Beacon Hill Shake Up?
Speculation has always been focused on whether or not Governor Deval Patrick will leave the Corner Office in a hypothetical Barack Obama administration. Despite Patrick’s repeatedly denials, and his constant reassurance that he will be around for a while, most agree, if Obama is elected, Deval is going to DC.
But could there be another departure from the State House that would certainly shake things up a bit on Beacon Hill? There are unconfirmed rumors afloat that Governor Patrick’s chief of staff Doug Rubin may leave his job to work on the Obama campaign.
Yes, this is just a rumor, but think of how this would affect the Patrick Administration. Could this be the foundation for Patrick’s departure, or could Rubin joining Camp Obama ensure Patrick staying put?
Rubin is currently the second chief of staff for Patrick, hired to be a “politically and media savvy” replacement of the “outsider” Joan Wallace-Benjamin. While Rubin’s tenure has been less tumultuous than Wallace-Benjamin’s, Patrick is still fledgling with disapproval ratings at over 50%. If Obama wants a guy like Rubin, or Patrick for that matter, perhaps Obama is not as politically savvy as people think.
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Aaron Margolis is a life long resident of the Bay State, and works at an architectural firm north of Boston. Aaron has a Master of Architecture Degree from Boston Architectural College and is currently in the process of becoming of a Registered Architect.
Hopefully that ends ED REFORM II, please go Deval, what about leaving even if Obama loses out of a sense of grief?
What does it matter which quid pro quo hack takes his place? Is it going to change the fact that he is a disengenous lying 2 faced empty suite with aspirations of driving Massachusetts to bankruptcy? If I were Doug Reuben, my resume would be out on Monster too.
If this is true, then not only is there a revolving door over at the Gov’s office, but it really is politics as usual with political hacks jumping ship and going from campaign to campaign.
But a bigger issue might be if Deval’s chief of staff does leave, what does that say about the stability of the Gov’s office and whether or not Deval will run again?
How about discussing THE ISSUE? The R’s and D’s are not to be trusted, the end is near for political parties…c’mon MA, you can do it. High taxes isn’t the issue: neglect, opportunism and piratization and deceit are the problems facing us.
Democrats aren’t the issue? Haven’t you been watching what they have done to this state. I will agree that total one party rule isn’t good for Repubs either, but that doesn’t mean to end the political party system.
No ordinary leader right. I guess they were right about that one, no leader has ever been such a disaster. Kind of like in NY where another progressive said on day one everything changes, everything changed indeed. You know what, these progressive politicians are pretty pathetic if you think about it. They are all book smarts, no street smarts and all of their trustfund Ivy league brats working for them make things worse. I pretty much think that after Obama wins and more or less destroys the country, people will never in 100 years vote another one of these eggheads again. Remember come November, change you can scream about.
Let’s all do some navel-gazing about a groundless piece of Beacon-Hill gossip, and then draw all kinds of cynical, thumb-sucking conclusions about the Evil Patrick Administration.
Sounds like a good use of your time, huh?