04.16.12
Is Another Hospital Merger in the Works?
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
South Shore Hospital might be acquired by Partners HealthCare in a continuing wave of hospital mergers.
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04.03.12
Standing One's Ground - Revising the Castle Doctrine
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
Once again, The Patriot Ledger editors were on the wrong side of the equation in an editorial they published on March 31. For them to say that interest in the proposed amendment to the Castle Doctrine statute already in place (MGL c. 278, § 8A) only escalated after the Florida tragedy is just more pabulum that those in some quarters are trying to shove down the throats of the citizens here who have every right to defend themselves from intruders.
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03.07.12
Plymouth and Norfolk State Committeeman race results
Here are the results for the Tuesday, March 6 race for the Republican State Committeeman for the Plymouth and Norfolk Senatorial District:
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03.03.12
When, in the Course of human events … indeed!
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
“When, in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
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01.26.12
Character Counts
(Picture of recent Weymouth mayoral candidate and second-place finisher, Bob Monty, contemplating his navel while listening to the incumbent mayor’s very dumb answer to an overly dumbed-down question at a League of Women Voters candidates forum in late October 2011. The “forum” was put on by the same national group who launched vicious attacks against Sen. Scott Brown without disclosing their funding sources.)
By Bob Montgomery Thomas, January 16, 2012
If you’ve never met US Senator Scott Brown one on one, you’ve really missed something. I first met him when he was still a Massachusetts state senator at a political event in Swansea. I was introduced to him by Senator Bob Hedlund, his then-fellow senate Republican on Beacon Hill.
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12.12.11
Complaint filed over Sue Kay campaign finances
Following this intro is a letter I sent to the Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) regarding out-of-town special interest money and in-town special interest money taken in by Weymouth’s mayor this year – on top of the many $thousands she received from various unions – for whom she has done absolutely nothing. The police and firefighters unions left her high and dry this year – just like she left them for the last four years.
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10.29.11
From the Bob Montgomery Thomas campaign
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Bob Montgomery Thomas is pleased to announce that
Carol Ann Murphy, of East Weymouth, joined the campaign five weeks ago as his manager and trusted advisor for the hotly-contested 2011 Weymouth mayoral race. Carol Ann was with Saint Consulting, formerly of Hingham, for six years before joining the campaign as a strategic political aide. She brings many skills to the table and has helped the team develop a winning strategy.
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09.01.11
The Public Advocate
By Bob Montgomery Thomas
Having read and saved both the print and electronic versions of page 10 of the August 31 edition of The Patriot Ledger, I was thrilled to see that Weymouth’s hard-working, hard-charging mayor was finally able to take some time off from her arduous task of running the town.
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08.16.11
The Days of Wine and Roses -- are over! | Bob Montgomery Thomas
The late, great Empire State Governor Hugh Carey once stated, “The days of wine and roses are over.” In his inaugural address on January 1, 1975, Gov. Carey declared, and I quote, “This government will begin today the painful, difficult, imperative process of learning to live within its means.” Carey then proceeded to bring the state back from the brink of insolvency.
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06.27.11
The Purchase of the King Oak Hill Property
Will it be a Boon or a Boondoggle?
On Monday, June 20, 2011, the Weymouth Town Council voted unanimously to purchase the Emery Estate atop King Oak Hill in East Weymouth at the request of the mayor, the planning director and the chairman of the community preservation committee.
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