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With Dolan going to work for Baker, hopefully Ed O' Connell will run for Mayor.. with his rehab in progress, Ed would be perfect to continue the policies of the current administration. Maybe this was the plan all along?

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What a foolish thought, spoken by a true instigator and idiot! Ed has more important things in his life right now than to be Mayor of Melrose. In addition, there will be a long line of interested local players who have been looking for an opportunity to throw their hats into this arena! Some local names that come to mind, Mike Festa, Richard Tisei, Don Conn, as well as countless others. I frankly would like to see a woman run, maybe Moncia Medeiros, if she doesn't get a position in the Baker administration. The only hesitation one might have is that you have to give up your current job or business - no double-dipping any longer - the Major's job is full time position. This could reduce the field considerably.

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Ed
With Dolan going to work for Baker, hopefully Ed O' Connell will run for Mayor.. with his rehab in progress, Ed would be perfect to continue the policies of the current administration. Maybe this was the plan all along?


No way will the Baker administration offer a position to Dolan. He ruined any chance he might have had when he was running around the country bashing Romney for the Obama campaign. Don't think that went unnoticed by the powers that be.

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Hey Far from it,

What you just described is the Job Description Charlie is looking for. Try to keep up with the conversation:

Reporter
Charlie Baker is courting Rich Tisei and Rob Dolan to be his chief hatchet men, 2nd lieutenants, so to speak in the Baker Govenorship. Makes sense. Tisei is recently available (lost his seat) and Dolan has made friends as a result of his stance on the casino deal

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LOL! Good one.

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Hey Far from it,

What you just described is the Job Description Charlie is looking for. Try to keep up with the conversation:

Reporter
Charlie Baker is courting Rich Tisei and Rob Dolan to be his chief hatchet men, 2nd lieutenants, so to speak in the Baker Govenorship. Makes sense. Tisei is recently available (lost his seat) and Dolan has made friends as a result of his stance on the casino deal


You couldn't be more wrong. I speak as someone who is very in the know in regards to the Baker transition team. Sorry to burst your bubble.

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You mean that we will end up having Dolan for Mayor indefinitely? And I was just getting prepared to offer him my sincerest "good-bye" to him!

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Far From It
You couldn't be more wrong. I speak as someone who is very in the know in regards to the Baker transition team. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Whenever you hear someone claim they are "in the know".... they aren't.

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Far From It
You couldn't be more wrong. I speak as someone who is very in the know in regards to the Baker transition team. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Whenever you hear someone claim they are "in the know".... they aren't.


Based on what I know as fact and what you claim as being true, I can say without question you have no idea what you are talking about and are making it all up. I am someone on the inside, you're not. Sorry. It's unfortunate that some peope want to be a somebody so much they make up lies.

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Time to move on, Rob. City will be better off. Don't have anything against the guy, just been here too **** long. Time for some fresh blood in the melrose veins.

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will be:

1) Rob Dolan
2) Rob Dolan
3) Rob Dolan

He isn't going anywhere and has 125 thousand good reasons to stay right here. Easily the best Mayor in the history of the City of Melrose. Eat your hearts out you bunch of mewling whiners.

Fresh blood would be great. Dolan needs a re-election campaign to shut all of the get a life loud mouths like you up. Please get someone to run against him.

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He isn't going anywhere and has 125 thousand good reasons to stay right here. Easily the best Mayor in the history of the City of Melrose. Eat your hearts out you bunch of mewling whiners.


Great post "Next 3 Mayors"

1) Rob
2) Rob
3) Rob

Sounds pretty nice and right on the money.

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I think Pete would make a fantastic Mayor!!!

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I agree!

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Mortimer for Mayor
I agree!


I agree! Peter Mortimer for Mayor!

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Looks like Charlie is going after the Mayors / City Managers. First selection Jay Ash, Chelsea City Manager.

We'll probably be hearing about Rob later today or tomorrow.

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Hopefully, Dolan will go. Both he and the city need a fresh start. Who would finish his term? Would there be an "Acting Mayor " appointed until next fall's scheduled election? Would there be a special election held early in the new year?

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I believe the appointed Mayor would be decided by a vote of the Board of Aldermen, and of course, proper payoffs.

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Looks like Charlie is going after the Mayors / City Managers. First selection Jay Ash, Chelsea City Manager.

We'll probably be hearing about Rob later today or tomorrow.



Except Rob isn't being considered. Some loose connection you think he has to Governor Elect Baker due to recent support of a single referendum item is asinine. There are plenty of highly qualified folks who Baker and his confidants have had working relationships with for decades, Dolan isn't one of them. Maybe he will get a look if and when a new governor gets elected down the road. The Tim Murray chumminess is still a sticking point for many on the other side of the aisle.

