Benka Hits the Daly Double.
By Jim Conley • April 25th, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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Brookline Town Clerk Pat Ward has posted the campaign finance reports of candidates for Brookline Selectmen [read reports here].
At more than $16 thousand raised (through mid-April), Town Meeting Member Richard Benka is the runaway leader in the money race. Current Board Chair Nancy Daly has cashed checks amounting to only half of Benka’s tally. And incumbent Gil Hoy appears to be off the pace of previous campaigns at about $11 thousand in donations.
Individual donors are mostly the usual suspects. Indeed, it’s hard to miss Daly’s fund-raising appeal to her contributors: “You owe me.”
Update: Ward has yet to post the reports of the Brookline override groups. I’m betting that the “Yes for Brookline” contributors are mostly people holding town office. We’ll see.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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Hey, look at that. Real estate developer Robert Basile (who got the plum job of turning the South Brookline site of the former Infant Jesus church into condos, and didn’t have to build any low income affordable housing there), is donating to all three campaigns. Smart investor he is, hedging his bets. Before you buy land in Brookline, you better first buy the politicians.
If the job of the Vice President is not worth a bucket of spit, what is being one-fifth of the hydra-headed Board of Selectmen worth? Benka has by far the best resume of the trifecta of attorneys running for two spots on the Board. But if Benka is so smart, why would be want the job? Benka should be thinking: “Gee, if I win, I’ll be sitting weekly under the kleig lights listening to the mundane discussing the mundane.” (Advice to Benka: Retirement need not be boring; do the math.) Maybe Benka thinks that he can make a change. But sometimes “winning” is “losing,” like winning the battle and losing the war. The good news is that it’s a night out. The bad news is that it’s a night out. Benka may find out that billable hours and clients are easier to deal with after all.
We don need no prosecutors…
You can take that ……to the benka !