Saturday, September 6, 2008

GOP pulls Palin to Massachusetts


The Docket
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s news blog

September 5th, 2008 by noahs
Newly nominated Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is scheduled to make a campaign stop in Massachusetts next month, Lawyers Weekly has learned.

Details about Palin’s planned visit to the Bay State are sketchy, but a Republican Party activist says that she will appear at a mid-October fundraiser in “the Boston area.”

Because Palin’s running mate, GOP presidential candidate John S. McCain, has agreed to accept public financing for his campaign, donations at the upcoming event with Palin will go to a fund established by the Republican National Committee under the name Republican Victory Fund.

Although Massachusetts is widely viewed as being in the Democrat-dominated blue-state column, local Republicans are holding out hope that their ticket could carry this state in the Nov. 4 election. One diehard GOP supporter notes that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama trailed his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, in the Super Tuesday primary contest in Massachusetts back in early February.

Also, for the first time in a long time, Republicans have leased space in the commonwealth – at 145 Tremont St. in downtown Boston – as campaign headquarters for their national ticket. Reportedly, the last time the GOP had a Bay State presence during a presidential contest was in 1988 when then-Gov. Michael S. Dukakis did battle with and lost to George H.W. Bush, father of the incumbent president.

“Nothing is being conceded,” says this source.

– Barbara Rabinovitz

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