Virginia Buckingham on Patrick's speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

...What’s pretty clear from his lecturing tone - and dismissal of taxes as a factor in business investment - is that there’s plenty he doesn’t yet know about the costs of doing business in this state.

And it’s the tone and resulting policies set by the chief executive, as much as anything else, which can influence business investment decisions.

I’m also guessing a lot of the people attending the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast yesterday were wishing they had their November vote back. Ask for change and, well, change is what you get. In this case, a remarkable change in tone from the state’s chief executive to the state’s chief executives...

UPDATE: More from the Globe and Herald.