Bostonist: DevalWatch: Another Day, Another Negative Story

sloan

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:02:01 -0500

I don't know what else could have been done (you're right, probably nothing), but as a public servant it's bad messaging to be selling your memoirs in Manhattan while your most high-profile policy proposal is being defeated in Boston. Patrick's long-term career is dependent on being successful here (Life of Deval: Escaping South Side Poverty to Become Unproductive Governor isn't going to sell a lot of copies.)

Tom Lewis

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:04:54 -0500

I'm not sure what Patrick was supposed to do about the casino legislation that he knew wasn't going to pass, stay in Boston and have a temper tantrum? Tell the press, yet again, that the legislature was making a mistake? OK, so he went all the way to New York City, a couple hours away. The idea that Patrick is some kind of absentee governor a la Romney is a joke.