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St. Fleur Shrapnel Is Still Flying

16 Responses to “St. Fleur Shrapnel Is Still Flying”

1. Renee Says:
   February 2nd, 2006 at 6:43 pm

   I read the Boston Globe article and commentary also. It seems like she had her passions in the constituents she represented.

2. K-R-S Says:
   February 2nd, 2006 at 8:57 pm

   I am sure Ms. Lafluer is very well intentioned…however, the baggage she holds doesn’t sit well with alot of folks.
   As an elected official, you are held to higher standard and she should know better than that.

3. Tim Little Says:
   February 2nd, 2006 at 10:05 pm

   Hey, K-R-S…. I think you mean St. Fleur, no? Lafleur used to play right wing for the Montreal Canadiens.

4. Draftcoakley Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 12:59 am

   I sit here everyday watching the Democrats kill our chances at winning the Governor’s office.
   After being in Public Office his entire life, Reilly seems to have missed every opportunity to learn anything about politics…After spending a life time as a lawyer for Multi-National corporations (including oil giant TEXACO) and a short stint in the Clinton administration, Duval Patrick missed every opportunity to learn about government and policies.

   After 20 years of losing, you would think that our party would learn…
   Right now I am sitting back praying to god that someone else jumps into this race.

   Capuano??? Galvin???

   That would be nice…maybe we could win…

   Personally, I think we need to DRAFT MARTHA COAKLEY!!!

   Lets not take no for an answer, lets get her on the ballot. All we need is the signature of 500 delegates. That’s not even 10% of them…how hard can that be? Unless we want Gov. Kerry Healey for the next 4-8 years lets DRAFT MARTHA COAKLEY!

   If we lose this election, again, because we are stupid, I think I am going to move to a red state so at least I can blame the Republicans for why we lose!!!!

5. K-R-S Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 9:17 am

   Apologies Tim…St. Fluer..I stand corrected. : )
   The only Lafluers I know are a lunch lady from Junior High School and the Sun reporter Mike Lafluer. : )
   I don’t think we stand a chance of having another cand. step forward…I believe the deadline was 1/31.
   It amazes me that Reilly has spent a good portion of his life working in the public sector,
   (and by the way, has never owned his own home), always on the public payroll and he goes on public record to say he
   is not (essentially) politically astute. HA!
   DUMB, DUMB, DUMB….

6. Tim Little Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 9:41 am

   Actually, there’s was this posted over at BMG:

   Deadlines (0.00 / 0)
   One thing to keep in mind, from http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/candidates_guide_06.pdf :
   “Party candidates for federal and statewide offices…
   Their papers must be submitted to local registrars of voters or election commissioners for certification
   no later than 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 9, 2006.”
   http://www.bluemassgroup.com/showComment.do?commentId=4948

   As for #4, this exact same post showed up in a couple of threads over at BMG at around midnight this morning. Obviously someone was busy….

7. Lynne Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 10:27 am

   Don’t you just hate comment drive-bys? LOL

   Deval can win, I think. His ground game is superb and I think he’s played a different kind of politics - that will play well in the general. Reilly tried to play it the way one normally does, and failed. The normal Democratic game keeps dealing us a losing hand. I don’t know much about Coakley, her politics, or her political skill, personally, but I suspect it’s more like Reilly than Deval. Just a gut feeling.

8. Renee Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 7:06 pm

   Leadership is a unique talent, which I don’t personally see encouraged enough or sought after. It is more then being well liked and smart. I don’t know if this is a good analogy, but for anyone who has seen the TV show “24″ this might make sense. All I see is the fictional, President Logan, on the show just screaming at the agency directors, “Do something!” “Fix it!” You see where leadership comes into play. The ability to not to get flustered, know the right questions to ask, and to know what information is needed to make a proper and wise decision.

9. waittilnextyr Says:
   February 3rd, 2006 at 8:59 pm

   I gather from your discusssion, Renee, that you feel that if Reilly was a true leader he would have “known the right questions to ask” and made “a proper and wise decision”. Obviously, he failed that test of character in this instance.

   I agree that leadership is a great quality, but that alone is not enough. It is relatively easy to lead if you just take a poll of the constituency, and march in the direction of that least resistance. But if someone also is a visionary, then he/she may be able to lead in a direction that is not necessarily obvious at the outset, but best for all in the long run. Combine that visionary with leadership and you have the best opportunity.

   We may have such a person in Deval Patrick, I just don’t know yet. We do not have that person in Tom Reilly, as evidenced by his recent stumbles.

10. Mike Says:
    February 3rd, 2006 at 10:59 pm

    The one thing I’ve read about Deval that I like is that he supports local communities being able to create new revenue streams, like a meals tax for instance. I think this would be helpful for ongoing infrastructure needs of cities like Lowell. Let the people in the restaurants pay for some of our needed improvements.

11. Renee Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 5:49 am

    I know Ben Afleck has interests in politics, but maybe we need to look outside law and corporate for leadership. How about Bill Belichick from the Patriots? Maybe not. I realize I’m on a Democrat’s site, but people admire celebrities and sports figures which has worked for the Republicans. A part of turning around economic/social development of a community also needs a bit of cheerleading, not with pom-poms, but definite motivation.

12. Tim Little Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 9:44 am

    Well, out in MN, rumor has it that Al Franken will be running for Paul Wellstone’s Senate seat. (I would love to see that!)

13. Tim Little Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 9:49 am

    Wow…. LDCC website says that Reilly may be on hand at OUR caucus today. That’s decidedly interesting.

    Guess we have him running scared, Lynne?

14. Pablo Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    St. Fleur is not the progressive you may think. She was solidly in bed with the charter school industry and the far-out right-wing State Board of Education when she was house chair of education.

15. Paul@01852 Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    I was at the LDCC and was definitely NOT impressed with Reilly. Typical bland campaign speech with nothing new, nothing exciting and definitely nothing gubernatorial! For someone who acknowledges that politics is not his strong suit he sure came on like typical hack politician with a canned campaign speech! And by the way, (and I’m sure Lynne will be posting more on this) at least one ward’s Deval slate swept the balloting!

16. Tim Little Says:
    February 4th, 2006 at 10:13 pm

    … Ward 10.

    All in all a respectable showing for those of us in the DP camp — especially up against the Reilly machine. No one can rightfully claim this guy (Reilly) isn’t an “insider”.

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