Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray in Menotomy (again)

I give the current admin credit, they drop by the Sacred Suburb of Menotomy now and again. I doubt all four of their predecessors could find Menotomy on a map and two of them lived in abutting communities.
And so it came to pass that Tim Murray and seemingly half the God-Damn Cabinet set up shop in the intimate meeting room at Town Hall last night to take on all comers as part of the admin's summer "listening tour".
Tim looks good, still the same Big Shiny Irishman that came around in 2006 looking to move up in the world, yes he is losing his hair but then again he hasn't gained a pound in the interim.
And when you are Tim Murray taking on all comers you answer a lot of questions about jobs, the movement of local public sector unions to the GIC and ghod help us,local trash collection.
All politics is local indeed, good thing Tim started out as Mayor of Worcester, he is used to these thing.
All three topics fairly dominated the proceedings, I have to say, Murray is no great barn burner but he is reasonably well informed and affable after a fashion.
My big complaint about these sorts of Q&A sessions is that most of the questions seem to come from local persons representing organizations with business before the Commonwealth or else they are actively lobbying on behalf of certain legislative outcomes. They gotta right to heard along with everyone else, I just wish the average person would show up in bigger numbers.
Then again, trash collection got into the debate so it's not like the average person got left outside or anything.
I had some thought that maybe this was all some scheme to get Murray re-introduced to the voters prior to a run for the US Senate in 2012. On the basis of what I saw last night I strongly doubt this is the case, Murray is affable, well informed even becomingly modest, but there is nothing of the purple to him. The man is no great pulpit virtuoso and never will be, I have no fear should he have to assume the Governorship, but a run for the US Senate seems like a stretch for Murray.
No the mood in the room was "Gubernatorial" prosaic local concerns and the sort of discussions one aims at a future Governor not a Senator. Which raises a question in my mind, will the admin have a candidate for US Senate next year? Have they got someone warming up in the bullpen?