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Tim Cahill is certainly qualified for a position in the Obama cabinet

Posted: September 2, 2010 by datechguy in elections, politics
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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.

Voices of the Candidates: Bill Campbell (R) for Mass. Sec of State

Posted: September 2, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local stuff, politics, short films/interviews, tea parties
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I briefly talked to Bill Campbell who is running for secretary of State in Massachusetts at the Twin City Tea Party.

People often forget that the Sec of State has important powers that can be critical if a state has been suffering under one party rule. It is a race that should not be ignored.

Guy Carbone (R) AG sticker candidate speaks at the Twin City Tea Party

Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local stuff, opinion/news, tea parties
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He was a last minute addition because we had extra time, it’s a good thing too because he had a lot to say

He is one of two Sticker candidates for AG on the republican side

He took questions from the crowd.

And seems to be a best defense is a good offense type of guy.

You don’t get much more Italian than this man, he could be a fellow in my parish.

“Alaska republicans don’t like Big Government… who ever dreamed of that?”

Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, tea parties
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Stacy at the Spectator talks about Miller’s victory and makes an important point:

Miller’s victory was a vindication for a lot of people who have grown tired of seeing the GOP act as accomplices to the remorseless expansion of federal power. The campaign succeeded in large measure because the Tea Party movement has turned long-simmering conservative discontent with big-government Republicanism into an organized national force. Ever since the 2008 TARP bailout of Wall Street — for which Murkowski voted — more and more GOP voters have joined the insurgency that helped fuel the Miller campaign in accomplishing a rare thing: The defeat of an incumbent senator in a Republican primary.

It should not be forgotten that many establishment republicans were talking “repair” rather than “repeal” obamacare. The establishment Republicans are a lot more interested in driving the chuck wagon the stopping the gravy train. It’s only the tea party that keeps them honest. Smitty has a metaphor for this here.

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