From the Medford Transcript
The Medford GOP, in cooperation with the Arlington, Belmont, and Billerica Republican committees, announce the first Regional Republican Committee meeting will take place on Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the 2nd floor meeting room of the Arlington Public Safety Bldg./Police Station, located at 112 Mystic St., Arlington.
This meeting will bring together members from the four Republican committees and will focus on planning and logistics for the upcoming U.S. Senate special election.
All Republicans, Independents, Democrats and any others in support of Scott Brown’s candidacy for U.S. Senate are also welcome to attend.
If you are in need of assistance getting to the meeting, the Arlington GOP may be able to provide transportation. Please consult their Web site at www.arlington-gop.com for more information.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
JAN 23RD SET FOR ELECTION OF DELEGATES
The next meeting of the Medford Republican City Committee will be held in the Alden Council Chambers at Medford City Hall, 85 George Hassett Drive on Saturday January 23rd.
Registration for Ward Members and guests is slated to begin at 9:45AM and end at 10:15AM. The meeting will begin at 10:15AM with a short business session which will include remarks from candidates in attendance.
The Ward Committees will caucus and complete their selection of Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Massachusetts State Convention at the DCU Center in Worcester on April 17, 2010. After the Ward Committees have made their decisions, City Committee Secretary Judy Marcella will receive their reports and file them together to the State Party Headquarters as required.
Republicans resident in the City of Medford and registered as of December 1, 2009 are eligible to seek election as Delegates or Alternate Delegates from the Ward in which they reside. Anyone seeking further information about the Rules of the Convention are invited to E-Mail the Committee at Medfordgop@gmail.com or call (781) 396-6056.
Registration for Ward Members and guests is slated to begin at 9:45AM and end at 10:15AM. The meeting will begin at 10:15AM with a short business session which will include remarks from candidates in attendance.
The Ward Committees will caucus and complete their selection of Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Massachusetts State Convention at the DCU Center in Worcester on April 17, 2010. After the Ward Committees have made their decisions, City Committee Secretary Judy Marcella will receive their reports and file them together to the State Party Headquarters as required.
Republicans resident in the City of Medford and registered as of December 1, 2009 are eligible to seek election as Delegates or Alternate Delegates from the Ward in which they reside. Anyone seeking further information about the Rules of the Convention are invited to E-Mail the Committee at Medfordgop@gmail.com or call (781) 396-6056.
Holiday Message from the Chairman
HOLIDAY WISHES
During the last two weeks of the year when many religious and secular events abound and consume much of our attention, I often like to reflect upon the past year with friends and make wishes for the new year ahead.
First, I would be remiss if I did not thank everyone who contributed their time and support during the year. I specifically want to thank those individuals whose contribution of talent and devotion to service has made my effort to "Grow the Party" and the Medford Committee more successful in so many ways. On behalf of all, let me express my sincere thanks.
Second, the public efforts expressed by those of you who wrote "Letters to the Editor" or "Letters of Praise or Complaint" to public officials and others in defense of the values of our Party along with the effort of the Committee deserve respect for the stamina it takes to sign your name for all to see. Fighting openly for the values we hold and endorsing those we truly believe will support those core issues when elected, is what patriots do.
I am pleased to report that our effort to reach out to other local committees in our region and creating alliances has already begun to pay dividends for all concerned. Our E-Mail Newsletter, Website and especially our Blog are viewed and read across the State. Much praise for our outreach efforts have been received. When your articles and opinions are quoted and copied - you have arrived.
The new year ahead will begin with the largest effort in many a year to reach out to Republicans and activists who are not yet aware of our growing influence and work to support and elect qualified and honorable men and women to public office. Thanks to our new alliances and technology we anticipate further growth to our Committee. While some initiatives need new focus and support to also be successful; I believe more members, provides the opportunity for more success.
Finally, to each and every member of the Medford Republican Committee and also on your behalf; may I wish to one and all, and to friends and family near and far a very Merry Christmas, a joyous and safe Holiday and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Bernie Green
Chairman
Medford GOP
During the last two weeks of the year when many religious and secular events abound and consume much of our attention, I often like to reflect upon the past year with friends and make wishes for the new year ahead.
First, I would be remiss if I did not thank everyone who contributed their time and support during the year. I specifically want to thank those individuals whose contribution of talent and devotion to service has made my effort to "Grow the Party" and the Medford Committee more successful in so many ways. On behalf of all, let me express my sincere thanks.
Second, the public efforts expressed by those of you who wrote "Letters to the Editor" or "Letters of Praise or Complaint" to public officials and others in defense of the values of our Party along with the effort of the Committee deserve respect for the stamina it takes to sign your name for all to see. Fighting openly for the values we hold and endorsing those we truly believe will support those core issues when elected, is what patriots do.
