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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.
Mike Forte hosted gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker in his shop Forte’s Parts connection, however when I interviewed him there we didn’t talk politics we talked shop:
If you want a better perspective on how the economic climate has effected his business, the Framingham Tab profiled him in January.
“Trips and expensive cars — they’re the first to go,” he said. “Since 2006 I’ve been feeling it, but since autumn 2008 we’re off by about a third.”
“I’ve cut back everything,” he said. “I’ve been getting killed.”
Forte isn’t alone in his struggles.
This has been a difficult year for small businesses. In the first quarter, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 400,000 businesses with fewer than 100 employees ceased operations, eliminating one million jobs. Some experts are describing 2009 as perhaps the worst year for small business since the Great Depression.
As they say, read the whole thing.
I talked to Mary Connaughton who attended Monday’s Charlie Baker event
When she told me that there had never been an auditor in the office of auditor I was thunderstruck.
tonight on O’Reilly.
Scott Stringer apparently hasn’t read this story from that well known tea party organ the Politico:
The apparent anti-Muslim assault on a New York city cabbie by a man shouting “Assalamu Alaikum. Consider this a checkpoint” produced an immediate round of recriminations over its connection to opposition to a New York Islamic Center and an apparent rising tide of Islamophobia.
But as often at the intersection of politics and violent crime, the story doesn’t appear to fit any easy stereotype: The alleged assailant, Michael Enright, is — according to his Facebook profile and the website of the left-leaning media organization Intersections International — a student at the School of Visual Arts and a volunteer for Intersections, which recently produced a statement of support for the Park51 project and is funded by the mainstream, liberal Collegiate Church of New York.
Yet just now on O’Reilly he blames the tea party, Newt Gringrich and Sarah Palin for blood.
I await his apology. I will be awaiting it for a long time I suspect. As I said in my examiner column today on a different subject:
So yet another potential: “Tea Party rage” story fizzles. So when will the media stop using this template? The answer lays in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
A spaceship is marooned in a wasteland until “flights stores are complete” when it’s pointed out that there is a no civilization outside the autopilot answers
The statistical likelihood is that other civilizations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins. ‘Till then, there will be a short delay
Coverage won’t come until the media gets the tea party violence it seeks. They’ll wait as long as it takes.
I’d like to say I was amazed but I’m not.
Update: I have called and e-mailed his office with questions concerning if and when he found out this was false. I will let you know if I hear anything.
Update 2: Michelle Malkin lists the litany of error
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