It's past 6 and "Breaking News"says St Fleur "steps down" as Reilly

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running mate

Would anyone care to comment?

My primary objection was that Reilly was ignoring the 4 announced Lt Gov candidates; any one of which I would have happily supported or hope to support

I admire people that put themselves out there as candidates.

Picking a running mate like this was a stunt

Just a dumb move by someone who should have known better

[Mass]

1. Let's hope Patrick wins.

How many errors like that will Reilly do?

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2. I'm running on a slate as a candidate for D Patrick - I just got back

from dropping off "Please support me/us literature to Democratic friends and neighbors

Reilly, the Democrats I spoke to are disgusted with you

I didn't even bring up your name

A lot of eye rolling going on

[pilgrimm]

3. Can you say flip-flop?

Well, Republicans can. Reilly may be a great guy and he may make the best Governor ever, but we'll never know if he keeps running a campaign like this.

[Rockholm]

4. This is great news for Deval Patrick, IMHO.

Really bad news for Reilly. First the Gabrielli fiasco, now St. Fleur. If he had been smart, he would have gone with the Mayor of Worcester all along.

[TaleWgnDg]

5. My comments about Deval Patrick's income tax lien/problems . . .

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I can *hear* it from a backroom at Patrick's headquarters:

"HOLY SH*T, GET DEVAL TO REVEAL HIS OWN PAST TAX FRIG-UPS in light of the Boston Globe's dump on state representative Marie St. Fleur. CALL UP THE BOSTON GLOBE AND TELL EM ABOUT IT IMMEDIATELY before Deval makes the front page of the Boston Globe like Marie did! OMG!"

And, so goes politics and the "news media" who love to reveal your inside laundry FIRST! Life as a pol u/ the microscope of 24/7 "news" mills.

Hhhmmmmm, I wonder though. Maybe if Marie St. Fleur had taken a job as a Board of Director of Ameriquest! Or Coca-Cola. Hey. She most likely wouldn't have had all those financial troubles, losing a home to foreclosure, excise tax problems, income tax problems, a possible lien on her present home, student loan ($40,000) problems. Indeed. Maybe, though, Marie, WOULD NOT accept such bilked (Ameriquest) monies from the working class as did Deval Patrick! Yeah. Could that be it? All said and done. Too bad, too, that Patrick CONTINUES to accept such Ameriquest monies! But St. Fleur withdrew her candidacy for Lieutenant Governor.

As I said earlier about Deval Patrick, working class to esteemed positions is hard on ethics. Very hard. However, money is money but reputation is another matter. When to draw the line when food on the table and ethics rear their not too cooperative head. Patrick chose to accept bilked monies from working class people all across America including thousands w/i the Bay State. And he continues to do so.

Indeed.

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Here's a disclaimer for those who believe that I really heard that from Patrick's campaign office. It's only my best educated political guess. I'll bet that I'm correct though about Patrick's rationale for contacting the BosGlobe to reveal his own frig-up in taxes due to the Globe's revealing St. Fleur's. Sure. Tis far better to step up to the microphone and said "I did it" particularly if the other "guy" has been caught with "his pants down." It's an attempt to disfuse a volatile problem. Lawyers use it all the time.
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6. I understand why they announced today

The Republican Party in MA must be giddy

And the unenrolled continue to sit pretty much uninvolved except to say:

"Politicians are all alike"

Is it a full moon?

[TaleWgnDg]

7. Nah. The Republicans haven't gained numbers in Massachusetts

Only the "unenrolled" (no party affiliation who vote) have gained in numbers in Massachusetts. Whoops. Big whoops. Maybe it DOES say something about the Dems! eh.

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[DS1]

8. Reilly's a scumbag

it comes as no surprise that he'd be attracted to other scumbags

[paineinthearse]

9. Maybe Reilly read our comments from yesterday and decided to dump her

:shrug:

Two stupid moves, announcing a running mate and then pulling the rug out from under her. Very inauspicious start.

Shades of George McGovern and Thomas Eagleton.

[TaleWgnDg]

10. LOL . . . Reilly's gotta learn how to "politic" . . . no doubt about it!