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May 31st, 2006 at 9:54 am
Yeah, I’m voting Galvin as well. It seems like a lot of quote ‘progressives’ are supporting bonifaz just because he’s an underdog. There’s such a thing as groupthink on the left as well as on the right, and mushy feelings about who’s more ‘liberal’, whatever that means, aren’t gonna sway me when there are actual people with real strengths and weaknesses in the race.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:59 am
Galvin isn’t exactly a conservative as far as I can tell. And there’s a lot of progressives I know who are not voting for Bonifaz. Most of us live in the reality-based world, or at least far more so than our conservative counterparts. Rhetoric is rhetoric. Bonifaz and his supporters don’t seem to be able to back theirs up with hard cold facts…I like that he’s in the race raising the issue he raises, but I don’t think he’s ready for prime time.
May 31st, 2006 at 11:59 am
The one thing I *don’t* like about Galvin is the rumor I heard that his people are going to attempt to disqualify Bonifaz for not being “true” democrat. They are claiming that he is actually a Green Party candidate using the Dems for a more prominent place on the ballot with more exposure than if he actually ran on the Green Party ticket. I am in favor of allowing as many candidates on the ballot as is practical. In fact after this election cycle I am going to be putting pressure on the “powers that be” to completely eliminate the 15% rule. If someone is capable of getting 10,000 signatures than they are capable of running a campaign for office. They don’t also need 15% of us “inside the smoke-filled arena” delegates deciding how “capable” they are!
May 31st, 2006 at 2:18 pm
There’s a lot of talk about the 15% rule and its tendency to shut out decent candidates which otherwise could do the work. I have to study it more, but I am leaning on the side of getting rid of that rule or modifying it. It’s one thing to have rules that vet the candidates (making sure that nutcases can’t get too far), it’s another thing to keep increasing the bar which a candidate has to cross which helps exclude anyone without lots of money or insider power. (Or wherewithal to do what Deval Patrick did - work for a year, and use the rules against the insider types by bringing in loads of new people into the process.)
The Democratic party sits there and tells us they are all about INCLUSION (the big talking point when they interpreted the rules to help Gabrielli jump into the race without doing all the work everyone else did) but then, why did they get RID of the three-ballots (3 chances to get to 15%) rule last year in the first place then? Having three chances to get to 15% is certainly way more inclusive than only one chance and one ballot like this year. So the state Dem party has shown through its actions that it’s only interested in INCLUSION when it’s CONVENIENT. If it had been someone like Deval Patrick looking for a rules interpretation in March, you can be sure that they would have narrowed the definition so as to make it harder for them to get into the convention.
It’s do as I say, not as I do for the state party insiders most of the time. That’s why they’re scared of Patrick, and why they’re scared of the new Democratic activist.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Lynne says:
It’s one thing to have rules that vet the candidates (making sure that nutcases can’t get too far)
I think the 10,000 signatures for statewide offices will exclude any real nutcases
May 31st, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Why can’t “nutcases” be on the primary ballot? If they are that bad, they won’t win anyway…
May 31st, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Because a rich “nutcase” could drain a winning candidates funds before the general.
June 1st, 2006 at 10:24 am
What he said.
June 1st, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Ehhh, I doubt it.
June 2nd, 2006 at 7:13 am
The trend in both parties is to draft wealthy people because of the obvious financial benefit to the parties.
Rich oftentimes goes with “eccentric”.
Mark Green I think has a chapter on this phenomenon in “Selling Out”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060735821/sr=8-1/qid=1149250058/ref=sr_1_1/102-5667013-2667316?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Mark Green ran against Bloomberg. I dont remember the exact quote but Bloomberg was interviewed and asked the question”How much would be too much to spend on your race?” At the time he thought maybe 27 million would be over the top for a mayoral race. He spent close to 100 million and only won the race by a point or two. (again… all from memory, but it is in the book).
It is part of a pattern of ever-escallating campaign costs.