The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... Bloomberg campaign manager Bradley Tusk , communications chief Howard Wolfson , and field director Maura Keaney were as smug and satisfied as if they had just brought an underfunded long shot across the finish line in first place. "One of the great things about this campaign and our success was making sure that we had a comfortable lead and margin throughout," said Tusk....
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... the Bloomberg campaign's existing field operation (run by Council Speaker Christine Quinn aide Maura Keaney ), putting 35 to 40 canvassers in Queens, which turned out to be a key base of support for the mayor. On Election Day, HTC had 585 people on the streets for Bloomberg. According to exit polls, union voters made up 24 percent of the electorate, and close to 40 percent of that...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... Stephen Colbert to joke that Lieberman won't "let the voters push him around." But as Maura Keaney points out , Lieberman's opposition to the health care package stands to benefit Connecticut's powerful health insurance industry. He has also received more than $1,000,000 in donations from the health insurance lobby—and, of course, his wife Hadassah is a senior counselor...
My Left Nutmeg - Front Page (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A certain Maura Keaney had an excellent line in The Guardian a couple of days ago: Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate Democratic caucus, a fame-whore so addicted to media attention that he hatches ever-more-desperate and risky schemes that sell out his "family" to earn press attention. Progressives can only hope that, like Richard Heene, Lieberman will...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Maura Keaney in The Guardian: Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate Democratic caucus, a fame-whore so addicted to media attention that he hatches ever-more-desperate and risky schemes that sell out his "family" to earn press...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
From a Guardian column by Maura Keaney on Lieberman: Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate Democratic caucus, a fame-whore so addicted to media attention that he hatches ever-more-desperate and risky schemes that sell out his "family" to earn press attention. It's a catchy lead, but I think this misdiagnoses Lieberman's motivations for his filibuster threat...
Prose Before Hos (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
“Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate Democratic caucus, a fame-whore so addicted to media attention that he hatches ever-more-desperate and risky schemes that sell out his “family” to earn press attention.” – From Maura Keaney in Enemy of the public option
