Thomas Menino endorsed Hilary Clinton today in her bid for President in the 2008 election. The Globe brings us news of the spokesperson on spokesperson announcement: "She has the experience to lead the nation during these uncertain times," Dot Joyce, Menino's spokeswoman, said. "She's long been a supporter of America's cities and will bring the urban agenda back to the table." … A spokeswoman for Clinton's campaign said the senator welcomed Menino's support. "Mayor Menino......

We knew Deval Patrick was in the race last year – he threw his hat in early. If it weren't for that pesky Romney character we would have known Kerry Healey was in the race earlier. After primary voting yesterday it finally became clear who the front-runners in the race for Governor would be. Deval Patrick picked up 50% of the democratic primary vote to beat out his challengers Chris Gabrieli and Tom Reilly. There......

We had to minimize the myspace window for long enough to read about Attorney General Tom Reilly's latest effort to protect the kids. A couple of months ago he was hot on keeping predators away from children on myspace. This month the AG and gubernatorial candidate is taking issue with the terms and conditions of Xanga. To be honest, Friendster was the new hotness when we first got into the whole internet-as-social-network thing (well, alright,......

You may read in the papers that the Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin expects low turnout for the Democratic primary on September 19, but damn it, Bostonist is still excited. We've told you before about the three democratic candidates for governor, but did you know there's a whole raft of other nominations up for grabs in both parties? Oh yes indeed! Although the Republicans have but one candidate for governor, the ever-predictable Kerry Healey,......

Today is primary day in our sister state of Connecticut, and the Democratic nation turns its lonely eyes to Joe Lieberman, the incumbent Senator. Lieberman, as you've likely heard or read, since the national media are in an absolute frenzy over this race, is trailing but getting closer in the polls to the smarmily named super-rich anti-war challenger, Ned Lamont, because voters are fed up with Lieberman's being such a, you know, Republican. Lieberman has......

Two days after the I-90 connector tragedy, answers are starting to surface. Unfortunately, none of them are what you’d want to hear. Given the history of mismanagement surrounding the Big Dig project, it should come as no surprise that problems were discovered as early as 1999, when at least five bolts in the connector failed routine testing. It may be worth mentioning that these bolts, which anchored the tie rods holding 3-ton panels, were fastened......

Over the weekend, the Commonwealth held its collective breath as the state democratic party held its annual convention. Everyone was wondering: Will it be Deval Patrick, Tom Reilly, or Chris Gabrieli? And the answer is . . . yes. Under party rules, a candidate needs 15% of delegates to secure a place on the primary ballot in September, and all three men did so. Actually, there was some suspense as to whether Reilly and Gabrieli......

As Bostonist loves to remind our dear readers, there is a race for governor going on in this Commonwealth. We realize you'd rather focus on baseball and American Idol, but damn it, we're highbrow. As you may have heard, there was a gubernatorial debate last night, featuring democrats Chris Gabrieli, Tom Reilly, and Deval Patrick, and the independent Christy Mihos. Bostonist listened to the debate on the radio and our feeling was, "meh." But we're......

The funny thing about Massachusetts politics, Bostonist has found, is that even when we are distracted by exciting stuff like the repatriation of accused murderers/internet smut-peddlers/would-be patrons of escort services, the internecine squabbles keep cooking along. So as you spend the long weekend in reverent remembrance of Presidents Washington and Lincoln, don't forget that today is also the 385th anniversary of the election of the first military captain of Plymouth Colony. With that in mind,......

OK, not really. In another one of those completely unsurprising developments that Bostonist feels obliged to mention, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey has officially announced what everyone already knew: She will be running for Governor. Although the Herald calls her an underdog, her speech yesterday made pretty clear that she is just the kind of moderate Republican this Commonwealth can't get enough of: Fiscally conservative and moderate on social issues. Her speech was long and, in......

OK, we don't know if that's true or not, but we wouldn't be surprised to see such a headline, after the probing, largely inscrutable expose in today's Globe about some minor weirdness involving a mortgage that gubernatorial candidate Patrick and his wife got from a Georgia bank. According to the article, Patrick took out a mortgage using his Milton house as collateral, but the bank involved, which had ties to Patrick's then-employer Coca-Cola, didn't record......

