Nice piece in Wednesday’s Boston Globe by Stephanie Ebbert calling the roll of the Bay State’s perennial political hopefuls (the “always-rans,” as Ebbert labels them) “whose names — Jill, Grace, Christy, Carla, Jack E. — are familiar to many on the Massachusetts campaign trail, even if their goals remain elusive. These political hopefuls cannot seem to stop throwing their hat in the ring, experience be damned.”
That would be Jill Stein, Grace Ross, Christy Mihos, Carla Howell, and Jack E. Robinson – or the Funtastic Five as we’ve dubbed them here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider.
Of the FunFive, only Stein is actually running this year. For governor. Again.
One made member of the local chin-strokerati told the Globe:
“I have no doubt that Jill Stein would be a more significant player if she had the ability to mount a media campaign, for example, and build a large organization’’
Which reminded the hardworking staff of Stein’s 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial run, when the state’s Clean Elections Law was still in effect. If memory serves us, Stein (inexplicably? heartbreakingly?) fell about 600 signatures short of $3 million in public funds, which would have made that Big Love Campaign (Mitt Romney and Shannon O’Brien and Jill Stein and Grace Ross and Carla Howell) a much more interesting affair.
(Then again, three million of our bucks didn’t do much in the Democratic gubernatorial primary that year for Warren Tolman, whose blockheaded ad campaign greatly helped the former state senator marginalize himself.)
Regardless, Jill Stein will not be a significant player and will not mount a media campaign and will not build a large organization in the 2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial race.
Your bitter recriminations (against Stein, against the Massachusetts Great and General Court for repealing the Clean Elections Law that was enacted by popular vote, against the voters of Massachusetts for approving the Clean Elections Law, against the hardworking staff) go here.
POSTSCRIPT: The hardworking staff will be largely incommuniblogo for the rest of the week. We might check in – depending on the blogarific qualities of the iPad – but for the most part we’ve . . .
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