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MASSterList: The Scott Lively Show | Lipstick strategy | Ancient and Honorable racket

Charlie Baker has been fund-raising and glad-handing and campaigning for re-election for + 3 years....how are we going to tell that he's not campaigning?

Governor’s re-election strategy: Pretend there’s no election until August   Gov. Charlie Baker has apparently adopted a sort of Rose Garden strategy for his re-election: Stay busy, busy, busy on official state business, get through the legislative session and then, around August, acknowledge, sort of, that he has a right-wing lunatic running against him in the GOP primary. Gintautas Dumcius at MassLive and SHNS’s Matt Murphy at the Salem News have the details. Btw: The Herald, in an editorial, says Baker is absolutely right not to debate right-wing rival Scott Lively and “should not be complicit in giving his primary opponent press” in general. But the Herald, reflecting its pro-Trump shift under its new owner, comes back to how Baker shouldn’t ignore Donald Trump. It’s a convoluted editorial, yes. Wynn Resorts’ lipstick-on-a-pig strategy   The Globe’s Joan Vennochi says all the recent moves by Wynn Resorts – firing Steve Wynn, adding women to its board and changing the name of its Everett casino – still amounts to putting lipstick on a pig until current executives are held accountable for their enabling of the company’s former CEO, Steve Wynn, an accused serial sexual harasser. Congressional delegation lines up behind Kennedy over Fall River plant closing   From Dan Atkinson at the Herald: “U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III is demanding Philips Lighting keep more than 100 jobs in Fall River instead of moving them to Mexico — and Kennedy is pushing President Trump to intervene, laying the layoffs at his feet. Kennedy, in a letter to Philips co-signed by the rest of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, accused the company of using the Trump tax cuts to reward shareholders instead of keeping jobs here.”   The Herald’s Joe Battenfeld thinks Kennedy is picking a fight worth fighting – and a fight that could represent a “break out” moment for him on the national stage.     The T’s ridership estimates are all over the map   Bruce Mohl at CommonWealth magazine cites some of the ways the MBTA’s unreliable/inconsistent ridership estimates are impacting major decisions at the transit agency. Separately, Mohl also has a story on the T’s hiring of a new vendor to manage its paratransit services. CommonWealth