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BOSTON (AP) - Governor Patrick is warning that Massachusetts will be crippled by a "political circus" if a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage makes it to the state ballot. The Democratic governor says he's actively lobbying legislators who are opposed to same-sex marriage to switch their votes. Lawmakers yesterday postponed a vote until June 14th at the earliest. Before it can reach the 2008 ballot, the proposed amendment needs the backing of 50 lawmakers in two successive sittings of the Legislature. It won approval in the previous Legislature in January, on the final day of its session. Gay marriage...

All you need to know about Gov. Deval Patrick’s new team of advisers is that he has raided the John Kerry-Mike Dukakis braintrust - how’s that for an oxymoron? They are described as “seasoned.” That means over the hill. Most of them come from the same wing of the Democratic Party - the former wing. Former AG, former bank president, former newspaper publisher. I won’t say the synonym for “former” is unemployed, but most of these thumbsuckers are at the checkout counter. They’re rounding third. This new team of Deval advisers held their first meeting in a downtown office building....

All you need to know about Gov. Deval Patrick’s new team of advisers is that he has raided the John Kerry-Mike Dukakis braintrust - how’s that for an oxymoron? They are described as “seasoned.” That means over the hill. Most of them come from the same wing of the Democratic Party - the former wing. Former AG, former bank president, former newspaper publisher. I won’t say the synonym for “former” is unemployed, but most of these thumbsuckers are at the checkout counter. They’re rounding third. This new team of Deval advisers held their first meeting in a downtown office building....

Posted this morning by Michael Graham, an American author, columnist, and conservative talk radio personality on Boston's WTKK-FM (96.9). ATTENTION: Here is the link you're looking for! I don't know if Rosie O'Donnell has formally joined the Deval Patrick campaign team, but given her political delusions, she could certainly be their poster child (assuming one could find a poster large enough to accommodate her). When you go to Deval Patrick's new, updated website--you know, the one that may be violating the state's privacy laws?--you'll find this webpage quoting the same moonbat memos Rosie is reading from: 9/11 was an inside...

Gov. Deval Patrick faced sharp questions yesterday after likening criticism of his office to ?hazing? by political insiders, a statement that forced top aides to clarify his response to the recent run of scrutiny. ?The governor . . . does not feel he has been the victim of unfair treatment,? said Joe Landolfi, Patrick?s newly minted communications director. ?We are looking forward, not backward.? The questions arose after Patrick was quoted as saying that the criticism about his Cadillac, pricey office furniture and other decisions was attributable to hazing by the Bay State?s political elite. Patrick?s comment appeared in a...

Howie Carr live thread. Here's an article co-written by Howie and Laurel Sweet about witness intimidation involving "the son of a Superior Court judge (who) is accused of threatening the life of a Wellesley youth to “send a message” to the youth’s friend days before the friend testified." I may do an excerpt below.

I told you so. I told you Deval Patrick was going to be a complete disaster. Who printed up the first batch of “Don’t Blame Me - I Voted for Muffy” bumper stickers - two months before he was sworn in? But everybody wanted to overlook the obvious fact that the guy was utterly unqualified. The electorate just wanted to feel good about itself. The voters, or at least 56 percent of them, figured if Deval got in they would feel less guilty - about what, I have no idea. Now Deval is trying to claw his way back into...

BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick urged federal authorities Thursday not to move any more factory workers detained in an immigration raid out of state until their children are found and arrangements are made for their care. More than 300 people were detained for possible deportation in a raid Tuesday at a leather factory that makes equipment for the U.S. military. About 150 have been flown from the plant at the former Fort Devens military base to a detention center in Texas, the governor said. "I urged the federal government to stop all flights out of Fort Devens immediately until...

In only three months since taking office as Governor of Massachusetts, Democrat Deval Patrick has come under fire for abusing a state police helicopter, upgrading the governor's car to a more expensive Cadillac, for giving his wife an unnecessary chief of staff at $72,000/year at the taxpayer's expense, and for using $27,000 in taxpayer dollars to outfit his office, including $12,300 for drapes. Well, things have continued to get worse for the new governor, as the Massachusetts Republican Party has filed an ethics complaint against him for making a call to a top official at Citigroup (former US Treasury secretary...

