Christy Mihos (right), Deval Patrick, and Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey at a Massachusetts Biotechnology Council gubernatorial forum yesterday. (David L. Ryan/ Globe Staff) Posted on 03/02/2006 9:50:59 AM PST by cloud8
--Decision seen hurting Healey-- Bolting from the Republican Party, wealthy businessman Christy Mihos said yesterday he will run for governor as an independent, a decision that delivers a blow to GOP chances of victory in November.
Mihos concluded that the Republican Party establishment and its party rules for qualifying for the ballot were stacked against him, said a Mihos adviser who asked not to be named.
Christy Mihos (right), Deval Patrick, and Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey at a Massachusetts Biotechnology Council gubernatorial forum yesterday. (David L. Ryan/ Globe Staff)
Mihos's presence on the November ballot is widely expected to draw independent voters from Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, the probable Republican nominee.
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The Mass Republican (In Name Only) Party is a national embrrassment.
Heard that this morning. If he doesn't bow-out or run against Healy, the next guvna will be Tom Reilly.
Missing from the pic above is the other candidate, Atty Gen
Tom "Unfortunately" Reilly. Reilly chose a running mate
who, as it turns out, was delinquent on taxes, loans, etc.
That great investigator didn't bother to vet her out.
I wouldn't panic just yet. Christy has a big mouth and may not remain in the race long enough to do damage to Healy.
I just don't see voters in Southie pulling the lever for a guy who's spent most of his career ensuring that white people are discriminated against.
Reilly admitted "politics isn't his strong suit". From what I've seen he's a weak candidate; haven't seen enough of Patrick yet to judge. As for Mihos, some feel he has a good chance, but then I see this in the morning Herald--
sign of trouble? (Who knows...)
"Christy Mihos enters the governor’s race as an independent today on the heels of a mutiny within his campaign team.
Five members of Mihos’ campaign team quit this week - saying Mihos was impossible to manage - and are now throwing their support behind Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and encouraging others to do the same.
Just weeks after campaign manager Holly Robichaud left Mihos’ campaign, deputy campaign manager Ron Vining and four others quit Tuesday, calling Mihos an “unmanageable candidate.”
“We had a candidate and his core advisers who weren’t willing to be managed,” Vining told the Heral
Wow...I didn't know the MassGOP had so much national power...or that anyone actually cares outside of Mass.
> I just don't see voters in Southie pulling the lever for [Patrick,] who's spent most of his career ensuring that white people are discriminated against.
1. A democrat can usually count on an automatic 40% of the vote here.
2. Deval Patrick's natural constituancies are the People's Republics and the black vote, but watch for "triangulation."
3. Voters in Southie pulling the lever for Healey, a Catholic turned Episcopalian???
Except for NH... all of New England is going the same way. To all that can... get out. Get out NOW.
It did help elect Mit Romney didn't it?
Mitt Romney gets the credit for Mitt Romney's victory. The party establishment here is frail.
But... the apples. The snow. The beaches. The summers where all you need at night is an open window.
Right now he is leading my short list for 08. Any local thoughts of the man you can pass on?
It's a beautiful state.
Which proves the point.
Romney?
He eviscerated the second amendment, for starters.
I admire and respect him. He's too good for the voters of this state, who sent him to the governor's office and then fought every initiative he took on their behalf to clean up government.
He is a conservative at heart who got elected in one of the most liberal states in the country, and would rather be governing in a place like Utah or the South where he is more in sync with the people. Massachusetts is where the opportunity arose, so he took it.
The low esteem so many people here have for him speaks volumes about his credibility, in my opinion.
Oh for the days of Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. and Jr... And Calvin Coolidge was governor. There once was a worthy Republic party here!
I just don't see people who've refused to vote for moderate-liberal or liberal Democrats for the past four elections turning around and voting for an even more liberal Democrat, who supports racial quotas.
I know Clinton's popular in the Bay state, but I just can't envision an electorate that wouldn't vote for Edward Brooke-a relatively mainstream, black Republican-over John Kerry-a lackluster, uninspiring party hack-electing someone like Deval Patrick.
I could see him garnering the African-American vote, and very liberal, faux-Bohemian WASP types, but that seems like it would the be the limit of his popularity.
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