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Dolan is not going anywhere. He turned down Duvall Patrick and Ed Markey's rep seat before the raise, and turned down an extra $20K a year from the Town of Reading after the raise. He is definitely not going to work for a Republican Governor. You losers are going to have sit back and watch the guy who gets in your head and under your skin for a long, long time. Keep hitting the crack pipe and hoping he will go away. Its amusing to watch the petty jealousy and hatred from this crowd come out over and over again in the form of lies, smears and rumors.

If you really want to get rid of Dolan get a candidate to run against him. Beat him fair and square. There is a long bench of qualified candidates you bozos like to run against him, right?

You people are pathetic. Eat your hearts out.

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Reporter
I believe the appointed Mayor would be decided by a vote of the Board of Aldermen, and of course, proper payoffs.

I heard Van Campen was thinking of moving to town

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Put down the crack pipe
Dolan is not going anywhere. He turned down Duvall Patrick and Ed Markey's rep seat before the raise, and turned down an extra $20K a year from the Town of Reading after the raise. He is definitely not going to work for a Republican Governor. You losers are going to have sit back and watch the guy who gets in your head and under your skin for a long, long time. Keep hitting the crack pipe and hoping he will go away. Its amusing to watch the petty jealousy and hatred from this crowd come out over and over again in the form of lies, smears and rumors.

If you really want to get rid of Dolan get a candidate to run against him. Beat him fair and square. There is a long bench of qualified candidates you bozos like to run against him, right?

You people are pathetic. Eat your hearts out.


I find it odd how serious you are about this post. If you actually did research you'd realize that Dolan (like many democrats) are on Bakers radar. He is not a far right wing governor, he's a fair, middle of the road guy who will have people from both sides representing and working for him.

I for one think Dolan would win the next 20 elections but he has too many people that don't like him. Meaning, maybe a fresh start for him and the city would be good. I think finically he has done good by Melrose, but he is a two faced little guy (typical politician). Too your point though, probably not moving, he works 4 1/2 days a week and gets paid 126,000 to do so, i wouldn't leave either.

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Put down the crack pipe
Dolan is not going anywhere. He turned down Duvall Patrick and Ed Markey's rep seat before the raise, and turned down an extra $20K a year from the Town of Reading after the raise. He is definitely not going to work for a Republican Governor.



Spinning the mythology of Dolan's popularity and competence was again on display at a local coffee shop this morning.
Dolan is probably not going anywhere because he doesn't have any other option. The RD mean machine is operating with particular gusto at the moment. He most likely will not work for Baker because he will not get a job offer. Not sure what job he turned down from Patrick but that was before TM imploded as Lt. Govenor. Patrick was relieved to get Murray out of his administration. Dolan's relationship with TM made him yesterday's leftover and impacted any possible State level job in the past 2 years. And some additional facts to consider. Dolan didn't even get an interview for the Reading job. The Deputy City Manager of Reading was promoted. His appointment was expected. He was the obvious choice since he was experienced, known and very well respected. Turning down Ed Makey's seat was not possible. Anyone who wanted to succeed Mr. Markey in Congress had to run and be elected by the 5th district. Dolan didn't have the courage or temperament to run for that office. The only office Dolan will run for is Mayor of Melrose. sad if this is his only and lifelong professional goal. Not healthy for anyone to stay in a job too long. And since Melrose is really a small town/Peyton Place, it is not healthy for The City or the Mayor's family to stay forever.

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It was pretty well known that TM was a thorn in the side of the Patrick Administration. Deval never really wanted him there as his No. 2, but the party powers were behind TM at the time and Deval needed someone strong in Worcester County. The Administration was relieved to see him move on.

As for RD, his State pol potential started to sail away with the downfall of Murray. The nail in the coffin was his strong support of Grossman, a perennial candidate at the State level who has always seemed to fizzle out. RD is no pal of Coakley, but that is all moot now anyway. As for the incoming Baker administration, Dolan isn't even much of a thought. There are plenty of men and women around from the Weld era, and they are looking very strongly at private sector folks, of which Dolan can only claim a few years as a clerk for a non-profit.

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This is typical anti-Melrose straw-man politics as usual. Create some bogus issue, like Dolan wanting to leave Melrose, then claim victory when it doesn’t happen. Dolan isn’t going anywhere because he doesn’t want to go anywhere. If you think the Reading job wasn’t a real option for him, you are dead wrong. He was gone if they didn’t do something on the salary, fortunately they did. He has no desire for a state-wide job so all this discussion about him not getting an appointment is pure nonsense. Dolan will be our Mayor for a longer reign than Mayor Milano and that is a good thing for our city.

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Stuck with Dolan & Spot on, that's as big a bunch of BS ever put on this website. Wishful thinking at its best. The King will be around as long as he wants, and when he's ready he will get whatever federal, state or private sector job he puts in for. You know it, the City knows it and Dolan knows it, so stop with the pretend garbage, your only trying to talk yourselves into it. The rest of the City knows the truth.

