Category — Old Boys' Club
Capuano Walks Backward On Gender-Tinged Label
I applaud Rep. Capuano’s reversal on on applying the gender-laden label “timid” to Coakley during his campaign. The first YouTube below is the NECN Broadside video in which he changes his position (saw it first on KennedySeat.com). The relevant part starts at 5:30 remaining. [Read more →]
September 24, 2009 No Comments
Capuano’s Painting with a Gender-Tinged Brush
Like line judges in a tennis match, we’ve got to keep our eyes on the boundary between fair political discourse and painting an opponent with a gendered brush, and I call Capuano’s “timid” label for Coakley OUT!
September 20, 2009 4 Comments
Hypocrisy
September 18, 2009 1 Comment
What Pagliuca’s money can buy?
A friend received the following message this afternoon from an online listserv from a Boston promotional company: [Read more →]
September 16, 2009 3 Comments
Old Boy Capuano Flip-Flops on “Experience”
In an interview with the Boston Globe, Rep. Michael Capuano today called Coakley
someone who has no legislative experience at all.
Flashback: February 4, 2008: Capuano, along with Deval Patrick, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, takes to the microphone before a crowd of 9,000 at the World Trade Center in Boston to rally votes for Barack Obama. Kerry says: [Read more →]
September 15, 2009 No Comments
The Old Boys’ Club
What do you call a Red Sox pitcher, two Congressmen and an NBA team co-owner? In Massachusetts politics, you call it: The Old Boys’ Club. [Read more →]
September 15, 2009 1 Comment
