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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. TGIF!
MOULTON'S NOT LOSING SLEEP — Rep. Seth Moulton won't be among the 20 Democratic candidates on the debate stage later this month. But that's not keeping him up at night.
That's what Moulton told supporters in an email yesterday afternoon, just as the Democratic National Committee officially announced which candidates would be included in the first debates.
"I knew that getting in the race so late there was a strong chance I'd miss the first debate— and yes, I will," Moulton wrote. "But fear not! I'm not losing any sleep over it, and neither should you."
Just a few hours later, it was business as usual for Moulton. He gave a talk at the Kennedy Institute where he hit on his campaign themes of national service and ushering a new generation of leadership into Washington. He also reiterated that he's not worried about missing the first debate. In his view, the Democratic primary won't be won on a debate stage in Miami months before voters head to the polls.
"The bottom line is that I'm not concerned . I'm also not naive. Look, it's a big field. We poll very well among people who know me, but most Americans don't know me yet," Moulton told WBUR's Kimberly Atkins last night. "It just takes time."
Moulton compares his standing in the presidential primary to his congressional race against former Rep. John Tierney in 2014. Polling showed him far behind the incumbent, but he stuck it out and pulled off a win. He also compares it to the 2016 GOP primary field, which he pointed out in his email.
"This race is a marathon, not a sprint. At this point in the 2016 presidential campaign, Jeb Bush was leading in the Republican primary. Ben Carson was in second. And Donald Trump hadn't even announced his candidacy yet," Moulton wrote.
But after almost two months in the race , Moulton wasn't able to gain 1 percent in two DNC-approved polls or amass 65,000 individual campaign donors. That puts him behind less conventional candidates like entrepreneur Andrew Yang and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson. And several candidates who got into the race after Moulton were also able to clear at least one of the debate criteria, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet.
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TODAY — Boston Mayor Marty Walsh speaks at an event titled "2020 Census: Roxbury Matters." Walsh is a guest on "Boston Public Radio." Sen. Elizabeth Warren attends the Manchester Democratic City Committee Flag Day dinner in New Hampshire. Rep. Lori Trahan attends a Hispanic business leaders roundtable in Lawrence and hosts a 2020 census forum. Rep. Joe Kennedy III attends a ribbon cutting for the Golda Meir House in Auburndale.
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 | DATELINE BEACON HILL |
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- "Suit challenges school-funding formula, but it's unclear if it will spur Legislature to act," by James Vaznis, Boston Globe: "With wide disparities in spending among Massachusetts public schools, legal and education experts have long expected the filing of a lawsuit seeking a remedy. But when one was filed Thursday, they differed on what impact, if any, it would have in getting a school-funding bill passed on Beacon Hill. "It's the right time to prod the legislative branch to do something," said Mark Paige, an associate professor at the Department of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Paul Reville, a former state education secretary, said merely filing a lawsuit at the Supreme Judicial Court would be unlikely to accelerate the legislative process, noting lawmakers are already working under a threat of litigation by several groups. But plaintiffs in this case have solid legal ground, he emphasized."
- "Baker: Repairs to T must not shut out riders," by Andy Metzger, CommonWealth Magazine: "GOV. CHARLIE BAKER says the MBTA faces real constraints on how quickly it can repair and upgrade the region's transit system, but Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu says a historic lack of urgency is to blame for the T's shoddiness. "We've reached this point of transportation crisis because of a failure to act quickly enough and boldly enough. We have to wake up," Wu said in an interview Thursday. "The governor is calling it progress when he's made a plan to reach barely functional service at some point in the future, and is claiming victory that we're inching in the right direction. But if you ask any daily T rider, service has gotten worse over the last few years." Baker said he will speak to officials at the T every day until the Red Line bottleneck caused by a debilitating derailment on Tuesday is fixed, but it is unclear when that will be. Baker, who has claimed the T is "heading in the right direction," said it would likely take several more days before the T has a timeline."
- "Massachusetts argues Sal DiMasi can't be a lobbyist because he was illegally lobbying when he was House Speaker," by Steph Solis, MassLive.com: "Former House Speaker Sal DiMasi is ineligible to become a lobbyist not just because of his federal corruption conviction, but because the actions that led to those convictions involved unauthorized lobbying, a commonwealth attorney argued Thursday. DiMasi, 73, now of Melrose, appeared at a pre-conference hearing Thursday afternoon challenging the state's decision to block him from lobbying, based on the former House Speaker's 2011 conviction on federal charges that he steered state contracts to Cognos, a Burlington-based software company, in exchange for kickbacks."
