“Deval Patrick” on The Daily Caller

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, President Barack Obama’s friend and campaign co-chair, told The Daily Caller that he’s proud of the work he did for Ameriquest as it pumped up the nation’s mortgage bubble. (more)

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the Democrat who was named a national co-chair of President Obama’s re-election campaign on Wednesday, served on the board of a company that is widely blamed for helping start the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007. (more)

I had a conversation the other day with Dave, a childhood friend of mine.  Having grown up in Colorado we never gave guns a second thought, never realized that they could be taken away by the government, and never fathomed that people could be kept from owning them because of their zip code. (more)

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick’s office will have to wade through thousands of emails in coming weeks to respond to dueling Freedom of Information Act requests from the Romney campaign and the Democratic National Committee. (more)

When Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared this week “car-free week,” he apparently didn’t mean for everybody. (more)

You could be forgiven for thinking that President Barack Obama wrote Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s June op-ed in The Washington Post. In the piece, Patrick (Obama?) writes of his consternation over what he calls the “radical right,” which opposes increasing “revenue” to cut the deficit. “Everyone … knows that reducing government spending and addressing revenue shortfalls have to be a part of the plan,” Patrick writes. (more)

In the traditionally far-left Massachusetts statehouse, House Democrats passed legislation this week that strips municipal public sector workers of their right to collectively bargain on health insurance plans. The bill has yet to make it to the state Senate or Gov. Deval Patrick, but national labor leaders like AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, National Education Association (NEA) President  and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry don’t seem eager to get involved. Notorious left-wing advocate and filmmaker Michael Moore hasn’t showed up either, nor has self-proclaimed civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson. (more)

Poor Mitt Romney. He already had one big strike against him — his Mormonism — even before he contemplated his second run for the presidency. But thanks to the Tea Party, he’s also under serious fire for his 2006 Massachusetts health care plan, which his conservative critics liken to Obamacare — dubbing it “Romneycare” — since both plans mandate individual health coverage and expand the reach of Medicaid. (more)

In a speech to a bipartisan group of governors at the White House this morning, Pres. Obama gave Mitt Romney a nod of approval for Romney’s implementation of health care reform as governor of Massachusetts. (more)

1.) Desperate Dems attempt to rebrand the Obamacare repeal effort — House Republicans politely declined to remove the word “killing” from the “Repealing the Job Killing Health Health Care Law Act,” so Democrats decided to come up with a phrase of their own. “The Patient’s Rights Repeal Act” is what they settled on. Incidentally, the GOP’s name is pretty accurate: In June, the Boston Globe reported that “a 2.3 percent excise tax on companies that supply medical devices like heart defibrillators and surgical tools to hospitals, health centers and ambulance services will cost medical device manufacturers an estimated $20 billion in new taxes over the next decade. And they say that will force them to lay off workers and curb the research and development of new medical tools.” A report released by Senators Coburn and Barasso in October found that the outlook was equally bad in other industries. Meanwhile, “patient’s rights” is pure hogwash–as any depressed owner of a now useless health savings account will tell you. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — When Angela Madsen was pulled off her plane and her wheelchair stayed on board, she knew she was in for a rough night. The paraplegic athlete struggled to get into the bathrooms at Kennedy Airport. Turning the wheels on her borrowed wheelchair strained her shoulders. Sleeping was impossible. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — How early will America know if it’s a Republican romp or if Democrats somehow minimized their damage? There should be plenty of clues Tuesday evening — and long before bedtime. Final results in some states might not be known for days. But trends could be evident from the Midwest and South — especially from Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia — even before most of the nation has finished dinner. (more)

The Massachusetts governor’s race is now closer than it has been all year. (more)

A look of the key races in the 50 states: (more)

All four Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates were present for the final debate before next week’s election Monday night, but the real contest was clearly between current Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick and Republican candidate Charlie Baker. (more)

For Barney Steverman, the 2010 election comes down to two words: No incumbents. (more)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Heading into the homestretch of the midterm elections, President Barack Obama is targeting key Democratic constituencies as he tries to energize voters and build up Election Day turnout among his supporters. (more)

BOSTON – President Barack Obama, the vigorous campaigner, showed up at a rally for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in Boston on Saturday, countering an outburst from hecklers in the balcony demanding more AIDS funding and an end to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule with a testy reply: “If they win, our opponents will cut AIDS funding right here in the USA.” (more)

As in the House and Senate, Republicans are poised to make large gains in the dozens of campaigns for governor on Nov. 2. According to polls, Republicans are likely to hold the governorships in 27 states, Democrats in 16. Seven other races are up for grabs. Democrats currently hold a 26-24 edge. (more)