Rich Bastien is running in the 2nd Worcester district in the statehouse, I talked to him at the Bill Gunn Town Hall in Leominster Last week.
If his story is being repeated statewide the times they will be a changin’!
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A conversation with Rich Bastien: candidate for Worcester 2nd District
Posted: August 7, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local stuff, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, election 2010, local elections, rich bastien, state legislature, tea parties
You know I keep wanting to get off of the Bainbridge topic…
Posted: August 5, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, politics, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, birthers, Bryan Lentz, dishonorable, election 2010, history, pa--7, pat meehan
…really I do, but the news of the day doesn’t allow it. Example from Ruby Slippers:
An early look at Schneller’s nominating petitions, which are still being reviewed by pa2010.com iin full, shows that Schneller couldn’t have gathered the required 4,200 signatures without help from Democrats. Schneller himself collected only about 3,200 signatures. Almost all of the remaining 4,800 signatures were gathered by registered Democrats, many of whom have clear ties to Lentz. Many of the Democrats who circulated petitions for Schneller are party insiders and activists who would surely find Schneller’s political beliefs to be distasteful at best. Schneller is a staunch conservative who has dabbled in the so-called “Birther” movement that questions President Obama’s signature.
The Tea Party has in fact endorsed republican Pat Meehan and has no interest in Schneller but as politico reports this would not have been possible without the Lentz campaign:
The Democrats who helped gather the signatures include Colleen Guiney, the chairwoman of the Swarthmore Democratic Party and a Lentz supporter; Nicholas Allred, who works for the Swarthmore College Democrats and Rocco Polidoro, among others, according to secretary of state filings.
National review calls it a stench in Pa-7. Actually this is a very old political hardball tactic, not much different than Limbaugh’s “operation chaos“.
If you are going to run for office, particularly if you are threatening the use of the Treasury as a piggy bank to buy votes of course you are going to get people using any legal tactic to stop you and you’d better be ready to fight fire with fire. Why the RNC isn’t getting Naderites on the ballot all over states like Calif and MA is actually beyond me.
memeorandum thread here
I have a simple solution for those who think Sharon Angle flubbed that question…
Posted: August 4, 2010 by datechguy in elections, mediaTags: 2010 election, election 2010, ground zero mosque, media, politics, reality, sharon angle, still angry left
…about media coverage.
Let’s ask every democratic candidate what they think of Angle’s statement, if they mock it or critique her for it then in the spirit of that question we should immediately follow up with the toughest possible questions on the most uncomfortable topics that said candidate doesn’t want to answer. When the candidate or their press and campaign people duck or give “No Comment” they should be pressed, after all they think Angle is foolish for trying to get favorable coverage then they should be willing to answer the tough questions.
The Truth is every candidate wants favorable coverage, every candidate tries to answer what they want and duck what they don’t. Angle being a normal person said aloud what every person knows.
What a concept, a candidate actually saying the truth. No wonder the left is outraged!
Perhaps we should ask every democrat their position on the Ground Zero Mosque (or as Rush put it, the Islamic Victory Lap). Right now their reaction to said question is duck and cover.
Jim McKenna needs your help to unseat Martha Coakley
Posted: August 2, 2010 by datechguy in elections, internet/free speech, short films/interviews, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, election 2010, jim mckenna, Martha Coakley, massachusetts, massachusetts elections, republican primaries, tea parties, twin city tea party
One of the great embarrassments of this year on the Republican side was the fact that after her humiliating defeat by Scott Brown in January no republican got on the ballot to oppose her in the fall.
Jim McKenna however is trying to reverse this mistake, he is launching a sticker campaign for the Republican primaries. If he can get 10,000 sticker votes during the primary he will be on the November ballot and we will have the chance to retire Martha Coakley permanently.
I talked to Mr. McKenna last week concerning his campaign:
He also made a presentation at the Twin City Tea Party last week. Here is his presentation in three parts:
Part 2
Part 3
Not getting on the ballot initially was a mistake but there is no reason why we can’t make up for that mistake on primary day.
Red Mass Group has more here.
Update: Looks like he would be a square peg in the statehouse. from his BIO:
Jim has taught courses on law and ethics as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the part-time MBA program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Department of Management.
Ethics in Massachusetts? Boy talk about not fitting in.
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