Sarah Palin isn't "seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States" - her words. We're not sure that rules her out entirely as a third-party candidate because she might just decide to go rogue again. She won't go away, however, as she still wants to liberate us from President Obama and, ahhh, help America by talking. "I need to be able to say what I want to say," she said.
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Let the real campaign begin! Senator Scott Brown has finally engaged apparent Democratic Senate campaign frontrunner Elizabeth Warren in the build up to the 2012 election. Naturally, it's on a pressing issue: Nudity. During Tuesday's debate, some reporter asked a time-wasting question about Brown's mostly naked Cosmo picture taken to get him through college. Warren said “I kept my clothes on.” Today, Brown responded by saying "Thank God" in an interview with WZLX this morning. Beavis would be proud of the Senator.
The least experienced Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, former Obama administration advisor and Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, is quickly becoming the main challenger to Republican Senator Scott Brown, according to a UMass-Lowell/Boston Herald poll. The poll has Warren trailing Brown by a 41-38 margin just weeks after she announced her campaign.
Setti Warren has ended his Martha Coakley-esque campaign for Senate. Bostonist almost forgot he was running. He was honest that he wasn't going to win, or, in his words, "I no longer believe I have a clear path to victory in this race."
The Republicans running for president debated again last night, this time Google and Fox News presided over the questioning. The clash between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry continued over, well, everything from Social Security to education to immigration to healthcare. The lowlight was the booing of an openly gay soldier serving in Iraq. Today, Romney zeroed in on illegal immigration at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando. Perry supported illegal immigrants paying in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities in Texas.
Elizabeth Warren looks like a legitimate challenger to Senator Scott Brown. A recent poll had her leading Brown by a 46-44 margin while he has a double-digit lead against previous Democratic frontrunners Alan Khazei and Newton Mayor Setti Warren. We'll see how she stacks up against the six other Democrats running for Senate in the first debate that's been set for October 4 at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
There are other Democrats running for Senate in Massachusetts in addition to Elizabeth Warren despite her high profile entrance to the race against Senator Scott Brown.
Rachel Maddow got what she billed as the first national interview with Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren last night. She led up to Warren with a recap of Senator Scott Brown's recent activities. Basically, she labeled Brown as having a week grasp of issues and being a top receiver of Wall Street campaign cash. Maddow painting Brown in a negative light isn't a huge surprise. Her blog is loaded with Brown-centered links.
Mitt Romney and Rick Perry battled each other on jobs and Social Security at the GOP debate at Reagan Library last night.
There's at least one more potential Democrat Senate candidate out of the mix as a challenger to Senator Scott Brown: Representative Michael Capuano. He decided not to run for Senate in the 2012 race. It looks like the only possible big name candidate is Elizabeth Warren.
Eric Fehrnstorm's @CrazyKhazei account hijinks have now backfired entirely. Fehrnstrom, Mitt Romney's former communications director and current presidential campaign adviser and adviser to Senator Scott Brown, used the account to mock CityYear founder Alan Khazei's run for Senate. Of course, Fehrnstrom exposed himself as the tweeter when he used his own Twitter account, @EricFehrn, to post a "CrazyKhazei" type tweet regarding Khazei's charity and potentially improper payments to and from it.
The rumored Senate campaign of Elizabeth Warren got a boost from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in the form of $100,000 and 54,000 volunteers ready to work for her. if she takes on Senator Scott Brown. Warren is popular with liberals and the current crop of challengers have a seal in Chatham look.
Mitt Romney was asked about the possibility of naming Senator Scott Brown as his running mate if he is the GOP nominee for president. Romney is the alleged GOP front-runner, despite an expected poor showing in the Iowa straw poll, and politely dismissed the idea.
Mitt Romney is making all sorts of news lately, some good, some bad, and some silly. He had an eventful visit to Iowa where he made a few memorable comments during a speech at the Iowa State Fair. He got heckled by some Democrats who were concerned about possible cuts to Social Security. He recalled "a time in this country where we didn't celebrate attacking people based on their success" and said President Obama attacks successful people. It's apparently only okay to attack people who aren't "successful."
Newton Mayor Setti Warren injected some excitement - okay, it's not that exciting - into a complete snoozefest of a Senate race last night at a Ward 5 Democratic Committee event the First Church of Boston by speaking bluntly about Senator Scott Brown. Warren, a veteran of the Iraq War, is one of the Democrats running for the Senate seat held by Senator Brown.
