This week, as nomination papers become available, there will be a GOP stampede to the Secretary of State’s office.  Not only are candidates embolden by ethics challenges, such as a Senator who stuffs her bra with bribe money and an indicted Speaker, but also the failure of the legislature to make real reforms.  Moreover, no one believes Speaker DeLeo is saving us from another tax increase when he rejected the Governor’s latest attempt to implement a sugar tax.  They’ll just raise another tax like they did last year.

If you are running, don’t forget our Republican Campaign Clinic this Wednesday at the Portuguese Holy Ghost Hall on route 18 in Bridgewater from 7 to 9pm.  Our special guests will be Bill Vernon of NFIB who will brief candidates on small business issues,  Chip Faulkner of CLT who will be talking about tax issues and State Representative George Peterson who will be educating candidates on the state budget.  We will also be conducting media training.  Please email me if you would like to reserve a spot.

It seems one State Representative must be very worried about his Republican opponent.  Representative Jim Miceli loaned his campaign in December $29,000 to boost his war chest to $35,000.  However, Miceli did not pay back his previous loans so his campaign has a debt of $62,000.  It would seem that after 33 years in the House that Miceli’s should be able to raise money.  I guess has his campaign account just like Governor Patrick’s.

Auntie Zeituni is still living in public housing and has yet to be deported as ordered previously.

 What should we do with Auntie Zeituni?  She obviously wants to remain in the United States. 

When a person immigrates to our country, he or she needs a sponsor.  This sponsor is responsible for the immigrant.  The new arrival is not allowed to collect any federal or state assistance. 

If Auntie Zeituni wants to stay, then shouldn’t be required to get a sponsor.  Wouldn’t the President of the United States, who is a multi-millionaire, be a logical choice?  Why should we have to pay for her if her own nephew won’t send her a dime?

So how much did our incumbent Lt. Governor raised for re-election in January?  Last month Tim  Murray raised $58,000 and spent $62,000.  It is sort of what you expect from a Democrat. 

Paul Loscocco, Cahill’s running mate and Baker’s reject, reported receipts of  $55,000.  However, he only raised $5000!!!  The other $50,000 comes from a transfer from his old State Representative account.  How much did Loscocco spend since entering this race?  According to the report, there were no expenditures in January.  Odd.

Tisei’s report for January is still not available, but during his first month of fundraising he accumulated over $300,000 and he did spend money to raise it.

Fundraising numbers for January are finally out!   Charlie Baker, the Republican candidate for Governor, won the money race once again this month.  He added another $388,000 to his warchest.  Tim Cahill came in a distant second place raising $100,000.  Deval Patrick brought in only $78,000! 

It is highly unusual for a sitting Governor to be lagging so far behind in raising money.  It makes you wonder if he is running again.  However, it is getting real late.  Officially nomination papers become available next week. 

I guess we can conclude that the recession is hit Deval’s fundraising efforts.

Update: A couple commented that Cahill had raised $177,000.  I doubled checked the OCPF reports.  He raised a total of $107,000 in January.

Isn’t about time to fire Eric Holder?

This week several Obama administration officials testified in front of the House Committee on Intelligence that there is going to be an attempted attack on the United States within the next 6 months.  It is pretty scary stuff.  CIA Director Leon Panetta has made the same prediction to the Senate Intelligence Committee. 

An attack is pending.

We are at war with the terrorist.  We are at war with Al Qaeda.  There is no sugar coating it.  Despite the election of Barack Obama, Al Qaeda still wants to kill us.  Hence, we need our United States Attorney General to recognize that fact.  Obviously, Holder does not comprehend the reality of the situation when he allows the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to lawyer up. 

Umar is now talking with the help from his mother, but we have lost over a month in time to stop these plots.  Eric Holder made this bad decision to give this non-citizen our rights.    He should be fired.  Maybe if we interrogated Umar for more than 15 minutes we might have been able to quickly act stop this future attack. 

I have been given polling numbers from a reliable source that it looks like voters in the 10th District will be shopping around for a new Congressman.  Let me share some interesting data with you:

Only 38% of voters believe that Delahunt deserves re-election.  43% want a new Congressman.

President Obama’s unfavorable ratings are slightly higher than his favor-ables.  49% of voters don’t like him and 48% have a good opinion. 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi does far worse.  56% of voters in the 10th don’t like her!  She an albatross for Delahunt who has consistently voted with her.

 So what’s the bad news?  Joe Malone does not beat Delahunt.  Malone loses to him by 12 points.  Our former Treasurer is running behind a generic candidate which means that if we put a lesser known candidate such as State Senator Bob Hedlund or Jeff Perry (who I believe should run against Murray) against the incumbent we are more likely to win. 

Just thought I would share with you some data that was leaked to me today.

Governor Deval Patrick is obviously the next GOP target for defeat.  He is the most tone deaf politician in the country.  Despite promising to cut property taxes when he first ran, our Governor raised the sales tax by 25%.  Two weeks ago during his state of the state speech, Patrick renewed his phony pledge to cut property taxes and then followed it up by releasing a budget that creates a new tax on sugar.  You just cannot make this stuff up!

So who should be the target after Deval?  Maybe it should be Senate President Therese Murray.  During her tenure as President of the Senate, we have seen Dianne Wilkerson caught stuffing her bra with bribe money and Senator Jim Marzilli arrested for groping women.  What did Murray do in response?  Nothing.  For months, she left both Senators in their positions.  She allowed Marzilli to collect his chairman’s pay despite failing to go to the State House for months.

Moreover, it was Murray and her Senate allies that added more taxes to the budget.  So not only did we get the 25% hike in the sales tax, but we also got the double taxation on alcohol. 

Today we learn that Murray is filling her campaign coffers with casino money.  It is legal, but does it show good judgement?

Murray can be defeated and the person to do it is Representative Jeff Perry.  We all know that he is looking at running for Congress, but 2010 could mirror 1990 which means that we will gain a lot of Senators.  Obviously Perry would be a leader in the Senate when he prevails. 

If you have a moment today, call Rep. Perry at 617-722-2000 and ask him to run against Therese Murray.  Go Jeff Go.

Update:  Look at Senator Murray’s response to a paper who challenged her on pension reform.  If you dare question her, you are told that you “lack the understanding.”  She should be careful.  The last Democrat, who was so arrogant, got beat like a drum by Scott Brown. 

Just when you thought Obamacare was dead, it seems the Democrats in DC are reviving the plan to socialize medicine.  Instead of doing reforms like putting a cap on medical liability law suits, making health insurance portable, and allowing small businesses to band together across state lines to make insurance affordable, Pelosi, Reid and Obama are working to pass their massive plan for a government take over of the health care system.

They did not get the message when we elected Scott Brown.

They did not get the message when Virginia and New Jersey elected Republican Governors.

They did not get the message when millions of people rallied against Obamacare at town hall meetings across the country this summer.

And I thought Deval Patrick was the most tone deaf politician in the country.

On Friday Pelosi promised to “parachute” in with Obamacare.  Her point was that she is not giving up not matter what and she knows best.

This weekend White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they are on the “5 yard line” about to score Obamacare. Yikes!

And then there are Obama’s comments last week about being a one term President.  Let me translate for you.  He plans on passing this unpopular health take over no matter the costs!  His logic of being a great one term president vs. mediocre two term president does not make sense.  If you have a great first term, voters want to give you a second one.

Obamacare is not going away.  We are living in a horror movie where the villain never dies.

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