MASSterList: Hefner fallout | Just lead, Charlie | ‘Rascal ghost,’ Part II

MASSterList: Hefner fallout | Just lead, Charlie | ‘Rascal ghost,’ Part II

CHARLIE BAKER IS INCAPABLE OF LEADING OR GOVERNING!  TEFLON CHARLIE KEEPS DUCKING RESPONSIBILITY AND ACTION.

Healey on State Police scandals: Baker needs to ‘lead on this’   Beacon Hill Democrats may have their share of political problems these days, thanks to Bryon Hefner. But so does Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, thanks to Troop F. From Gintautas Dumcius at MassLive: “Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey lit into the State Police and called on Gov. Charlie Baker to take a more aggressive stance in cleaning up the troubled law enforcement agency. ... ‘These are significant issues and the public is understandably upset and concerned about what continues to come out and what continues to be reported,’ Healey told reporters on Thursday. ‘I think this is a matter of transparency, accountability, and I think it's time that the Baker administration take a leadership role in this issue.’” The administration is responding that it has appointed a new State Police chief and that the new chief is reviewing “accountability and supervisory policies to determine opportunities to improve the department's performance," etc. etc. SHNS’s Colin Young at Wicked Local has more. Btw: The Globe’s Nestor Ramos has a good column this morning on how it’s going to be a little more difficult for some people to put up with Troop F staties telling them to “move along” while picking up and dropping off passengers at Logan. MassLive

A familiar name is named in State Police OT scandal

Speaking of State Police scandals, Scott Croteau of MassLive reports that the identities of several of the State Police troopers in the thick of the overtime scandal have been confirmed. Among them is none other than Trooper Matthew Sheehan, who was already on suspension for posting racially insensitive remarks online when the overtime audit was released. Sheehan, who the Globe earlier reported called himself “Big Irish” in online postings, used overtime shifts to push his annual pay above $230,000 in each of the last two years.   Action in Congress has tribe’s hopes rising on First Light casino but ...   The Bay State’s two U.S. Senators, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, have filed legislation that would bypass a lawsuit-stalled Interior Department review process and grant reservation status to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s property in Taunton, clearing the path for a long-sought casino to open, Craig LeMoult reports at WGBH. Similar legislation had previously been filed in the House, but even the sponsor of that bill, U.S. Rep. Bill Keating, acknowledges the prospects of passage before the November mid-term elections look slim.  WGBH

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