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What’s the Matter with Massachusetts? (thoughts on Beacon Hill, the minimum wage and the grassroots)

March 14, 2014 By harmonywho 51 Comments

Updates, 3/27/2014: To no one's surprise, the House legislation is missing key provisions -- no indexing and too low of an increase for tipped workers. Now the push comes to the Amendments, and the hardball is, apparently, around the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deleo, grassroots, minimum-wage, Raise Up MA

Massachusetts Needs an Experienced, Professional AG

October 21, 2013 By maurahealey 12 Comments

This morning, I launched my campaign for Massachusetts Attorney General. I’m the first announced candidate in the race and a first-time candidate so I know I have my work cut out for me over the next 13 months. But the conversation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: attorney-general, campaign, consumer-protection, doma, energy, equal-rights, experience, grassroots, health-care, marriage-equality, martha-coakley, Maura Healey

Benson campaign knocks on 1,000 doors

August 30, 2010 By jenbenson Leave a Comment

LUNENBURG - State Representative Jen Benson announced today that her campaign has knocked on well over 1,000 doors during the summer, and she is just getting started as the campaign season starts to heat up. While many candidates rely on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 37th-middlesex, grassroots, jen-benson, state-representative

Stories from the Campaign Trail

July 29, 2010 By mac-dalessandro 6 Comments

HANNA On a hot summer day a few weeks ago, I canvassed a neighborhood in Brockton.  I rang the doorbell at this one brick house, and a middle-aged man came to the door holding a cool glass of lemonade in his right hand.  As he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9th-district, boston, canvassing, democratic-primary, grassroots, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, progressive, stephen-lynch, u.s.-house-of-representatives

What the Grassroots Are All About

July 27, 2010 By mac-dalessandro 1 Comment

Our strong grassroots momentum has gained attention across the district.  Additionally, national organizations are taking notice of our campaign.  In addition to being a top finisher in Democracy for America's Grassroots All-Stars … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9th-district, bill-halter, blanche-lincoln, democracy-for-america, democratic-primary, dfa, grassroots, ilyse-hogue, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, moveon, moveon.org, netroots, progressive, stephen-lynch, u.s.-house-of-representatives

We Made the Finals! Now Let’s Win!

July 19, 2010 By mac-dalessandro 6 Comments

I'm proud to report that, thanks in no small part to the dogged support I've received from the BMG community, I am a finalist in Democracy for America's Grassroots All-Star contest!  Out of 90 campaigns for the U.S. House of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9th-district, democracy-for-america, democratic-primary, dfa, grassroots, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, netroots, progressive, stephen-lynch, u.s.-house-of-representatives

21 in 21 for the 9th District

July 12, 2010 By mac-dalessandro 3 Comments

I'm writing to you today to urge you to keep our momentum building by taking part in our grassroots outreach effort 21 in 21 for the 9th District.  Over the next three weeks, I will continue reaching out to our communities by visiting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9th-district, democratic-primary, facebook, grassroots, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, netroots, progressive, stephen-lynch, twitter, u.s.-house-of-representatives

Help Me Become a DFA Grassroots All-Star!

July 5, 2010 By mac-dalessandro 15 Comments

Blue Mass Group's endorsement has been extremely helpful when reaching out to progressive activists and voters. Here's another great opportunity to reach out to the netroots and grassroots. Democracy for America has just kicked off its 2010 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9th-district, democracy-for-america, democratic-primary, dfa, grassroots, ma-09, mac-dalessandro, netroots, progressive, stephen-lynch, u.s.-house-of-representatives

Activist Alert: FEC Comment Period for Volunteer Material Exemptions

April 6, 2010 By paulsimmons Leave a Comment

This may be of interest to those of you interested in grassroots activism and party-building. From my inbox: New Draft Policy on Volunteer Materials Available for Your Comment.‏ From: Federal Election Commission … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: activists, grassroots, state-parties, volunteers

Grassroots: Care & Feeding

February 11, 2010 By hubspoke 18 Comments

Following up this recent BMG thread, here is a BuzzFlash commentary on a new Rolling Stone piece about Obama's (and by extension, Patrick's) stewardship, or lack thereof, of supporters in the off years: While Tea Partiers were in the … [Read more...]

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BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
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Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

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It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

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Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

Nathan Phillips@nathanpboston

Streets that put people first, not cars - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/03/superblocks/ via @BostonGlobe

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DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
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Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

Chris Lu@ChrisLu44

This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

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jonfavsJon Favreau@jonfavs·
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“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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