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  • March 30, 2007
    Mass. Office Brings Down Keroack
    By David S. Bernstein
    Last November, the White House appointed Eric Keroack to head family planning programs within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Keroack had previously worked at Boston's A Woman's Concern [corrected], which promotes abstinence instead of birth control, so reproductive-rights groups were not too thrilled.

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  • March 29, 2007
    Small Triumph For Shea-Porter
    By David S. Bernstein
    New Hampshire rookie Congresswoman Carole Shea-Porter scored her first legislative triumph Tuesday, getting her first sponsored piece of legislation passed by a resounding 417-2: House Resolution 266, "Supporting the goals and ideals of Professional Social Work Month and World Social Work Day."

    OK, it's not a world-changer, but it counts -- and yes, she was a social worker herself before swiftly and improbably becoming someone who sponsors bills on the floor of the US House of Representatives.

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  • March 29, 2007
    Another Swift Funder For Mitt!
    By David S. Bernstein
    Carl Lindner Jr. of Cincinnati will serve as Romney's Ohio finance committee honorary co-chair, with other Lindner family members playing active roles. Lindner gave $350,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth back in '04, so you can add him to the list in my earlier post.

    Oh, incidentally, Lindner was chairman of Chiquita when it was paying millions to terrorist organizations a few years ago.
  • March 29, 2007
    Just asking....
    By David S. Bernstein
    Now if someone forms a "The Secret" Believers for President Clinton group, can they both get the result they visualize?

    "The Secret" Believers for President Obama
    Members: 180
    I created this group for all those that know "The Secret". I, as probably most of you, saw this on "Oprah" recently. In a nutshell the program promotes the power of positive visualization and the law of attraction.

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  • March 29, 2007
    McGovern for Hillary
    By David S. Bernstein
    Just as my article comes out saying that none of the Mass. delegation has endorsed for President, Congressman Jim McGovern comes out to endorse Hillary. Add him to her list as of a 4:30 press conference this afternoon.
  • March 29, 2007
    Notorious Massachusetts Criminals
    By David S. Bernstein
    The new "Exhibit A" monthly publication from Lawyers Weekly names Massachusetts's "10 Most Notorious Criminals" as its debut cover story. It's striking which criminals become "notorious," or perhaps more accurately, which victims. All of the victims are white, and the list is dominated by those who harm women (Willie Horton, Richard Rosenthal, Eddie O'Brien, James Kater), children (Louise Woodward, The Amiraults, Paul Shanley), or both (Kenneth Seguin).

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  • March 28, 2007
    Fox Can Re-Join Romney's Hen House
    By David S. Bernstein
    George W. has withdrawn the nomination of Sam Fox for ambassador to Belgium, after John Kerry and others started griping. Fox helped fund the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, so you can see why Kerry might not be a big fan.

    But Belgium's loss could be Mitt Romney's gain. Fox is a big-time, big-league GOP donor with influence in Jewish donor circles, and he donated a cool $100,000 to Romney's PAC last summer, as I mentioned in these two stories about the Romney candidacy

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  • March 27, 2007
    Kerry Self-Absorbed Much?
    By David S. Bernstein
    Washington Post's "Sleuth" Mary Ann Akers catches John Kerry and his staff "obsessively checking his Amazon ratings" for the new book on the environment by Senator & Mrs. Kerry. BTW, it was #25 when I checked.

    Now, Akers would have a real scoop if she could trace those five-star reviews back to a senate.gov address....
  • March 27, 2007
    More On devalpatrick.com
    By David S. Bernstein
    As if I haven't provoked enough criticism on this topic (such as here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here), I will be on Jim Braude's NECN show tonight at 7:00pm to discuss Deval Patrick's civic engagement outreach.
  • March 26, 2007
    Breakfast With Gitell
    By David S. Bernstein
    Seth Gitell -- former Phoenix scribe and Menino press secretary -- knows his local politics. But he really knows his food. So his feature in the new April Boston magazine looks like a must-read: "Pancakes, Bacon, and a Side of Influence: A Memorandum on the Protocols of Power Breakfasting in the Power Breakfast Capital of the World."

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  • March 26, 2007
    devalpatrick.com
    By David S. Bernstein
    I wasn't able to attend the "Town Meeting" Saturday, and I haven't had a chance to poke around the new web site much, but here are some quick initial thoughts on the Gov's Civic Engagement launch.

    --This is a kick in Speaker Sal DiMasi's crotch, whether intended that way or not (and I suspect it is). Patrick is framing "civic engagement" as me-against-them: join me in my battle against the intransigent, special-interest-beholden legislature.

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  • March 23, 2007
    Meehan-Poaching Begins
    By David S. Bernstein
    Normal political junkies, upon hearing news of Marty Meehan's departure from Congress, wondered: Who will run for his seat? True, hardcore political junkies wondered: Who will hire his staffers?

    Our first winner is Presidential candidate Chris Dodd, who has hired Meehan's press secretary, Bryan DeAngelis, as his New Hampshire press secretary.

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  • March 23, 2007
    NH Collegians for Mitt
    By David S. Bernstein
    Mitt Romney has announced his New Hampshire campaign campus chairs:

    Adam Bungert, University of New Hampshire
    Ralph M. Crossen, New England College
    Katie Dangel, Southern New Hampshire University
    Robyn Dangora, Saint Anselm College
    Christopher DuPoy, New Hampshire Technical Institute
    Anthony Estevez, Daniel Webster College

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  • March 23, 2007
    Edwards Didn't Need A Boost
    By David S. Bernstein
    To me, a curious bit of apparent conventional wisdom in the recent punditry on Elizabeth Edwards has been the assumption that John Edwards's campaign was having trouble gaining traction, getting run over by the twin supernovas Hillary and Barack. I heard a lot of this on radio and TV particularly the last 24 hours or so. I can't say I'm the most plugged-in guy in the world, but my sense has been quite the opposite: Edwards has made tremendous strides on the ground in the early states, particularly Iowa, while his rivals have been splitting their time on the job in Washington, and raising money in NYC, Calif, etc.

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  • March 23, 2007
    Bad Signs for the GOP
    By David S. Bernstein
    As is so often the case with big Pew Research Center studies, their latest annual survey of political values and core attitudes (which they've been doing for 20 years) has way too many interesting tidbits for me to discuss them all. Here are a few.

    --Anti-government sentiment has declined steadily since it peaked in 1994/1995, which of course is when the anti-government conservatives gained power in the federal government.

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