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Rob Willington Joins Rebuild The Party
TAGS: MassGOP, Rebuild The Party, Rob Willington.
Today, Rob Willington, the former executive director of the MassGOP, announced that he is the new executive drector of Rebuild The Party.
Greetings everyone. Today, is my first day as Executive Director of RebuildTheParty.com and I am really excited to roll up my sleeves and get to work over the next couple of months. I’m from the northeast (Massachusetts) and am used to some pretty rough political terrain. New England Republicans are used to trying new things on low-budgets and so we tend to be a creative bunch utilizing new media to our advantage.
232nd Anniversary of Independence, 3rd Anniversary of Hub Politics
TAGS: Announcements, Deval Patrick, Deval Patrick Watch, Hub Politics, Independence Day, Save WRKO.
Today marks two occasions for all of us at Hub Politics. First, today is the 232nd anniversary of our nation’s independence. The second, it is the three-year anniversary of the launch of Hub Politics, which launched on July 4, 2005 with this post.
Three years ago, we launched this blog with the goal of creating a new conservative voice in the Massachusetts blogosphere. It has been our pleasure for the past three years to do what we can to help make the Commonwealth a better place. Things got really exciting during last year’s gubernatorial election, and while that may not have turned out for the best, it was an honor to take part in the election the way we did.
Since we started, we have launched two sister sites, Deval Patrick Watch and Save WRKO, and we have migrated Hub Politics over to a new blogging platform which will enable to launch exciting new features in the coming weeks and months ahead.
Happy Independence Day!
Slammed
Well, we finally got our first big snow storm of the season. It started this afternoon and just kept coming. By the time I left work, the roads were still bad, and unplowed.
blinding storm has paralyzed streets, highways, and interstates with snow falling at a rate of 1 1/2 inches an hour as Boston gets slammed with its first blast of winter.
“There is no place to drive,” said Jeff Larson, general manager of the Smart Route Systems, which monitors local traffic. “Every road is basically jammed. I don’t know what else to say. It’s terrible out there.”
There is more bad news.
“It‚Äôs probably going to get worse before it gets better,” said Eleanor Vallier-Talbot, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton. “And it’s about as bad as it gets right now.”
No major accidents have been reported, but dozens of spinouts have helped bring traffic to a halt.
“Six miles an hour is what I heard on Interstate 93 north of the city,” said Sergeant Michael Rafferty of the State Police. “It is particularly nasty north of the city. As is Route 128 in Waltham.”
