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This Just In: Dept. of striking similarities

Those damn footsteps

"Acting Gov. Paul Cellucci must be feeling Joe Malone's footsteps, even as Cellucci tries to pretend his challenger for the Republican nomination doesn't even exist.

"Why else would Cellucci -- under fire from Malone as (shut your eyes if you can't take this) a liberal -- swerve so emphatically to the right with his veto vehicle?"

-- Wayne Woodlief, Boston Herald, August 2

"Acting Governor Paul Cellucci must be hearing the footsteps of his Republican challenger, state Treasurer Joseph Malone, who hopes to paint Cellucci as not enough of a fiscal or social conservative. How else to explain Cellucci's decision to veto $100 million, mostly in investments in the state's important resource -- its workers -- and the hard-won bill allowing domestic partners of Boston city employees to receive health benefits?"

-- Lead editorial, Boston Globe, August 4