Today's Globe reports a new wrinkle in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor.  Christopher Gabrieli, the 2002 Lt. Gov. nominee who was earlier negotiating to run on a team with Reilly this time, may be interested in running himself.  Gabrieli seems like a nice enough guy but his electoral track record is not good -- the Globe story says that he spent $5M of his own money to finish sixth in the primary for MA-08 in 1998, and another $5M in the 2002 race.  (From my perspective it's hard to believe that $5M total was spent on O'Brien's 2002 campaign...)

Getting Gabrieli on the ballot would apparently require 500 of the 3000 state convention delegates elected last week to sign petitions.  Since nearly all of these are committed to either Patrick or Reilly, this isn't so likely unless one of those two actually drops out.

But someone is clearly interested in sending the message that some Democratic insiders have decided that Reilly is a loser, and that they don't like Patrick much.  There's been a lot of negative-about-both press in the Globe lately -- for example, some union leaders were quoted as unhappy about Patrick's position on the board of union-hostile Ameriquest, and unhappy with some parallel thing about Reilly.  (The Patrick spin is that Patrick joined the Ameriquest board in order to help them implement a settlement they had reached with workers.)