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Massachusetts: Independent Tim Cahill Picks Ex-GOPer For Lieutenant Governor January 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments By Reid Wilson National Journal MA Treas. Tim Cahill (I) has picked a former GOPer to serve as his running mate during his 3rd-party (sic) bid for GOV. Cahill will tap ex-state Rep. Paul Loscocco as his running mate, choosing a conservative after several other candidates rebuffed his advances. At least 3 other candidates — including state Sen. Scott Brown (R), running for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat — turned Cahill down before Loscocco said yes. But even aside from being turned down, Cahill...

Michael G. Cahill was a dedicated physician's assistant, voracious reader and history buff who remembered the smallest details about the most remote places. "The night before he died, we sat and watched the Mark Twain awards," said his wife, Joleen Cahill of Cameron, Tex. "And we just sat there laughing." Cahill, 62, was among the 13 people killed in a shooting rampage Thursday at Fort Hood. He is survived by his wife; daughter Keely and son-in-law Lee; daughter Kerry; son James; and grandson Brody. Michael G. Cahill had been a physician's assistant for 22 years. A retired chief warrant officer...

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill today launched a challenge to Governor Deval Patrick as an independent candidate, vowing to cast aside entrenched partisan differences and "make the government we have work." "I do not enter this race to run against any individual or party," Cahill said in a speech in a downtown hotel ballroom, standing before a black banner that proclaimed "Tim for Governor" in white letters. "Instead I run because I believe we need new leadership to make Massachusetts a vibrant place once again." He vowed to make the state a place "where jobs grow and the economy rebounds....

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State Treasurer Tim Cahill this week will change his political party designation from Democrat to unenrolled, the first step in mounting an independent challenge to Democratic governor Deval Patrick in the 2010 general election, two advisers said today. Cahill, a lifelong Democrat who has served as treasurer since 2003, would not comment on his plans, but campaign advisers said he will make the switch at Quincy City Hall sometime this week. They said the move doesn't necessarily mean he will run against the sitting governor; he has told them he will either campaign for governor or treasurer as an independent...

George Soros is an exacting  taskmaster. In return for his money, he demands productivity. What he requires of employees and business associates in the investment world, Soros also demands from the political operatives he funds. “Mr. Soros isn't just writing checks and watching,” notes Wall Street Journalreporter Jeanne Cummings. “He is also imposing a business model on the notoriously unruly world of politics. He demands objective evidence of progress, and assigned an aide to monitor the groups he supports. He studies private polls to track the impact of an anti-Bush advertising campaign, and he is delivering his money in installments,...

WITH the news media awash in encomiums to the indisputable greatness of Pope John Paul II, isn't it time to ask to which tradition he belonged? Partisans unfamiliar with Christian history may judge this a strange question. Why, they may answer, he belonged to the Catholic tradition, of course. But there is no single Catholic tradition; there are rather Catholic traditions, which range from the voluntary poverty of St. Francis of Assisi to the boundless greed of the Avignon popes, from the genial tolerance for diversity of Pope Gregory the Great in the sixth century to the egomaniacal self-importance of...

COLLEGE STATION - An advertisement that questioned John Kerry's Vietnam War military service would capture a nation's attention during the 2004 presidential election, but the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had a greater impact during the race, the manager for the Kerry-Edwards campaign said Wednesday. "This was an election, from my point of view, that was completely overshadowed by 9/11," Mary Beth Cahill said at an election postmortem session at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University. Ken Mehlman, who managed the Bush-Cheney campaign, emphasized how the "new media" of the Internet and cable TV networks, like...

It'll never happen, but at some point over the next 48 hours or so, President Bush [related, bio] really ought to publicly acknowledge and thank the one group most responsible for making the Bush dynasty possible. Namely, the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Let's face it, without Michael Dukakis and John Kerry [related, bio], there wouldn't have been one, let alone three, Bush administrations. These two ACLU crybabies from the Bay State go down in history as the Laurel and Hardy of American politics, human sacrifices who to this day can't figure out why Americans didn't want to vote for Ivy League...

Stephanie Cutter, the controversial John Kerry for President mouth who was eviscerated by Newsweek and who was blamed for some of the campaign's worst blunders, reportedly is negotiating a return to Ted Kennedy's Senate staff. Sources say Cutter's second stint in Kennedy's communications office is a done deal, a development that has seasoned politicos shaking their heads. ``It's a mystery,'' said one Senate snitch. ``It's very puzzling. People don't know how to digest it.'' But the senior senator is apparently a big fan of the thirtysomething blonde. ``Stephanie is one of the best in the business and would be a...

