Get used to seeing Obamas and Joe Biden visiting Massachusetts for fundraising junkets with wealthy Democrats in preparation for the 2012 election. On Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama comes to the Hub, and Vermont, looking for campaign cash for President Obama. She visits the Chestnut Hill home of Democrats Elaine and Gerald Schuster for a lunch to benefit the Democratic National Committee. In Vermont, Mrs. Obama will visit with the Vermont National Guard and their families. President Obama visited Boston in March and May. His May trip included a visit with Jack Connors for a fundraiser. Vice President Joe Biden also visited Massachusetts in March.
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Aaron Kushner's effort to buy the Boston Globe got a huge injection of credibility as Jack Connors confirmed he is an investor in the Wellesley entrepreneur's bid to buy the paper that is technically not for sale, according to Times Co. chief executive Janet Robinson. Connors, the chairman of Partners HealthCare, is reportedly a small investor in this group.
President Obama visited Boston yesterday and left with a pile of campaign cash from two fundraisers. Ray Allen and Governor Deval Patrick opened for Obama at Boston Center for the Arts in the South End. Allen described Obama as "our coach" while Governor Patrick touted his performance as president, citing the economy and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
President Barack Obama returns to Massachusetts today to get more money for the 2012 election because Bay Staters are quite generous to Democrats. Big surprise, right?
When Bostonist read last week that Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca and Boston business guy Jack Connors were leading a group to purchase the Boston Globe and involve a "nonprofit foundation" to run the paper, we asked the following question: "So, the Globe gets sold and still doesn't make money?" In the Herald today, Mike Barnicle Jayson Blair Howie Carr began his column with the following statement: "Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought The Boston Globe already was a nonprofit newspaper."
Two local groups have submitted preliminary bids to buy the Boston Globe, the newspaper reported Friday. Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca and former ad man and Boston go-to guy Jack Connors lead one group, while Stephen Taylor, a former Globe executive and member of the family that used to own the Globe. heads the second group. The Pagliuca/Connors group takes a "civic approach" to ownership that includes involving a "nonprofit foundation to help fund and run the Globe." So, the Globe gets sold and still doesn't make money? Anyway, Mort Zuckerman, Chairman of Boston Properties Inc. and owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, is also rumored to be interested in buying the Globe.
The city of Boston and the men who fill the ranks of the Boston Fire Department simply can't get along. Contract disputes have long since gone nuclear and now any controversy turns into a five-alarm blaze of rhetoric and posturing perfectly designed for the city's competitive media outlets.
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