- "AG Maura Healey's office investigating alleged racism toward students at Museum of Fine Arts," by Lisa Kashinsky, Boston Herald: "The Civil Rights Division of the state attorney general's office is investigating incidents of alleged racism toward a group of Dorchester students visiting the Museum of Fine Arts last month. "Following public reports about the field trip, our office reached out to the Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy and the MFA," Jillian Fennimore, spokeswoman for Attorney General Maura Healey, said in a statement Thursday."
- "BAKER MOVES QUICKLY TO SIGN PAID LEAVE PAYROLL TAX DELAY," by Colin A. Young, State House News Service: "Gov. Charlie Baker made quick work of the bill imposing a three-month delay to the start of a payroll tax to fund paid family and medical leave benefits for all Massachusetts workers, signing it within 90 minutes of its final legislative vote. The bill (S 2255), now a law, delays until Oct. 1 the start of payroll tax contributions to fund the estimated $800 million paid family and medical leave program launched so workers can more easily take care of themselves and their families without facing financial crises. The fledgling Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) planned to begin collecting a 0.63 percent payroll tax from employers July 1 to fund the program, but business and advocacy groups raised concerns about their ability to prepare for the new tax."
- "A small turtle sculpture sparks big controversy on Beacon Hill," by Dugan Arnett, Boston Globe: "The fire truck rumbled through the narrow streets of Beacon Hill, clamoring to a stop in front of a small playground on Myrtle Street. As residents gawked and children played nearby, multiple firefighters jumped to action. The emergency? A 4-foot bronze playground sculpture called "Myrtle the Turtle," which had apparently gotten a little hot under the early summer sun, prompting a call from a concerned mother."
- "SHARK TALK ATTRACTS CROWD, BUT MEDIA SHUT OUT," by Kaitlyn Budion, State House News Service: "Although media were turned away from an informational briefing on sharks in Massachusetts, that didn't stop legislators from sinking their teeth into the topic. "Today was really an informational session, we're coastal legislators, and so we're familiar with marine life, marine mammals, marine animals, so today was to give our colleagues from across the state the opportunity to learn more, not only about great white sharks, but about a whole host of shark species that are up and down the coast," Rep. Dylan Fernandes of Falmouth told reporters after the event."
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| FROM THE HUB |
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- "Ride-Hailing Trips Increased 25% In Massachusetts Last Year," by Benjamin Swasey, WBUR: "The popular ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft apparently got much more popular in Massachusetts last year. Total rides surged 25% from 2017 to 2018, according to state data released Thursday. That's to 81.3 million last year, from 64.8 million the year prior. More than 42 million rides began in Boston alone in 2018, a 21% increase — 7.3 million more — over the year before. As the state notes, however, 'many smaller towns with smaller numbers of rides saw a much larger percentage increase in rides when compared to 2017 ridership.'"
- "From politicians to antiwar activists, Raytheon-United Technologies merger remains a hot topic," by Allison Hagan and Max Reyes, Boston Globe: "ays after the proposed merger between Waltham-based Raytheon Co. and United Technologies Corp. was announced, Massachusetts business leaders, lawmakers, and even antiwar activists are still weighing in on what the combined company might mean for Massachusetts. If approved by regulators, the deal would create a defense and aerospace behemoth called Raytheon Technologies Corp. with $74 billion in projected annual revenue and a headquarters somewhere in the Boston area."
- "Embedded AG fellows raise concerns," by Sarah Betancourt, CommonWealth Magazine: "A NONPROFIT BACKED with money from Michael Bloomberg is paying the salaries of 14 lawyers who are working on environmental and climate change issues for Democratic attorneys general around the country, including Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at the NYU School of Law, created in 2017 with $6 million in funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, has raised concerns in a handful of states about a private organization funding the pay of employees at a public law enforcement agency. '"It looked inappropriate to me, that someone could go to the AG and say, 'Hey I want to fund two positions to bring lawsuits in an area I'm interested in,"' said Cameron Macdonald, executive director of the Government Justice Center in New York, a conservative taxpayer watchdog group."
- "City Officials To File Stronger 'Trust Act' After Concerns Over Boston Police Cooperation With ICE," by Shannon Dooling, WBUR: "Boston is moving one step closer to a stronger immigration "Trust Act," according to Mayor Marty Walsh and City Councilor Josh Zakim, who on Thursday will jointly file a new version of the ordinance. In a sit-down at City Hall, the two said the proposed revisions to the act — which prohibits the Boston Police Department (BPD) from holding undocumented immigrants based solely on a request from federal immigration officials — aim to better protect Boston's immigrant communities and strengthen trust with local law enforcement."