Remember when Tom Reilly was just a run-of-the-mill, blowhard, establishment Democrat whose judgment we were starting to question because he used his office to do favors for friends (and possibly interfere with a criminal investigation along the way)? Bostonist does, and man, those were the days. Yesterday, when revelations of Marie St. Fleur's financial problems came to the fore, Bostonist was still willing to suppose that the AG could pull this thing out with a......

Oh, Tom Reilly, what sense can we make of you? First, word trickles down that you want go-to rich Democrat Chris Gabrieli as your running mate. That makes Bostonist think, "Huh. That seems alright, in a picking-running-mates- who-are-just-like-you-and-have-already-been- on-a-losing-ticket sort of way." Then someone in the hardworking Reilly campaign juggernaut must have said, "Hey, what if Boston voters and minority voters really do turn out in droves for the primary? Maybe people who are already......

Bostonist can hardly open the paper these days without seeing another story about Attorney General Tom Reilly's intervention in the investigation of a car crash in Southboro. Our first inclination was to tune the whole thing out and wait for it to blow over, but with each passing day, we fall further and further behind - we're getting the feeling that some time soon, we're going to find ourselves needing to know and totally unprepared,......

. . . OK, that part about the steel cage match isn't true . . . yet. But Secretary of State William Galvin, whose heart never really seemed in the race, is now officially out of contention for the governor's job, which will be open in 2006 assuming Mitt Romney decides to make a run for the White House (and who knows, really? Yesterday, after all, he weighed in on a matter of pressing concern......

State Senator Jarrett Barrios seems to have some magic political mojo that makes things go his way. As though it weren’t enough that Tom Reilly’s shot at governor will allow Middlesex DA Martha Coakley to run for Attorney General, which will, in turn, allow Barrios a chance to run for DA in his home county, Barrios, being gay, married, and eloquent, has obtained quite a high profile as the (oh-so-handsome) face of gay marriage in......

Fear of commitment when it comes to marriage is not uncommon among men - just ask Tom Reilly. As Bostonist has noted before, the position of the Attorney General and Democratic frontrunner for the governorship on same-sex marriage has not toed the state party's pro-gay marriage line. His decision yesterday to certify an anti-gay marriage ballot question that could amend the state constitution is too legally complex to lend itself to the sort of snide,......

Remember when the SJC ruling allowing gay marriage was still brand new, and the Governor wanted to use some legal procedures to keep it from going into effect, but Attorney General Tom Reilly refused to play along, saying that the court's decision was the law and it had to be respected? "How principled," Bostonist thought to ourself at the time, "Reilly is admittedly against gay marriage, but he respects the role of the courts......

Starting the same day State Attorney General Tom Reilly launched a war on spammers, people locally and worldwide have been experiencing the latest Spam attack. While Reilly focused his efforts on the local "Internet Spam Gang" that was reportedly based in Newton and comprised of some seven deadly spammers the Sober virus morphed in Germany. The Sober.Q virus that has been spreading the emails has been identified as the latest version of the Sober virus......

Our Senator may have lost the presidential race, but Massachusetts is nevertheless solidifying its control over the rest of the country: Our old pal Bill Weld is getting more press coverage than he has in years as New York Republicans consider whether to nominate him if their current governor, George Pataki, doesn't run again. The New York Times tells us that Weld, who now lives in Manhattan, has been looking to get back into politics......

George Santayana said that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. But George Bernard Shaw said, more astutely, we think, "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." As exhibit one to illustrate the latter point, Bostonist offers Attorney General Tom Reilly and his bold promise on Sunday that, if elected governor, he will not raise taxes. Bostonist seems to recall that back in 1988, a certain Republican candidate......

Say thanks to Jake and godaddy. Today typing www.bostonist.com works. Well, ok, maybe it tells you it is a placeholder for parisist…but bostonist is sure those kinks will get worked out. Poor Tom Reilly (state attorney general, a democrat) may not be as fortunate to be master of his domain. ...