232nd Anniversary of Independence, 3rd Anniversary of Hub Politics

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!

Welcome to Hub Politics 2.0

Welcome to the new Hub Politics! We’re excited about this upgrade, which should benefit everyone. All of our blog entries have been imported, so you may continue the conversation where you left off before.

Here’s a short list of what’s new at Hub Politics: (more…)

Deval’s Token “GOPer”

During the campaign Deval Patrick claimed that as governor he would reach out to both Democrats and Republicans as governor. And now we’ve been given a preview of what his idea of bipartisanship is.

Gov.-elect Deval Patrick named a Republican and two high-powered Democratic business leaders to head a team that will help choose his cabinet secretaries and examine changes to state government.

The announcements were made yesterday after two days of meetings in which Patrick huddled with top strategists and advisers.

The leaders of the transition team will be Gloria Larson, former secretary of Economic Affairs under Gov. William Weld; Michael Angelini, a lawyer and chairman of the Hanover Insurance Co.; and Ron Homer, CEO of Access Capital Strategies.

Gloria Larson, as we’ve previously reported on Hub Politics, isn’t even a registered Republican… and even if she was, she’d be a pretty bad one considering she’s donated to the campaigns of Dianne Wilkerson, Robert Travaglini, Tom Reilly, Tom Menino, Jarrett Barrios, Martha Coakley, and Marie St. Fleur.

But that certainly won’t stop his supporters from citing this as “proof” that Deval Patrick is “reaching out to Republicans in the name of bipartisanship.”

Is this what we can expect from a Deval Patrick administration? Whenever he needs to give the appearance of being bipartisan, he’ll just call up his token “GOPer” Gloria Larson and ask her if she wants to be on another committee so he can ask the media to put out another story that he’s got a Republican on his team? Perhaps if Gloria Larson can’t make it he could call another stellar Republican like Lincoln Chafee, who won’t be too busy come January.