Testing the SuperPAC-Free Massachusetts Senate Campaign
BY Nick Judd | Friday, March 9 2012
In an email to supporters, Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren just announced that after an online conversation with supporters, she's asked Sen. Scott Brown to donate money to the Autism Consortium, a network of medical and research institutions in the Boston and Worcester areas, in accordance with a pledge both contenders for the Senate reached in January.
An independent group placed an ad recently on Brown's behalf. Brown and Warren had pledged that should outside groups enter the race on one candidate's behalf, that candidate would donate to a charity of the other candidate's choice from its campaign funds — which would, in theory, negate the financial benefits of outside money entering the race.
Read MoreMassachusetts Pol Grouponomizes Campaign Finance
BY Nick Judd | Friday, July 29 2011
Massachusetts state Rep. Dan Winslow. Groupon economics (Grouponomics?) has come to campaign finance. In June, Massachusetts state Rep. Dan Winslow sought approval for an effort to Grouponomize a campaign fund-raiser ... Read More
Massachusetts State Rep Offers a Social Deal ... On His Fund-Raiser
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, June 22 2011
Massachusetts State Rep. Dan Winslow is seeking state approval for a scheme to offer a Groupon deal on a campaign fund-raiser: Winslow’s groundbreaking idea would allow supporters a chance to attend the $100 per ... Read More
Should You Bring Your iPad to the City Council Meeting?
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, May 19 2011
The Boston Globe's Kathy McCabe has a smartly done enterprise story today about the intersection of public meetings and "e-government." Popping around Massachusetts towns, she compiles a list of anecdotes that sum up the ... Read More
Trippi to Mass. and Massie
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, April 26 2011
Long-time strategist Joe Trippi has signed up with Democrat Bob Massie's campaign in Massachusetts to unseat Sen. Scott Brown, notes Ben Smith: Trippi, who notes that he began his career working for Ted Kennedy's 1980 ... Read More
Inside Brown's Online Ad Strategy
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, January 19 2010
ClickZ's Kate Kaye has a look at the Massachusetts Republican's online operation, with some good details on online ad strategy and insights from the campaign's new media staff and consultants: Read More
Massachusetts Special: The State of the Brown vs. Coakley (Online) Race
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, January 19 2010
As we reach the very end of the Massachusetts special election, we're seeing a ramping up of folks working to extract what the race means for the state of online politics. Read More