10/02/2017 07:13 AM EDT
By Lauren Dezenski (ldezenski@politico.com; @LaurenDezenski) and Rebecca Morin (rmorin@politico.com; @RebeccaMorin_)
GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Sunny with a high in the upper 60s today.
BREAKING - LAS VEGAS (AP): Las Vegas sheriff says more than 20 people dead and more than 100 people injured at concert attack.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK - MORE RESISTANCE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC - Ultra-liberal Cambridge could be opening another front in its fight against the Trump administration tonight.
It could happen if the Cambridge City Council decides to take up a proposal, being introduced tonight, that calls on the city to cover the $495 fee for Cambridge-based DACA recipients to re-apply to the program.
This is the first-of-its-kind effort in Massachusetts, and is modeled after the similar proposal by Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo.
"It's a way our community can proactively support immigrants under attack by the Trump administration," Manny Lusardi, Liaison for Immigrant Affairs in the Vice Mayor's office and proposal's author, tells me. Vice Mayor Marc McGovern is co-sponsoring the order that would seek to set up a separate fund that would be overseen and run by Cambridge officials, but funded through private donations. The first step would be to determine the plan's legal feasibility and cost.
"With a White House waging war on immigrants and other vulnerable members of our society, it is more important than ever that local leaders step up to the plate," McGovern tells me. "That is why I am taking this action."
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TODAY - Gov. Charlie Baker and DCR Commissioner Leo Roy will join EF Education First for the groundbreaking of EF's latest building on its North Point Cambridge campus - The Pioneer Institute's legal arm PioneerLegal will file an amicus brief on behalf of plaintiffs in a Boston charter school case over five Boston Public Schools students who sued after not winning lotteries for admission to charter schools, to be argued in front of the Supreme Judicial Court today - Sen. Ed Markey plans to hold a roundtable discussion on administrative and congressional action to Puerto Rico disaster relief.
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DATELINE BEACON HILL -
- "Massachusetts fund created to aid Puerto Rico," by Shira Schoenberg, Masslive.com: "State and local officials on Friday announced the creation of the Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico Fund. The fund will be dedicated to relief and reconstruction of Puerto Rico and to support any Puerto Ricans who come to Massachusetts to escape the devastation of Hurricane Maria."
- "Democratic challenger criticizes Baker's Puerto Rico effort," by the Associated Press: "Baker announced Friday he will send a six-person National Guard unit for up to 30 days to help support satellite-based data and mobile communications on the hurricane-ravaged island. Warren's campaign said in a statement released Saturday: 'Is that a joke?'"
- "Should towns that ban pot dispensaries get the tax revenue?" by Dan Adams, Boston Globe: "Proponents of legalized marijuana are planning to push the Legislature to block cities and towns with such restrictions from receiving a single dime of the $150 million-plus in tax revenue the state could soon collect from retail cannabis sales."
- "Senate Judiciary Chair outlines criminal justice reforms," by Andy Metzger, State House News Service: "Senate members of the Judiciary Committee on Friday advanced a 114-page criminal justice bill that would phase out the indigent counsel fee, require regular reviews to determine whether a prisoner should stay in solitary confinement, and allow people to effectively wipe old charges from a national database. The proposal received support from four of the five Senate Democrats on the 17-member Judiciary Committee in a poll that ended Friday afternoon, according to the Senate chairman, who said there were no votes against it."
- "Democrats running for Massachusetts governor in 2018 support single-payer health care: Why?" by Shira Schoenberg, Masslive.com: "As Democrats nationally become increasingly supportive of single-payer health care, the three Democrats running for Massachusetts governor in 2018 have jumped on the single-payer bandwagon. In interviews, Newton Mayor Setti Warren, former health insurance executive and state budget chief Jay Gonzalez, and environmentalist and entrepreneur Bob Massie all said they support moving the state to a single-payer system."
TRUMPACHUSETTS -
- "Gov. Charlie Baker mixed on President Trump's tax proposal," by Shira Schoenberg, Masslive.com: "Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, said parts of President Donald Trump's proposed tax plan could help Massachusetts, but other parts could hurt the state. Baker said the most important thing in his mind is that Congress holds hearings and works across party lines on any tax reform bill."
ON THE STUMP -
- John Kingston, potential GOP challenger to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, joined the Republicans stumping for their party's state Senate candidate Jacob Ventura this weekend, Kingston's team tells me. Kingston knocked doors with Ventura in Walpole on Saturday and called on the other Republicans in the US Senate contest to do the same and visit the district in support of Ventura.
