The StateHouse News is reporting that Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray, “has not endorsed a candidate for president this primary season, and he may hold off entirely, he said today. After a leadership meeting with Gov. Deval Patrick and legislative leaders, Murray told the News Service he hadn’t made a decision yet and [...]
For the past couple days, our good friend Jeff at Wormtown Taxi has been demanding proof that Konnie Lukes and Rick Rushton hugged after Monday’s recount.
Well, sorry Jeff. We don’t have that, but we have exclusive AMAZING proof that Rick and Konnie actually….TALKED! CLOSELY! And Rick SMILED!
Enjoy.
The Boston Globe is reporting this morning that DA Joe Early’s office knew that Daniel Tavares had fled to Washington. Tavares, the convicted killer who allegedly executed a couple in Washington, was wanted on outstanding charges here. Early’s office has been under a ton of pressure in the media over the past few days, and [...]
Tonight’s agenda looks reasonably light, barring any surprise orders or City Manager announcements.
But one interesting observation, and one that we will be following up with an analysis in this week’s paper: All six city council orders - two brought by Rick Rushton, four by Phil Palmieri - deal with pushing CSX in various ways. It’s [...]
A big deal was made at he beginning of the day that there would be no mechanical help—no calculators, computers or laptops to help with counting. Apparently that rule no longer counts. With the accountants’ tabulation the only remaining hurdle to getting this thing done, city solicitor david moore just brought in an adding machine [...]
For all intents and purposes, the recount is over and Konnie Lukes will be the mayor for the next two years.
We’re about over: There was just the first drama of the day when David Rushford announced that the supply boxes were going to be opened to search for additional ballots–apparently there was a question of if a few had been put in the wrong box.
Rick Rushton’s lawyer said that if the margin was still 100 [...]
The count is coming to an end soon–it looks like the ballots have all either been counted, or are in the process of being counted.
That said, there is a big delay between the count and getting the results posted on the board outside. Ward 1-10, Precinct 1 are the only things up officially.
That tally:
Lukes: [...]
Earlier, we were asked in the comments to another post about how the Commissioners decide to rule on disputed ballots.
The Election Commissioners have a binder full of instructions, interpretations, and rulings in front of them. This is one such page:
