And if you don’t believe me, just ask Deval Patrick. Here’s the exchange from the final televised debate Wednesday night.
Kerry Healey: “I’d like to ask you, do you think Dukakis was a good governor, and why?”
Deval: “I think that Mike Dukakis was a good governor in many ways, and we had challenges then.”
We sure did, Deval, and the biggest challenge of all, at least to us taxpayers, was named M. Stanley Dukakis.
Sure, Deval’s lead in the polls is most likely insurmountable, and tossing a bouquet to the henpecked wimp Mike Dukakis isn’t nearly as boneheaded as Liveshot Kerry’s “stuck in Iraq” crack.

Still, you can’t say now you haven’t been warned.
But this governor’s race isn’t about facts, it’s about feelings. Christy Mihos is in the fight only because his fragile ego was bruised by Mitt Romney, and now the self-pity virus has spread to Grace Ross, who says she’s being ignored, boo-hoo. And all the rich ponytailed guys and knitting post-menopausal trust-funded women are voting for Deval only because it’ll make them feel less guilty about their Lexuses and ski condos.
Hey, it’s a moonbat world.
So it seems only appropriate that the next governor turns out to be a big fan of the “Massachusetts miracle.” Deval even uses some of the Duke’s most hackneyed phrases, such as “growing the economy” and “investment in the future,” which means higher taxes. The Duke was endorsed by rapist-murderer Willie Horton. Deval can tout his nod from Ben LaGuer.
For those with short memories, let’s consider some of the accomplishments of Mike Dukakis:

Phony Social Security numbers issued by the state to illegal aliens so that they could go onto welfare immediately upon arrival in Massachusetts.
Forty-four murderers had their sentences commuted by the Duke in his first four years.
Weekend furloughs for first-degree murderers so they can rape and be inducted into the mafia.
Hiring of gangsters and their relatives at the Mass. Convention Center Authority after Dukakis turned over control of the board to Whitey Bulger’s brother Billy (now a confidant of Deval Patrick).
Increased Turnpike tolls at Allston and Weston from 25 cents to 50 cents, and then held a press conference announcing “a 20 percent increase.”
Left-wing judges such as Robert Bonin, Margaret Burnham, Maria Lopez and Suzanne “Let ’em Go” DelVecchio, not to mention Bulger cronies too numerous to mention.
A proposal for a sales tax on four services, which went down in flames after a state rep who is now the state inspector general began publicly reading a list of all of the hundreds of affected industries.
Medicaid-funded sex-change operations for New Hampshire residents, followed by taxpayer-funded post-op therapy in Montreal.

“Good jobs at good wages . . . public-private partnerships . . . national model . . . stop the finger-pointing.”
DOR tax audits on political opponents.
Lt. Gov. John Kerry; House committee chairman John McNeil, a convicted child pornographer; crooked Dukakis education adviser Gerry Indelicato; Big Dig creator Freddy Salvucci and Massport hack Dave Davis
A temporary surcharge on the state income tax, now 17 years old and still in effect.
Annual banquets at the prisons for members of the Lifers Club, i.e., murderers.
Blaming all of the state’s problems on talk radio (sounds like a Globe editorial endorsing Deval).
I’m out of space, but there was more, so much more in those 12 rotten years. Mike Dukakis was special, as Deval put it so well, in many ways.

Posted by: kwflatbed

Patrick’s price won’t be right: Quid pro quos are adding up
By Virginia Buckingham
Boston Herald Columnist
Friday, November 3, 2006