MASSterList: ‘March four'easter’ | RMV going dark | Poor Wellesley

MASSterList: ‘March four'easter’ | RMV going dark | Poor Wellesley

CHARLIE BAKER HAS NEVER MET AN INCOMPETENT POLITICAL HACK HE DIDN'T EMBRACE....REMEMBER THOSE DOR FAILURES?  THIS IS THE DUMBEST DEFENSE CHARLIE BAKER HAS OFFERED YET!

Baker: ‘We’re going to outlaw people from Wellesley from working in the administration?’   In an apparently testy exchange with reporters, Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday gave a “vigorous defense” of his budget chief’s past hiring of Wellesley pals, associates and country club members at the Department of Revenue, reports Matt Stout at the Globe. “Every single one of those people was qualified to do their job,” Baker said. “So we’re going to outlaw people from Wellesley from working in the administration?” As Stout notes, the governor’s remarks yesterday were in contrast to his comments on the campaign trail in 2014, when he vowed “strong medicine” on patronage hirings, etc. The Democratic Party, typically, is calling for an investigation into the DOR matter. Why always an investigation? They should be just swinging away at the hypocrisy and having a political joie-de-vivre time on this one. SHNS’s Katie Lannan (pay wall) has more. Boston Globe BRISTOL COUNTY SHERIFF TOO BUSY MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF TO DO HIS JOB?     Inmate suicides spike in Massachusetts   From Chris Burrell and Jennifer McKim of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, writing at WGBH: “Fourteen inmates died by suicide in Massachusetts prisons and jails in 2017, the highest such number of deaths since 2014, according to state and county data. Those who died include four who hanged themselves in state prisons and 10 who died in county jails that together house about 20,000 prisoners, according to data collected by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting.” WGBH  STOUGHTON PETER BUCKLEY RACIST POST In Stoughton, selectman candidate not backing down from 2012 Facebook photo   Will a six-year-old social media post matter in a 2018 election? The town of Stoughton may help answer that question after a candidate for selectman defended his 2012 posting of an image that the NAACP deemed “offensive” at the time. Joe Pelletier reports in the Enterprise that Peter Buckley says he felt the image was ‘humorous’ at the time -- and still does -- and is willing to talk to anyone offended about his decision to repost it. Buckley is one of four candidates seeking two seats on Stoughton’s select board; he also serves as legal counsel for the town of Arlington.  Enterprise

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