I am pleased to report that our effort to reach out to other local committees in our region and creating alliances has already begun to pay dividends for all concerned. Our E-Mail Newsletter, Website and especially our Blog are viewed and read across the State. Much praise for our outreach efforts have been received. When your articles and opinions are quoted and copied - you have arrived.
The new year ahead will begin with the largest effort in many a year to reach out to Republicans and activists who are not yet aware of our growing influence and work to support and elect qualified and honorable men and women to public office. Thanks to our new alliances and technology we anticipate further growth to our Committee. While some initiatives need new focus and support to also be successful; I believe more members, provides the opportunity for more success.
Finally, to each and every member of the Medford Republican Committee and also on your behalf; may I wish to one and all, and to friends and family near and far a very Merry Christmas, a joyous and safe Holiday and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Bernie Green
Chairman
Medford GOP
Saturday, December 19, 2009
My letter to the Medford Transcript
What a coincidence, Ben Nelson – like Mary Landrieu before him – comes out of Harry Reid’s office with hundreds of millions of dollars in new pork spending for his state hanging out of his pockets, and suddenly announces his principled support for socialized medicine. And like Landrieu, he does so on a Saturday morning when most Americans are not watching the news. Funny how that seems to happen.
I think it is worth mentioning the pivotal role that Deval Patrick, Car Sciortino, Sean Garballey, the rest Massachusetts Legislature, and Paul Kirk played in making this left wing coup possible. Without the unconstitutional changes - supported by Garballey and Sciortino and passed by the Massachusetts House - retroactively granting the Governor’s powers regarding an already open Senate seat, Reid and Obama would have had to buy even more Senators off to pass this debacle, which most Americans now oppose. Federal Democrats knew this, which is why they openly violated Massachusetts sovereignty with the help of Governor Patrick, Obama’s inside man, and mocked our legal system as a state, changing it to suit the national Democrat socialist agenda.
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are also very conscious of the fact that Scott Brown is on the horizon, and if he pulls off an upset over the empty suit, lockstep Democrat candidate next month, Brown would have been a reliable vote against the health care socialization coup, and other ill advised spending boondoggles popular amongst American Democrats. This is precisely why Emperor Obama dictated that his puppet congress and senate pass the bill before January and the special election.
Kudos to Deval Patrick, Sean Garballey, and Carl Sciortino, this massive violation of the U.S. Constitution would not have been possible without them.
Nick McNulty
Medford MA
I think it is worth mentioning the pivotal role that Deval Patrick, Car Sciortino, Sean Garballey, the rest Massachusetts Legislature, and Paul Kirk played in making this left wing coup possible. Without the unconstitutional changes - supported by Garballey and Sciortino and passed by the Massachusetts House - retroactively granting the Governor’s powers regarding an already open Senate seat, Reid and Obama would have had to buy even more Senators off to pass this debacle, which most Americans now oppose. Federal Democrats knew this, which is why they openly violated Massachusetts sovereignty with the help of Governor Patrick, Obama’s inside man, and mocked our legal system as a state, changing it to suit the national Democrat socialist agenda.
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are also very conscious of the fact that Scott Brown is on the horizon, and if he pulls off an upset over the empty suit, lockstep Democrat candidate next month, Brown would have been a reliable vote against the health care socialization coup, and other ill advised spending boondoggles popular amongst American Democrats. This is precisely why Emperor Obama dictated that his puppet congress and senate pass the bill before January and the special election.
Kudos to Deval Patrick, Sean Garballey, and Carl Sciortino, this massive violation of the U.S. Constitution would not have been possible without them.
Nick McNulty
Medford MA
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Will GOP fight for Massachusetts Senate seat?
Notes from Washington
December 12, 2009
James R. Carroll
jcarroll@courier-journal.com
Previous columns
In case you missed it, there were party primaries for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts last week.
Don’t feel bad if you failed to catch the returns. Most people in Massachusetts didn’t show up for the commonwealth’s first-ever special election.
But returns there were: the state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley, won the Democratic primary — the first woman to win a Senate race in Massachusetts. And Scott Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, a town just west of the New England Patriots’ stadium in Foxboro, took the Republican nomination.
You may be excused for thinking, “Poor Mr. Brown,” because the recent record of federal races in the Bay State has a distinct hue of Democratic blue. The state’s 10 U.S. House members are Democrats. Sen. John Kerry, a Democrat, was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, also a Democrat, was first elected to the Senate in 1962.
The primaries and the Jan. 19 special election were called to fill the seat of Kennedy, who died in August.
Yes, you might think that the Massachusetts Republican Party might be able to meet in a phone booth in downtown Leominster, but that’s not quite the case.
Consider that Massachusetts was served by four successive Republican governors between 1991 and 2007.