SPOTTED - Former mayoral candidate and former at-large City Councilor John Connolly endorsing District 1 City Council candidate Stephen Passacantilli at a meet and greet organized by Charlestown mothers last night
- "Barney Frank signs on with Jimmy Tingle's political bid," by Jim O'Sullivan, Boston Globe: "Jimmy Tingle, the comedian and newly declared Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, has signed up a member of the old guard as his honorary campaign chairman. Former Congressman Barney Frank, who stepped down in 2013 after more than two decades in the US House, will campaign with Tingle, the Cambridge comic said, after 'encouraging me for months to get in' the race."
- "Power base shifting in Valley congressional district," by Christian M. Wade, Eagle-Tribune: "Three of the recent Democrats who've represented the district - the late Paul Tsongas, Marty Meehan and most recently Niki Tsongas - were Lowell natives or residents. The Spindle City, with its 110,000 residents, is traditionally a key battleground that candidates must win, political observers say. But as a field of challengers to replace outgoing Rep. Niki Tsongas begins to take shape, the intensity of interest among political hopefuls is shifting noticeably northward."
THE WARREN REPORT -
- "Canada's wake-up call to the US on NAFTA," Elizabeth Warren, CNN: "President Donald Trump, a loud and persistent critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), recently began renegotiating this trade deal with Canada and Mexico. The President promised to secure a fair deal for American workers. That sounds great. After all, we don't think Americans should be forced to compete with poorly paid workers from Mexico or elsewhere, and we can demand that companies that want to trade with us lift wages, benefits, and health and safety standards for their foreign workers."
MOULTON MATTERS -
- "At Iowa steak fry, Bustos, Moulton and Ryan call on Democrats to refocus on Midwest working class," by Jason Noble, Des Moines Register: "Event headliners U.S. Reps. Cheri Bustos, Seth Moulton and Tim Ryan each argued that Democrats' disconnection with working people squeezed by stagnant wages, job losses and diminished opportunities has caused the party's years of mounting losses in state legislatures and Congress and its struggles in the Midwest in particular."
- "Seth Moulton - who? - plants his flag in Iowa," by James Pindell, Boston Globe: "Eight days after a wedding, most newlyweds are still on their honeymoon. Not US Representative Seth Moulton, who instead found himself in Iowa Saturday - without his wife - learning to flip a fried steak. ... He also just might have been laying the groundwork to run for president of the United States."
WOOD WAR - Herald: "HIDING FROM ICE BEHIND BARS," "THE JUICE IS LOOSE," "TERROR: NOW IT'S CANADA" - Globe: "Plan seeks to restrict marijuana receipts," "Student borrowers caught in limbo," "A STARTLING NET GAIN" "Spent shells offer map to illegal guns," "Builder should pay $19m for blocking light, church says."
THE LOCAL ANGLE -
- "Is Ed Markey Really the Best We Can Do?" by Michael Damiano, Boston Magazine: "In the first hours I spent with [Ed] Markey, there was a lot of this: jovial, head-in-the-clouds bonhomie. He trailed off, loudly cleared his throat, and interrupted himself mid-sentence to greet friends passing by. He sometimes seemed not to know where he was going next. (In his defense, a typical senator's day is a rat race planned on the fly and coordinated by a half-dozen smartphone-wielding aides.) The impression he gave was of a benevolent goof."
- "Why isn't Niki Tsongas worried?" by Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe: "Tsongas insists Trump's ascendancy was not a factor in her decision to retire: At 71, she says, she wanted to spend time with her growing brood of grandchildren. But what if Hillary Clinton were president?"
- "FEC fines contractor that gave pro-Clinton super PACs illegal cash," by Dave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity: "The Federal Election Commission has fined Boston-based Suffolk Construction Co., a federal government contractor, for making illegal contributions to a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC, according to a letter from the agency. The $34,000 settlement between the FEC and Suffolk appears to mark the FEC's first penalty against a government contractor for illegally contributing money to a super PAC - a kind of political group that may raise unlimited amounts of money from corporations and unions ."
- "Plymouth: Interview on Pilgrim Shutdown with Former Senator Dan Wolf," by Charles Mathewson, 95.9 WATD: "When the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth stops producing electricity in 2019, its owner will file what's called a Post Shutdown Activity Report. It will detail the plan to decommission the plant, including cleanup, spent fuel storage, safety and economic impact. As a State Senator for the Cape and Islands, Dan Wolf was a leading advocate for the Pilgrim shutdown."
- "Boston's high-tech plan to tackle income inequality," by Susan Crawford, Wired: "What if one key "result" that Boston wants and needs is greater social mobility for all of its people? What contribution will data make to "drive" that result? And how will will public policy need to change to take that data into account? The city is about to announce a fascinating new start of an answer: an Economic Mobility Lab, housed in the Mayor's Office."
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to former East Boston state Sen. Anthony Petruccelli
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? Yes! - The Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-7.
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