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?
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.
Hey Far from it,
What you just described is the Job Description Charlie is looking for. Try to keep up with the conversation:
LOL! Good one.
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!
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.
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.
I think Pete would make a fantastic Mayor!!!
I agree!
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.
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?
I believe the appointed Mayor would be decided by a vote of the Board of Aldermen, and of course, proper payoffs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No nerve struck. Just calling you out for the liar or fool (or both)that you are.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Crack Pipe is... Peter Mortimer!