Local Color II: No, I’m Not Blue
March 15, 2005
Well, my guy (Eric Donovan) didn’t take it, but good luck to Linda Forry.
Local Color
March 14, 2005
Here in the Bay State, there’s been a ton of ink about a special election being held to fill the seat being vacated by former Mass. House Speaker Thomas Finneran, a twenty-six-year legislator who for the last decade or so was the most powerful man in the State. Five candidates are competing in the race: two attorneys (Kerby Roberson and Eric Donovan), two legislative aides (Stacey Monahan and Emmanuel Bellegarde), and a former city hall official (Linda Dorcena Forry). Of these, Roberson, Bellegarde, and Forry are African-American–and the local media has covered this aspect of the race intensely, with the obvious idea being that if one of the black candidates wins, he or she could one day be Boston’s first black mayor and/or Massachusetts’ first black governor.
The racial angle of this election took an unusual turn when State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, who is African-American, urged Bellegarde and Roberson to quit the race, on the grounds that having three black candidates will dilute the black vote. Wilkerson seems to think that only blacks will vote for a black candidate; while that has unfortunately been true at times, it’s not likely to be the case here, as the formerly conservative district that Finneran once represented is now pretty liberal, and "progressive" white voters will likely rally behind Forry (who’s the current frontrunner) just as liberal whites in Illinois rallied behind Barack Obama in his run against Alan Keyes last year.
Of the five candidates, Eric Donovan is the best; however, he’s also the most conservative, which may negatively affect his chances of winning. I won’t mind if Forry wins, though, as long as she doesn’t end up being as corrupt as some of the hacks on Beacon Hill.
Director Alexander Payne’s Marriage Ends
March 13, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050313/ap_on_en_mo/film_sideways_split_8
Maybe one of them was caught "sideways" with someone else…
Director Alexander Payne’s Marriage Ends
March 13, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050313/ap_on_en_mo/film_sideways_split_8
Maybe one of them was caught "sideways" with someone else…
Director Alexander Payne’s Marriage Ends
March 13, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050313/ap_on_en_mo/film_sideways_split_8
Maybe one of them was caught "sideways" with someone else…
Condi: Will She or Won’t She?
March 13, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30282-2005Mar12?language=printer
On some of the conservative websites (like FreeRepublic.com), they’re frying Rice, with many posters saying that they’d never vote for someone who’s "mildly pro-choice"–even though she supports parental notification, supports a ban on third-trimester abortions, and believes that taxpayer money should not be used to pay for indigent women’s abortions. Apparently, if Hillary Clinton runs against Condi, they’d rather sit home and allow Hillary to win by default rather than vote for a Republican who isn’t 100 percent pro-life. Brilliant, eh? Don’t these guys realize that if they stay home and refuse to vote for Condi, the rest of the country will accuse them of rejecting Rice not because she’s "mildy pro-choice" but because she’s black?
Condi: Will She or Won’t She?
March 13, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30282-2005Mar12?language=printer
On some of the conservative websites (like FreeRepublic.com), they’re frying Rice, with many posters saying that they’d never vote for someone who’s "mildly pro-choice"–even though she supports parental notification, supports a ban on third-trimester abortions, and believes that taxpayer money should not be used to pay for indigent women’s abortions. Apparently, if Hillary Clinton runs against Condi, they’d rather sit home and allow Hillary to win by default rather than vote for a Republican who isn’t 100 percent pro-life. Brilliant, eh? Don’t these guys realize that if they stay home and refuse to vote for Condi, the rest of the country will accuse them of rejecting Rice not because she’s "mildy pro-choice" but because she’s black?
Condi: Will She or Won’t She?
March 13, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30282-2005Mar12?language=printer
On some of the conservative websites (like FreeRepublic.com), they’re frying Rice, with many posters saying that they’d never vote for someone who’s "mildly pro-choice"–even though she supports parental notification, supports a ban on third-trimester abortions, and believes that taxpayer money should not be used to pay for indigent women’s abortions. Apparently, if Hillary Clinton runs against Condi, they’d rather sit home and allow Hillary to win by default rather than vote for a Republican who isn’t 100 percent pro-life. Brilliant, eh? Don’t these guys realize that if they stay home and refuse to vote for Condi, the rest of the country will accuse them of rejecting Rice not because she’s "mildy pro-choice" but because she’s black?
Boston City Councilor Maura Hennigan makes a bid to become the city’s first female mayor
March 11, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/mayoral_race_underway?mode=PF
Can she spare Boston a fourth Tom Menino term?
Boston City Councilor Maura Hennigan makes a bid to become the city’s first female mayor
March 11, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/mayoral_race_underway?mode=PF
Can she spare Boston a fourth Tom Menino term?
Boston City Councilor Maura Hennigan makes a bid to become the city’s first female mayor
March 11, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/mayoral_race_underway?mode=PF
Can she spare Boston a fourth Tom Menino term?
The Milton Academy Scandal Grows Longer…
March 7, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/07/school_sex_case_probe_extended?mode=PF
This is almost as freaky as the Jack Nicholson movie "Chinatown…"
Like White on Rice
March 6, 2005
More gratuitous Condi-bashing from Maureen Dowd in the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/opinion/06dowd.html?hp&oref=login
Notice she would never call Madeleine Albright "subservient" to Bill Clinton. Ah, but Condi’s just making the pancakes for Bush and Cheney, isn’t she, Maureen? Ugh!
Look, I don’t think Condi’s above criticism, but let the criticism be substantive, not this played-out Uncle Tom crap. I doubt that Condi will be the 2008 GOP nominee–she’s openly pro-choice, a nonstarter in GOP circles unless she has a road-to-Damascus conversion like Dubya’s father did in 1980, and even if she did get the nomination, she’d (unfortunately) still have to be concerned about some neo-Nazi nutball wanting to do a John Hinckley impersonation (the same reason Colin Powell decided not to run ten years ago)–but the fact that Maureen clearly fears a Condi run says something, doesn’t it?
