Subscribe
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013 » MASSterList on Prosecutors and the Unrepentant
- Anthony DeGregorio on Sandy Hook Was Good for Business
- Kevin on Tim Murray to Resign
- Maurice T. Cunningham on Sandy Hook Was Good for Business
- Anthony DeGregorio on Sandy Hook Was Good for Business
Archives
Categories
Blogroll
- Beacon Hill Institute
- Commonwealth Magazine
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- Ideas Matter!
- Larry Becker's 270 Electoral Votes Blog
- Mass Benchmarks
- Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
- Massachusetts Taxpayers Association
- MassInc
- New England Economic Partnership
- New England Journal of Political Science
- Pioneer Institute
- Pollways
- The Invisible Primary
- The Martin Institute
- The Math of Politics
- The Mischiefs of Faction
- The Monkey Cage
- WickedLocal.com/Politics
Meta
Tag Archives: Special election
Appointment Intrigue and Special Election Tedium
This should be an interesting day here in Massachusetts. Governor Deval Patrick will appoint an interim senator to serve in Secretary of State John Kerry’s seat until a special election is held in late June.
As I’ve written before I think it would be most interesting for the governor to appoint a new and fresh figure who at least cracks the mold somewhat. The appointee would get a political boost and perhaps bypass our sclerotic sort-of democracy in the commonwealth. Perhaps another woman, Hispanic or African-American candidate, someone associated with an important issue like gun control, or someone who has achieved at the highest levels in business or academia or the non-profit world. An ideas person. Someone like Elizabeth Warren, perhaps?
Popular Misconceptions Die Hard
In today’s Springfield Republican there is a very reasonable, well written, and well sourced article about the upcoming special election to fill John Kerry’s US Senate seat. Yet, the piece contains at least one incorrect characterization of the Brown-Warren race just concluded, as well as some unreasonable implications regarding the potential of Bay State Republicans to benefit from the lessons of 2012 in a 2013 campaign.