Twists And Turns In The Race To Be Governor Of Massachusetts

Boston.com posted an article today about the latest intrigue in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election.  In case you haven't been following the story, Paul Loscocco was the running mate of independent candidate Tim Cahill.  On October 2, 2010, Mr. Loscocco resigned from that campaign and endorsed Republican candidate Charles Baker.  Mr. Loscocco left the Republican party a year ago to run with Tim Cahill.  At the time of the resignation from the Cahill ticket, no specific reason was given for the decision.

Today, Mr. Loscocco released a statement stating that "Cahill, a former Democrat, admitted that one of his top political advisers, Neil Morrison, was coordinating with the top strategist for Democratic Governor Deval Patrick's reelection campaign, Doug Rubin, about ad strategy against Baker." 

According to the article:

"Loscocco said Cahill had committed to him that "we would at all times be in the race solely to win and that the campaign would never become party to any efforts to re-elect Governor Patrick. Unfortunately, in my opinion he did not live up to those commitments and is not now running a campaign fit for the highest office in the Commonwealth."" 

The Cahill campaign has had problems since the spring of this year.  There have been charges and counter charges since then.  On Thursday, Tim Cahill filed a lawsuit "accusing his former strategists and aides of conspiring to sabotage his candidacy by orchestrating Loscocco's defection and giving information to Baker's team and the RGA (Republican Governors Association)."

I can honestly say I have no idea of what is going on here.  I would like to point out that Tim Cahill has been the Massachusetts State Treasurer since 2003.  He was a Democrat until he left the party in 2009 to run for governor as an independent.  Was he a candidate put there by the Democrat party to take votes away from a Republican?  Will his candidacy take votes away from Charles Baker?  At the rate his campaign is falling apart, will he take votes away from anyone?

Stay tuned and get out the popcorn!