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It's cart-before-the-horse week at The Scrum -- Lighting Rounds today and an extra-special State of the Commonwealth/State of the Union edition of The Scrum on Monday.
In the meantime, watch Adam Reilly and David Bernstein talk about encouraging poll results for both Democratic gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley and GOP corner-office aspirant Charlie Baker, while Reilly and Peter Kadzis compare the financial situations in which Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh find themselves.
On this week's The Scrum, Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis and David Bernstein talk about Bernstein's scoop that state Sen. Stephen Brewer, chairman of the state senate Ways & Means Committee, will not seek re-election, part of the fallout from Senate President Therese Murray being term-limited from her leadership spot.
And on this week's Scrum Lightning Rounds, Reilly and Bernstein talk about gender politics in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, and Reilly and Kadzis talk about the Massachusetts abortion clinic buffer-zone law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
On this week's edition of The Scrum, Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis and David Bernstein consider sound of no cabinet members being announced by Marty Walsh.
But wait, there's more: In our bonus Scrums, Reilly and Bernstein mull over Gabriel Gomez' 'klan' gaffe, while Kadzis explains MaPoli limbo to Reilly.
Today’s Boston Herald makes it sound like Ann Romney wants her son Tagg to get into politics. “Ann Romney floated Tagg’s name yesterday on Boston Herald Radio,” the tabloid reports, “saying the father of six and partner at the Newbury Street-based Solamere Capital is ‘obviously’ the only one of her sons she’d ever see jumping into the political fray — though she advises all her sons, ‘Not now, guys.’”
ADAM REILLY: Peter, I wanted to kick around a question you and I were debating in the office earlier today — namely, whether Elizabeth Warren’s headline-generating pledge to serve the remainder of her Senate term was sincere or not. As you know, I’m skeptical.
Today at the State House, Boston mayor-elect Marty Walsh dropped by Gov. Deval Patrick’s office for a half-hour discussion. Afterward, both men were upbeat, with Patrick touting their “great conversation” and Walsh lauding the “great meeting” they’d just had.
Of course, Walsh and Patrick are hardly strangers. Walsh has been a state representative and a Patrick ally for years, so he knows firsthand how things get done on Beacon Hill.