POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: MARCH staging — POLL angling — AirBNB taxing

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: MARCH staging — POLL angling — AirBNB taxing

NOTICE CHARLIE BAKER IS MISSING?

PREPARING TO MARCH - As marchers around the country prepare for Saturday's March for Our Lives protests inspired by Parkland, Florida, students, three of Massachusetts' ascendant pols have different approaches for how they're taking on the day.

First, there's Attorney General Maura Healey. Healey, who enjoyed a high-profile boost from speaking at the Women's March in Boston last winter, will be in Washington D.C. this Saturday. Parents of Sandy Hook Elementary students asked Healey to march alongside them, she said (which she details here). "I want to tell the story of Massachusetts," Healey told me yesterday. "The strategies are simple: strong gun laws save lives."

Then there's Rep. Seth Moulton. His campaign is covering the round-trip train transport costs for 300 high school students traveling from Salem to Boston on Saturday morning. Moulton, meanwhile, plans to march in San Francisco, per his office - he's in the Golden State for a series of fundraisers in Los Angeles and San Francisco for his 19 congressional candidates from Saturday until Wednesday.

And then there's Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Warren plans to kick off the morning by greeting marchers in Boston at Madison Park Vocational High School at 10 a.m., where they'll stage before heading to the Boston Common. Warren then plans to head to Springfield to march there - it's just a coincidence that Springfield is also home to the Smith and Wesson Corporation, her campaign tells me.

TEAM SETTI WEIGHS IN - Spokesman Kevin Franck emails me: "This poll is the first to take a serious look under the hood of Baker's infamous poll numbers, and it's not good news for him. ...All around the country, Democrats are winning elections in places where we're not usually competitive. A blue wave is building and when that wave crashes in Massachusetts in November with Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Attorney General Maura Healey at the top of the ticket, Charlie Baker's record will catch up with him."

CHARLIE BAKER ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL!

- "How they got caught: Mass. State Police overtime scandal began with investigation of one trooper," by By Scott J Croteau, MassLive.com: "That first trooper investigated appears to be Eric Chin, according to reports from the Boston Globe. He was suspended without pay in April 2017 while he was investigated for receiving overtime cash for shifts he didn't work, the newspaper says."

CHARLIE BAKER'S FAILURE TO LEAD!

- "State business group warns of energy 'shortage'," by Michael P. Norton State House: "Another business group has joined those already clamoring to let more natural gas into the region, and indirectly clashing with renewable energy proponents who have become an aggressive lobbying force on Beacon Hill. In a March 12 letter to Gov. Charlie Baker and legislative leaders released on Tuesday, the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership said renewables are not coming online fast enough to keep up with demand for energy and the planned retirements of coal, oil and nuclear power sources."

ANOTHER CHARLIE BAKER BRAIN FART?

- "Retailers don't want to be Baker's $1B 'guinea pig,' group says," by Greg Ryan, Boston Business Journal: "The Retailers Association of Massachusetts is opposing a proposal to require retailers to hand over sales taxes on certain purchases to the state daily, rather than monthly."

CHARLIE BAKER IGNORED THE SOARING OVERTIME!

- "Senate Prez Chandler Calls Massachusetts State Police OT Scandal Criminal; Duo Of MSP Retirees Accused Of Fraud ID'd," by Evan Lips, New Boston Post: "Senate President Harriette Chandler is going where Governor Charlie Baker has yet to tread regarding an explosive Massachusetts State Police report accusing more than 20 state troopers of doctoring their overtime filings to haul in paychecks for work they never did. 'They're crimes, and it's something that I assume that the proper authorities will deal with,' the Worcester Democrat told Jim Braude and Margery Eagan during an interview with Boston Public Radio on Wednesday."

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