Hypocrisy Is So Hip.
By Jim Conley • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Brookline Selectmen, Campaigns, Goldberg Follies, Nancy Daly, Override Ballot, Politics, Robert AllenI updated a previous post with this material, but I don’t want it to be missed.
Readers will recall that the last time the TAB addressed the issue of selectmen flashing badges, (as they did in yesterday’s front pager on Gil Hoy) it was when they passed over former Selectman Deborah Goldberg for Lieutenant Governor on [...]
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The Brookline Curse.
By Jim Conley • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: Campaign Finance, Campaigns, Goldberg Follies, Jesse Mermell, PoliticsI remember the exact moment that I realized Hillary Clinton’s campaign was likely to implode. It’s not when I heard that the campaign solidified its lock on the supremely-arrogant-in-service-to-the-financial-industry caucus by making Brookline’s Representative in Congress, Barney Frank, its “economic adviser”. Or when I saw that Selectman Jesse “The Humble” Mermell apparently made [...]
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On Brookline Reprise (5).
By Jim Conley • Jul 5th, 2007 • Category: Campaigns, Goldberg Follies, Politics, The Scream TeamI’m digging way into the archives on this one, but nothing better demonstrates the collective contrivance of Brookline Town Government than does the video former Selectman’s Chair Deborah Goldberg produced as part of her campaign for Massachusetts lieutenant governor last year.
Click here to see the video.
This is Brookline Town Government as infomercial. There’s the [...]
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Ghost Town.
By Jim Conley • Jun 27th, 2007 • Category: Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Selectmen, Goldberg Follies, Politics, St. Aidan'sI guess it’s true that most young people - unable to afford to live in Brookline - have moved to other parts of the country. Today’s New York Times has a front pager showing poll results [see poll] that indicate Americans between the ages of 17 and 29 are “leaning to the left” politically.
They [...]
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Epilogue.
By Jim Conley • Sep 20th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesThis completes onbrookline.com’s coverage of the Goldberg Follies. Though, Goldberg will figure prominently in upcoming tales of hotels, landfills, as well as the pension and debt crises facing Brookline.
The fates have been kind to your publisher, for to continue this line of reporting would have had the effect of abetting Angry White Woman Kerry Healey [...]
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Deb’s Cloth Coat.
By Jim Conley • Sep 16th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesI am always surprised when people speak of Deb Goldberg’s Progressive credentials. I’ve never seen them. In fact, when I first started writing about Brookline, I thought Goldberg was a Movement Conservative.
When a local resident tried to get voluntary campaign donation limits put into Brookline selectmen’s races, Goldberg tried to have the measure killed [...]
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Depends on Your Definition of 50,000.
By Jim Conley • Sep 16th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesSome readers took offense to my telling the Globe of Deb Goldberg’s tilt toward exaggeration a few weeks back. I stand corrected. The tilt appears to be more of an instinct.
On Thursday Goldberg told Channel 5:
“Whether it was making sure that people had jobs in my own community or being involved in a [...]
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The Scream Team.
By Jim Conley • Sep 15th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesOne of the more amusing things in the Scream Team’s (borrowed from its captain State Senator Cynthia Creem’s campaign slogan) TAB tirade is their point that Deb will rise to the defense of town administrators against the awful print media.
Now see, that’s a problem. A selectman’s job is to provide oversight of town government; but [...]
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Buy the Bye.
By Jim Conley • Sep 13th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesThe Globe’s Matt Viser has a story in today’s edition on Deb Goldberg’s $2 million campaign of cynical manipulation (see the Goldberg Follies).
According to Viser:
“(Worcester Mayor) Tim Murray…went on the offensive yesterday and accused Goldberg of trying to buy the race.”
Sorry Mr. Mayor, but the race has already been bought. The question is why [...]
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The D Team
By Jim Conley • Sep 12th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesI’ve not seen it yet, (update below) but an onbrookline.com reader reports that Deb Goldberg has a new ad up with Brookline leaders testifying to her local credentials. This latest sideshow reportedly features current Selectman’s Chair Bobby Allen and former Brookline School Committee Chair Marcia Heist.
Judging from that cast, I imagine that the spot is [...]
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The Difference Between a Cat and a Lie.
By Jim Conley • Sep 9th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesFrom yesterday’s Taunton Gazette (via the Goldberg Campaign):
“During her tenure as a selectwoman in Brookline, a community of nearly 60,000, Goldberg was responsible for a $190 million budget. She said she avoided layoffs and property tax overrides while adding [...]
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Atlas Skipped.
By Jim Conley • Sep 8th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesDeb Goldberg, spending $2 million of her own money to convince Massachusetts voters she is Atlas to our spinning orb of Brookline, is a no-show for the September 17th Lieutenant Governor’s candidate debate sponsored by the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Her campaign, according to the Globe, says she has a scheduling conflict.
This is how it [...]
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TAB Writes Off Goldberg.
By Jim Conley • Sep 7th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesIt may be too soon to declare that a wave of political transcendentalism has flooded Brookline, but the TAB’s endorsement of Andrea Silbert in the Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor’s race is something of a watermark.
It’s always an event when a hometown newspaper fails to endorse a local political figure, as did the TAB by rejecting the [...]
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Through the Roof.
By Jim Conley • Sep 6th, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesIn the latest leg of Deb Goldberg’s $2 million odyssey to gain an office (Mass. Lt. Governor) that has no real power, the former Chair of the Brookline Board of Selectmen offers platitudes on health care costs. This is done with a new TV spot called “Through the Roof.”
Thing is, I’ve been through the [...]
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Semantics and Advertising Antics.
By Jim Conley • Sep 3rd, 2006 • Category: Goldberg FolliesI’ve heard from more than a few supporters of Deb Goldberg who are quick to say that the claims made in her advertising are “just issues of semantics.” They’re wrong.
On the firefighters, Goldberg’s ad (view) says that, “as chair of Brookline’s Board of Selectmen she increased the number of firefighters while other towns cut [...]
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