Winners and Losers
Governor Elect Patrick awaits the phone call from Lt. Governor Healey...

*Ring*!
Deval Patrick: "Hello?"

Grace Ross: "Hello, Deval. It's Grace. I'm calling to concede. Congratulations."

Patrick: "Thank you, Grace. You could have done that at the first debate, but it's nice to hear anyway. I just want to let you know that I won't forget all you've done for me."

Ross: "Making the debates watchable? Keeping the issues in focus? Getting John DePetro fired?"

Patrick: "Well, I was thinking of making me look pretty, but those other things were good, too."

~Click~ *Ring*!
Patrick: "Hello, Kerry?"

Edward Kennedy: "Er, ah, no. It's the other Senator."

Patrick: "Teddy! My man!"

Kennedy: "I just wanted to call and wish you well, Debbell."

Patrick: "Um, it's Deval. And I appreciate that, Senator."

Kennedy: "Have you given any thought to what you want to do next, Divel?"

Patrick: "Sleep? I've been pretty busy lately. And it's Dee-V'all."

Kennedy: "I was thinking of higher office. We all know the Governor of Massachusetts is a stepping stone. To an ambassadorship. To a Presidential campaign. Fiction writer. Have you thought about running for Senate, Deball?"

Patrick: "Tell you what...If I do...It'll be doing in two years, not six."

Kennedy: "Good man. Just what I wanted to hear, Devil."

~Click~ *Ring*!
Patrick: "Hello?"

Christy Mihos: "Hello. It's Christy. Is your refrigerator running?"

Patrick: "What?"

Mihos: "C'mon. It's a joke. You have no sense of comic timing. I'll call back."

~Click~ *Ring*!
Patrick: "Christy?"

Kerry Healey: "No, it's Kerry."

Patrick: "A loser says what?"

Healey: "What?"

Patrick: "No sense of timing, my black ass."

Healey: "What are you talking...? You know, never mind. I don't want to know. I wanted to call you and wish you good luck. You're going to need it. You are as popular as you are ever going to be. It's all downhill from here."

Patrick: "Well, respectfully, I have to disa..."
*Beep*
Patrick: "Oh, wait. Call waiting. I should take this."
~Click~
Patrick: "Hello?"

Mihos: "Is your refrigerator running?"

Patrick: "Yes, my refrigerator is running."

Mihos: "Well, I'M NOT anymore!"

~Click~
Patrick: "-sigh- That man is about 7% sane."
~Click~

Patrick: "Kerry? Sorry about that."

Healey: "Can we wrap this call up? I'm renting this hall by the hour."

Patrick: "To quote my slogan, 'Yes we can'! When can I get the keys from Mitt?"

Healey: "Are you kidding? He never unpacked. He runs his entire office out of a Kinko's in Iowa."