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Is Patrick O’Connor the Progressive State Senator We’ve Been Waiting For?

July 1, 2020 By Meg Wheeler

Editor's note: Meg Wheeler is running for State Senate in the Plymouth and Norfolk District. -- CB  When the world woke up on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, it felt as though there’d been a seismic shift. For too many of us, our belief … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2020, bmg, massachusetts, massachusetts-state-senate, politics, state-senate-race

JALSA Leadership Transition Indicates Next Chapter in Jewish Social Justice Advocacy

July 10, 2017 By JALSA

BOSTON, July 10, 2017- Sheila Decter, Founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (JALSA), and a tireless advocate for social and economic justice, civil rights and constitutional liberties in a career … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, boston, immigration, law-and-lawyers, ma, ma-gov, ma-sen, massachusetts

Let’s end child poverty

March 24, 2014 By donberwick

We are a wealthy state in a wealthy nation, and yet one out of every seven people in Massachusetts lives in poverty.  And even that doesn’t tell the true story.  The number is 29% among African Americans here; 40% among Latinos.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, boston, childhood poverty, children, democrats, don berwick, ending-childhood-poverty, governor, income-inequality, inequality, ma, ma-gov, massachusetts, poverty

Pass Mass Amendment – Corporations are not People

October 26, 2013 By ykozlov

There have been posts here about the various petitions going around, but here is a very important one that hasn't been mentioned. There is a ballot initiative to amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth based on "Corporations are not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, campaign-finance-reform, citizens-united, initiative-petition, massachusetts

New Era of ‘Open Debates’ Begins In Elizabeth Warren’s Backyard

August 6, 2013 By boldprogressives

Hey BMGers! This was posted by Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Adam Green on the PCCC's blog, The Daily Change, and is cross-posted here in hopes of great participation from the Blue Mass Group community! Also posted at The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, Bold Progressives, ed-markey, election, Elizabeth Warren, ma-05, massachusetts, media, national, Open Debate, OpenDebateQuestions.com, progressive-change-campaign-committee

This isn’t rocket science.

July 15, 2013 By robconsalvo

This isn’t rocket science. Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey and Steve Lynch proved that the People’s Pledge works. Yesterday I stood in front of City Hall to renew my call for all candidates running to replace Tom Menino to sign on to an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, Boston mayor, Boston Mayor Election, Boston Pledge, election, Peoples Pledge, Rob Consalvo, tom-menino

Your Ideas + My Ideas

May 1, 2013 By John Connolly

As many in the Blue Mass Group community know, I am a former school teacher, a current At-Large Boston City Councilor, and I'm running for Mayor of Boston. I've always believed that city government is at its best when it's inclusive and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, boston, Boston mayor, economy, education, environment, ideas, Ideas for Boston's Future, massachusetts, politics

Michelle Rhee Flunks Bill Maher’s Test

March 22, 2013 By angela

Too often Michelle Rhee does not get challenged when she pushes the corporate education agenda. And when she does, she never has any good answers. Here is a recent interview with Bill Maher that illustrates how Rhee has little substance … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bill-maher, bmg, corporate-education-agenda, education, michelle-rhee

Essex County Sheriff’s Fundraising Questioned

February 17, 2012 By witchcitydem1

Republican Sheriff Frank Cousins is defending his fundraising from employees, their families as well as contractors/vendors utilized by the Sheriff's Department. Cousins is quite the slippery character and top notch with how he's spinning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, democrats, election, essex-county, ma, media, politics, random, republican, sheriff frank cousins, wbz

“Just Politics” – Scott Brown’s Still Banking on Wall Street

December 22, 2011 By kevinf

Facing an increasingly long-shot reelection bid next year, Scott Brown has launched a Mitt Romney-style reinvention campaign, but his campaign coffers are still bursting with millions in Wall Street money from big bankers and financiers who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, grassroots communicators, ma-sen, massachusetts-democratic-party, media, politics, scott-brown, senate

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