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  • November 29, 2006
    Conda Joins Romney
    By Adam Reilly
    In the same article I referenced in my last post, I wrote that Romney is signing on supporters who mean little to the average voter but send strong signals to inside-the-beltway movement conservatives. Today we get another of those names: Cesar Conda.

    Conda's support of Romney should not be a total shock to observant locals: Conda is currently with Mike Murphy's political consulting firm, DC Navigators, which has received more than $200,000 from Romney's gubernatorial campaign committee over the past 18 months or so.

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  • November 29, 2006
    Frist out, Mitt one closer
    By Adam Reilly
    As I wrote in last week's issue, Mitt Romney keeps getting closer and closer to being the last viable conservative standing for the anti-McCain right wing to rally around for the GOP Presidential nomination. Today, he moved one step ahead; The Wall Street Journal's Washinton Whispers reports that Senator Bill Frist won't run

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  • November 28, 2006
    Camenker slams Mitt
    By Adam Reilly
    Brian Camenker's MassResistance group -- a same-sex wedding, of sorts, of the Article 8 Alliance and Parents' Rights Coalition -- has released a scathing attack on Mitt Romney, meant to warn national conservatives not to be fooled by the Mittster. The document, citing such reliable sources as the Boston Phoenix, catalogues Romney's moderate statements and actions on everything from gay rights to.

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  • November 27, 2006
    Aiming for Ames
    By Adam Reilly
    Mark the date, Mitt: August 11, 2007. That's when the Iowa Republican Party will hold its traditional Ames straw poll, according to yesterday's Des Moines Register. The poll is one of the big early media-grabbing opportunities for Presidential candidates.

    The Ames fundraising event has long since become thoroughly unrepresentative of actual Iowa caucus voters -- campaigns bus people in from far and wide just to vote in the poll -- so now it gets hailed as importance evidence of the candidates' level of campaign organization.

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  • November 21, 2006
    McGrory: Mitt cares
    By Adam Reilly
    So, apparently Mitt Romney had been unaware that cutting funds from the program that provides winter shelter to the homeless would result in fewer homeless people getting shelter during the winter. All it took was someone pointing it out, and he quickly rectified the situation. Not his fault -- "some idiotic state bureaucrat couldn't see the people through the numbers," says Brian McGrory.

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  • November 20, 2006
    The NH legislature: women's work
    By Adam Reilly
    Democrats gained control of both chambers of the New Hampshire legislature in this month's election. This weekend, house Democrats picked Terie Norelli of Plymouth to be the next speaker. Over in the senate, they've already picked Concord's Sylvia Larsen as president.

    Nationwide, only nine women have ever served as state senate president, three of them doing so now, and 20 have been state house speaker, including just two currently, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers.

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  • November 17, 2006
    Not reassuring
    By Adam Reilly

    According to the AP story about Mitt Romney's Big Dig press conference this morning, the built-in fire-detection system doesn't work properly, so "tunnel operators are spotting fires by relying on cell phone calls from motorists, or by noticing a reduction in their speed of travel."


    Seriously, the first they'd know about a car engulfed in flames within a tunnel would be the traffic backing up? Yeah, I don't feel so great about that.

    [by David S. Bernstein]
  • November 17, 2006
    Deval agrees with the Phoenix
    By Adam Reilly
    ...about Borat. From an AP story:
    The governor-elect admitted laughing at the journalistic spoof that has become No. 1 at the box office, but he added, “It was totally inappropriate at points.”
    Or, as the Phoenix put it recently: "Tasteless and Offensive (and the funniest film of the year)."


    [by David S. Bernstein]
  • November 17, 2006
    Grading the appointments: Joan Wallace-Benjamin
    By Adam Reilly
    [by David S. Bernstein]

    As Deval Patrick puts together his team to run the state government, the Talking Politics blog will grade his appointments. We'll be keeping a close eye out for hackery, patronage, and incompetence, and whether Patrick seems to be fulfilling his promise to bring fresh, new perspectives to Beacon Hill.

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  • November 15, 2006
    And then there was one
    By Adam Reilly
    [by David S. Bernstein]

    The Hartford Courant is reporting that Democrat Joe Courtney has won the official recount over incumbent Republican Congressman Rob Simmons, by 91 votes, in Connecticut's 2nd district. This means that Christopher Shays, who won re-election with a whopping 50.9% of the vote in the Connecticut 4th -- the region way, way, down in the southwest tip of the state -- will be New England's only Republican member of the US House of Representatives in the coming session.

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  • November 14, 2006
    Not quite a clean slate
    By Adam Reilly
    [by David S. Bernstein]

    The GOP has really learned its lesson, huh?

    Let's see how many ways new RNC chairman, Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, is connected to the scandals, embarassments, and unpopular policies that helped lead to the party's recent defeat. Let me know if I'm missing anything!

    --The convicted influence-peddler Congressman Bob Ney has confessed to taking a bribe from convicted influence-buying lobbyist Jack Abramoff, in exchange for helping obtain awards for his Native American clients from then-HUD Secretary Mel Martinez in 2003.

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  • November 14, 2006
    Pack up the Crate
    By Adam Reilly
    [by David S. Bernstein]

    To the surprise of nobody, Darrell Crate will not seek another term as chairman of the Massachusetts GOP when his term ends in January. Crate deserves credit for the fiscal solvency of the party, no mean feat given the meager return it offers for the prospective contributor's dollar.

    Crate's four-year tenure will be remembered as the time when the Republican Party went from near-irrelevance to total irrelevance in the state, and he is not blameless in that.

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  • November 13, 2006
    ActBlue's Breakout Year
    By Adam Reilly

    [by David S. Bernstein]

    When I first wrote about ActBlue, the Cambridge-based web site connecting progressive contributors to candidates, it had processed about $250,000 of donations to 125 campaigns. (See "Two Schmoes," September 2004) Yet I wrote that it "may not be crazy" to think that ActBlue could, as its founders envisioned, move $15 to $20 million in the 2006 election cycle.

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  • November 13, 2006
    '06 fallout on '08 begins
    By Adam Reilly

    [by David S. Bernstein]

    I take Russ Feingold at his word, that his decision to forego a 2008 Presidential campaign was based on the greater good he can now do in the Democratic-controlled US Senate. Being a majority-party US Senator is a pretty good gig.

    Will other senators think likewise? Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Joe Biden, and Evan Bayh have all made sure their names are in the '08 picture.

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  • November 09, 2006
    "San Francisco Values"
    By Adam Reilly
    [Note to readers from Adam Reilly: this entry you all love so much was actually written by David Bernstein.]

    The right-wing phrase of the week is "San Francisco values," as in the kind that Speaker-in waiting Nancy Pelosi will try to impose on America. Bill O'Reilly used the phrase repeatedly on the air; Newt Gingrich used it in a fundraising mailer; congressional candidates featured it in TV ads and mailers; and, in at least one case, a newspaper editorial used it in endorsing a Georgia Republican.

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