Showing posts with label Special Election 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Special Election 2014. Show all posts
Monday, February 24, 2014
Place Holding in the 18th Middlesex Primary
The race for 18th Middlesex, currently held by Kevin Murphy, is starting to heat up.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
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?
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)
Does that mean Kevin Murphy is a lock?
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| 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)
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Lowell City Manager Selection Watch
The three leading 'inside' candidates are Eileen Donoghue, Kevin Murphy & George Ramirez.
- Eileen is half way in. Enough to hold her place, but not so much that she gets caught sweating it. And, frankly, she is not sweating. She has a breadth of options in front of her. She is, likely, the one with the most solid path to a majority; but she needs to be convinced to come home. Breathy pleas of desperation should probably take a back seat to logic and a sense of true stewardship. Cool heads should call her to local, hyper-focused service.
- Murphy is jonesin' for the corner office. He has enough support from the 'we hate Bernie' crowd on the Council to feel feisty. Thing is, there seems to be a pervasive dread of Murphy becoming the CM. The impression, I get, is that Murphy keeps score. And, some big scores are yet to be settled. Vindictive is an adjective, I hear, too often.
- Ramirez is passionately committed to continuing the course Lowell is on. He has the least support, but is not encumbered by currently holding elected office. That gives Ramirez some 'room to move' in his approach to securing the support.
The Council seems cut into thirds: Martin-Milinazzo-Samaras & Elliott-Belanger-Mercier, diametrically opposed. Leaving Kennedy-Leahy-Rourke in the grinder.
- Eileen is half way in. Enough to hold her place, but not so much that she gets caught sweating it. And, frankly, she is not sweating. She has a breadth of options in front of her. She is, likely, the one with the most solid path to a majority; but she needs to be convinced to come home. Breathy pleas of desperation should probably take a back seat to logic and a sense of true stewardship. Cool heads should call her to local, hyper-focused service.
- Murphy is jonesin' for the corner office. He has enough support from the 'we hate Bernie' crowd on the Council to feel feisty. Thing is, there seems to be a pervasive dread of Murphy becoming the CM. The impression, I get, is that Murphy keeps score. And, some big scores are yet to be settled. Vindictive is an adjective, I hear, too often.
- Ramirez is passionately committed to continuing the course Lowell is on. He has the least support, but is not encumbered by currently holding elected office. That gives Ramirez some 'room to move' in his approach to securing the support.
The Council seems cut into thirds: Martin-Milinazzo-Samaras & Elliott-Belanger-Mercier, diametrically opposed. Leaving Kennedy-Leahy-Rourke in the grinder.
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