- "Harvard dean ousted after Weinstein case to challenge school on academic freedom from within," by Stephanie Ebbert, Boston Globe: "The Harvard Law professor whose planned legal defense of accused rapist Harvey Weinstein caused a campus furor that cost him a faculty dean position wants to use the episode to restore academic freedom, he said Thursday evening. In his first remarks since he lost the deanship last month, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. said he envisions creating an institution that could work within and beyond Harvard to reform academia and restore reasoned discourse on campuses. It was unclear exactly what shape that might take. But with his wife, fellow Harvard Law professor Stephanie Robinson, he launched an online video to begin to marshal support."
- "Massport continues CEO search behind closed doors," by Sean Philip Cotter, Boston Herald: "Massport officials again spent a marathon session huddled behind closed doors, chewing over who will claim the coveted $300,000 top job at the state agency. Members of the Massachusetts Port Authority's preliminary screening committee gathered Thursday morning around a small table in a four-hour meeting inaccessible to the public to continue their search for a new chief executive officer — with a similar meeting planned for Friday."
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Attend the #WellbeingCity Forum in Montréal: Cities are currently home to more than half the global population, a figure that will soar to 70% within the next thirty years. The NewCities' Wellbeing Cities Forum, held in Montreal on June 19-20, brings together senior leaders and urban experts to explore and collaborate on city-led action to improve urban wellbeing. Guest speakers include Professor Saskia Sassen, Daniel Libeskind, and mayors from around the world. Tickets are available via NewCities here.
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| DAY IN COURT |
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- "Healey vs. Trump," by Sarah Betancourt, CommonWealth Magazine: "IN A 2016 FUNDRAISING PITCH just after Donald Trump was elected president, Attorney General Maura Healey said she wouldn't hesitate to take the incoming president to court if he carried out his "unconstitutional campaign promises." She insisted her role as "the people's lawyer" is the "first line of defense against illegal action by the federal government." She's made good on her word. Over the past 30 months, Healey and a handful of her colleagues in other states have led a massive legal charge against the Trump administration. Healey has personally filed or joined 44 multistate federal lawsuits; she's been on the winning side 15 times, the losing side four times, one case was withdrawn, and 24 cases are still pending."
- "Taxpayers picked up Judge Joseph's $127,000 legal bill," by Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald: "Taxpayers paid $127,000 in legal fees for Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph — right up to the day she was indicted on federal obstruction charges and placed on unpaid leave, accused of helping an illegal immigrant elude ICE agents in her Newton courthouse. The state's Trial Court administration refused to give the Herald a breakdown of the legal fees — how much was paid to what lawyers for what services, and when. A spokeswoman also said there is no set policy on what circumstances will result in court employees being granted tax-paid legal representation."
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| WARREN REPORT |
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- "California poll: Warren surges to second, Harris falls to fourth," by Christopher Cadelago, POLITICO: "Elizabeth Warren is threatening Joe Biden's front-runner standing in California, and Kamala Harris is showing signs of weakness in her delegate-rich home state, according to a new poll. A new UC Berkeley-Los Angeles Times poll found Biden leading with 22% of likely Democratic primary voters; followed by Warren and Sanders, who are at 18% and 17%, respectively. Harris (13%) and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (10%) are the only other 2020 presidential contenders to exceed 3% in the survey, which was directed by pollster Mark DiCamillo, who for years led the venerable Field Poll."
- "How Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Cracked the Code of the 2020 Race," by Reid J. Epstein, New York Times: "More than most of his Democratic rivals, Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., has cracked the code of the early months of the presidential campaign, embracing TV appearances while mastering the art of creating moments for social media and cable news. The 37-year-old's campaign was the first to grasp that the early primary race would unfold on mobile devices and televisions instead of at the traditional town-hall gatherings and in living rooms in the early states. He's not alone: Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has inundated reporters with policy proposals, prompting hours of cable news coverage and forcing fellow candidates to respond to her ideas during live interviews."
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| FROM THE DELEGATION |
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- "Rep. Lynch urges state to hit reset on compressor project," by Jessica Trufant, Patriot Ledger: "U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch is urging a state Department of Environmental Protection adjudicator to revoke approval for a controversial natural gas compressor station in Weymouth and restart the permitting process, calling the department's handling of new data from the site "egregious." Lynch, a longtime opponent of the project who is bringing federal regulators to Weymouth on Monday for a public listening session, wrote on Wednesday to the hearing officer overseeing an ongoing appeal case. In the letter, Lynch asks that energy giant Enbridge be required to submit an updated application since regulators at the Department of Environmental Protection admitted they did not have all the data they sought during an air-quality permitting process."
