[pabianice]

Governor Deval Patrick did not get involved in putting together this year's program, according to a spokesman, and left the planning up to the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, a Boston-based nonprofit that had a secondary role in the previous anniversary ceremonies. Still, Patrick, who will be speaking at the event, spent several hours last week walking the streets of Lowell shaking hands and imploring voters to support Tsongas.

Patrick's chief of staff, Doug Rubin, was a political consultant for Tsongas before joining Patrick's staff in April. The spat was first reported by the Boston Herald yesterday.

Uh-huh.

[muawiyah]

Sounds like Massachusetts where even grief is turned to political advantage by Democrat thugs.

[mewzilla]

The Herald's take....

Ogonowski left out of 9/11 ceremony GOP hopeful honored pilot brother in past

MA doesn't have a single GOP Critter. Figgers.

[nyyankeefan]

lib/dems....always slighting those that do not tow the party line....now even the murdered 3,000 9/11 victims are just political ploys for lib/dems!!!!!

[mware]

Sean Hannity ought to invite Ogonowski to the FReedom Concert being held at Jackson, NJ on 911.

From what I hear Joe Lieberman is also going to attend the concert.

Hey Mark, got an extra ticket for this guy??

[mewzilla]

Ted Livingston Bio

[TLI]

Ogonowski, who has been a speaker at the ceremony the past four years, was not asked to come back. ...who is now engaged in a heated race as he seeks to become the state's first Republican congressman in more than a decade.

Martin Meehan, a former US representative whose wife is chairing Democrat Niki Tsongas's campaign against Ogonowski.

"We didn't seek to include or exclude anyone because of party lines."

I didn't steal the cookies, honest! Trust me, I am not lying!

Is it being democrat makes them stupid or being stupid makes them Democrats?

[hershey]

MA dem. politics as usual, mean, spiteful, and stupid. (Well, what did you expect from the state represented by Fat Teddy and Nuancyboy Kerry?) Come ‘08, Ogonowski will flatten Tsongas, and that’s exactly what dems are afraid of.

[Brainhose]

Typical Mass-holes. that’s why I moved out 20+ years ago.
I’m no fan of Mr. Ogonowski since he stated that he would like Jimmy Carter to step in and help fix Iraq.
But that is no reason to dislike him personally. The entire state of Massachusetts should be ashamed of themselves for stooping to such brazen political tactics when we should all be coming together as a country.