The last few weeks have been pretty dismal for Speaker DiMasi: Vitale, Cashman, and software, oh my. Well, what's our response? What do we need right now? What does Sal need right now? Is there overlap?Speaker DiMasi often drives us … [Read more...]
Will the next House Speaker be another Finneran?
In the mid-90s, a similar battle was joined. When then-Ways and Means Chairman Tom Finneran lacked the votes to win within the Democratic Party, he turned to the Republicans for help, in a shrewd, unexpected, last-minute gambit. Finneran … [Read more...]
Like a “Box of Chocolates” there is something for everyone in this “consolidated amendment”
At about 11 PM on Friday night, the members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives were given an 18 page "Consolidated Amendment". That is 18 pages single spaced. Like a box of chocolates, there is something for … [Read more...]
Leadership roller-derby in the House
Well, this certainly does not sound pretty. Sal DiMasi's had a tough couple of months. It's definitely been a bad week, with stories coming out of unseemly (if not outright illegal) lobbying, and killing legislation in order to … [Read more...]
Poll – are YOU civic engaged – or NOT?
I figure the questions needs to be asked. After all, if "you" are silent and are not informed, you will be out-voiced by others who are not silent and are involved. That does not make your legislators "venal" but there is an old, … [Read more...]
Oh, THAT loophole!
Well, well, well, how that THAT get in here? Looks like there was an amendment in the House's loophole-closing tax bill that, well, blasts another enormous loophole open -- for companies that keep their business overseas. The provision … [Read more...]
With all of these special elections going on . . .
Another HUGE part of what does or does not happen on the Hill, which my previous point touches on, is that it makes more sense to fall into lockstep with leadership in the Legislature than to actually stick up for things, like the Municipal … [Read more...]
Deval Tries Another Door
Criss-posted at Marry in Massachusetts. I confess that a good part of me likes the President Lyndon Johnson persona instead. In the U.S. Senate, then as VP and prez, he was a fearsome and sometimes brutal politician. From the 1964 Civil … [Read more...]
Casino, smeno!
300million/year projected tax revenue (MTF projection) - 125million lottery shortfall (plus additional drop at time of casino opening and inflation) - … [Read more...]
Did Deval get his groove back?
They also conveniently left out this whopper “I am asking you again to voice that sense of urgency,” he said to the municipal leaders. “Let your representatives and senators know the cost of inaction is too high.” So … [Read more...]
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