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...]
Money in Politics – Grassroots Org Urges Commonwealth to Lead the Nation
Press Release May 12, 2016 - For Immediate Release - PassMassAmendment press contacts: Gina Sonder & Nick Bokron, pasmassamendmentpsa at gmail dot com; 781-715-7822 A grassroots group attempting to get BIG MONEY OUT of … [Read more...]
Don Berwick’s appearance on my local access TV show, “All Politics Is Local”
I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Don Berwick for an hour-long episode of my local access cable TV show, "All Politics Is Local". We managed to cover every bullet item found under the issues tab at BerwickforGovernor.com Here's … [Read more...]
Let’s end child poverty
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...]
MA-Gov: Video from Dan Wolf’s breakfast event in Lowell, 7-13-2013
I had the honor of representing Milford at yesterday's Massachusetts State Democratic Party Convention in Lowell. I got there about 8:10 AM because I wanted to attend the breakfast event being put on by Dan Wolf. After his post here at BMG … [Read more...]
Helping to fix our infrastructure problems: my Globe op-ed
Dear BMG'ers, I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed that appears in today's Boston Globe. It highlights our infrastructure and transportation crisis and offers an approach that will not only fund long-overdue investments, but … [Read more...]
More on Deval 2.0 and grassroots governing
A couple of days ago, Patrick advisor Doug Rubin, Baker advisor Rob Gray, and political reporters Frank Phillips and Joe Battenfeld did an hour-long panel discussion about the just-concluded campaign. The whole thing is quite … [Read more...]
Sorry Charlie, it wasn’t Tim’s fault
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...]
Deval 2.0 re-ups governing from the grassroots
Today's Globe has an interesting interview with Governor Patrick - the whole thing is worth reading. Of particular interest to BMGers, I thought, is this bit: [In 2007, legislative leaders] didn't like Patrick supporters trying to … [Read more...]
John Walsh: grassroots superhero
Don't miss the excellent article in today's Globe about Mass. Dems chair and grassroots superhero John Walsh. There are many impressive things about how John turned disaster in January into triumph in November. For me, perhaps the … [Read more...]
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