We almost didn't read this column by Joan Venocchi because it presents such a ridiculous idea. No, Joan, we don't want another Brown-Coakley election. We love that we have Attorney General Martha Coakley and we want here to have a lengthy career in her current gig. Coakley is fortunate enough to have found a role in which she can serve the public good.
Thursday was supposed to be Mitt Romney's day to start his campaign. He did that, with no necktie, on a picturesque farm in New Hampshire. Romney told us his name - nice touch - and believes in America. He believes President Obama "failed" America. He apparently doesn't believe in the phrase "President Obama."
Memorial Day has signaled the start of political season in New Hampshire and is bringing every possible Republican presidential candidate there. There is a busy undercard visiting the Granite State today with Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rudy Guiliani exploiting stumping on Memorial Day. The main event will wait: Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are due later this week.
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.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren is running for Senate when the people's seat currently held by Senator Scott Brown is up for grabs in 2012.
As surprising as it sounds, gossipy media speculation about yet another Mayor Tom Menino election campaign has begun. Yes, about 18 months after he won an historic fifth term as Mayor of Boston, Menino is already ready to run again in 2013. David S. Bernstein of the Phoenix expects him to run, and to win - of course - in 2013 after talking himself into it. Menino, himself, has reportedly already decided to throw his hat in the ring. Bernstein reports the mayor told an East Boston community breakfast in April that he was all-in for 2013.
Senator Scott Brown's list of opponents for 2012 has grown and now includes someone people have heard of in the person of Democratic activist Alan Khazei, who today announced he was running. He lost to Martha Coakley in the Democratic primary in 2009. Bob Massie, who hired Howard Dean's former advisor Joe Trippi, and attorney Marisa DeFranco are also running for the Democratic nomination.
Donald Trump's new hobby appears to be Mitt Romney. We bet his pursuit of President Obama's birth certificate probably isn't over. Just in case Donald is reading: The President is Ameican by birth. Trump told CNN that Romney is a "small business guy," and his net worth is "many, many, many times Mitt Romney." Forbes said he's worth $2.7 billion. CNN places Romney's net worth at $202 million.
Now that President Obama is in election mode, we guess Bostonist has to worry about 2012, too. Obama is the main event, we know, but after that, unless Mitt Romney is Obama's opponent, then Senator Scott Brown is the focus for political junkies in Massachusetts.
President Obama visited Boston to boost a successful pilot school and raise money for Democrats. He seemed to get a mixed welcome. Glen "Big Baby" Davis was thrilled to see him. Democrats complained, and, of course, Mitt Romney basically took the opportunity to begin his 2012 campaign.
President to visit TechBoston Academy today. Democrats Joe Kennedy, and Representatives Ed Markey, Michael Capuano, and James McGovern are planning to protest budget cuts to the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) heating oil assistance program.
We're not sure what changed in two weeks to make Newton Mayor Setti Warren want to run for Senate. He does, however, now admit he's thinking about running for the Senate in 2012 when Scott Brown is up for re-election.
Senator Scott Brown has finally arrived. He spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library last night to promote his controversial memoir, "Against All Odds," and to totally ignore the political impact of it. Other prominent Republicans - Sarah Palin - have visited the Reagan Library recently, and Brown even got FEC approval to buy copies of his book with campaign money in order to give the books to supporters.
With President Barack Obama slated to visit Boston on March 8 for a Democratic fundraiser, the time seemed right for Governor Deval Patrick to raise his national poltical profile. He did just that by confirming plans to start a federal political action committee in order to raise money to travel around the country and campaign for President Obama in the 2012 election.
Tito Jackson dominated the preliminary election for the District 7 seat on the Boston City Council, earning 67.3% of the vote. Jackson will face the second-place candidate, Cornell Mills, who got 9.39%, on March 15 in the final election. Mills finished 13 votes ahead of Danielle Renee Williams. District 7 includes South End, Roxbury, Lower Roxbury, and parts of Dorchester and the Fenway. Jackson, 35, is from Grove Hall and was Governor Deval Patrick’s campaign political director in 2010. A total of 2,886 votes were cast out of 40,985 registered voters. The election is needed to replace Chuck Turner on the City Council after he was removed due to a federal corruption conviction. [Globe]