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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.
The idea that Massachusetts will ever build a casino is not something Bostonist is counting on ever seeing.
Worth a read: A piece this morning on Blue Mass Group that takes issue with the sudden and disturbing conventional (well, er, Newsweek) wisdom that Mitt Romney should be Health Care Czar (TM). Among the howlers in the Newsweek piece is this one: "[This is why Romney is] best qualified for the job of health-care czar: He's basically already done it. In fact, he's the only executive who has done it." As BMG rightly points out, Romney didn't oversee any part of the implementation of Massachusetts health care reform—the law went into effect after he left Beacon Hill—and, crucially, he had no role in the meager cost controls that we got from Therese Murray and Deval Patrick in 2008. [Blue Mass Group]
The MBTA unveiled a new budget for 2010 this morning that cuts wages by $130 million, effectively eliminating 1,200 of its 6,000 jobs, reports WBUR. (No estimate was given regarding the percentage of bad drivers who would be among the layoffs.)
--Fraternity brothers at MIT's Delta Upsilon are saying that Robert Wells, who died over the weekend, fell from his window in an accident. [Boston Globe]
--Are you a smoker? House Speaker Sal DiMasi and Senate President Therese Murray are considering raising the cigarette tax. [Boston Globe]
--The State House is pretty on the outside and a festering mess on the inside. Senate President Therese Murray thinks private donations might help. [Boston Globe] --Remember Marilyn Devaney, the Watertown town councilor who is facing charges of attacking a beauty-supply clerk with a curling iron box? She got voted out, but a recount is under way, and the story is far from over. Even if you don't know who Marilyn Devaney is, we...
--State Senate President Therese Murray ruled that a nonbinding referendum on Governor Deval Patrick's plan to allow three casino licenses in the state could not be added to the March primary ballot. [Boston Globe] --Meanwhile, the state Senate voted 35 to 5 to pass a measure that would move next year's Massachusetts presidential primary from March 4 to February 5. [WBZ] --In an appalling case, a former Somerville police officer was found guilty yesterday...
Last weekend, Deval Patrick marched in the Pride parade. And he has vociferously opposed adding a ban on same-sex marriage to the 2008 ballot. Supporters of gay rights have many reasons to feel good. But today is going to be nerve-wracking because the Legislature might vote again on the ballot measure at the constitutional convention. In the winter, the Legislature approved adding a ballot measure that would give voters the option to define marriage as...
Massachusetts lawmakers are putting off the inevitable ugly battle over whether or not to put a gay marriage ban on the ballot. Lawmakers approved putting the ban on the ballot once, but they have to approve it a second time.
We can't make fun of Senate President Robert Travaglini, lovingly known as "T-Vag," anymore. T-Vag (not to be confused with "T-Weed" of I Love New York fame) has announced that he's leaving that he is leaving the guv'mint for a higher-paying job. $90,000 dollars a year wasn't enough for him, so he's moving on to bigger and better things. The Globe says T-Vag will launch "a lobbying company that would help clients navigate the political...
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