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Published On: Mar 05, 2004 12:07 AM
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Published On: Mar 05, 2004 12:07 AM
DOWN AND DIRTY?
BOOMER OR
BOOMERANG
IT WILL BE
SPECIAL
On the day Speaker Lyons announced the date of the special session, Monday, January 26, (impeachment committee members will be announced next week), the top political story on Thursday was news that David Boomer, a political operative for Rowland was snooping into the financial backgrounds of top democratic legislative leaders. I think there was a lot of media overreaction (I'm guilty too) to what Boomer was doing. The guv (and the people working for him) is trying to save his job.....looking into the financial background (the records are open to everyone) of his political enemies was to be expected. In fact, Democrats have been doing the same thing and looking at Rowland's public financial records (to the best of my knowledge the hot tub was never listed by the guv.)
Some think Boomer should have sent a less known surrogate to do his digging. Others think Boomer knew exactly what he was doing, and wanted it publicly known that he was checking up on Democrats. As for the thinking that this type of political underground operation lends credibility to concerns that Rowland is trying to intimidate Democrats, well yeah! Despite the governor saying he wants to be about the business of government, he really is in campaign mode and in this campaign to hang on to his job, it won't be pretty.
SPEAKING OF CAMPAIGNING
Boomer told me that he is coordinating a number of efforts to build grassroots support for Rowland. He says they would love to run radio and TV ads, but have been unable to raise the necessary cash, due partly to Rowland's political troubles and because a lot of Republicans are strapped for cash because the Big Guy George W is coming in for a $2,000 a guest fundraiser at the end of the month in Greenwich.
BEYOND THE HEADLINES
We have a really good show this week. Of course Rowland is the top topic, but we also breakdown media coverage of the scandal so far. And we even talk a little presidential politics. I admit I haven't been paying as much attention to national politics. I better get up to speed I'm supposed to be in New Hampshire in about a week (unless there is big news on the Rowland front). Beyond the Headlines http://wb20.trb.com/news/wtxx-news-beyondtheheadlines,0,1040833.storygallery?coll=wtxx-ent-1 Sunday morning at 11 am WB20 WTXX channel 11 on most cable systems.
On the day Speaker Lyons announced the date of the special session, Monday, January 26, (impeachment committee members will be announced next week), the top political story on Thursday was news that David Boomer, a political operative for Rowland was snooping into the financial backgrounds of top democratic legislative leaders. I think there was a lot of media overreaction (I'm guilty too) to what Boomer was doing. The guv (and the people working for him) is trying to save his job.....looking into the financial background (the records are open to everyone) of his political enemies was to be expected. In fact, Democrats have been doing the same thing and looking at Rowland's public financial records (to the best of my knowledge the hot tub was never listed by the guv.)
Some think Boomer should have sent a less known surrogate to do his digging. Others think Boomer knew exactly what he was doing, and wanted it publicly known that he was checking up on Democrats. As for the thinking that this type of political underground operation lends credibility to concerns that Rowland is trying to intimidate Democrats, well yeah! Despite the governor saying he wants to be about the business of government, he really is in campaign mode and in this campaign to hang on to his job, it won't be pretty.
SPEAKING OF CAMPAIGNING
Boomer told me that he is coordinating a number of efforts to build grassroots support for Rowland. He says they would love to run radio and TV ads, but have been unable to raise the necessary cash, due partly to Rowland's political troubles and because a lot of Republicans are strapped for cash because the Big Guy George W is coming in for a $2,000 a guest fundraiser at the end of the month in Greenwich.
BEYOND THE HEADLINES
We have a really good show this week. Of course Rowland is the top topic, but we also breakdown media coverage of the scandal so far. And we even talk a little presidential politics. I admit I haven't been paying as much attention to national politics. I better get up to speed I'm supposed to be in New Hampshire in about a week (unless there is big news on the Rowland front). Beyond the Headlines http://wb20.trb.com/news/wtxx-news-beyondtheheadlines,0,1040833.storygallery?coll=wtxx-ent-1 Sunday morning at 11 am WB20 WTXX channel 11 on most cable systems.
Posted: Fri - January 16, 2004 at 10:56 AM