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(Why not a big-ass party *and* open the doors? - promoted by Charley on the MTA)
That is how, in today's Boston Globe, Brian McGrory describes the plans for Deval Patrick's inauguration. It is a little over the top, but McGrory actually expresses some thoughts that I actually had when I first heard about the plans for the inauguration. And McGrory makes a great suggestion:
Try this. Try throwing the gates around the State House wide open on Inaugural Day. Try unlocking every door in the complex. Let the public toss footballs on the lawn. Let them wander the House and Senate chambers, pose around the gubernatorial portraits, and poke their heads into the governor's office.
Then stand in the Great Hall from morning until night and greet every single resident who wants to come by and share fears and dreams. The message: This is your building, your government, your future, and I'm here to listen and ready to act.
If you want, do it again in Worcester and in Springfield. The whole thing wouldn't cost more than a hundred thousand dollars in security and hot coffee to keep the masses warm.