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Stuck with Dolan & Spot on, that's as big a bunch of BS ever put on this website. Wishful thinking at its best. The King will be around as long as he wants, and when he's ready he will get whatever federal, state or private sector job he puts in for. You know it, the City knows it and Dolan knows it, so stop with the pretend garbage, your only trying to talk yourselves into it. The rest of the City knows the truth.


Seems like I struck a nerve. Didn't mean to! It isn't anything personal, just reality. I'm not sure what anyone would think is "garbage." Don't get so upset, that's politics!

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No nerve struck. Just calling you out for the liar or fool (or both)that you are.

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You're calling me out for the liar or fool I am? You haven't refuted a single fact. I supported my claim with facts and data. You threw a claim out there about a person having the ability to get any job they want, be it state, federal, or private sector, with absolutely no supportive reasoning for such. Just because you believe (or want to believe) something doesn't make it true. RD will probably be the mayor of Melrose for as long as he'd like to be, that is true. He's done a decent job managing city services, no doubt. What I am saying is in regards to statewide potential, his brand has grown slightly stale. He certainly has enough connections and experience at this point in his career to get a private sector job, but his potential for state wide politics is not all that great. The idea that Baker had any interest in him is unquestionably false.

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Spot on...you are probably not smart enough to figure this out, so I'll connect the dots for you. Look up the fallacies and ad hominem attacks. Classic fraud tactics when attacking somebody. In this case, you are the fraud. Dolan has never expressed, for even a moment, any interest in any job at the State level. Period. Yet you choose to attack him stating he can't get a state job because no one is interested in him. It's an attack based on a false statement. You are a classless moron, liar and a fool.

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Sigh. The initial post in this thread was regarding Baker selecting Dolan for a position in his administration. That is what everyone on here has been responding too. Before you begin calling someone names you should understand what the discussion is. I'm not attacking anybody, Dolan included. He is a politician and public figure; discussing, strategizing, and postulating his potential future moves and options is completely standard discussion for such a figure. That has been standard in American politics for over 200 years. You're patronizing tone and choice of "Put down the crack pipe" as your poster name betray YOU as a person with little class (or, likely, intelligence.) Also, moron and fool are subjective terms, so in your view I very well may be one, or both. What did I lie about?

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Nice try Spot on. The first post was clearly a joke and meant to attack Dolan using the same fallacy technique you have employed. Sigh all you want. You are a fraud. You perpetuated the false statements that Dolan was interested in a job at the State level and then criticized him for not being able to get one going forward. Fraud, Liar. You are what you are.

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I never once said Dolan was interested in a state job. I have no idea if he is, doesn't seem to be. I also never criticized Dolan. My posts were in regards to people Dolan is close with who have fallen off the radar. I never said one negative thing about the guy, I actually complimented him. I was describing the political landscape of the Commonwealth. Would it make someone a fraud and liar to discuss Liz Warren's ability to win the presidency even while she has said she is not interested? Of course not. Do you even understand the definition of the terms you throw around? The fact you're so sensitive about this is odd.

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Spot on has been pretty much destroyed by Crack pipe. Despite trying to back up faster than a French tank, Crack pipe has expose that poster for what they are, just another Dolan critic on this site. The only job Dolan ever alluded to was the Reading town manager job. They wanted him; he didn't want to go and in the end stayed here for less money. I'm glad he did. May his reign be long and prosperous!

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I haven't backed off anything I said! I've picked apart Crack pipe's silly claims one by one. Again, I'm not a Dolan critic. I have nothing against him. He does a decent job managing the city and he is responsive to residents' concerns. I've only written about what has gone on in state politics. His ability to enter state politics is unfortunately about much more than how well he performs as mayor. As I'm sure we can at least agree on, a lot of politics is the luck of who you hitch your wagon to. But I will say again, he never publically showed interest in a higher govt job, you're right. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. He will be mayor for a while. It is fine with me if he is.

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I actually kind of feel bad if people thought I was attacking the guy. I don't blame him for not wanting a state job and dealing with all the nonsense and headaches that come it. He's got a petty nice gig in his hometown that pays well. I'm thinking he stays a while too.

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Some local names that come to mind, Mike Festa, Richard Tisei, Don Conn, as well as countless others. I frankly would like to see a woman run, maybe Moncia Medeiros, if she doesn't get a position in the Baker administration. The only hesitation one might have is that you have to give up your current job or business - no double-dipping any longer - the Major's job is full time position. This could reduce the field considerably.


I wouldn't mind seeing Mark Hutchinson run for Mayor. He's a good upstanding guy and a straight shooter, and surely a large step up from the incumbent.

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Crack Pipe is... Peter Mortimer!