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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Yes, a pea can get stuck in your lung and start sprouting. [Boston Globe]
A NH State House candidate has apologized for his Facebook post about Sarah Palin and the Alaskan plane crash. [Union Leader]
The Manchester school system is considering guidelines to limit teacher-student interaction on Facebook, etc. [WHDH]
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DCist was stunned by a new video of Prince George's County police officers beating a Univ. of Maryland student during a post-game celebration that got out of hand in College Park.
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The FBI is in the process of releasing their files on Ted Kennedy, and the first batch is about 3,000 pages. [Boston Globe]
A shipwrecked British ship from Revolutionary War era has been partially uncovered near Provincetown. [Cape Cod Times]
Sarah Palin is partying with teabaggers in Boston this week, but Scott Brown is flaking on his most enthusiastic supporters. [Boston Herald]
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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."
Cities and towns are reacting and beginning to clean up after Wednesday's tornadoes devastated Central and Western Massachusetts. In the aftermath of the storm, stories about the victims who died are emerging. A Springfield woman died after putting "her 15-year-old daughter in the tub of their Union Street home and (laying) on top of her." An ongoing issue is the lack of electricity. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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.
Barney Frank is the subject of the Playboy magazine interview for May. The big news to Bostonist is that Frank found common ground with the Tea Party. Frank supports the Tea Party's calls to "trim government spending." Frank is one of the more prominent, and outspoken, liberals in Congress. He touched on many controvesial issues in the progressive Playboy.
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.
Sarah Palin is lurking behind what appears to be President Barack Obama. It's not clear. But, the ears provide a clue.
Men got more jobs in 2010. The turkey loose on the Cape doesn't belong to the Kennedys. You can get a free bus ride to the NYC. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Mitt Romney is apparently the early - and we really mean early - leader for the Republican presidential nomination. Just days after easily winning a New Hampshire Republican Party straw poll, Romney won a Rasmussen Reports poll of likely Republican primary voters with 24%. Sarah Palin is second with 19% and Mike Huckabee had 17%. Palin was the top choice of Tea Party members at 28%. Romney led likely non-Tea Party voters with 32%. [Herald]
President Obama led the country in a moment of silence at 11 a.m. to honor the victims of Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Six people died and 14 people were wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who is currently in a medically induced coma and in critical but stable condition.
A surprise! The Herald endorsed Martha Coakley for Attorney General. We think she was a bad Senate candidate for Senate. She's an effective AG.
Sean Duffy: Remember him? He parlayed a stint on MTV's "The Real World" Boston in 1997 into a stint as Ashland County (WI) District Attorney and is currently running for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District seat. He's been billed Scott Brown 2.0.
Senate President Therese Murray's comments made in May attacking the Tea Party movement and appeared to defend illegal immigration are now circulating among right-leaning media. Michael Graham of WTKK started spreading Murray's comments on his blog on Tuesday.
You may not have noticed that a woman is running for governor. Green-Rainbow Party candidate Jill Stein is locked out of some of the debates due to her poll numbers and meager fundraising perfomance. While Governor Deval Patrick thinks she should be there, something called the Boston Media Consortium doesn't always let her in.
Just a week after questioning Senator Scott Brown's conservative values, Sarah Palin lost out to Massachusetts' other Republican, Mitt Romney, in a 2012 presidential poll. Yes, the GOP is polling for 2012 with no declared candidates.
The Obama family is in Massachusetts for their Martha's Vineyard vacation. The Globe says President Obama needs a vacation.
On Tuesday, we reached out to criminals. Now, we're helping politicians? Apparently, there are at least two Democrats in New Hampshire who dislike Sarah Palin enough to publicly speculate on her life or death. One, state Rep. Timothy Horrigan, already resigned after he reportedly posted this on Facebook: "I also want her to live because a living Sarah Palin is less dangerous than a dead one." Horrigan's comment followed State Rep. candidate Keith Halloran wishing Palin died in a plane crash. Our advice: When making a possibly career-ending comment, don't do it at the same time as another tool does. You at least get all available train wreck style attention.
New Hampshire is living up to its motto this week. They are serious about Live Free or Die.
Yesterday, Sarah Palin gave a Tea Party on Boston Common to protest taxes, and it proceeded in fairly predictable fashion. According to reports, Palin rehashed lines like "We'll keep clinging to our Constitution and our guns and religion - and you can keep the change" and "Let's drill, baby, drill" for an excited audience of astonishingly ignorant people. One infiltrator asserts that "They played taps and I had to tell people to take their hats off," and goes on to provide our favorite excerpt from the protest:
Bostonist correspondent MacDuff Stewart made it out to the Common this afternoon to snap some photos of teabaggers in action. Frankly, it's not as dirty as you'd think it would be.
The big day is approaching and the counterprotests are brewing (ha, HA!). In less than 24 hours, Sarah Palin will be launching the Sarah Palin Network protesting taxation with representation (from Massachusetts voters' favorite son, even) on Boston Common. Scott Brown himself, being the very "representation" taxpayers voted for and are now upset about having (perhaps because he likes benefits too much), has declined to participate.
Massachusetts has two Republicans constantly on the receiving end of the national media glare. Senator Scott Brown and ex-Governor Mitt Romney have a knack for keeping Americans focused on whatever it is they are up to.
We all know that Sarah Palin will be bringing her big hair, tortured syntax, scrawl-covered hands, and legion of racist militia members to Boston this month for a "Tea Party," but what, if anything are we going to do about it? The members of b0st0n.livejournal have cooked something up: Throw a real tea party!
Three prominent politicians, two from the Bay State, found themselves commenting on the health care reform President Barack Obama is advocating this week. Whether they wanted to or not.