"A three-way crossfire....
The back-and-forth among the candidates has been intensifying for days....
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But only between:
"Rivalry heats up for Cahill and Baker" by Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | March 25, 2010
Governor Deval Patrick returned from a fund-raising trip to California to find his two main rivals in the governor’s race pummeling each other furiously, underscoring the increasingly fierce fight between Republican Charles D. Baker Jr. and independent Timothy P. Cahill to become the prime alternative to the Democratic incumbent.
First of all, why is he raising out of state money, and secondly, what was the carbon footprint on that?
With both challengers chasing disaffected voters, Cahill has attacked Baker for his involvement in the financing of the Big Dig and for his views on health care. Baker returned fire yesterday by challenging Cahill’s fund-raising methods and the transparency in his office, calling for new disclosures on donors connected directly or indirectly with business interests before the treasurer.
Polls suggest that Patrick’s best chance to win will be if both challengers fight to the end, splitting the anti-incumbent vote, which made the Baker-Cahill duel inevitable, said Maurice Cunningham, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Oh, which polls would those be, Glob?
Patrick's self-serving polls you reported on the front page?
“One of them needs a clear field, obviously, and the quicker you can downgrade the other guy, the quicker you can turn on a very vulnerable incumbent,’’ Cunningham said.
Well, INDEPENDENTS NEVER WIN HERE and it is an ANTI-INCUMBENT YEARS, so....!!!!
Patrick, who returned Tuesday from his trip out West, has hardly stayed on the sidelines, going after both opponents in recent days with new aggressiveness. Yesterday, Patrick took aim at Cahill....
But notable in recent days have been the sharp exchanges between Baker and Cahill, as the Republican Party begins targeting Cahill more directly as a potential spoiler.
Seeing as he is a real corrupt scumbag, I'm not worried.
Unless the machines have been rigged, readers.
Yesterday, Baker criticized Cahill’s practice of raising campaign contributions from firms that do business with the treasurer’s office or have ties to such firms and the lack of information about many donors’ occupations on his campaign committee reports.
Baker cited a Sunday Globe report that Cahill had accepted more than 200 donations from employees of firms that handle real estate holdings of a Boston-based investment firm that has been allotted $500 million in state pension funds to manage since Cahill became treasurer in 2003. Baker called for more public disclosure of unregulated placement agents working for firms seeking to manage pension funds.
Cahill has repeatedly denied any connection between political contributions and the selection of vendors or state pension fund managers. Michael Travaglini, executive director of the state Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, dismissed Baker’s criticism. “This is really silly season,’’ he said. “What they’re asking us to do in their release, we have been doing for 10 years, which, if Charlie Baker knew as much about state government as he purports, he would understand.’’
And YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND the CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS, right, LIAR?
Cahill’s campaign said yesterday that Baker was trying to change the subject because in his own campaign he has raised large sums from the health care industry and companies that did business with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, where Baker was chief executive for a decade.
As his hypocritically s***ty campaign does the same thing.
But another thorny potential political problem surfaced for Cahill yesterday: The Securities and Exchange Commission charged that an executive of a Texas securities firm, which helped underwrite at least $14 billion of Massachusetts municipal securities, violated federal “pay to play’’ rules with campaign contributions to Cahill.
Much of the crossfire has been over Cahill’s criticism of the state’s health law. The Globe reported yesterday that Cahill’s critique does not square with an official statement on state finances that he signed for a $538 million bond offering in early March and which makes no reference to his concerns....
Yeah, well, we all now about Treasurer Tim Cahill.
Now how about the main event, Globe?
"Where Baker, Patrick paths intertwined" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | March 29, 2010
Charles D. Baker and Deval Patrick did not forge a real relationship until three decades after they graduated, when Patrick called his fellow Harvard alum and suggested they run for governor and lieutenant governor on a “bipartisan ticket.’’
What?
It was an unusual proposition — Patrick is a Democrat, Baker a Republican — and Baker ultimately decided against a political partnership. Still, if the two were not exactly political allies, neither were they adversaries. Baker shared breakfast with Patrick after his victory in 2006, served on Patrick’s transition team, and later helped him tighten state ethics laws.
Another fooley vote to make us think things are changing, 'eh?
Then, last year, that all changed....
Their interactions now are brief and tense, but the shared history between Baker and Patrick suggests that their past may color the race.
I'm sure that is an unitentional pun from the agenda-pushing Glob.
When Baker decided to challenge Patrick, he first called the governor and they agreed to make the contest about issues, not personalities.
Let's see the PAPERS LIVE UP to that call, 'eh?
The story of the relationship between these two ambitious men is one of diverging and occasionally intersecting political journeys, now colliding in this year’s gubernatorial race.
Baker, the son of a Reagan administration official, is a former chief executive of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care who made his name as the fiscally conservative budget chief in the Weld and Cellucci administrations.
Patrick, the son of an eccentric jazz musician, grew up poor on Chicago’s South Side, rose to prominence in legal and corporate circles, and burst onto the political scene in 2006 promising transformational change and progressive government.
Back in college, both say, they barely noticed each other....
And I'm barely noticing this front-page rubbish.
In 2008, Patrick turned to Baker to serve on a task force that was drafting changes to lobbying and ethics laws in the wake of then-state senator Dianne Wilkerson’s arrest on bribery charges.
Related: Criminal State Senator Drunk With Power
Last Political Will and Testament of Dianne Wilkerson
How come the FBI ahs to do that s***?
Where the hell is Marty Coakley and the state's AG office?
Oh, right, ONE-PARTY RULE here in Massachusetts.
Members knew Baker was a potential rival of Patrick’s, but on the task force, “Charlie was just like anybody else,’’ said George Brown, a panel member and former chairman of the State Ethics Commission. “He has strong views and he doesn’t hesitate to express them.’’
Despite all this history, the relationship between Baker and Patrick shifted dramatically last July, when Baker officially became a candidate trying to oust the governor from office....
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I don't know what you are cooking in there, Globe, but it sure does stink.
