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		<title>An Alternative Take</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dan Kennedy reminds us that Gov. Patrick's defeat is far from a foregone conclusion. For one thing, Patrick, despite his missteps, has managed to score some notable victories, including tough ethics reform, taxpayer-friendly changes to the public-employee pension system...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/archives/2010/03/an_alternative.php</link>
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		<title>Sock It To Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good Lord, it's come down to this. How do you know it’s election season? When Governor Deval Patrick takes time out of his day to more or less encourage a bunch of high school students visiting the State House to...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/archives/2010/03/sock_it_to_me.php</link>
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		<title>Pleased to announce hiring of campaign manager Matt Grew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm pleased to share the news below - issued in a press release earlier this week: 'ERIC DAHLBERG FOR STATE SENATE' ANNOUNCES HIRING OF CAMPAIGN MANAGERVeteran GOP campaign strategist Matt Grew joins the Dahlberg Campaign effective March 1st Chelmsford...]]></description>
		<link>http://ericdahlberg.blogspot.com/2010/03/pleased-to-announce-campaign-manager.html</link>
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		<title>SHNS Exposes Behind the Scenes Maneuvers on Governor Patrick&#8217;s &#8216;Bridge To Nowhere&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chances are, you’ve heard about the Patrick Administration’s unsuccessful attempts last year to funnel $9 million in federal stimulus funding to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to pay for the construction of a footbridge connecting two park...]]></description>
		<link>http://scalingthehill2010.blogspot.com/2010/03/shns-exposes-behind-scenes-maneuvers-on.html</link>
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		<title>Unemployment Rate Hits 9.5 Percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state’s unemployment rate jumped to 9.5 percent in January, according to figures released today by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. State labor officials also announced that December’s unemployment figures had to be revi...]]></description>
		<link>http://scalingthehill2010.blogspot.com/2010/03/unemployment-rate-hits-95-percent.html</link>
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		<title>Scott Brown&#8217;s Tax Cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A tax cut&#8230; proposed by Senator Scott Brown (R-MA). 
Almost one month to the day of entering the U.S. Senate after a race that rocked the political world, Sen. Scott Brown, R-MA, has come out with his first piece of legislation &#8212; a tax cut.
It targets mostly working class Americans, those employees making up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hubpolitics.com/2010/03/03/scott-browns-tax-cut/</link>
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		<title>Line in the Sand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ You gotta be kidding me. Gov. Deval Patrick’s lightning fast reversal yesterday on a controversial $5 Registry of Motor Vehicles fee unveiled by the Herald was an election year bid by the struggling governor to prove he can be...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/archives/2010/03/line_in_the_san.php</link>
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		<title>The Short Lived RMV Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That didnt&#8217; last long at all.
Gov. Deval Patrick today announced he’s not only rescinding a controversial new $5 fee levied by the state Registry of Motor Vehicles he will even refund those who already paid it.
The move comes a day after the Herald reported the Patrick administration had quietly slipped in the new fee, surprising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hubpolitics.com/2010/03/02/the-short-lived-rmv-tax/</link>
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		<title>RMV Tax?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If someone can explain the sense in this, I&#8217;m all ears:
Gov. Deval Patrick is quietly whacking beleaguered Bay State motorists with a $5 fee to use Registry of Motor Vehicle branches to renew their licenses and registrations, outraging critics who say the “back-door tax” hits poor and elderly drivers the hardest.
The fee, which goes into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hubpolitics.com/2010/03/01/rmv-tax/</link>
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		<title>This Guy Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Is this not the unofficial end of Gov. Patrick's tenure? Gov. Deval Patrick is quietly whacking beleaguered Bay State motorists with a $5 fee to use Registry of Motor Vehicle branches to renew their licenses and registrations, outraging critics...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.devalpatrickwatch.com/archives/2010/03/this_guy_sucks.php</link>
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