Secretary of airtime — Meet the MA-03 millionaires — Wooing the WooSox
08/20/2018 06:57 AM EDT
By Lauren Dezenski (ldezenski@politico.com; @laurendezenski) and Brent D. Griffiths (bgriffiths@politico.com; @BrentGriffiths)
GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Welcome to Monday.
WHEN THEY GO LOW, WE GO ON TV — The most contentious battle on the Boston media market's airwaves has nothing to do with the top-of-the-ticket races this fall. Instead, it's for the heated primary fight for the secretary of state's office.
Challenger and Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim cast the first stone. A $67,000 ad buy, which began on Wednesday and is running through today, is titled "Betrayed Our Values," and casts incumbent Secretary of State Bill Galvin as anti-progressive. At the same time, for the same amount of money, Zakim also began running a positive ad, titled "Progressive Choice." It casts Zakim as, you guessed it, the progressive choice in the race.
On Friday, Galvin rolled out one $100,000 negative ad, which continues to run through today, all according to ad tracking site AdMo. Titled "No Show Zakim," it charges Zakim did not vote in 15 elections, pushing the line Galvin brought up during the televised debate last week. "My opponent began the negative campaign," Galvin told me yesterday. "We will respond to whatever we are confronted with."
As Zakim's campaign pushed back to me yesterday: "Josh has not missed voting in a single election since registering in Boston in 2011. It's somewhat surprising that Secretary Galvin didn't just make an ad yelling at Josh to 'get off my lawn.'"
On top of the airwave dogfight, the two campaigns are still bickering over self-styled pledges to limit the influence of corporate money in the race. Galvin initially proposed a redux of the People's Pledge, like the one agreed to by Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown in 2012. Zakim, initially hesitant (which Galvin used to press him in last week's debate) subsequently proposed a so-called Progressive Pledge, which would include two more debates between the two candidates before Primary Day.
As of Sunday night, Galvin is "still reviewing" the new pledge offered by Zakim — look for the incumbent to make another volley with an "additional proposal tomorrow [Monday] to achieve the objective of having no outside money in the race," Galvin's spokeswoman Mara Dolan emailed last night.
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TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker, LG Karyn Polito, Education Secretary Jim Peyser, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders, Public Safety and Security Secretary Daniel Bennett, and Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeff Riley hold a roundtable on school shootings and safety at Burlington High School
— Rep. Jim McGovern is back from Central America and debriefs WBUR's Radio Boston at 3 p.m. — Rep. Michael Capuano appears on WBZ's Nightside with Dan Rea at 8 p.m.
THE TSONGAS ARENA —
- "3rd District candidates release new ads," by Sentinel & Enterprise staff: "TWO NEW television ads were announced for the 3rd Congressional District race this week — coincidentally starting just days after The Lowell Sun wrote about those that had previously been airing already. State Sen. Barbara L'Italien became the fourth candidate in the race to announce a TV campaign with an ad that will start running Monday. Fellow Democrat Rufus Gifford, meanwhile, launched his third commercial, more than either Dan Koh or Lori Trahan currently have on air."
- Trahan's second TV ad focuses on fight to help working people, from the Trahan campaign: Growing up in a household with three sisters and one bathroom, Lori Trahan spent many years pounding at the door. "It feels like we have to do the same thing with this Republican Congress," Trahan says in her second television ad set to begin airing Monday, Aug. 20. "I'll break down the door if that's what it takes to protect working people and equal pay."
- "No shortage of millionaires running for 3rd District," by Christian M. Wade, Daily News of Newburyport: "Running for Congress isn't a poor man's game, and the race to represent the Merrimack Valley in Washington has no shortage of millionaires. Five of 11 candidates seeking to replace outgoing Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Lowell, report assets worth tens of millions of dollars, according to financial disclosures filed recently with the U.S. House of Representatives."
- "Sole GOP candidate in 3rd Congressional District race walks fine line on Trump," by Mark Sullivan, Telegram & Gazette: "Rick Green, the only Republican candidate in the 3rd Congressional District race, is keeping his distance from President Donald Trump.
NOTE: THE MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE DOES NOT DISCLOSE THEIR DONORS, HAS AN OUT-OF-STATE POSTAL PERMIT, SENDS OUT EXPENSIVE & MISLEADING ATTACK POSTCARD VIOLATING THEIR PROPOSED MISSION.
Mr. Green, of Pepperell, founder of 1A Auto Parts and of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a watchdog group that advocates for fiscal responsibility in state government, served as chairman of Ohio Gov. John Kasich's Republican presidential campaign in the Bay State in 2016."
ON THE STUMP —
- "Massachusetts Politicians Look Ahead To Primary Contests," by Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press: "With their formal session wrapped up for the year, Beacon Hill lawmakers can spend more time in their districts talking to constituents and preparing for the fall elections — starting with the September primary. For many, that means not breaking a sweat."
- "Amatul-Wadud, Neal to meet in 2 debates," by the Greenfield Recorder: "Congressman Richard Neal and progressive challenger Tahirah Amatul-Wadud will participate in two televised debates in the days leading up to the Sept. 4 Democratic primary. A live, televised debate on WWLP is scheduled for Wednesday at 12:30 p.m."
- "From child refugee to Green Beret — to a seat in Congress?" by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe: "HISTORICAL REFERENCES CROP up with surprising frequency when you talk to Joe Schneider. I spent some time recently with Schneider, the Republican businessman and former Green Beret who is challenging Representative Seth Moulton in the race for the 6th Congressional District on Massachusetts's North Shore."
- "Massachusetts' Sept. 4 primary is coming up fast," by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe: "Why, pray tell, did the powers-that-be decide to hold the Massachusetts state and federal primary election on Tuesday, Sept. 4? And how will that affect turnout? There's the official answer and the conspiratorial answer."
