“We have a very ambitious agenda. We’re going to keep driving that agenda.’’
Yeah, I KNOW GUV!
You tossed enough dough at biotech losers (borrowed from banks!), Hollywood, and the fart-misting projects that you've convinced me.
"Patrick hints he will sign tax hike; Backs transit, ethics overhauls; proclaims victories on agenda for state" by Matt Viser and Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | June 26, 2009
Governor Deval Patrick said yesterday that he intends to sign the Legislature’s overhauls of the state ethics laws and transportation system, claiming two more victories in his bid to remake Massachusetts government and all but acknowledging that he will in turn support a sales tax increase.
The two bills, along with a revision of state pension laws he signed this month, give Patrick much of what he has asked of lawmakers this year. In a 20-minute interview in his office yesterday, the governor was clearly happy with the progress and his ability to influence his colleagues in the Legislature.
“We have a very ambitious agenda,’’ he said. “We’re going to keep driving that agenda.’’
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It was clear yesterday that Patrick’s political advisers were hoping to capitalize heavily on what they see as major legislative accomplishments and that they plan to try to use the momentum to dominate the agenda on Beacon Hill in weeks to come. Patrick was already talking yesterday about additional overhauls of education, criminal records laws, and state sentencing laws, and he may get another chance to push his plans for casino gambling.
Yup, WE SAY NO, the come back.
WE SAY NO, again, THEY COME BACK!
WHAT PART of N-O, NO, do you NOT UNDERSTAND?!!!!!!!
The press conference seemed to hint at the administration’s strategy to use these bills for political advantage.
How do you USE SOMETHING WE WERE OPPOSED TO and HATED?! I READ the COMMENTS and PEOPLE are ANGRY and ANTI!
It was highly coordinated, with poster-board signs that pronounced “Delivering Landmark Reform’’ and listing check marks next to what Patrick considers his major achievements in changing how state government operates. Patrick also made a point of addressing “you, the people of the Commonwealth.’’
HE THINKS we are going to be FOOLED by this?
What, you ALREADY RIG the VOTING MACHINES, guv?
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray were not invited to share the limelight....
Because of the banning of the Seventy-First Fund?
Several lawmakers said Patrick has no right to claim any political victory, asserting that he was merely pushing them to approve legislation that was already in motion.
Aaaaah, chew on this for a while: Slow Saturday Special: No Purchase and Governor Patrick's Phibs
“He’s going to have a press conference saying how he’s done all this wonderful work,’’ state Senator Scott Brown, a Wrentham Republican, said on the Senate floor before yesterday’s event. “It wasn’t him. It’s us.’’
Then I will hold MY PARTY RESPONSIBLE as WELL!
Pfffffft! Not going to the meeting this week!
Related: Slow Saturday Special: State Mugging in Massachusetts
Now they get into the "politics."
You need an airsick bag, or....
Patrick took a major political gamble, which is now paying off, when, on the morning of April 27, he released a letter to legislators threatening to veto the sales tax increase unless they first approved changes in transportation and ethics laws that he found acceptable.
Top lawmakers, taken by surprise by Patrick’s public scolding, were incensed. DeLeo used Patrick’s threat as a rallying cry for House members to buck the governor and back his leadership instead, and several hours later 108 lawmakers, enough to sustain a veto, stood in favor of raising the sales tax. The Senate followed several weeks later with a similar vote. But Patrick kept hammering away at his themes of reform, pushing the message in e-mail messages to supporters and YouTube videos.
Through it all, the governor was able to use the bully pulpit of the corner office to tie four pieces of legislation together: the budget, and the bills on ethics, transportation, and pensions that would otherwise have been considered in isolation.
“It was a risk, but he seems to have pulled it off,’’ said former governor Michael S. Dukakis, a Democrat who gives Patrick credit for getting his agenda enacted, even though he disagrees with his transportation plans. “Whatever you think of the details, I think it was a predictably reasonable position.’’
THAT'S WHY we DUMPED YOU, Duke!!!!
The victories come at a critical time for Patrick, who is laying the groundwork for his 2010 reelection campaign.
Bye, one-termer (in a fair vote).
Maurice Cunningham, a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, said that Patrick has a political edge that few governors have had: He can go back to voters and rightfully say he succeeded in pushing lawmakers to adopt his reform agenda, the central promise of his 2006 campaign.
THIS is the LYING NARRATIVE they are going to put out?
That HE FULFILLED his PROMISES?
Where is the TAX RELIEF?
That's NOT WHAT GLOBE COMMENTS have been saying!
“The circumstances presented themselves, and he has played it skillfully,’’ Cunningham said.
Chilling terminology!
The shift in Patrick’s political fortunes arrives as potential challengers are emerging.
