Archive for September 2, 2010

I interviewed Guy Carbone at the end of the Twin City Tea Party on Aug 30 2010.

When it comes to demographics and religion and ethnicity there is no candidate closer to me that I’ve met.

…apparently he has decided that if the majority of voters in an election carried out according to law vote a particularly way and the results are certified as correct he will not commit to honor them.

I think it’s rather odd, after all if the voters elect him of course he should consider himself legally elected…

…oh sorry he’s talking about the Tax rollback initiative:

Governor Deval Patrick declined to say yesterday whether he would implement a tax rollback if the voters mandate it in November, pitting him against all three of his campaign rivals, who say they would abide by the referendum.

So lets get this straight, the will of the voters only counts if they are electing him. I didn’t realize the oath of office requires one to only enforce the laws you like.

This is a real pet peeve of mine, you enforce the laws, if they stink you change them. If you decide for example not to enforce say the immigration laws then who is to stop a different gov to not enforce the gun laws, or the equal housing laws?

If Gov Patrick is not ashamed of himself it’s only because liberal self righteousness trumps all, it’s a religion without a tax exemption…

…then again maybe I’m wrong about the tax exemption part

I think this is a whole lot more important that a stupid slip of the tongue.

and it deserves a memeorandum thread a lot more too

BTW if you are not familiar with Question 3, check out my interview with Carla Howell here.

Who was on stage twice yesterday once before the Plymouth County GOP straw vote and once at the end. Our clips here are from is speech before the vote:

I had to split this into two parts because it ran just over 10 min for YouTube and the other embed programs are iffy on wordpress.

Lucky for me I am a bit faster than my waistline looks because I almost missed him at the end of the event, but managed to chase him down as he was leaving and he was kind enough to come back in long enough to talk to me. Hey when you’re nice to Da man in Da Fedora he bumps your videos ahead of the line.

The Don’t get cocky advices has been coming from everywhere. It’s good advice.

Update: Welcome Michael Graham fans, come take a peek around. My latest examiner column talks about the changing fortunes of the GOP. Over the next few days I’ll be posting more interviews to go with my slideshow from the Plymouth Event so keep an eye. If you are tea party fans you should check out my coverage of the Twin city tea party, and my first interview with Michael in April before boarding the Tea Party express and covering the 4/15 DC rallies. Next week I will be in Washington for Blogcon and will be covering the 9/12 marches in person. Hope to see you there.

After all he doesn’t see the need to pay his taxes until he absolutely had to:

The campaign committee for red-faced state Treasurer Tim Cahill yesterday said it cut a check for more than $24,000 it owed in unpaid state taxes and penalties as gubernatorial rivals bashed him for the slip-up.

“I don’t have a good excuse for it,” Cahill said. “It was something that we missed.”

Cahill, a former Democrat who is running for governor as an independent, learned Tuesday that he owed about $15,000 in state taxes on interest earned by CDs that his campaign war chest is invested in.

I’d like to congratulate Charlie Baker on his election.