POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: STORM disruptions — GATES nixes Boston trip — Another DA retires

MASSACHUSETTS SHOULD IMPLEMENT A STATUTE REQUIRING EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEE TO TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - THEN WE'D SEE HOW QUICKLY THE GRIDLOCK AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM GETS CORRECTED.


GOVERNOR BAKER PRESIDED OVER THE MASSIVE FAILURE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN 2015, PROMISED TO CORRECT IT.......WE'RE STILL WAITING!

NOT ONLY WERE FARES RAISED AND NIGHT SERVICE ELIMINATED, BUT CHARLIE APPOINTED OVERPAID INCOMPETENTS FOCUSED MORE ON PRIVATIZATION AND NONSENSE THAN MAKING THE SYSTEM WORK TO SERVE THE PUBLIC.

RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION, CHARLIE BAKER ESTABLISHED A TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION THAT EXCLUDES THE SOUTH COAST, ANNOUNCED HIS 'BIG DIG' FOLLY

CHARLIE BAKER'S $935 MILLION BIG DIG!

CHARLIE BAKER CANCELLED FUNDING FOR THE MIDDLEBORO ROTARY, A COLOSSAL FAILURE AFFECTING 47,000 VEHICLES EACH DAY AND GRID LOCKING THE REGION. CHARLIE BAKER CANCELLED THE RESTORATION OF THE HISTORIC  TAUNTON SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE AND MUCH ELSE. 

CHARLIE BAKER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DOWNGRADING OF MASSACHUSETTS AND THE DOWNGRADING OF MASSACHUSETTS' BOND RATING THAT WILL COST TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 

AND THE MEDIA CONTINUES TO GIVE HIM A PASS? EVEN LOUDMOUTHED HOWIE CARR CAN'T SEEM TO MUSTER THE COURAGE TO ADDRESS CHARLIE BAKER'S NUMEROUS FAILURES. 

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: STORM disruptions — GATES nixes Boston trip — Another DA retires

Jay Gonzalez planned to travel from Gov. Charlie Baker's neighborhood in Swampscott to the State House to highlight the importance of public transportation. Gonzalez planned a similar transit experience during the last major winter storm in the beginning of January to highlight Baker's shortcomings on the transit system - and experienced an uncontroversial smooth ride.

This time, Gonzalez is skipping the trip, citing the weather event that's expected to be even worse than the January storm and postponing until Monday.

And in case you needed any other indication this nor'easter storm is serious: legendary meteorologist Jim Cantore will broadcast from Scituate this morning.

WHERE IS CHARLIE BAKER ON THIS DOR FAILURE?

- "Revenue Dept. failed to deliver timely child support payments," by Michael Levenson and Joshua Miller, Boston Globe: "The state Department of Revenue, already under fire for a data breach of sensitive tax information, acknowledged Thursday that it has failed to deliver timely child support payments to about 1,500 parents in Massachusetts since the beginning of the year. Revenue officials blamed the problem on a faulty computer system implemented in January and said it affected only a tiny percentage of the state's 160,000 child support recipients."

- "Feds say Boston's sanctuary city policy is 'serious risk'," by Dan Atkinson, Boston Herald: "Federal officials asked Boston police to detain 68 suspected illegal immigrants last year, a 353 percent increase over 2016 that has an advocacy group seething - but the feds are blasting the city for not honoring any of the detainment requests and letting numerous 'criminal aliens' out on bail. Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, said it was unclear if any of the 68 people posed a threat to the community and slammed the increase in detainers as federal fearmongering."

AS GOVERNOR, CHARLIE BAKER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATE POLICE. WHERE'S CHARLIE BAKER'S OVERSIGHT?

THE LOCAL ANGLE -

- "Trooper involved in shooting has history of racist online posts," by Evan Allen and Andrea Estes, Boston Globe: "The Massachusetts State Police trooper who fired his rifle during a police confrontation in which a Cape Verdean ATV driver was injured in Boston on Saturday has a long history of posting racist and profane comments on a website called MassCops, including some in support of police officers who shoot suspects. State Police spokesman David Procopio said in a statement that the department has opened an 'immediate investigation' into the posts."