Yeah, but they are the OTHER WAY, you PRO-PATRICK PIECE of POOP!!!!!!
See: Globe Makes Excuses for Governor Patrick
His 58% DISAPPROVAL RATING was NOT HELPED with the TAX INCREASE!
State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill is considering running, either in the Democratic primary or as an independent. Many Republicans are pinning their hopes on Charles D. Baker, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care chief executive officer. Both men said they will decide by September.
I'll have something up on Cahill soon. He may be the BEST POLITICIAN we HAVE in the state -- and that ain't saying much!
Christy Mihos , the wealthy convenience store executive who ran as an independent in 2006 but garnered only 6 percent of the vote, is also ramping up to run as a Republican.
I'm a registered Repug so I may have found an early favorite.
Of course, when it COMES to the GUV HIMSELF, well, DIFFERENT STORY!
"Patrick's 'empty nest' up for sale; 5 bedrooms, cook's kitchen, $1.9m" by Andrea Estes and Scott Helman, Globe Staff | June 10, 2009
So he's got TWO MANSIONS, huh?
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Wealthy Responsible For Global Warming
See you at the shit pit, richer fart-mister!
It has five bedrooms, nine fireplaces, and an expansive cook's kitchen for an owner who takes uncommon pride in his culinary skills. For Governor Deval Patrick, the stately Colonial on Hinckley Road in Milton also holds 20 years of family memories.
What's the CARBON FOOTPRINT on that MONSTER?!!!!!
And the GOVERNMENT is going to TAX YOU, America?
That aside, Patrick and his wife, Diane, are putting their house on the market for $1.925 million.... Diane works as a lawyer in the Financial District....
How much your piece of foreclosed s*** going for, Masser?!!!
They have declared themselves empty nesters, have decided to leave their beloved Milton, and are looking to buy a condominium in the city....
Ah, where home prices remained stable and untouched by the recession.
Imagine that. And I KNOW JUST the PLACE!
Of course, for a governor, a straightforward matter like selling a home is rarely perceived as straightforward. In this case, it raises questions about the state of the governor's personal and political finances, questions that he addressed yesterday.
Patrick said he is under no financial pressure to sell the property, even though he and his wife are carrying three mortgages on two expansive properties. They have a $1.28 million adjustable rate mortgage and a $299,000 line of credit on the Milton house. On a sprawling estate the couple built in Richmond, a rural town in the Berkshires, they have a $4 million mortgage with an adjustable rate.
What's the CARBON POO-POO PRINT on that and WHY MUST the rest of us PAY for a NON-EXISTENT PROBLEM?
ANOTHER COOL JUNE DAY TODAY!
Aides would not say how much the couple's monthly mortgage payments are. But generic calculations show the Patrick's could be making more than $30,000 a month in mortgage payments on their two properties....
I'm glad he's all set as he's cutting homelessness budgets!
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Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
"I am very blessed, and I don't take that lightly," he said. "We have a little money in the bank. My wife is well compensated, and we've been blessed through life. It doesn't mean I don't feel the stresses other people are feeling. I've been touched in my own way, but that's not a factor."
Built in 1900, Patrick's house is a 6,880-square-foot, 3 1/2-bathroom, clapboard Colonial on three-quarters of an acre, according to Milton records.
I'll bet the FART-BELCH is MASSIVE! Probably MONTHS WORTH around here.
In addition to a circular driveway, it features an expansive kitchen, music room, and study. The town assessed its current value at $1.8 million, with property taxes of $21,000 a year. The house, purchased in 1989 for $560,000, is a powerful symbol of Patrick's rise from a boy who grew up poor on the south side of Chicago, won a scholarship to Milton Academy, attended Harvard, and became a successful lawyer and politician....
SPARE US the BOOTSTRAPS STORY, allright?!!
Oh, yeah:
"The Boston Globe Censors Patrick's Past
.... Patrick earned his law degree from Harvard Law School. He worked at large Boston Law firms and served as the Clinton' administration's top civil rights prosecutor. He then was general counsel at Exxon and later with Coca-Cola Co.
His role as a highly paid board member at a large national subprime mortgage company, Ameriquest, which faced serious allegations of predatory lending, could also be a problem in any Senate confirmation hearing (Boston Globe May 2 2009)."
Funny how they LEFT THAT OUT of the RESUME.
What, they GET a CALL?
Patrick is putting his house up for sale as he heads into what promises to be an expensive 2010 reelection campaign. He has less money in his political account, about $500,000, than nearly every statewide officeholder. By contrast, state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, who is pondering a challenge to Patrick next year, is sitting on nearly $3 million....
I'll be getting to him in the next day or two.
So WHEN you gonna stop the JETTING and LIMOING, guv?
Pfffffftttt!!!
