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Robert Reich Running for Governor of Massachusetts
AP via NYTimes.com ^
| 1/8/02
Posted on 01/08/2002 1:11:44 PM PST by GeneD
Filed at 4:47 p.m. ET
BOSTON (AP) -- Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich is entering the race for governor of Massachusetts, a campaign adviser said Tuesday.
Reich, a Democrat and professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University, planned to formally announce his candidacy Wednesday, the adviser said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Reich left President Clinton's Cabinet in 1997 and has never run for elective office.
Republican acting Gov. Jane Swift, Massachusetts' first woman governor, is seeking re-election this fall.
Former national party chairman Steve Grossman and former state Sen. Warren Tolman are the only other Democrats so far to have formally announced their candidacies.
Reich raised his profile in Massachusetts in November when he criticized state lawmakers' budget proposals as ``inhumane'' and called Swift ``an embarrassment in terms of her incompetence.''
Last month, Reich circulated an e-mail asking for support and contributions.
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To: KantianBurke
Reno in Florida
To: babble-on
You're right -- being a governor is an actual JOB. And, some governors know it and work really hard at it, like the governor we currently have here in FL:
Achievements of Jeb Bush/Frank Brogan
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:34:35 PM PST
by
summer
To: veronica
Reich stump speech: ~~~~...Oh, we represent the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild....~~~~~
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:36:19 PM PST
by
My2Cents
To: GeneD
There's an excellent article in last week's Boston Phoenix (available
here) that details why Reich has almost no chance of getting the Democrat nomination here. Mass (like many other states) is still steeped in old-style politics, where you need 15% of the delegates at the party convention to run in the primaries. The delegates are selected by old-style ward bosses, union leaders, etc., and therefore the only people with a prayer of getting on the primary ticket are Mass insiders whose party loyalists are already lined up. His only chance is cutting a deal with one of those insiders, as once you get your 15% you can "release" your delegates to vote for someone else...i.e. whoever can offer the sweetest deal. But Reich is unlikely to even be on the primary ticket. This is most likely a bid to raise his local profile in hopes of challenging for a Rep or Senate seat if/when one opens up.
To: KantianBurke
Don't forget Janet Reno! I'd like to, but she's still a threat to good government like she was back in Washington.
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:38:11 PM PST
by
JoeMomma
To: GeneD
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS....ROBERT B. REICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHH-A!"
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:38:26 PM PST
by
My2Cents
To: TwakeIDFins
Swift has made so many boo-boos while in office that I think her re-election will be very tough. I'm not sure, however, how Reich's arrogant, "I'm smarter than you", style will play in most of the state. I find it hard to believe that many around the "Bahston" area will cozy up to him.If his name was O'Reich he's be a shoo-in.
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:38:30 PM PST
by
surrey
To: GeneD
There really ought to be a minimum height requirement for this job.
To: My2Cents
So he wants to follow the Yellow Brick road to Boston? :)
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:40:31 PM PST
by
JoeMomma
To: GeneD
The end is truly near.
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:42:52 PM PST
by
rintense
To: KantianBurke
Reno, Fla.
To: Maceman
God help our benighted Commonwealth. Not that our current dead governor walking is any better. Mr. Reich will be much, much better! Too bad that homosexual Republicans prevented Silber from becoming a governor. Hopefuly Weld's legacy will end this time.
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:44:37 PM PST
by
A. Pole
To: My2Cents
hehehehehehehehehehehehehe
To: antienvironmentalist
There really ought to be a minimum height requirement for this job.
Just pray that I never move to the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts (I make Napoleon look tame <VBG>).
I'm not defending Robert B. Reiiiiiicccchhhh's run (indeed, I'm hoping the fine people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts leave him more than a few votes short), just his height.
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:46:15 PM PST
by
steveegg
To: GeneD
Maybe some hi-tech Freeper could paste Reich's face on the photo of Dukaksis aboard that tank.
To: GeneD
There should be a law that you have to be so tall(say 3 feet) to run for office. Or that you have to be tall enough to ride the big rides at amusement parks.
To: A. Pole
Mr. Reich will be much, much better! Too bad that homosexual Republicans prevented Silber from becoming a governor. Hopefuly Weld's legacy will end this time. Given the state of Massachusetts' liberal leanings, the GOP needs all the people they can get to actually win elections. Not a good time to promote the divide-and-conquer mentality in the Mass GOP and try to run out the "RINOs".
Of course, the REAL RINOs are people like Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, and Bob Barr -- the ex-Democrat segregationist sympathizers who have helped turn the GOP into a party that Theodore Roosevelt or Abe Lincoln wouldn't recognize.
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:48:45 PM PST
by
JoeMomma
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To: mymanbush
Are you mocking the VERTICALLY CHALLENGED?
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:54:24 PM PST
by
Feiny
To: Maceman
I suggest a FREEp to Reich (his e-mail is reich@brandeis.edu) and tell him you won't vote for him if he has the most corrupt president in American History, Mr. Bill Clinton come and campaign for him (as the Boston Herald reports he plans to do). Of course, that only works if you are in-state, but others can FREEp a message that they will come & protest with signs & chants if he brings in Clinton to campaign for him.
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posted on
01/08/2002 1:55:53 PM PST
by
morrow
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