Thomas M. Menino, Boston’s longest serving mayor, has died at 71

bostonglobe.com ^ | 10/30/2014 | Bryan Marquard and Jim O’Sullivan

[massmike]

Thomas Michael Menino, who insisted a mayor doesn’t need a grand vision to lead, then went on to shepherd Boston’s economy and shape the skyline and the very identity of the city he loved through an unprecedented five consecutive terms in City Hall, died Thursday. He was 71 and was diagnosed with advanced cancer not long after leaving office at the beginning of this year.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I disagree. Christ starts with False prophets but then goes into good trees and bad ones, secondarily. Thats why Christ mentioned it twice. Once for the false prophets and then again for people in general. Its a universal rule.

[Elsie]

I stand corrected.

Thanks for the extra data.

I see only one problem, and that's when folks will point to 'fruits' as being the defining data to prove the 'correctness' of their beliefs.

[ColdSteelTalon]

No worries. And as far a fruits are concerned, it is I agree with you not an validator of beliefs. If that were true then a moral atheist could use his good deeds as justification for his beliefs.

In fact I get that kind of argument all the time from atheists.

- Warm regards to you -

[Impy]

Article on MA state leg elections.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/01/massachusetts-republicans-poised-gain-legislative-seats/feyypeVEr7P2Hao3TGp4CN/story.html

[GOPsterinMA]

DJSeamus is gonna feel the pain!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Even if the GOP gets to 10 seats in the Senate, that is STILL only 25% of the body. They’d need over 50 in the House to be remotely effective as a minority bloc. I also expect, as with the 4 RINO predecessors (and throw in the 2 other RINOs from the ‘60s/’70s, Sargent & Volpe) that any gains made will be swiftly wiped away in 2016 under Charlie “Willard Jr” Baker.

[GOPsterinMA]

You will learn tomorrow, DJSeamus.

[GOPsterinMA]

JOHN VOLPE WAS A GOOD ITALIAN MAN, DO NOT SLANDER HIM.

[Impy]

Well, he did institute a sales tax to pay for his spending increases. Was almost Nixon’s running mate in ‘68.

Who was the last conservative Republican Governor of MA? The last conservative Governor period was the DINO Edward King, who endorsed Reagan and switched to R after leaving office.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Was there anyone after Coolidge?

[Impy]

Well wikipedia doesn’t provide much info but let me look there

Cal’s successor was Channing Cox “Mr. Cox was noted for advancing progressive labor legislation “

Then Alvan Fuller, “As governor, Fuller faced a significant budget deficit that required initiatives to reduce expenditures and downsize government operations.” That’s a maybe.

Frank Allen, no idea.

How was Saltonstall?

[AuH2ORepublican]

Salty was very liberal, wasn’t he?

[GOPsterinMA]

There’s going to be a lot of blood letting tomorrow.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’ve not definitively found a particular Governor that could fit that pattern, but I don’t have enough info on some. Even in the 1946 election, a “pushback” ostensibly against the liberal Dems, the one-term GOPer who won, Robert Bradford, was a left-winger. So perhaps going back to the ‘20s would be required to find a non-liberal or non-”moderate” GOPer Governor.