IF ONE CANDIDATE LEAVES HIS STUMP AT 10:30 SAYING RESULTS EVERY THIRTY SECONDS FOR SIX MONTHS…

Chris “C.R.E.A.M.” Gabrieli published a word problem today in the Boston Globe, regularly hitting his ‘Results’ note, espousing accountability, and offering some stats to back his proposals.

Mostly, Gabrieli talks about money, and how he will or will not spend it, and how the Healey administration cannot “protect” your money as promised in her ads. His ideas are decent, if un-lively, and his rhetoric is lifted and tweaked straight from the Patrick campaign. Gabrieli does make one wise move, offering this isolated, ever so quotable promise:

If elected governor, I will cut income taxes to 5 percent. The people voted for that, and with the cost of living out of control, middle-class families need help.

Dolla' Dolla' Bill Y'all! Gabs goes on to qualify however, offering that cutting the income tax right away would be “reckless” and that he won’t submit to the “easy politics” of assuring an immediate rollback. If only he brought up the property tax, we could have a comprehensive re-wording of what Deval Patrick has been saying for a year and a half. Gabrieli says?

…passing this burden to cities and towns, forcing higher property taxes, would be a mistake.

Hat Trick!

Also: According to some rumblings at Blue Mass Group, there appear to be certain connections to the Tom Reilly campaign and today’s Boston Herald story that attempts to link Deval Patrick to a convicted rapist.

Years ago, Patrick disputed the conviction of Ben LaGuer, and questioned the execution of the case against him:

“I therefore have serious misgivings about the integrity of the criminal justice system in this case, as I believe any citizen would.”

I am unclear about specific details, I only know that LaGuer has a number of supporters, and that the Herald story is absolutely terrible, stating inflammatory facts about Patrick and his record without offering any context whatsoever. See this BMG post for more info.

The Reilly connection comes in the form of internet activity, in which Reilly’s campaign was tracked at the LaGuer website a few minutes previous (2:24p.m. and 2:41p.m.) to the arrival of the Boston Herald (2:42p.m.).

So with the other candidates both biting Patrick, all is normal in the Mass Democratic Primary race.

And just a reminder that the Primary vote is scheduled for September 19th.