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April 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
WCAP owes to Eileen and her supporters (me) to let us know which sitting Lowell City Council member made that call this morning. I can tell you who it was not, because I just saw a four of them at Eileen’s enthusiasitc campaign rally.
To do this to her on the day she officially announces her candidacy is Lowell politics at its worst.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Not even I am narcassistic enough to listen to that kind of vile crap. Oh noes, nude art!
April 12th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I’d think you could narrow the field down to 3 pretty quickly.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Since we are talking about “screwing up”, why is it that Barry Finegold’s name is repeatedly mispelled on this blog?
April 12th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Lowellian: We apologize to State Rep. Finegold. I quickly checked and the spelling error occurred twice; I would not characterize that as repeatedly. Nevertheless, we should not misspell people’s name, not even once.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Lowellian: they may have thought there were two Finegolds in the race. The one who is quoted in the Boston Globe this morning…
“State Representative Barry Finegold of Andover said the voters are interested in issues not endorsements. “This campaign needs to be about healthcare, education, and the environment, not who endorses who,” Finegold said.”
And the one who sent out a press release hours after the Sheriff ended his campaign touting the endorsements of many of DiPaola’s supporters just the night before.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Well also check out the link to Finegold’s website at the top of this page…..I just think all candidates (whether for Congress or City Council) should be covered equally and fairly. I don’t think it fair to discount the undeniably shoddy reporting on WCAP and then to credit those same shoddy reporters when they attribute some “rumor” to a City Council opponent. And, worse, to take that “rumor” and expand upon it by accusing 3 City Councilors…..I have no preferred candidate for Congress, but over the past few days and weeks, I have heard “rumors” about just about every candidate supposedly getting out of this race.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Are you seriously equating the gravity of a misspelling to the gravity of reporting false campaign news? As things that are worth critisizing, are these two things even in the same timezone?
April 12th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
No. I am not….As a totally separate issue, I am pointing out that reporting unsubstantiated rumors occurs here too. Unsubstantiated rumors that originated with the same shoddy reporters are expanded upon here and, even further, specifically directed at 3 City Councilors.
April 12th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Don’t throw around the unsubstantiated rumors charge without examples and links.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:01 am
It’s a relatively simple point. I can explain it again to you (for the third time) but I can’t help you understand. The unstabstantiated rumors I refer to are: #1) the rumor the Donoghue was getting out of the race for Congess; #2) the rumor that a member of the City Council started the rumor that Donoghue was getting out of the race….It was fairly pointed out that the rumor #1 should have been verified before it was reported. By the same token, rumor #2 ought to be verified before accusations are thrown around. If the rumor #1 originally reported on WCAP (that Donoghue was getting out of the race) is irresponsibly reported and not credible, then how, in the next breath, can anybody believe and, in fact, expand upon and begin speculating as to a specific group of 3 councilors? Is it because YOU LIKE rumor #2 but not rumor #1? If it is a rumor or story or allegation that you like, you run with it. But if it is a rumor or story or allegation that you don’t like, you pull out the penalty flag and cry fowl.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Lowellian;
I would direct you to richardhowe’s blog, http://richardhowe.com/; he has a post with the entire transcript of what was said yesterday morning on WCAP. It was clearly stated, and I heard it myself:
“George: Gary, why did you start this?
Gary: It came from a very highly placed source.
John: Namely?
Gary: Another member of the [Lowell city] council.”
Later on that morning, I was in attendance when CC Donoghue announced her candidacy. I saw CCs Jim Milinazo, George Ramirez, Kevin Broderick and Mayor Bill Martin enthusiastically clapping and wearing an Eileen Donoghue for Congress sticker. So, I think it is fair to assume that the phone call did not come from one of them.
Not the unfair part, is that according to WCAP only one person was the source of that rumor; the other three remaining CCs did not. I would think that CC Donoghue’s colleagues who did not make that call to WCAP, out of common courtesy, have already contacted her.
April 13th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Well, gee, Lowellian, what are we supposed to think? As Mimi said, Gary as much as admitted it came from another Councilor on the radio. What I am critisizing here is that said “news” reporter (ha!) did not question the motives of said City Councilor or corroborate the story or even call Donoghue to get her side. If he lied about where he got that info, that’s even WORSE, but since it was indicated that Gary was the primary source (I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t but took credit for it anyway, or seemed to), it’s fair to say you can speculate who it might be by looking at who it definitely isn’t.
But I have heard corroborating evidence that it did come from another city councilor, so this is all moot anyway.
Actually, I can expect Donoghue to get a boost from this whole debacle with a lot of people in the city. They are reminded that Donoghue was instrumental in ousting the Cox GOB.
And Lowellian, find the links and the actual text before you accuse me of rumor mongering. I don’t do “news” much on this site so don’t know what the hell you are talking about. Was I wrong on the Cox “breaking news”? Nope.
And if you’re referring to commenters, I hope you know by now I don’t control them, either. And baseless attacks are frowned upon on this blog. Even yours.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Mc Donough has personal connections to two of the three councillors “in question”. One of them is an employee of his. The other is an employee of the sheriff. Sufy around Mc Donough’s website and draw your own conclusions. My guess is Caulfield, but he usually sells his soul to the paper not the radio.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Prince:
I do not want to draw any conclusions. I want the truth to emerge.