And while Democratic voter registration vastly outnumbered the GOP’s by a margin of 37 to 12 percent, a whopping 51 percent of Massachusetts voters were registered as independents in 2008.
Full column
December 12, 2009
James R. Carroll
jcarroll@courier-journal.com
Previous columns
In case you missed it, there were party primaries for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts last week.
Don’t feel bad if you failed to catch the returns. Most people in Massachusetts didn’t show up for the commonwealth’s first-ever special election.
But returns there were: the state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley, won the Democratic primary — the first woman to win a Senate race in Massachusetts. And Scott Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, a town just west of the New England Patriots’ stadium in Foxboro, took the Republican nomination.
You may be excused for thinking, “Poor Mr. Brown,” because the recent record of federal races in the Bay State has a distinct hue of Democratic blue. The state’s 10 U.S. House members are Democrats. Sen. John Kerry, a Democrat, was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, also a Democrat, was first elected to the Senate in 1962.
The primaries and the Jan. 19 special election were called to fill the seat of Kennedy, who died in August.
Yes, you might think that the Massachusetts Republican Party might be able to meet in a phone booth in downtown Leominster, but that’s not quite the case.
Consider that Massachusetts was served by four successive Republican governors between 1991 and 2007.
And while Democratic voter registration vastly outnumbered the GOP’s by a margin of 37 to 12 percent, a whopping 51 percent of Massachusetts voters were registered as independents in 2008.
Full column
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Medford City Council tires of arrogant Mayoral hubris
(the headline was mine, not Matt Reid's
-Nick McNulty, Medford GOP)
Medford City Council: Reports better late than never?
Medford -
By Matthew Reid/mreid@cnc.com
Wed Dec 02, 2009, 09:00 AM EST
While the City Council spent nearly an hour last week talking about why members won’t add to Medford’s debt because they feel they are ignored by the city’s administration, the group did receive a slew of reports that were long overdue.
During seven of the last 11 council meetings, at least one councilor has made reference to resolutions sent to the administration that have never been answered, some of which go back as far as two years.
But before last Tuesday’s meeting, the council received more than 100 pages of reports from various department heads, including the city engineer, solicitor, finance director and Mayor Michael J. McGlynn himself.
Some on the council believe McGlynn is finally getting the hint that the group is fed up with the status quo, but that “shoveling answers” in bulk defeats the purpose.
“When we got here this evening we received answers to papers that we asked about in October of 2008,” said Councilor Paul Camuso. “The people of this city deserve better than that.”
Councilor Robert Maiocco went as far as holding the stack of papers up at the meeting, to show the people watching on local cable how much information was given to the council such a short time before the meeting. He said asking members to absorb more than 100 pages of information in such a short amount of time was just as bad as having questions ignored.
“We’re supposed to read all of these tonight and then make intelligent and informed decisions on these issues on behalf of the taxpayers? I don’t think so,” Maiocco said. “The streets in this city regarding government are not one-way. Maybe some people think they are one-way, but they are two-ways as far as Councilor Maiocco thinks. It’s just a bad way to run a $130 million government.”
Related:Medford City Council Council tables requests until mayor agrees to meeting
-Nick McNulty, Medford GOP)
Medford City Council: Reports better late than never?
Medford -
By Matthew Reid/mreid@cnc.com
Wed Dec 02, 2009, 09:00 AM EST
While the City Council spent nearly an hour last week talking about why members won’t add to Medford’s debt because they feel they are ignored by the city’s administration, the group did receive a slew of reports that were long overdue.
During seven of the last 11 council meetings, at least one councilor has made reference to resolutions sent to the administration that have never been answered, some of which go back as far as two years.
But before last Tuesday’s meeting, the council received more than 100 pages of reports from various department heads, including the city engineer, solicitor, finance director and Mayor Michael J. McGlynn himself.
Some on the council believe McGlynn is finally getting the hint that the group is fed up with the status quo, but that “shoveling answers” in bulk defeats the purpose.
“When we got here this evening we received answers to papers that we asked about in October of 2008,” said Councilor Paul Camuso. “The people of this city deserve better than that.”
Councilor Robert Maiocco went as far as holding the stack of papers up at the meeting, to show the people watching on local cable how much information was given to the council such a short time before the meeting. He said asking members to absorb more than 100 pages of information in such a short amount of time was just as bad as having questions ignored.
“We’re supposed to read all of these tonight and then make intelligent and informed decisions on these issues on behalf of the taxpayers? I don’t think so,” Maiocco said. “The streets in this city regarding government are not one-way. Maybe some people think they are one-way, but they are two-ways as far as Councilor Maiocco thinks. It’s just a bad way to run a $130 million government.”
Related:Medford City Council Council tables requests until mayor agrees to meeting
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