The first major test on the health care bill for Majority Leader Harry Reid occurred Saturday, and he managed to hold his caucus intact, pushing the bill forward with sixty votes. Despite Reid’s victory the bill faces major hurdles in the week ahead, with many of the centrist Democrats holding [...]
They call themselves pro-life, but their votes against stem cell research are pro-death. We should call them out on that. [...] Today, Diane Patrick, the Commonwealth's First Lady, announced that she will endorse Mike Capuano for U.S. Senate.
Mrs. Patrick will formally endorse Congressman Capuano tomorrow at his 50th "Open Mike" conversation with voters at the Dedham Community Theater, 580 High Street, at 10:30am.
... A partner at [...]
GOUVERNEUR, NY - The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy [...]
Martha supports the Senate bill. She believes it represents great progress toward assuring quality, affordable health coverage for all Americans; and she is [...]
A vote recount has shown that Lynn Mayor Edward Clancy lost [...]
So sez DeLeo. His letter to the House membership (and released publicly) is below. The tone is remarkably positive. I'm impressed by both chambers' willingness to take on CORI, which must be a tough (but correct and necessary) vote for a lot of members.
November 18, 2009
Dear Colleague:
As you know, [...]
Several things seem to be happening:
* Harry Reid meeting with moderate Senate Democrats
* The Congressional Budget [...]
According to a Christopher Scott story in today’s Sun, “City Councilor Jim Milinazzo has the five votes needed to become mayor on Jan. 4, and then some.”
Scott reports that CC Milinazzo has the supports of CCs K. Broderick, B. Martin and CC-elects F. Descoteaux, J. Mendonca and P. Murphy. [...]
Faced with declining revenues, cuts to local aid and rising costs, many Massachusetts towns are increasing hotel and meals taxes as well as overriding Proposition 2 1/2 to raise property taxes.
In Rockland, residents voted 2-1 in favor of a Proposition 2 1/2 override to build an [...]
The effort by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to find consensus that will get him sixty votes to consider health care reform in the Senate continues to be a difficult task, with the Congressional Budget Office playing a large role in that effort. Yesterday’s New York Times details his difficulties [...]
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Well, Coakley laid all that to rest. Her latest in the Globe is [...]
Barbara Anderson has featured Red Mass Group prominently in her latest column distributed to many Massachusetts Newspapers. Here is a link to the column at The Salem News. In the column Barbara relives her experience live blogging the health-care vote with us.
I wasn't going to miss the next' [...]
Look, she just filed financial disclosures, reporting less than $1000 bucks in financial assets in either her name or her husband's name. This, after a life of apparently spending every single dollar she's earned successful 30 year [...]
Just a few days ago on WTKK, Coakley said she would not vote to advance the bill:
Eagan: If you were Senator Martha Coakley today, would you have
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Yet he is catching up to Mihos, the convenience store magnate. The poll showed Baker capturing 30 percent of GOP primary voters, compared to" [...]
