Monday, May 10, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Hey Martha - people like to be asked for their vote!!!!!
Growing up in Cambridge I learned about politics at the grass roots level. Nobody did it better than Thomas 'Tip' O'Neill
Early in his career he lost a local election by a narrow margin and he was dumbfounded. He ran into an older woman who was a family friend and she told him she didn't vote for him. Shocked he asked her why and she replied "you never asked for my vote - people liked to be asked."
He never forgot that even when he was elected to the House and finally became speaker. He came back to North Cambridge every weekend and listened to what the voters were telling him.
Walter Sullivan was a local Cambridge politician that worked the same way. If somebody passed away in your family you could be certain that Walter was first in line at the wake. People remember little things like that.
3 weeks ago I knew Coakley was in trouble when at Fenway Park I noticed Scott Brown being mobbed like a rock star at the Winter Classic and Martha was nowhere to be seen. She compounded the goof by telling reporters "It was too early on New Year's Day and it was cold."
This past Monday she had another chance as the Bruins were playing a holiday afternoon game at TD Garden. Once again Brown was there with many supporters but no sign of Martha. Turns out she was at an art gallery in Cambridge.
BTW Martha - you carried Cambridge with 85% of the vote. Maybe if you had showed up at the hockey game you may have picked up some votes from hockey fans.
Martha you did the impossible - you lost on Waltham and LOWELL!!!!! How in the world can a Democrat lose the city of Lowell!!!!!
Calling Curt Schilling a Yankees fan was another master stroke.
Finally who the heck was running your ad campaign - KRUSTY THE KLOWN??????
How on earth could you release an ad that spelled Massachusetts wrong in the final graphic!!!!!
Maybe what happened yesterday is for the best. President Obama has to understand that what people in Hyde Park (Chicago) or Harvard Square think is not in reality with the rest of the world.
Today down at Arlington National Cemetery, Ted Kennedy is spinning in his grave. The irony is that his dying wish was for a special election to pick the person who would take his place and the law was changed. Of course he never could have imagined a Republican winning his seat.
Finally what makes Martha's campaign blunders even sadder is that she followed the playbook of Shannon O'Brien against Mitt Romney and angered all the soccer moms. Isn't it ironic that it was Romney who helped get the Massachusetts universal health care passed.
Early in his career he lost a local election by a narrow margin and he was dumbfounded. He ran into an older woman who was a family friend and she told him she didn't vote for him. Shocked he asked her why and she replied "you never asked for my vote - people liked to be asked."
He never forgot that even when he was elected to the House and finally became speaker. He came back to North Cambridge every weekend and listened to what the voters were telling him.
Walter Sullivan was a local Cambridge politician that worked the same way. If somebody passed away in your family you could be certain that Walter was first in line at the wake. People remember little things like that.
3 weeks ago I knew Coakley was in trouble when at Fenway Park I noticed Scott Brown being mobbed like a rock star at the Winter Classic and Martha was nowhere to be seen. She compounded the goof by telling reporters "It was too early on New Year's Day and it was cold."
This past Monday she had another chance as the Bruins were playing a holiday afternoon game at TD Garden. Once again Brown was there with many supporters but no sign of Martha. Turns out she was at an art gallery in Cambridge.
BTW Martha - you carried Cambridge with 85% of the vote. Maybe if you had showed up at the hockey game you may have picked up some votes from hockey fans.
Martha you did the impossible - you lost on Waltham and LOWELL!!!!! How in the world can a Democrat lose the city of Lowell!!!!!
Calling Curt Schilling a Yankees fan was another master stroke.
Finally who the heck was running your ad campaign - KRUSTY THE KLOWN??????
How on earth could you release an ad that spelled Massachusetts wrong in the final graphic!!!!!
Maybe what happened yesterday is for the best. President Obama has to understand that what people in Hyde Park (Chicago) or Harvard Square think is not in reality with the rest of the world.
Today down at Arlington National Cemetery, Ted Kennedy is spinning in his grave. The irony is that his dying wish was for a special election to pick the person who would take his place and the law was changed. Of course he never could have imagined a Republican winning his seat.
Finally what makes Martha's campaign blunders even sadder is that she followed the playbook of Shannon O'Brien against Mitt Romney and angered all the soccer moms. Isn't it ironic that it was Romney who helped get the Massachusetts universal health care passed.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Proof Tom Yawkey was a racist
Red Sox historian Glenn Stout has discovered an article in Sports
Illustrated from 1965 that proves Tom Yawkey was a racist and it is direct quotes from Yawkey that convict him.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/ MAG1077374/1index.htm
"They blame me," Yawkey says, "and I'm not even a Southerner. I'm from Detroit ." Yawkey remains on his South Carolina fief until May because Boston weather before then is too much for his sensitive sinuses. "I have no feeling against colored people," he says. "I employ a lot of them in the South. But they are clannish, and when that story got around that we didn' t want Negroes they all decided to sign with some other club. Actually, we scouted them right along, but we didn't want one because he was a Negro. We wanted a ballplayer."
Stout posted on his blog yesterday
http://verbplow.blogspot.com/2009/11/tom-yawkey-race-and-
smoking-gun.html
Red Sox fans over the age of 50 certainly were suspect in their
feelings about Yawkey but this should settle the debate once and for
all.
Shameful
Illustrated from 1965 that proves Tom Yawkey was a racist and it is direct quotes from Yawkey that convict him.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/ MAG1077374/1index.htm
"They blame me," Yawkey says, "and I'm not even a Southerner. I'm from Detroit ." Yawkey remains on his South Carolina fief until May because Boston weather before then is too much for his sensitive sinuses. "I have no feeling against colored people," he says. "I employ a lot of them in the South. But they are clannish, and when that story got around that we didn' t want Negroes they all decided to sign with some other club. Actually, we scouted them right along, but we didn't want one because he was a Negro. We wanted a ballplayer."
Stout posted on his blog yesterday
http://verbplow.blogspot.com/2009/11/tom-yawkey-race-and-
smoking-gun.html
Red Sox fans over the age of 50 certainly were suspect in their
feelings about Yawkey but this should settle the debate once and for
all.
Shameful
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Send Us Your Tourists
I am amused to find out that the feature travel destination in the Sunday Chicago Tribune on October 18th is CAMBRIDGE?????
The story offers gems like
- If you must revisit the Cambridge Police Department's globally famous arrest and release of professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in July, don't go looking for his house. Instead, look for Gates, a regular customer, in the crowd at Mr. Bartley's Gourmet Burgers (aka Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage, 1246 Massachusetts Ave.), a Mass Ave fixture since Bob Dylan and Joan Baez chowed down there in the 1960s.
- Look both ways. The streets are teeming with New England drivers (not known for their congeniality) and Cambridge pedestrians, which is just a fancy way of saying jaywalkers. Maybe the locals will think you're a dweeb, waiting for a green light. But sometimes dweebs live longer.
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