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AG News:
Wednesday - 1/20/2010
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It Was a Little More Than Coakley
by: John Gorman
Publisher's Note: John Gorman is a friend, noted Radio Consultant, and Massachusetts native. After reading his comments,
I now understand why Democrats lost. (John's thoughts on the radio industry are at Gorman Media Blog.)
Coakley ignored the inner suburbs. She ran a lace curtain Irish/limousine liberal campaign
and couldn't be bothered with "the little people."
It goes far deeper than that. She was Dukakis in a dress all the way. People in Boston have long memories. |
John Gorman is a media consultant and talent coach specializing in the radio industry, television, print, the Internet, music, and political campaigns.
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They recall when busing occurred in the early 70s. It should have encompassed the entire city - including the wealthier neighborhoods. But when it came time to lay out the bus lines - thanks to Duke and Ted - it was limited to two neighborhoods - Roxbury and South Boston. The poorest black neighborhood and the poorest white neighborhood. Those that had the least amount of clout to fight it. Brookline a Boston city suburb, where Ted was born and Duke lived, was spared. Busing was not only limited to the city of Boston - it was limited to the poorest neighborhoods. Bus the poor blacks to a poor white neighborhood and vice versa. The schools never recovered.
The last 3 speakers of the House of Massachusetts have been indicted for bribery. Let me add another name: Billy Bulger, he didn't get indicted. He got away. And another, his brother: Whitey Bulger. He got away, too.
The governor, another Democrat - and the first African-American to hold that position in the state - has added taxes on top of taxes in Massachusetts after promising to do the opposite. Mass. has the most expensive liquor taxes in the country - which causes a mass exodus to the New Hampshire state line for booze. They have no sales tax - period. The day after the new taxes became law - some dumb state rep drove to New Hampshire in a state car, parked it in front of the New Hampshire Liquor Outlet and loaded up on booze for a State House Christmas party. Mass. politics, though not as dumbed-down as what Cleveland has with Dimora and Jackson, has become overly corrupt and expensive. Those in Boston and the surrounding suburbs are bearing the brunt with high taxes and poor services. The Big Dig aftermath hasn't helped. That project is beset with overruns. Thanks to the Big Dig it cost $7 to cross the Tobin Bridge, which connects downtown with the North Shore of Boston. Imagine spending $7 to drive from downtown to the east side of Cleveland. Wouldn't you be pissed off? The main Interstate west of Boston, I-90, is a turnpike. Their rates doubled over the past ten years. Think about it - those that use the Big Dig the least pay the most for it. |
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When the state didn't have enough money it closed all the state-run public pools. At the same time, Gov. Duval Patrick was building an olympic size swimming pool at his western Mass. manse. Every news helicopter in Massachusetts was flying over Patrick's manse doing live shots of its construction once word got out.
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People in Massachusetts are now calling it "Reversing the curse - the Kennedy curse." I'm only scratching the surface here. I couldn't be more upset for my friends in Massachusetts - but I can understand why so many voted for Scott instead of Coakley. Martha Coakley ran a terrible campaign. She couldn't be bothered with Southie, Dorchester, Quincy. She was most comfortable being a lace curtain and visiting the Kennedys in Hyannisport. And where were the Kennedys? I didn't see anyone from that family helping the Coakley campaign. What it assumed [is] that the seat would automatically be willed to a Democrat? | |
I don't agree with any of this. I equate this vote with a suicide bomber. They elected a fox to guard the hen house.
The Democrats in Massachusetts slapped their own kind in the face and showed no decency to those who had elected them. Those fucking little people voted.
JG
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