MA gubernatorial debate on Fox News: on Principles & Values
Christy Mihos:
On being a spoiler: How can you spoil a rotten system?
Q: Why shouldn’t you been seen as a spoiler?MIHOS: Maybe she’s going to spoil my election. But how can you spoil a system that’s rotten? I mean, take a look at Massachusetts. We are the laughing stock of the nation on the Big Dig because both the
Democrats and the Republicans have been taking special interests’ money for the last few years and looks what’s happened. We’ve had two deaths in those tunnels, we’ve paid well over $15 billion for a project that we can’t properly use.
When I was getting fired by Jane Swift, because I took on big business, big government, big labor, and big business, and spoke truth to power- both [parties did nothing]. People are just fed up with both of these parties and that’s
why they’re checking out. People are checking out of politics, because they can’t deal with it any longer. And an independent will speak truth to power.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Christy Mihos:
Not just passing through Massachusetts, like some governors
I love this state. That’s the only reason I’m running for governor. I just can’t take the way it’s being managed right now. And I’m the only one on this stage here tonight that is from Massachusetts. I’m not just passing through like so many other
governors that have gone before us. This state means something to me. It’s been my home for 57 years. I was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. I went through the public school system here in the Commonwealth. I built a business here. Everything I have is
here. This is my home. Massachusetts is worth the fight and right now, we’ve decimated the middle class here and people are moving out in record numbers. Christy’s Proposition One will show you how I’m going to put a cap on property assessments
and get more local aid back to your cities and towns. Massachusetts is worth the fight and for those of us who call it home and always will, I’ll be there to fight for you.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Christy Mihos:
I represent 50% of voters; no difference between Dems & GOP
Massachusetts voted for McGovern over Nixon & the only one in the country to do so too. So they understand what’s going on here. But lookit, I represent 50% of the registered voters here in the Commonwealth. The minority party is 12% Republicans. People
are checking out because what the Republicans are selling people aren’t buying. The Democrats used to be well over 40%, they’re down now to 36%. People are leaving these parties because there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two of them.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Deval Patrick:
Running to reach out to all & create a stake in the future
Q: What do you hope to accomplish in this campaign?ROSS: Deval keeps talking about bringing in voters who have given up. When people ask me, ‘How do you get people involved?’ one of the things is that we need to talk to real people about real issues.
I’m accomplishing something different. It’s called trying to rebuild democracy. And if we can’t have a democracy for & by the people, if all we can have is a democracy for rich folks, then we don’t have a government anymore.
PATRICK: If you think that
our campaign has been just about millionaires talking to millionaires, you’ve been missing something. This whole campaign has been about reaching out to everybody and not drawing divisions and separations, but asking people to see their stake in an
intact community- poor, middle income, and wealthy as well- because everybody has a stake in our future, everybody.
ROSS: I’m not saying that you’ve run a divisive campaign. I’m saying we need policies that are going to reach the most people.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Deval Patrick:
Do we stay on this path, or do we make a change?
Every election is about choice. And this time around it’s a choice between whether we stay on the path we have been on or we make a change. The path we have been on has been about the politics of fear, about the politics and the leadership of
inaction and neglect. I want us to be about the politics of hope, about action and collaboration. Every single candidate up here has a few good ideas, I have some of my own, but those ideas are going nowhere without leadership and I’ve had leadership in
government at the highest levels. I understand how to get agencies to work together. I’ve led as an executive, in two of the largest and most complicated companies in the world. I’ve led in non-profits and in community groups as well.
No one else in this race has that range of leadership experience. I’m not asking anyone to take a chance on me, I’m asking you to take a chance on your own aspirations.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Deval Patrick:
Outsider governor balances entrenched establishment
HEALEY: I think it’s very important to have balance in politics. Right now 87% of the legislature are Democrats. PATRICK: I actually don’t think that’s the balance people are looking for. Most people don’t buy 100% of what either party is selling.
I don’t. I think the balance people want is between a fairly entrenched inward-looking establishment and an outsider in the corner office- someone whose experience is broader, who didn’t grow up in the Beacon Hill culture.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Grace Ross:
Earns $30K/year; millionaires have no clue what we face
We’ve talked about an outside voice. I make about $20,000 to $30,000 a year, have my entire adult life and lived on that money. The three folks I’m running against are in the top
14,400 income earners in the country, and if we think we’re getting something from the outside when what we’re getting is all folks- besides me- who make over $5 million or something year, they have no clue what the rest of us face.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Grace Ross:
Running to rebuild democracy
Q: What do you hope to accomplish in this campaign?ROSS: Deval keeps talking about bringing in voters who have given up. When people ask me, ‘How do you get people involved?’ one of the things is that we need to talk to real people about real issues.
I’m accomplishing something different. It’s called trying to rebuild democracy. And if we can’t have a democracy for and by the people, if all we can have is a democracy for rich folks, then we don’t have a government anymore.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
Kerry Healey:
Republican governor balances 87% Democrat legislature
I think it’s very important to have balance in politics. The thing that concerns me most is that if Deval Patrick wins this election, we will go back to the Dukakis era, where there was only one party represented on Beacon Hill.
Right now 87% of the legislature are Democrats. We are tenuously holding down the corner office so that there can be dialogue, so there can actually be some real democracy and discussion on Beacon Hill.
Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace
Sep 25, 2006
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