March 28, 2006
ONE FOR THE THUMB:
Slow ticket sales force freebie AG fund-raiser: $500 a head...or $0, whatever works for you (Maggie Mulvihill, March 28, 2006, Boston Herald)
Listless ticket sales forced Attorney General and aspiring governor Tom Reilly to send out complimentary invitations to his birthday party fund-raiser tonight, according to political sources and Reilly campaign documents.
The $500 VIP event at the posh State Room comes as Reilly has shown sluggish fund-raising numbers in 2006.
In the first two weeks of March, he reported receipts of $9,380 compared to Democratic rival Deval Patrick’s $57,787 and Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey’s $191,625, according to state campaign finance records.
Ms Healey stands to be the fifth consecutive Republican governor of MA.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 28, 2006 7:26 AM
Continuing the liberal tradition of voting for conservatives in local elections.
Posted by: erp at March 28, 2006 8:21 AMI like Howie Carr's explanation for the string of Republican governors in an otherwise one-party Democrat state: "In other states, when people vote for governor, they're looking for a CEO. In Massachusetts, they're looking for a warden."
erp: that tradition doesn't hold here in San Francisco!
Posted by: PapayaSF at March 28, 2006 2:48 PMOf course, there's always the *SF declaimer that it's a matter of degree. Even liberal mayors seem to mellow a bit after they're in office for a bit, don't they?
Posted by: erp at March 28, 2006 3:31 PMI will admit that Mayor Newsom was the more conservative of the candidates in the last election. Believe it or not.
Posted by: PapayaSF at March 28, 2006 3:38 PM