It is not any shock that the Boston Globe declared progressive Democrat Maura Healey the winner of her gubernatorial debate with conservative Republican Geoff Diehl Wednesday evening.
The progressive paper, owned by Boston Red Sox proprietor John Henry and run by his spouse Linda, would have claimed the woke, soft-on-crime lawyer basic the winner even when she fell on her face.
She didn’t, although, however held her personal within the face of a surprisingly good efficiency by Diehl, the underdog.
The Globe, in a page-one story, gave Diehl’s efficiency a D whereas giving Healey an A.
However, in an uncommon improvement, Frank Phillips, the retired longtime, well-known Globe State House bureau chief, who has lined a rating of debates, proclaimed Diehl the winner.
What was uncommon in regards to the tweet is that Globe reporters historically stroll in lockstep with Globe liberal editorial coverage.
However, breaking ranks, Phillips in a tweet despatched out simply after the controversy, wrote, “The gov. debate winner tonight: Geoff Diehl.” While Healey did a “perfectly good job,” he stated, Diehl “proved he could hold his own.”
The Diehl marketing campaign wasted no time in trumpeting Phillip’s remark.
But the Globe’s stellar rating of Healey is comprehensible as a result of not solely is Healey a Globe favourite, she is in step with the paper’s left-wing view of the world. She fills all of the leftist bins as nicely. She is on the verge of changing into the state’s first girl governor who’s overtly homosexual.
An editorial endorsement is quickly to comply with.
Just as necessary, although — or perhaps much more so — is that John Henry owes Healey and was returning the favor Healey did for him, a payback, because it have been, for companies rendered.
When you get all the way down to it, politics is a enterprise of doing favors on your buddies with the expectation that sometime the favor, if wanted, will likely be returned.
It is named quid professional quo, loosely translated as you scratch my again and I’ll scratch yours.
Healey’s favor, which ought to have come up within the debate, was to disregard state legislation to permit Henry and the Red Sox to discriminate towards followers by prohibiting them from utilizing money to pay for meals, drink and merchandise at Fenway Park.
Instead, they need to pay for all the things with a bank card. Those with no bank card should load it onto a Mastercard at a kiosk on the ballpark.
The subject arose round opening day in April when Henry introduced that Fenway Park would go cashless, regardless of state legislation prohibiting institutions from discriminating towards money consumers.
And everybody is aware of that Healey is a social justice warrior who’s against any sort of discrimination.
Brought to Healey consideration because the state’s chief legislation officer, or legislation enforcement officer, Healey promised to look not the matter “because we a want to make sure that people an ability to use cash at the park.”
The subsequent day, after speaking to unnamed Red Sox officers, she gave Henry the inexperienced mild, regardless of the legislation. “I don’t think this is a big deal,” she instructed the Globe.
The legislation, Section 10A of the General Laws, handed in 1978, reads, “No retail establishment offering goods and services for sale shall discriminate against a cash buyer by requiring the use of credit by a buyer in order to purchase such goods and services. All such retail establishments must accept legal tender when offered by as payment by the buyer.”
That is all people, besides John Henry, proprietor of the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Globe.
Of course, the matter didn’t come up through the hour-long debate sponsored by NBC 10 Boston. Healey is rarely requested powerful questions on her report or how she politicized the of lawyer basic’s workplace.
More possible the “reporters” asking the questions didn’t know something about it, or who to name.
They ought to have referred to as Frank Phillips.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”