- "House Tees Up Vote on Spending Bill That Essentially Renews Hyde Amendment as 2020 Democrats Oppose It," by Houston Keene, IJR: "The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is gearing up to vote on a spending package that includes the pro-life Hyde Amendment, as prominent members of their party in Congress and a multitude of their presidential primary candidates have voiced opposition to the legislation. The minibus of spending bills set to be voted on in the House Thursday will encompass funding for a large variety of federal departments, including defense, labor, and health and human services."
- "LAWMAKERS SAY TRUMP IS WRONG: NO ONE IN CONGRESS WITH 'ANY INTEGRITY' WOULD ACCEPT OPPOSITION DIRT FROM FOREIGN POWER," by Jason Lemon, Newsweek:"Democratic lawmakers have called out President Donald Trump for saying he would accept dirt from a foreign power on a political opponent and then defending the comment by saying that people in Congress "all do it, they always have." Representative Katherine Clark, a Democrat elected to Congress from the Massachusetts' 5th district, later shared the same sentiments as Krishnamoorthi in comments to CNN. "No member of Congress with any integrity and who wants to uphold our oath of office would ever take that information," Clark said. She also answered affirmatively that she would go to the FBI directly if she were ever approached with information on a political opponent from a foreign power."
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| MARIJUANA IN MASSACHUSETTS |
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- "Marijuana company fined $75,000 by state commission over labeling violations," by Dan Adams, Boston Globe: "Cultivate Holdings, the Leicester-based marijuana company that in November opened one of the first two recreational shops in Massachusetts, will pay the state $75,000 to settle charges that it sold hundreds of improperly labeled pot products to consumers. This is the first time the state Cannabis Control Commission has fined a marijuana company. During an unannounced inspection on Jan. 30, commission investigators discovered that Cultivate had failed to update the labels on about 3,000 marijuana products it transferred from its medical marijuana operation into the state's "seed-to-sale" inventory tracking system for recreational products."
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| MOULTON MATTERS |
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- "Seth Moulton didn't make the debate stage. Here's what's going on with his campaign," by James Pindell, Boston Globe:"Seth Moulton's presidential campaign is still relatively young — only seven weeks old. But this week, as 20 of his rivals qualified for the first presidential primary debates, he was among four Democrats left on the sidelines. Indeed, none of the typical campaign metrics have so far been encouraging for Moulton's prospects. In most polls, not a single respondent says they are backing Moulton (the party used surveys as one of two qualifying metrics for the debates). Moulton hasn't hired staff or opened offices in the early presidential primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire — as many have done — although he does have a campaign presence in other states. His staff has declined, for the most part, to answer specific questions about how fund-raising is going. Moulton has received no major endorsements."
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| IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN |
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- "Powerful business group adds climate change to its priorities," by Jon Chesto, Boston Globe: "The Massachusetts Competitive Partnership helped sink the state's first offshore wind energy project, the ill-fated Cape Wind. So what's this low-profile but powerful business group doing now, taking on climate change as a priority? It may sound surprising — or ironic. But these chief executives now view the issue as a major potential threat to the state's economic competitiveness, one that needs to be tackled head on."
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| ABOVE THE FOLD |
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— Herald: "SHELLING OUT FOR SHELLEY," — Globe: "Furor follows Trump's take on foreign help," "T clears driver in Red Line derailment," "TANKER EXPLOSIONS ESCALATE TENSIONS." |
| THE LOCAL ANGLE |
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- "West Bridgewater selectman accused of 'slumlord' practices in Brockton," by Ben Berke, Brockton Enterprise: "State Rep. Michelle DuBois, whose district includes much of Brockton, described the longstanding policy as one the mayor's administration has failed to enforce. Most tenants, she said, don't know to request health inspections, and landlords who don't keep up on their certificates of fitness can coast by without punishment. It's a form of self-policing that she says is tipping the power balance in favor of an outside "investor class." "Our mayor needs to hold slumlords accountable," DuBois told The Enterprise."
TRANSITIONS - John O'Leary has moved up to Boston to join a new joint venture between the Carlyle Group and Schneider Electric called AlphaStruxure, which is developing sustainable microgrids for the C&I and infrastructure sectors. He previously was the senior policy advisor for the New York State Executive Chamber's energy policy team.
- Kathryn Ellis was named director of the Innovation Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and will head offices in Amherst and at the Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst in Newton.
- Francesco De Vito of Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster was named as a fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to Danny Gaynor , SVP at Weber Shandwick.
HAPPY BIRTHWEEKEND - to former MA-3 Democratic candidate Alexandra Chandler, who celebrates Saturday; and Worcester Magazine's Bill Shaner, MassINC pollster Richard Parr and Byron Lynn, who all who celebrate Sunday.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? Yes! The Red Sox beat the Rangers 7-6.
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