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  • March 31, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    Nothing definitive, but I can report that former city councilor Gareth Saunders is considering entering this year's race for mayor of Boston.

    Saunders, an African-American who represented Roxbury's District 7 from 1994 to 1999, attempted a mayoral run in 2005, but failed to get on the ballot.

    If he runs this year, he would be considered a long-shot in a field that includes Michael Flaherty, Sam Yoon, and Kevin McCrea -- and, presumably, incumbent Tom Menino, who has not declared his intentions but is widely believed to be running.

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  • March 31, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    So, state senator Marian Walsh's lifelong dream of having the number-two job at a state financing authority has been dashed, perhaps forever.

    A few remaining questions for us to ponder:

    --Will HEFA hire someone else for that long-vacant assistant executive director, to prove that it really is necessary? And if so, what will the salary be?

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  • March 31, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    WaPo's Chris "The Fix" Cillizza is taking suggestions for a list of best state political blogs.

    I'm not necessarily saying that you should go stampeding to nominate my very own Boston Phoenix Talking Politics blog. (Although I'm not discouraging you from doing so!)

    It's just that last year, Cillizza's list included exactly zero from Massachusetts, and that just seems wrong.

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  • March 27, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    National Public Radio is doing a fun little online game, running a GOP 2012 Presidential nominating contest through NCAA Tournament-like brackets. They started with 32 candidates, and are now in the second round.

    Mitt Romney, who was given a number one seed, is in big trouble -- he has come up against Ron Paul in this round, and those Ron Paul fans, they do love themselves some Internet.

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  • March 27, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    It's amazing how often politicians get goaded into stupid behavior by simple baiting -- hire a guy to follow your opponent around in a chicken suit, and pretty soon he'll agree to participate in debates that he knows he should avoid.

    To put it bluntly, a remarkable amount of political behavior is explainable only by large egos, thin skin, and small penises.

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  • March 26, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    --John Tobin tells me that he will not run for the state senate seat being vacated by Marian Walsh. He also ruled out a stab at an at-large seat. "I am running for re-election in my district," he says emphatically. So far, it looks like rep. Michael Rush has the way cleared to graduate to the upper chamber, but there are still potential candidates in the suburban parts of the district making up their minds.

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  • March 25, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    In the new issue of the Boston Phoenix -- in print tomorrow, online now -- I have an article about the recent, shall we say, missteps of Governor Deval Patrick. I don't know that there's been any long-term damage, but it's clearly more of a problem than the governor's people thought just last week, when I started reporting this story.

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  • March 25, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    This coming Monday, city councilor John Connolly will hold a public hearing about his brain-child -- or Mayor Menino's brain-child, depending who you ask -- a bike-share program for Boston, which is getting a helping start-up grant from the state. Appropriately, this hearing will be at a bicycle shop: Landry's on Comm Ave.

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  • March 23, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    Typing while listening to Sen. John Kerry live, talking on the Senate floor about community service...

    --A local accountant, Hiep Q. Nguyen, has opened a campaign committee and tells the Phoenix he is exploring a possible run for city council at-large. Nguyen is president of the board of directors for the Vietnamese American Civic Association.

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  • March 19, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has reportedly hired Gentry Collins to be the party's new political director. Could be a sign of Romney making inroads with Steele. Collins has been a Romney guy for several years.

    Back in 2005, when Romney became chairman of the Republican Governors Association, he made a strategically savvy move in hiring Collins as RGA political director.

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  • March 19, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    I'm a couple of days late with this, but I think I'm still the first to report it: Egobudike "Ego" Ezedi, executive director of the Roxbury YMCA, sent an email letter out to his associates earlier this week, with this announcement:

    I want to announce that I will be taking a nine-month leave of absence beginning Saturday, March 28, 2009 to begin campaigning full-time for one of four At-Large Boston City Council seats.

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  • March 18, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    In this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix -- in print tomorrow, online now -- I take a look at the nation-wide explosion of "state sovereignty" initiatives, introduced in state legislatures to declare that the federal government has overstepped its constitutional bounds.

    This exact same "Tenth Amendment Movement" reared its head roughly 16 years ago.

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  • March 18, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    The White House has released Barack Obama's handwritten grid of picks for the NCAA Men's Tournament. His predictions are incredibly conservative -- in the "wuss" meaning of the word, not the political meaning. Almost exclusively favorites throughout.

    His Final Four: Louisville, Memphis, Pitt, and North Carolina.

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  • March 18, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    --Massachusetts rates high on the "Well-Being Index" (don't ask me to explain it), but the breakdown by congressional district suggests that the eastern part of the state is being weller (or whatever) than the west. Best in the state? CD-6, under the loving oversight of John Tierney. His district ranks 26th out of all 435 in the country.

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  • March 16, 2009
    By David S. Bernstein

    [Update: All of the "Anti-Pi 10" just voted for Final Vote Results for Roll Call 128Professional Social Work Month and World Social Work Day!]

    Offices of the 10 Congressional pi-haters (or are they pi-deniers? pi-skeptics?) have been avoiding my attempts to pin them down on a motives behind their recent vote.

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