Kevin Murphy's Coronation, with Dogs & Ponies

The Blog of Record says Eileen Donoghue will not apply to be Lowell's City Manager (Link).

Does that mean Kevin Murphy is a lock?

Our current mayor is very palsy with Kevin Murphy.

What is maddening, the Lowell City Council will go through an utterly fake City Manager search, complete with dogs and ponies. It will be quite the show. It may even prove out, that Kevin Murphy was the best applicant, after all. Never mind that it has looked like a bag job from Day 1, so no reasonably astute candidates will even bother applying.

Lowell radiates hackery, e.g. The Gall of Dave Conway (Link)


So, sure are those 'in the know,' that Murphy is moving on; I'm getting reports that candidates are readying their campaigns for the Eighteenth Middlesex. Nothing has popped up on the State's OCPF site (Link), yet, but I've heard Mike Sheehan is setting up a run. Mike is a local Union leader and is, reportedly, a really swell guy. (No snark.)

Others, mentioned by 'observers:'Jim Durkin, Erik Gitschier, Jim Leary, Vesna Nuon and Rithy Uong. Odd! No women? How about Jackie Doherty?