PAYING ATTENTION! By: Tom Duggan, (11-17-12) While Tea Party member are still in shock over the 2012 ass kicking we took in the polls on Election Day, now is the perfect time for a lecture on course correction. FAILED STRATEGIES Very high on the failed strategy list for the Tea Party is the way […]
By: Christine Morabito – President Greater Boston Tea Party November, 2012 Rarely am I at a loss for words, but I feel as if I am groping around in the dark after an extraordinarily long and disappointing Election Day. The November 6, 2012 election will be recorded as a major milestone in the life of […]
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL (November, 2012) Just days before the 2012 election, members of the Greater Haverhill Civil Rights Commission demanded that a political sign (supporting Scott Brown) be removed from private property because it included the phrase “Not an Indian”. That phrase was clearly shorthand for “Not a fake Indian” or “Not a Native […]
By: Jeff Katz – November, 2012 The election where the worst president in history should have been shown the door is over and the Dear Leader has actually been re-elected. By every reasonable measure Barack Obama has been an abject failure as President of the United States. Unemployment continues to rage out of control, […]
BOSTON – Unions and associations reported making $782,052 in independent expenditures to support or oppose 114 legislative candidates this year. In addition, five Independent Expenditure Political Action Committees, known as Super PACs, reported $200,923 in expenditures. Independent expenditures are expenditures made to expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates, and are made without […]
By: Tom Duggan – November 12, 2012 Just days after taking office in 2010, Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua, his Chief of Staff, Leonard “Lenny” Degnan of North Andover, and then DPW Director Frank Mcann of Haverhill, were involved in a transaction with Patriot Ambulance Company, a private contractor that provides ambulance services to The City […]
Listen to Hour 1 Listen to Hour 2 Saturday on The Paying Attention! Radio Program on WCAP (980AM) Senator-Elect Kathleen O’Connor Ives co-hosted The Paying Attention! Radio Program with Valley Patriot publisher Tom Duggan. Ives commits to attend Tea Party Meetings and listen to the concerns of her constituents in the Tea Party. […]
Paying Attention! with Tom Duggan November 3, 2012 After watching all the debate, interviewing the candidates, consuming the news and commercials every day I have made my final decisions on who I am supporting in Tuesday’s election. As the publisher of a newspaper, a political radio talk show host and an activist in my […]
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By: Tom Duggan – October 27, 2012 – LISTEN TO THE DEBATE – Photo Gallery Candidates for the 14th Essex District State Rep. Seat: Karin Rhoton and Diana DiZoglio debated on Paying Attention! with Tom Duggan on 980WCAP in Lowell. Rhoton and DiZoglio had a heated exchange on the issue of a state takeover of the […]
Warren Appears at Mann Orchards in Methuen [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqp8WWSnD7c&feature=youtu.be&w=380&h=260] By: Tom Duggan – October 23, 2012 PHOTO GALLERY OF EVENT Methuen Elected officials and dignitaries from across the Valley held a press conference today at Mann Orchards in Methuen to endorse Harvard University Professor, Elizabeth Warren, candidate for United State Senate. Warren was endorsed […]
Video – Photos – Story Victims Right’s Advocate Endorses Brown in North Andover [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHjp8sN53Ds&feature=youtu.be&w=480&h=360] Photo Gallery of today’s event By: Tom Duggan – October 23, 2012 United Sates Senator Scott Brown visited North Andover again this afternoon, this time at Stachy’s Pizza. accepting the endorsement of Laurie Meyers, president of Community Voices, a […]
By: Tom Duggan – October, 23 2012 Laurie Myers, president of Community Voices, a non – profit children’s advocacy group is endorsing United States Senator Scott Brown this afternoon at Stachys Pizza on High Street in North Andover at a “Women for Brown” rally. Myers told the Valley Patriot this morning that she is not […]
By: Chris Maider – October, 2012 Web Extra Once again the religion of peace demonstrates it’s purpose of being. Once again the Lame Stream Media demonstrates it’s purpose of being and Obama has lost all touch with reality. The stunning performance of Gov. Mitt Romney at his recent press conference shows the balls […]