The final day of Michael Dukakis’ final—and most improbable, unconventional and just plain bizarre—campaign for political office began on a bad note Wednesday morning.
Influential Democrats in Washington, reacting to The Boston Globe’s endorsement of Dukakis for an interim Senate appointment a day earlier, had fought back by telling The New York Read More
The House passed the bill last week, and Patrick will sign it either tonight or tomorrow. An appointment will Read More
For Democrats pushing to change Massachusetts’ Senate succession law, the timing couldn’t be much better: On the same day that a key legislative committee in Boston took up the Democrats’ plan to allow an interim appointment, Max Baucus released his long-awaited “bipartisan” health care plan—without a single Republican endorsing it, much less Read More
One of the more fascinating byproducts of the political upheaval unleashed by Ted Kennedy’s death could be an unexpected—and brief—return to the public stage for Michael Dukakis.
The former Massachusetts governor’s name has been widely circulated this week as a possible interim successor to the late senator—someone who would hold the seat Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson insists he didn't quite play the race card.
In an interview this morning on WWRL with Errol Louis, Paterson talked about the tone of news coverage toward him and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (on the leaders of the State Senate) as negative given the state's current fiscal woes, and told Louis Read More
ALBANY—On a conference call this afternoon, David Paterson and four other governors outlined specifics for how they would like to see a $1 trillion federal stimulus shape up, adding a request for education aid.
In addition to money for infrastructure investments and an increase in federal assistance for Medicaid and other social welfare programs, Read More
"We don't need McCain here -- put them down!," Maria Luna, a Clinton delegate from Manhattan, screamed at her delegation, which was waving "McCain More of the Same" signs above their heads. She Read More
"We can see the finish line," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe on a conference call just now. Plouffe said the net of last night's primaries was 13 delegates in the candidate's favor, making Obama's advantage "the biggest it has been in the entire race." Plouffe Read More
Earlier today, Jake Tapper noted that there was another instance when Barack Obama used words that Deval Patrick previously said:Patrick in June 2006, at the Massachusetts Democratic party convention: "I am not asking anybody to take a chance on me. I am asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations."Obama one year Read More
Certainly, Obama's delivery of the passage in question was pretty much identical, as the video evidence now Read More
On a Clinton campaign conference call with reporters this morning, Howard Wolfson and Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts presented two events as part of the same pattern: the Obama campaign’s apparent equivocating on a promise to take public financing in a general election against John McCain (whether or not what he said constitutes a Read More
Polling has been sporadic in Massachusetts, but Hillary Clinton has led -- often Read More
One small Obama-related detail from last night: The "Yes we can!" refrain that Barack Obama trumpeted in his concession speech was actually the campaign theme adopted by Deval Patrick, a top Obama supporter who rode the slogan to the Massachusetts governorship in 2006. Patrick, the first African-American governor in Massachusetts history, showed a cross-partisan appeal Read More
The late word from Boston on Oct. 17 was that Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, one of only two African-Americans ever to be elected governor, has decided to endorse Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential race.
This is actually something of a surprise. Mr. Patrick, 51, is a Clinton administration alum, appointed to run the Civil Rights Read More
In a significant but thoroughly unsurprising development, Deval Patrick has been declared the next governor of Massachusetts, marking the first time since 1986 that a Democrat has won the governorship of what may be the bluest state in the nation. Patrick, who headed up the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department under Bill Read More
