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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
HE'S RUNNING — Rep. Seth Moulton announced he's running for president on Monday, vowing to engage young people and military veterans and becoming the third Massachusetts politician to throw a hat into the 2020 ring.
An Iraq veteran who led an unsuccessful effort to oust Nancy Pelosi from the House leadership last year, the 40-year-old Moulton has said he plans to run a campaign focused on national security and defense issues, which his campaign argues will make him a foil to President Donald Trump. Moulton was elected to Congress in 2014, after he upset former Democratic Rep. John Tierney in a primary fight. The Salem lawmaker is serving his third term.
"I'm running because we have to beat Donald Trump, and I want us to beat Donald Trump because I love this country. We've never been a country that gets everything right. But we're a country that, at our best, thinks that we might," Moulton, who will visit New Hampshire Tuesday, said in a campaign launch video.
Moulton's 2020 website went live on Monday morning , highlighting Moulton's positions on foreign policy and national security, jobs, health care, climate change and leadership. The websitealso has a store with T-shirts, hats and tote bags.
Moulton's announcement follows a number of developments signaling his 2020 ambitions. Last week, POLITICO reported that Moulton chose a campaign manager, drafted a new logo and used polling firm The Mellman Group for pre-campaign research. Moulton locked down co-working spaces in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., according to the Boston Globe. Moulton was also seen filming what appeared to be a campaign announcement video in a photo last week.
Moulton joins Massachusetts candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former GOP Gov. William Weld in seeking the presidency.
Moulton plans to visit all four early voting states this week, and will appear on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday night. Moulton will head to New Hampshire for events Tuesday, and on Wednesday will speak at Politics & Eggs — a popular stop among 2020 hopefuls in that state. Later Wednesday, Moulton will travel to South Carolina. On Thursday, the congressman will visit Iowa, then head to California on Friday and Nevada on Saturday. Moulton has visited each of the early primary and caucus states in recent months.
Despite being the 19th Democrat to announce a presidential run, Moulton's campaign sees the field as "wide open" at this point in the 2020 contest.
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TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker and Rep. Bill Keating attend the Plymouth Holmes Dam Removal & Newfield Street Bridge Replacement Dedication. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito attends a Children's League of Massachusetts meeting. Baker and Polito attend a STEM luncheon at MassForward: A vision for 2030. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh celebrates $11 million in Community Preservation Act funding at Memorial Hall in Charlestown. Rep. Seth Moulton announces his 2020 campaign on Good Morning America.
Sen. Ed Markey talks about the Green New Deal at UMass Boston. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Pete Buttigieg are in Manchester for back-to-back CNN town halls. Attorney General Maura Healey is a guest on "Boston Public Radio." Rep. Lori Trahan appears on "Radio Boston." The House meets in formal session to debate the fiscal 2020 budget.
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 | DATELINE BEACON HILL |
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— "Proposal nudges sheriffs into civil asset forfeiture," by Andy Metzger, CommonWealth Magazine: "THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION and House leaders seem intent on giving the state's sheriffs a more formal role in accessing civil asset forfeiture money - the controversial bounty that law enforcement officials take from suspected criminals. State law calls for forfeiture funds to be split evenly between police and prosecutors, but occasionally some of the funds have been shared with at least one sheriff. The budgets proposed by Gov. Charlie Baker and House leaders contain a provision that would set up trusts to collect those funds. Baker officials portray the budget provision as an accounting change, but some are wary of what it might portend."
— "Group vows to fight therapy ban," by Christian M. Wade, The Salem News: "A conservative group is vowing to challenge the state's newly enacted ban on a controversial form of therapy that seeks to alter teens' sexual orientation or gender identity. Last week, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed legislation outlawing so-called "conversion therapy" by prohibiting licensed mental health professionals from using the techniques and requiring public school teachers and others to report suspected instances of it being used on minors. The bill passed the Democratic-led House and Senate with bipartisan support, making Massachusetts the 16th state to approve such a ban ."
