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Tuxedos, Childcare, and the OCPF

March 1, 2021 By mathelman

DID YOU KNOW: if you run for state or local office in Massachusetts, you can pay for a tuxedo rental with campaign funds, BUT you can't pay for childcare during campaign activities (like a fundraiser event or door-to-door canvassing) with … [Read more...]

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MA-04: “After Endorsement, Questions For Jake Auchincloss” Monday at Noon

August 9, 2020 By mathelman

This Monday, August 10, at noon, The Boston Globe is hosting a virtual event, "After Endorsement, Questions For Jake Auchincloss." Check it out! The event is a conversation between Globe editorial page editor Bina Venkataraman and MA-04 … [Read more...]

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MA-Sen: Only One Candidate Wants to Be a U.S. Senator

August 3, 2020 By mathelman

There has been one nagging reality about the upcoming primary for U.S. Senate between Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy III that has not been discussed nearly enough. Only one of those two candidates actually wants to be a U.S. … [Read more...]

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U.S. House Primaries in March: Progressive Women vs. Conservative Men

February 21, 2020 By mathelman

March is a huge month for Congressional Democratic primaries between progressive women challengers and conservative men incumbents in Safe Blue districts where we should see strongly progressive representation but currently do not. Support … [Read more...]

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NC-09: In Ten Days, We May Learn a Lot About 2020

August 31, 2019 By mathelman

Some of you may be aware that, in ten days (on Tuesday, September 10), a competitive Congressional special election will take place. (Technically, it's already taking place with early voting underway.) In North Carolina's 9th Congressional … [Read more...]

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Two of the Most Important Choice-Focused Federal Elections in 2020

June 17, 2019 By mathelman

Back in November, after Election Day, I shared on BMG a list of seven Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives that I hoped would get primary challengers in this 2019-2020 election cycle due to not being reflective of the … [Read more...]

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Charlie Three Terms and Derailments

June 11, 2019 By mathelman

A quick review of headlines from the last week: Thursday, June 6 Baker quietly puts political team together as he considers 3rd term Saturday, June 8 At least 10 people injured in Green Line derailment near Kenmore Tuesday, June … [Read more...]

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Please *Don’t* Shut Your Pie Hole (a.k.a. The Register of Deeds’ Bad Deed)

May 19, 2019 By mathelman

If I wanted to be glib and a bit rude, I could joke that, while the Registry of Deeds was very important in 1825, much of the Registry's role of "keeping the residents of Suffolk County’s real estate records safe and accessible" could today … [Read more...]

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IL-03: Imagine Ayanna vs. Capuano, *IF* Capuano Had An Awful Record

May 8, 2019 By mathelman

Massachusetts' 7th Congressional district saw a titanic primary in 2018 between incumbent Mike Capuano and then-Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley. Though now-Congresswoman Pressley won that primary by a very comfortable 17-point margin, … [Read more...]

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Democratic House Members Most In Need of Primarying in 2019-2020

November 15, 2018 By mathelman

Back when I was a more active blogger around a decade ago, there was an expression: "More and Better Democrats." We wanted to elect more Democrats, sure, but specifically the best Democrats we could in each district, acknowledging that some … [Read more...]

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What you need to know about teacher strikes:

✅ they’re popular
✅ they work

Yet they remain illegal in MA—call your rep and tell them how cool they’ll be when they support MTA’s #RightToStrike bill! ✊🏼 #mapoli
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It's time for the @ACSCANMA monthly meeting. We have a lot of legislative work to do up under the Golden Dome of the Massachusetts State House in Boston! My "favorite" bill is "An Act to reduce incidence and death from #PancreaticCancer" (S.1330/H.2182)! @ACSCAN #mapoli #magov

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Urgent need to invest in public housing- and the Governor’s budget doesn't cut it.

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What will it take to make a dent in the Massachusetts housing crisis? @GBinterfaith has ideas -- and they want lawmakers to listen:

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#Carless #mapoli #Bospoli #MBTA #Tis4Torture 5pm no Orange Line train for 40 min, then that one didn't stop at my station. Five more min later the train finally graced us with her presence after a 45 min wait. At Rush hour, on a weekday. I could have gotten to Providence faster

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@LydiaMEdwards needs to issue an apology to @juliaforboston! What happened on Saturday was appalling! How can you deny a duly elected prominent Latinx leader not to participate in a public event centered on Latinx voices? The irony here is so sad and unimaginable!#bospoli #mapoli https://twitter.com/EBProgress/status/1637840035285278723

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