Bill Clinton is blasting Mary Beth Cahill, the Kennedy political operative who took over John Kerry's failed presidential campaign and, according to the ex-president, ran it into the ground. Columnist Robert Novak reports that Clinton was talking recently to a close associate when he compared Cahill with Bush political guru Karl Rove. "That's all you have to know," huffed the ex-prez, dismissively. Not that the "Man from Hope" has much to boast about himself as far as the November presidential election is concerned. Noted the Weekly Standard two weeks after Kerry lost: "Every candidate that Clinton endorsed, raised money for,...

Mary Beth Cahill, the pro-abortion radical who mismanaged Sen. John Kerry's failed presidential campaign, admits her worst blunder was underestimating Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Astonishingly, Cahill said Kerry's campaign at first thought there would be "no reach" to the low-cost ad, which originally aired in only three states. Does the left still fail to grasp the power of Internet, radio and cable news? "This is the best $40,000 investment made by any political group, but it was only because of the news coverage that it got where it did," Cahill, a former underling to Sen. Teddy Kennedy, snapped Wednesday...

The campaign manager for Sen. John Kerry's failed presidential bid said Wednesday she regrets underestimating the impact of an attack advertisement that questioned Kerry's Vietnam War record. Mary Beth Cahill, who spoke at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government with Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager, said the Massachusetts senator's campaign initially thought there would be "no reach" to the ad from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Instead, the ad, which initially aired in just three states, became a central issue of the campaign, eventually forcing Kerry to personally deny the group's allegations that he did not deserve his combat...

...Mary Beth Cahill... told Fox News in a post-debate interview that Ms. Cheney was "fair game." ...The distasteful practice of "outing" public figures has become popular in recent years as some gays seek personal and/or political affirmation by publicizing the private lives of politicians, business leaders, Hill staffers and so forth. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney have not kept their daughter's lesbianism a secret but neither have they shouted it to the sky. (In the days before the GOP Convention the Vice President mentioned it briefly at a campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa.) By outing Mary Cheney before millions of viewers...

September 6, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The long knives are out for Democrat John Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, as infighting rages while his slumping campaign struggles to come back against President Bush. "You'd think they could find a man to throw overboard one of these days," zinged Republican strategist Mary Matalin, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney on NBC's "Meet the Press." She said Democrats blamed 1988 loser Michael Dukakis' stumbles on campaign manager Susan Estrich and Al Gore's 2000 fumbles on campaign chief Donna Brazile, and "now they're trying to blame poor Mary Beth Cahill"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Karl Rove is a smooth, jovial political operative with a Texas-honed reputation as a ruthless competitor and three George W. Bush victories under his belt. Mary Beth Cahill is a daughter of Boston's rough-and-tumble ward battles who just last year brought her no-nonsense organizational skills to Democratic opponent John Kerry's camp. The lead operatives in the most expensive presidential race in history, the two are facing off as their bosses compete for the White House. As a whole, the Bush team is remarkably unchanged from his 2000 presidential bid, run in corporate style by a familiar and...

Dear *Shill*, Today marks the end of the dishonest and disgusting smear campaign against John Kerry and his crewmates from Vietnam. This morning on the front page of the Washington Post, one of the central figures in the effort to distort John Kerry's military service was completely discredited. Watch the new ad from JohnKerry.com The group behind this smear campaign calls itself "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." But the truth is the last thing they are interested in. President Bush refuses to condemn this group. He wants them to do his dirty work. But this effort to distract attention from...

I just received an HTML email from the kerry campaign suggesting that I host a "convention party" to be used for organizing to support the johns ticket. They used an email address that they could have only gotten from a harvest of eBay users email addresses. If someone knows how, and wants to I can forward the email to them so that they can post it here. I don't know how to do it. It's calling for parties and a conference call at 7PM est on 7/29/2004. Maybe we could arrange for several thousand "parties" and have dims running all...

"Rally 'round the flag, Kerry" John Kerry, Ralph Nader, Ted Kennedy political cartoon.  May 21, 2004... Nader Bombshell: "Kerry & I talked about Iraq" Ralph Nader is telling a different tale than Kerry regarding their 70-minute meeting on Wednesday. At issue is the subject of Iraq. In wide-spread news reports, Kerry’s aides are quoted as saying Iraq did not come up during the meeting. Nader disagrees. According to the Union Leader: Immediately after Wednesday's meeting, aides to Kerry said Iraq had not come up during the meeting, but Nader said Thursday he had raised it and recommended that Kerry...

Below are a few legal terms that seem to apply to the current news reports. These are provided only because they offer interesting insight into what some lawyers in the Department of Justice may (or should) be thinking if they read the same news reports we do. Just for kicks, we picked the oldest law dictionary on our shelf: "The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary" by James C. Cahill, dated 1922. This dictionary was chosen because it was published before American law was corrupted by the FDR administration. Conspiracy: "A combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish...