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@JimLyonsMA I don’t understand why Shortsleeve is still running. He is only hurting the party. a democrat spoiler. 🤦‍♂️

Brian And your consultant: Turn out the lights the party is over. Mike Minogue, A New Kind Of Governor! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The big victim in the ongoing establishment vs grassroots squabbling between the gubernatorial candidates is @DeatonforSenate . To beat Markey, Deaton needs Unity now, so the base can turn its attention to the Big Show in November.

@johnfgately @SharmanTV @MikeMinogueABMD Gately are you a journalist or a Shortsleeve Campaign manager 🤣

Sharman @SharmanTV is not buying @MikeMinogueABMD desperate attempt to avoid a GOP primary debate. #mapoli

@StephenHaas29 @johnfgately @MikeMinogueABMD Couldn’t have said it better myself.

@johnfgately @MikeMinogueABMD Instead of highlighting the one thing that may not have the majority opinion, why don’t you help him out and try to highlight what he will do for the state financially. Are you going to sabotage him if your boy Brian doesn’t get in?

Mifepristone - abortion by mail is disgusting. But ~70% of MA voters feel differently. Nominate @MikeMinogueABMD and you guarantee a Maura Healey victory. Facts. #mapoli

@johnfgately @MikeMinogueABMD You know what guarantees Healy a victory? republicans attacking each other🤦‍♂️. I am sick of political junkies stirring up drama for the hell of it. This is why republicans loose.

@johnfgately @WDWakeman The infighting only helps the dems.

@WDWakeman Lost 168 delegates between LG vote and Gov vote. Why? 1) mismanagement of the delegate rolls (as evidenced by the check in process) 2) disagreement between campaigns on proper convention floor etiquette x.com/johnfgately/st…

Send a copy of the Dale Carnegie classic How to Win Friends and Influence People to Team Shortsleeve, Stat.

@WDWakeman “Outsider” that worked for the baker administration and been involved in the Republican Party for the past decade. 🤣

Weirdest flex of all is claiming to be an outsider. The Shortsleeve campaign team dominates the RSC executive committee and dominated the convention rules committee. Establishment credentials dating back to Romney, Shortsleeve is the ultimate insider.

@lamps_apple @Bobburgersfan1 Healey has destroyed the state

🚨 Massachusetts. November 2026. Look at the receipts. MAURA HEALEY'S RECORD ❌ Her senior aide caught running a cocaine pipeline through the Springfield State Office Building… 21 kilograms seized ❌ Pledged "transparency like never before" as a candidate… now claims her office is exempt from public records law (one of only two states in America) ❌ Stayed silent while Beacon Hill leaders blocked the 72% voter-backed legislative audit… let her own AG defend the legislature in court instead of the voters ❌ 33,340 families packed up and fled the state last year ❌ 3rd most expensive state in America… $313,747 a year to live "comfortably" ❌ $1.9 BILLION poured into migrant shelters at $15,166 per family per month ❌ 3rd-highest electricity rates in the country… up 70% in ten years ❌ 44 MBTA derailments in twelve months… her own administration called it a "spiral of doom" ❌ Housing grade: F. Second worst in the nation ❌ Business climate ranking collapsed to 46th… the biggest single-year drop in America ❌ Dark money scandals. Hidden travel. Broken transparency promises ❌ Watched the Democrat AG, whom she herself endorsed, block Mike Minogue's offer to fund the audit lawyers at zero cost to taxpayers… and then refuse to represent the auditor in court. MIKE MINOGUE'S RECORD ✅ When 72% of Massachusetts voters demanded a Beacon Hill audit and the political establishment blocked it… Mike stepped up as a private citizen and offered to personally fund the lawyers needed to enforce it. Zero cost to taxpayers ✅ Led Abiomed in Danvers, transforming a small Massachusetts company into the global leader in heart-pump technology… 250,000+ patients alive today because of devices designed and manufactured by Massachusetts workers ✅ Closed the $16.6 BILLION sale to Johnson & Johnson… the largest all-cash medical-device acquisition in American history… and kept the manufacturing in Danvers ✅ Led the bipartisan industry coalition that killed the federal medical-device excise tax, protecting American innovation and Massachusetts manufacturing jobs ✅ West Point graduate. Bronze Star recipient. Led American soldiers in Operation Desert Storm ✅ Founded MedTechVets, a nonprofit that helps military veterans launch careers in the medical-technology industry ✅ The Minogue Family Foundation gave away $2 million+ last year to schools, veterans organizations, police departments, and community programs across Massachusetts ✅ Funded his entire campaign with $12.5 million of his own money. No PAC checks. No special-interest money. No IOUs to dark-money donors ✅ Won 70.4% of MassGOP delegates at the convention… a first-time candidate who beat two former state officials on a single message: Beacon Hill needs to be accountable to the voters Maura Healey presided over the decline. Mike Minogue built. He built a family. He built a company. He built thousands of Massachusetts jobs. He built medical devices that have kept 250,000 human hearts beating. He can build a Commonwealth. Mike Minogue for Governor. Real soldier. Real CEO. Real leader.

@LadyD66158293 @WCVB No one who has ever won that much percent of the vote has lost the primary. I am quite surprised by how people think that it will be some kind of competitive primary.

@WCVB The 70% mandate was delegate votes, not the 300K voters votes. Isn’t that the purpose of the democratic primary election process? So he will not debate with his opponent Brian Shortsleeve, and they are pressuring him to drop out. What about Anne Brensleys tax debt ?$34K, 144K

Republican candidate for governor Mike Minogue goes 'On the Record' about gubernatorial debates. Watch the full conversation Sunday at 11:00 on WCVB.

@stacy_ferrairo @PaulFinch1024 @ShortsleeveMA That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I preferred shortsleeve, but at the end of the day, I don’t give a fuck. All I care about is beating Healey. No one was ever won the primary by that much has ever lost a primary short sleeve needs to drop out and run alongside Minogue.

@PaulFinch1024 @ShortsleeveMA Nope. I'll vote for Shortsleeve. Every time Minogue opens his mouth I'm more likely to abstain again. Also, do you understand how primaries work?

Less than 1800 delegates at an insider convention don’t get to decide this race. 300,000 voters do. Mike Minogue needs to step up, take difficult questions, defend his record, and lay out his plans for the Commonwealth. That’s what this campaign is about. I’m staying in, I’m debating, and I’m taking my case directly to voters. Read more here: zurl.co/sDxRk #mapoli #magov

@Bobburgersfan1 @ShortsleeveMA The infighting only helps the dems

@ShortsleeveMA You are dividing the party and they know of. You need to back down. This is much bigger than you.

@islantstudio What do you mean my Minogue is funding her?

Good morning to everyone in Massachusetts who wants State Auditor Diana DiZoglio to finally get the independent Legislature audit that 72% of voters demanded and who believes she should back candidates who will actually help her deliver it instead of blocking it. I recently asked her directly on video about supporting the candidate who would stand with her and enforce the voters’ mandate. Her non-answer? “The field isn’t set yet.” That makes zero sense as there are only two candidates in the Attorney General race: Mike Walsh and Andrea Campbell. Auditor DiZoglio, will you support Mike Walsh over Andrea Campbell for Attorney General? Walsh has made it clear he’ll stand up for the audit, while Campbell is fighting it in court. Follow up I wasn't able to ask: And will you support Mike Minogue or Brian Shortsleeve over Maura Healey for Governor? Minogue is personally helping fund your audit lawsuit and Shortsleeve stated "I’ll fight for the audit starting Day One", while Healey has stayed completely quiet. If you see Auditor DiZoglio at an event, let’s keep the pressure on and ask her straight up about both races as it would be nice to see her get behind those who will help get an audit. Beacon Hill’s one-party stonewalling has gone on long enough. And if she continues to support Healey and Campbell, it tells you everything you need to know.

@MWMA_IND @ShortsleeveMA Well the Republican Party chose Minogue… it’s over

no helicopters.. no AIRS.. no king mentality.. Out of the two I choose BRIAN SHORTSLEEVE @ShortsleeveMA

@PaulFinch1024 @ShortsleeveMA This is why republicans loose

@ShortsleeveMA “If I can’t have it no one can!” Don’t ruin this election for the rest of us, the longer you stay in the easier you’ll make it for Maura

@Bobburgersfan1 @ShortsleeveMA This is why republicans loose 🤦‍♂️. The infighting

Republicans debating republicans is a waste of time and stupid. As a independent voter if you do not back out now then you will be 100 percent responsible for Healeys re election. You have been in this for over a year, we know your stance we do not want you as the candidate .Mike has a lot more support and will end up as the candidate. You are just wasting time that he needs to prepare. You should back down and support your fellow republican.

@ShortsleeveMA Brian you are the insider though. You have worked in the Republican Party for a decade and you still lost the insider game.

@ShortsleeveMA Tell Paul that Minogue is debating Healey

Paul from Allston thinks candidates for governor should debate #mapoli #magov

@MrsMariaC @johnfgately 🤣probably being paid. Why else would he be doing it?

@Joebennett1977 @johnfgately Is Gately a reporter or a campaign manager ?

A pro-life, anti-gay marriage candidate can't win a competitive GOP primary in MA, let alone a general election. No wonder why @MikeMinogueABMD is desperate for @ShortsleeveMA to drop out. The primary exists and so does the general. Face it. This is MA, not OK. #mapoli

@bethduris @johnfgately @ShortsleeveMA Race is anlreayd over for Brian

@johnfgately @ShortsleeveMA All Brian is going to say in a debate is that he is the only candidate who can win against Healey. So cut to the chase. Debate Healey so people see he will beat her in November. To me this is right move.

Off line back channel response to this post has far exceeded online response (I'm over the target) and it all adds up to: an admission that Minogue knows he is incredibly vulnerable in the general on social issues + worried debate with @ShortsleeveMA would expose that. #mapoli

@johnfgately @ShortsleeveMA Answer the question: why did you lie? He’s not anti gay