— "Garry lone vote against lifting state welfare cap," by Elise Takahama, The Lowell Sun: "As the Legislature approaches a final vote this week, it's nearly united on a decision to override Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of a bill that would eliminate a welfare benefits cap for the state's neediest families and children. The single vote against the bill in the House came from Rep. Colleen Garry, D-Dracut. "I felt it was important to stand by the governor," said Garry, whose district also include Tyngsboro."
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| FROM THE HUB |
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— "Boston public school superintendent finalists' public interviews starts Monday," Jonathan Ng, Boston Herald: "Boston public schools will open three days of public interviews and discussions Monday to determine who will lead the school district. The three finalists vying for the top school job are Oscar Santos, head of Cathedral High School, Marie Izquierdo, chief academic officer for Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Brenda Cassellius, the former Minnesota commissioner of education. "Similar to the 2015 Superintendent Search Process, each finalist will spend one day in Boston participating in a series of public interviews with the School Committee, as well as panel discussions with BPS students, parents, teachers, school leaders, and community partners," said School Committee Chairman Michael Loncoto in a letter earlier this month."
— "UMass Boston professors fume about competition from Mount Ida campus," by Laura Krantz, Boston Globe: " When UMass Amherst unexpectedly purchased the leafy campus of failing Mount Ida College in Newton last year, UMass Boston professors were furious. They feared the system flagship would eat their market share and steal away students. Fear not, said the officials at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their new campus would house students during internships, facilitate philanthropy with Boston donors, and allow collaboration with industry, but it would not, Amherst said, offer academic programs that directly compete with Boston."
— "Why Boston's Brightest Industry Stars Are Throwing in the Towel," by Jon Gorey, Boston Magazine: "With the local unemployment rate near a 30-year low, inflation-adjusted household incomes in Massachusetts at their highest levels in at least three decades, and a new office building popping up on the skyline every time you blink, one could argue it's a golden age for workers in Boston. But a lot of us, it seems, can't stop hustling long enough to notice it. "We do have a cult of overwork," confirms Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change and a professor of science journalism at Boston University. A 2018 Gallup poll found that nearly half of American workers put in 45 hours or more a week—and there's reason to believe Bostonians are particularly prone to this malady."
— "Mayor Marty Walsh Says His Budget Supports Immigrant Defense Fund," Associated Press: "Mayor Marty Walsh says he's including money in his budget proposal for a legal defense fund for immigrants. The Democratic mayor said Saturday his proposal includes $50,000 in city funding for the Greater Boston Immigrant Defense Fund. The fund is a public-private partnership that works to increase access to legal representation for people facing deportation proceedings and educate the community about their rights."
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| WARREN REPORT |
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— "How 2020 Democrats Are Gaming Out Trump Impeachment Quandary," by Matt Flegenheimer and Jonathan Martin, New York Times: "Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has worked for months to find traction in a crowded Democratic presidential primary, stepped forward on Friday with a call to arms: President Trump must be impeached. What followed, generally, was conspicuous silence — and not just from her colleagues in Congress."
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— "Massachusetts To Receive $61 Million For Local AmeriCorps Programs," Associated Press: "Massachusetts will receive $61 million in federal funding to support local AmeriCorps programs. Members of the state's congressional delegation announced the grants this week, which were awarded to 26 organizations based in Massachusetts and will support more than 6,600 AmeriCorps members. AmeriCorps members help with a range of projects from early childhood education to environmental conservation."
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| TRUMPACHUSETTS |
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— "In Massachusetts, outrage is a matter of geography," by Brian MacQuarrie and Laura Crimaldi, Boston Globe: "A thunderclap or a thud. From deep-blue Cambridge to red-tinged East Brookfield, the release of the Mueller report caused a flurry of excitement or a shrug of indifference, generating a ravenous appetite for more details or reinforcing a belief that its findings were fixed. From eclectic Harvard Square to the birthplace of baseball's Connie Mack, the reaction to Mueller's work was told in a bifurcated tale of two distinctly different Massachusetts communities — one that cast 89 percent of its votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016, the other that sided 57 percent for President Trump."