- "Most local state lawmakers are on a glide path to reelection — but there are a few with challenges," by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe: "Incumbency rules on Beacon Hill and in the rest of the Boston area, where the majority of state legislators will not face a challenge on primary day, Sept. 4, nor on Election Day, Nov. 6. Still, there is competition for who will represent some Boston neighborhoods in the Legislature."
- "Ballots in towns that hand count votes lack write-in spaces," by Berna Dunau, Greenfield Recorder: "The Sept. 4 primary ballot in 10 of the smaller communities in the Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester District where votes are counted by hand won't have space specifically designated for a write-in vote — a development that has at least one candidate's campaign worried that the confusion will lead to lost votes."
CHARLIE BAKER FAIL!
DATELINE BEACON HILL —
- "Governor Baker turns his back on the innovation economy," by State Sen. Eric P. Lesser, Eric Paley and Shirley Paley, Boston Globe: "The Legislature recently passed a bipartisan measure to prohibit the worst types of trolling abuses. But instead of heralding the new protections as a win for innovation, Governor Baker caved to mild concerns of big business and vetoed the anti-trolling provision, killing any chance of reform until a new legislative session convenes next year. In a signing statement that accompanied his veto, the Governor acknowledged that "states have a role to play" in stopping patent trolling, but wanted a more "narrowly tailored" solution."
- "Rep. Barrett adjusts to political life as `backbencher,'" by Larry Parnass, The Berkshire Eagle: " If there are things that state Rep. John Barrett III, D-North Adams, would fix about his new political home, he's not saying. Barrett laughed when asked to name three qualities he would change about how the House works on Beacon Hill."
- "State Sen. Jamie Eldridge endorses Chelsea Kline in state Senate race," by Mary C. Serreze, MassLive.com: "A leading Massachusetts progressive has endorsed Chelsea Kline in the Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester Senate District race. State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, D-Acton, said the Legislature "needs more activist senators" and that Kline "is the exactly the kind of progressive leader that Western Massachusetts needs."
THE WARREN REPORT —
- "Sen. Warren goes On The Record about her opposition to the Trump administration," by WCVB ABC 5: "Sen. Elizabeth Warren discusses her opposition to the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, the results of Gov. Charlie Baker's time in office, the crushing costs of student loans and speculation that she'll run for president."
WOOD WAR — Herald: "CLOUD OVER THE CLERGY" — Globe: "US is said to eye $20m in loans to Cohen," "First lesson in college? Deciphering the bill," "A fitful first step," "A time, less than prime," "Baseball has long been stitched into Worcester lore."
THE LOCAL ANGLE —
- "Tax incentives key for PawSox stadium, land development in Worcester," by Nick Kotsopoulos, Telegram & Gazette: "Three tax-relief deals are a central part of the financing plan brought forward by City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. for the redevelopment of the former Wyman-Gordon property near Kelley Square and building a minor league baseball stadium there. As part of that plan, Mr. Augustus is recommending tax-increment financing incentives for the developer of two hotels being proposed and a tax-increment exemption incentive for the proposed market-rate residential development."
- "Next up for PawSox in Worcester: Managing the construction of a ballpark," by Nick Kotsopoulos, Telegram & Gazette: "The Worcester Redevelopment Authority is looking to lay the initial groundwork this week on the process for constructing a 10,000-seat stadium that will eventually be the new home for the Boston Red Sox top minor league team. The WRA board is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning, at which time it will consider authorizing the issuance of a request for services for the hiring of a project manager for the ballpark project."
- "With new casino, a big bet on Springfield," by Mark Arsenault, Boston Globe: "Seven years after Massachusetts legalized casino gambling, touching off a fierce competition among companies to stake their claim, MGM Springfield is set to open on Friday, marking the first time patrons can legally wager on table games such as blackjack and craps within Massachusetts. The casino will have 2,550 slot machines, 120 table games, and 23 poker tables, giving it a moderately-sized gambling portfolio, with about half as many slots as the gargantuan Foxwoods resort."
- "Counterprotesters meet Boston Free Speech rally group at City Hall," by Jeremy C. Fox, John Hilliard and Cristela Guerra, Boston Globe: "About 30 right-wing activists who had planned a "free speech" rally on Boston's City Hall Plaza faced off Saturday with about 300 counterprotesters in a war of words that became the latest in the nation's growing list of vitriolic public political confrontations.
As the rallies ranged from Beacon Hill to the Bunker Hill Monument, participants traded taunts and accusations, but no violence was reported."
- "Fine, probation ordered in megaphone-shoving incident before
Warren town hall," by Heather Bellow, The Berkshire Eagle: "A New York man who shoved a megaphone into the mouth of a U.S. Senate candidate last month has been fined and placed on probation for his role in the incident. Paul Solovay, 74, of Hillsdale, also will have to complete anger management classes as part of the sentence handed down Thursday by Judge Paul Vrabel in Southern Berkshire District Court."
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? No! The Red Sox lost to the Rays 2-0.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY — to Shannon McAuliffe, Candidate for Suffolk County DA, who celebrated her 50th birthday on Friday, and to the Massachusetts Playbook, which turned three on Sunday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY — to Boston.com scribe Nik DeCosta-Klipa.
FRESH OUT OF THE GATE — THE LATEST EPISODE OF THE HORSE RACE: Secretary of State Bill Galvin and his primary challenger Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim met this week for a tense, table-slapping debate. MassLive's Gin Dumcius joins us for a recap on the zesty #debategate. Then CommonWealth Magazine's Michael Jonas has the latest intrigue in the already "cloak and dagger" filled Suffolk County DA race, while Lauren checks in on the Republican primary for Senate. Subscribe and listen on iTunes and Sound Cloud
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