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"Beacon Hill goes digital - LOL" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | February 7, 2009
.... Patrick always carries a BlackBerry with him (3,000 contacts, and growing), using it to review administration documents and press releases, draft his statements, issue instructions to his staff, and keep up with his schedule. When he travels, his
Oh, he's on TWITTER, huh? More validation!
"Text-messaging for me is a slow affair that I do mostly with my kids," he wrote in an e-mail interview from a San Francisco airport terminal as he awaited a flight back to Massachusetts late yesterday....
What was the carbon footprint on that, guv?
Cahill, whose office supervises the state's finances and who oversees the stock pickers who are entrusted with the state's investments, doesn't even have a computer in his office (there is a five-year-old
Related: The Lying Looter at the State Lottery
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On the House floor, cellphone calls are prohibited (beepers and pagers, too), but there's no clear-cut rule against text-messaging. So lawmakers frequently use their BlackBerrys or cellphones to text one another, or to ask their aides to carry documents from their offices into the chamber. When the Red Sox traded Manny Ramírez last year, legislators whipped out their cellphones and spread the news even as they waded through mounds of unfinished business on the last formal day of the legislative session.
We are PAYING THEM for this?
Several senators have gotten so fed up with text-messaging in the chamber that they have created a committee to fine-tune the chamber's rules of decorum.... Several legislators have also started blogging to communicate with the public, although the posts can at times seem mundane.
Translation: Newspapers HATE BLOGS!!
Senator Steven A. Baddour, a Methuen Democrat known to use his BlackBerry during Senate debates, recently launched a blog focused on transportation reform. The most recent post? The text of a 79,763-word piece of legislation.
Representative Dan Bosley has a blog, where he wrote about a trade mission to China - complete with four photos of himself. "I realized a lifelong dream by standing on the Great Wall of China," wrote the North Adams Democrat. "What a thrill!"
On the "Comments" section, some criticized Bosley for taking a trip that seemed more like a vacation than a work trip, which triggered sharp exchanges. "I say whether you're my father or not," wrote Bosley's daughter, Stephanie, "i think you're doing a good job. :)"
--more--"This is the kind of job Bos is doing, readers:
""In June 2008, a bill was passed by the Legislature to invest $1 billion to boost the life sciences industry in the state. One section of the bill states that the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center must collaborate with Israel to establish a trade and incubator facility in Israel to foster collaboration between Mass., Israel and the Boston Haifa International Life Sciences Institute and other organizations working with Israel."
That section was WRITTEN by BOSLEY who won an award from a Jewish group for it!!!
The Big Bos also is given an OPS SPACE for an AGENDA-PUSH with MY STINK STATE SENATOR (I didn't vote for him; both Jewish, too)!!
"Stan Rosenberg and Daniel Bosley A case for regional transit funds"
And WHAT ELSE is my GARBAGE SENATOR up to?
"Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg, Democrat of Amherst, is listed in official documents as bringing the amendment to the floor. But Rosenberg said in an interview that he did not author the amendment and does not know who did."
WTF?
Doesn't even know what is happening in his own committee -- or is he just lying?
