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Massachusetts Needs A Better Governor

June 19, 2016 By joeltpatterson 69 Comments

In today's Globe, Stephanie Ebbert tells the kind of story we will read more and more until 2019. The people who provide childcare are absolutely essential to our economy because they let parents work without worrying about their kids. And … [Read more...]

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Why is ActBlue supporting a regressive cause like marijuana prohibition?

April 20, 2016 By SamTracy 47 Comments

Unnoticed in the flurry of press last week around the formation by Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, and House Speaker Robert DeLeo of a committee opposing the marijuana ballot initiative was the company selected for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: actblue, baker, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, deleo, fundraising, marijuana, marijuana legalization, walsh

Taxing Hospitals in MA. Pigs are flying.

April 14, 2016 By ryepower12 7 Comments

Before I post some big news from today, I want to discuss Partner's business practices for a minute. The Partners Network makes vast profits almost every year. I'm sure if you lined up all the businesses based in MA that mostly deal with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, beacon-hill, charlie-baker, health-care, house leadership, legislature, speaker-deleo

Fully Baked Baker Budget

March 5, 2015 By massmarrier 7 Comments

With an ostensible liberal Democratic-controlled General Court, MA remains traditionally fiscally conservative. That's fertile ground for GOP Gov. Charlie Baker to plant his no-new taxes seeds. Thus, most of his first budget proposal likely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, budget, charlie-baker, deficit, funding, mbta, taxes

Massachusetts Legislators…LISTEN UP!

December 27, 2014 By jshore 1 Comment

In todays Boston Globe, Michael J. Maguire wrote a letter “James Peyser Supports Unfair Charter Schools,” and in a recent BMG post by Nopolitician, “Elections Have Consequences: Baker Hires Charter Booster as Education Secretary”  I found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, charter-schools, New Market Tax Credits, New School Venture Fund, Peyser, pioneer-institute, public-schools, QZAB

Retrospect: We should have targeted “Big Business” Baker

November 18, 2014 By progressivemax 44 Comments

As I see Baker’s transition team start to come together, it is striking to me how many business executives he is filling his inner circle with. We all knew that Baker is in the pocket of big business. Why didn’t we run on it? The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, big-business, coakley, election, party, strategy

Falchuk the Eveready Candidate

September 23, 2014 By massmarrier 31 Comments

Founder of MA's United Independent Party, Evan Falchuk remains optimistic but not blind. He knows polls have him in low single digits for the governor's race, but has two clear goals. Sure he wants to win the top spot on Nov. 4, but he also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, Berwick, campaign, coakley, democrats, election, election-2013, Falchuk, massachusetts, republicans, UIP, united independent party

Juicing Up the MA GOP

August 22, 2013 By massmarrier 14 Comments

One of my rants holds that the brightest future for the Republican party here is in turning DINO voters and pols. I'll paste a post here I just made on Marry in Massachusetts. I'd love to get BMG community comments.  We haven't even been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, brown, campaign, democrats, governor, Hughes, legislature, massachusetts, Nassour, one-party, republicans, unenrolled

The Patrick-Baker Identity

November 11, 2010 By shirleykressel 18 Comments

During the gubernatorial campaign, I wrote that Deval and Charlie are fundamentally alike; I said that Deval devotees are being blinded by partisan politics and their reluctance to admit they were fooled.  I urged liberals to break out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, patrick, stein

Sorry Charlie, it wasn’t Tim’s fault

November 8, 2010 By David 4 Comments

MassINC's post-election poll (PDF) seems to have put the nail in the coffin of the tired idea (still pushed by Howie Carr & Co.) that Charlie Baker would be Governor-elect today, if it weren't for that blasted Tim Cahill. The numbers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2010, baker, ma-gov, patrick

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"Service cuts punish those who need public transit the most ... Policymakers need to make choices now that will serve the public interest in the long term. They need to ensure the trains & buses keep running." #mapoli https://twitter.com/cdempc/status/1353002390560141318

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The New York Times Editorial Board(!) writes that @MassGovernor's push for @MBTA cuts in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic is "small-minded and shortsighted".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/public-transit-funding.html

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Focus on the record - "small minded and shortsighted" justification for transit cuts that make it tougher to reduce emissions, harm those in need and hold back our recovery #mapoli https://twitter.com/cdempc/status/1353002390560141318?s=20

Chris Dempsey@cdempc

The New York Times Editorial Board(!) writes that @MassGovernor's push for @MBTA cuts in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic is "small-minded and shortsighted".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/public-transit-funding.html

#mapoli #mbta #TransitisEssential #TransitisEssentialMA

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Focus on the record - vetoing proposals that would break MA out of our failed transportation status quo https://twitter.com/BenjaminDowning/status/1352325656076541958?s=20

Benjamin Downing@BenjaminDowning

"Many of the vetoes represent missed opportunities for building a more equitable transportation system for all residents" - well said @MonicaTibbitsN - a thread on how @MassGovernor 's vetoes lock in failed transportation status quo #mapoli https://twitter.com/MonicaTibbitsN/status/1351658881341136900

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Times fires editor for having political views https://twitter.com/jshahryar/status/1353124692069019649

Josh Shahryar (they/them) #BLM@JShahryar

This is the most important thing I've ever written.

My friend and family Lauren @Wolfe321 was just fired by the @NYTimes after the NYT was pressured by fascists, Trumpkins and hypocrites on the right for tweeting she had "chills" after witnessing Biden's landing on the 20th.

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MSzafranski413Matt Szafranski@MSzafranski413·
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These Massachusetts numbers remain a bloody embarrassment. We are near the bottom in distribution. What I'm hearing on the local level (not necessarily local officials' fault mind) is even worse from an organizational standpoint. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1352999479335657480

Nate Silver@NateSilver538

New York State and New York City now above-average in the share of vaccine doses distributed. But California ranks dead last among US states. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

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