Cape Politics

Voodoo Politics. Who do? Reilly do.

Democrat heads are spinning this morning with the news that guberatorial candidate Tom Reilly is going with Marie St. Fleur, a State Rep. from Boston, as a running mate. 

She is Haitian. It's got to be the Voodoo.  

Can't quite figure out the politics on this one.  Maybe Reilly thought running with a black would siphon off support from Deval Patrick, the Democrat running for Governor. Maybe he thought running with a women would close the gender gap with Kerry Healy, the Republican running for Governor. Maybe it was the Voodoo.

Reilly  pissed off a lot of people in the process of his self flagalation, because it wasn't necessary to electing a Democrat.  Candidates for Gov. and Lt. Gov. run seperately in the primary, then run as a team in the general.  It was necessary though to try to save the Reilly ship, overladen with money, from sinking.

He pissed off  all the other candidates running for Lt. Gov. and their supporters.

• Tim Murray, Mayor of Worcester, a white Irish Catholic man and all his buddies from Worcester County.  
• Andrea Silbert, a white suburban working mother. 
• Debra Goldberg, a Jewish feminst from Brookline and even
• Sam Kelley, a shrink from the South Shore who won't even survive the Convention. 

It must have been the voodoo. 

Maybe this is his idea of affirmative action.  But why St. Fleur? Wasn't Dianne Wilkerson available?  It was the voodoo.