After pledging to protect funding for poor and vulnerable citizens, Gov. Deval Patrick is facing harsh criticism for slashing salaries for social workers, reducing services for the mentally ill and eliminating water-rate relief for cash-strapped homeowners. “This is the governor who last night said he wasn’t going to balance the budget on the backs of the poorest people in Massachusetts,” said state Sen. Richard Tisei (R-Wakefield). “What we’re looking at today is a direct contradiction to that.” The criticism emerged after Patrick released a line-by-line accounting of a $26.7-billion budget that slashes spending by $515 million and squeezes businesses for...

Draped in controversy, is it curtains for Deval? By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist Sunday, February 25, 2007 It’s the $72,000-a-year secretary for your wife, stupid. That’s what’s people are really going to remember about Gov. Deval Patrick’s very bad week. What a first and lasting impression to leave - Mrs. Patrick, who has a full-time mid-six-figure job, now gets a chief of staff, a woman from Wellesley named Amy Gorin who was one of Deval’s earliest rich moonbat supporters. Amy Gorin needs another $72,000 like Deval needs, well, a Cadillac DTS. The way he ignores the issue, Deval must...

It’s the $72,000-a-year secretary for your wife, stupid. That’s what’s people are really going to remember about Gov. Deval Patrick’s very bad week. What a first and lasting impression to leave - Mrs. Patrick, who has a full-time mid-six-figure job, now gets a chief of staff, a woman from Wellesley named Amy Gorin who was one of Deval’s earliest rich moonbat supporters. Amy Gorin needs another $72,000 like Deval needs, well, a Cadillac DTS. The way he ignores the issue, Deval must grasp what a public-relations nightmare Mrs. Gorin has become. In this week’s podcast - Deval’s direct communication to...

Howie Carr live thread. Column to follow.

Coupe Deval! Just saw it, check out the new Howie Carr website devoted to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick! http://coupedeval.com/

Governor, come in, please. Loosen your ascot and stay a while. A quick question before we get started: Who are you getting your political advice from these days, Leona Helmsley?......Pretty much everything you've been doing since the day you were elected, knock it all off, every single bit.

BOSTON --More than five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, some people still feel nervous when they sit down on plane next to a person from the Middle East. The wildly popular terrorism-themed TV show, "24," portrays Arabs as evil. Some radio talk show hosts casually use ethnic slurs to describe Arabs. Massachusetts' new homeland security chief hopes her Lebanese heritage coupled with her background as a high-level counter-terrorism expert will help chip away at negative perceptions some Americans hold when it comes to Arabs and terrorism. "I watch "24" like everyone else. There is no Arab on that...

Despite the new felony conviction of a sleazy, unpopular former Democrat Party legislator, a key WRKO / Boston manager continues to dig in her heels on a dubious programming move, seemingly without regard for the damage it will do to the station. Meanwhile, disgust over former Massachusetts House Speaker Tom Finneran's felony conviction yesterday continued to generate anger today, particularly over the light "punishment" received for his guilty plea on perjury charges. ... snip ... If not for WRKO's interest, however, Finneran really would take a hit, as he is losing his pension, right to vote, carry a weapon or...

Mass. gets its first black governor, and the first Dem to be elected to that office since Dukakis in '86. If you liked Pee Wee, you'll love Urkel.

And so the Republicans have finally lost their grip on the Corner Office, not with a bang but a whimper, their candidate for governor beaten like a redheaded stepchild. Still, it was a great 16-year run. Or was it? Let us consider some of the magic moments, starting with Bill Weld’s Brattle Street poker nights, fueled by "amber-colored fluids," and how one such evening ended with the GOP national committeeman pulled over by police who noticed a strange chocolate-colored stain on the front of his pants. Then there was John Lakian calling Mitt Romney "Mr. Mormon." And remember crooked Teamster...

Mike Dukakis was a good governor. And if you don’t believe me, just ask Deval Patrick. Here’s the exchange from the final televised debate Wednesday night. Kerry Healey: “I’d like to ask you, do you think Dukakis was a good governor, and why?” Deval: “I think that Mike Dukakis was a good governor in many ways, and we had challenges then.” We sure did, Deval, and the biggest challenge of all, at least to us taxpayers, was named M. Stanley Dukakis. Sure, Deval’s lead in the polls is most likely insurmountable, and tossing a bouquet to the henpecked wimp Mike...