— "Trump's strategy is to turn Americans into 'nationalists who hate everybody else,' Weld says," by John Hilliard, Boston Globe: "Former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld, who is challenging President Trump as a Republican candidate in 2020, blasted the president for his attacks on democratic institutions and for stoking nationalist rhetoric as Trump seeks money for a wall along the Mexican border. "It's part of his strategy to try to get everybody upset, and divide the country and persuade us that we shouldn't be patriots who love our own country and our own people," Weld said."
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| KENNEDY COMPOUND |
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— "The Last Kennedy," by Edward-Isaac Dovere, The Atlantic:"He's the last Kennedy left in politics. He's young, has a national profile, and has come at economics and other issues more thoughtfully and more forcefully than most of the people who are running for president. That's why a number of party power players, led by Louis Susman, an investment banker and the former ambassador to Britain under Barack Obama, came to him last year, telling him the answer to the 'Why not me?' election the Democrats are in the middle of was 'Why not you?' Kennedy listened. He considered running. For brief moments, he even entertained it."
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| ABOVE THE FOLD |
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— Herald: "BOOM!" "DOES THE IRA HAVE THEM?" — Globe:"Workers, grocer in deal to end costly strike," "Blasts generate 'a river of blood.'" |
| THE LOCAL ANGLE |
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— "Worcester city manager has big building plans for city," by Nick Kotsopoulos, Telegram & Gazette: "City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. has unveiled a $166.4 million capital spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1 that calls for significant investments for improvements to city buildings, parks and public works infrastructure, as well as equipment upgrades. The plan also calls for a borrowing of $27.9 million for the Polar Park ballpark project and $4.1 million worth of borrowings for facility and equipment upgrades for the Worcester public schools."
— "Deal-making routine for developers, towns in Mass." by Neal Simpson, Patriot Ledger: "Municipal leaders say they need these deals to help cover the costs that cities and towns bear when a new development is built, including increased demand on police, fire and school departments, water systems, roads and other infrastructure that keep communities working. Some developers agree, saying the deals give them the flexibility to make their projects work for the communities where they're doing business. But others say the deals make projects more expensive and unpredictable, adding to the high cost and shortage of housing that many consider a crisis in Massachusetts. Critics also say the deals can corrupt the local approval process for construction projects and tend to favor developers with deep enough pockets to sweeten the pot for cities and towns."
— "Cape Air takes to the sea," by Ethan Genter, Cape Cod Times: "Cape Air's plan to take to the water is moving forward with the acquisition of Shoreline Aviation, a seaplane company. The new service will bring seaplane service back to Boston Harbor for the first time since 1946, according to Cape Air. "It's a really exciting moment for us," said Cape Air founder and CEO Daniel Wolf. "It opens up a ton of opportunities in places that are hard to get to." The deal went through on Dec. 27 but was announced Thursday."
SPOTTED: At a black tie Passover seder Friday night in Brookline, Mass. hosted by Romney and Treasury alum Michael Greenwald (pic) ... Paula Dobriansky, Cofer Black, Kerry Healey, Dana Al Fardan, Farah Pandith, Michelle Kosinski, Suzanne Kianpour, Kent Lucken, Barbara Greenwald, Marisa Greenwald Kenney and Keith Kenney, Stephen and Roxanne Petraeus, Jean Paul Engelen and Will Rich.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY — to Colin Reed, managing director of Definers Public Affairs, Jessie Zimmerer, David Beauregard and Josh Delaney, who all celebrated Saturday.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? Yes, yes and yes! The Red Sox beat the Rays 4-3. The Celtics beat the Pacers 110-106. The Bruins beat the Maple Leafs 4-2.
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