Yesterday’s State House buzz centered on state Rep. David Flynn, the senior member of the House, who told reporters that five members have raised with him the idea that he serve as interim speaker should House Speaker Sal DiMasi be forced from power by ethics investigations looking into a lucrative state contract awarded to software […]
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Ian Bowles available to Obama, Red Sox
Today’s Boston Globe says Massachusetts energy and environment secretary Ian Bowles "has landed on President-elect Barack Obama’s list of would-be candidates" to run the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Welcome to silly season, the period when few know what’s really going on as the new administration takes shape, everyone is hungry for names, and a hot-stove […]
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Patrick still not going anywhere, neither is Treasurer Tim
Gov. Deval Patrick continues to insist that he’s not D.C.-bound. During a press availability outside his office on Wednesday, Patrick commented that he was “enormously moved, excited, and proud” of President-elect Barack Obama’s historic achievement. But the governor, clearly tired of the question, said that he has never been asked about any position in the […]
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Wall Street Journal discovers Patrick-Obama connection
We thought the idea that there are similarities between the background, style, message and, by implication, substance of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Barack Obama was a pretty old storyline by now. Apparently not to the Wall Street Journal, which devoted the upper half of its op-ed page on Friday to yet another account of […]