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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: MOULTON TO ADDRESS MASS DEMS — Rep. Seth Moulton spent the summer criss-crossing the country as a presidential candidate, talking about how Democrats can defeat President Donald Trump. Now, Moulton will address Massachusetts Democrats as a House lawmaker running for reelection when he speaks at the state party convention in Springfield this weekend.
Moulton will lay out his vision for how Democrats can win up and down the ballot in Massachusetts and across the country, and "lean into the values that Democrats are fighting for in this election," according to a campaign spokesman. He'll also talk about how he feels that "our leaders are letting us down." The speech will be one of Moulton's first statewide appearances since he dropped out of the presidential race in late August.
Moulton, who focused on national security in the presidential race, had a hard time gaining traction in a crowded field. Looking ahead to next September, Moulton faces two primary challengers — Salem City Councilor Lisa Peterson and Salem State University Trustee Jamie Zahlaway Belsito. Both candidates have been critical of Moulton's absence in the district while he ran his presidential campaign. A Peterson spokesperson said she was not invited to speak at the convention, and the Belsito campaign did not respond to a request for comment last night.
A number of other Democrats had expressed interest in running for Moulton's seat while he was running for president. Now that Moulton is running for another term in the 6th District, it is not clear whether anyone else will join the race for his seat.
In the weeks since he left the presidential race, Moulton's Serve America PAC has been actively supporting Democrats running in Republican-oriented districts. The organization sent three staffers to North Carolina this week to support House candidate Dan McCready, who narrowly lost last night in a district Trump won by double-digits in 2016. Serve America gave more than $235,000 to McCready in 2018 and 2019, according to a Moulton spokesman.
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TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker, First Lady Lauren Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Attorney General Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Senate President Karen Spilka and House Speaker Robert DeLeo attend a number of 9/11 remembrance events throughout the day, including a reading of names on the State House steps. Rep. Ayanna Pressley holds a press conference on medical deferred action in Washington, D.C. Rep. Katherine Clark celebrates the kickoff of the Bipartisan Congressional Pre-K Caucus in D.C.
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- "Gender X supporters press for vote in House," by Matt Murphy, State House News Service: "Next year, Ryley Copans plans to get married. But Copans, 25, has a lingering worry that the state marriage license documenting the partnership won't accurately reflect their identity. "Being nonbinary is a real and valid gender identity," Copans told a panel of state legislators on Tuesday. "We want to be recognized as we are." Copans and other supporters of legislation to make a gender-neutral designation available on state identifying documents like driver's licenses, birth certificates, and marriage licenses testified before the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight ."
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- "Doyle's in Jamaica Plain plans to close, sell liquor license to Davio's," by Jaclyn Reiss, Travis Andersen, Andy Rosen, Thomas Farragher and Max Jungreis, Boston Globe: "The iconic Doyle's in Jamaica Plain, a pub with a storied political history that first opened in 1882, plans to close up shop and has inked an agreement to sell its liquor license to Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse, according to city documents and Doyle's owner Gerry Burke Jr. Burke confirmed in a phone interview that Doyle's is shutting its doors. It wasn't immediately clear when. A Licensing Board hearing on the proposed sale of the liquor license is slated for Sept. 18 at 10 a.m., records show."
- "Bribery scandal not slowing Boston zoning board," by Tim Logan and Milton J. Valencia, Boston Globe: "A bribery scandal may be hanging over Boston's Zoning Board of Appeal, but you wouldn't have known it at its regular biweekly meeting Tuesday Property owners and their architects shuffled to the front of a dreary, crowded conference room in City Hall to get permission for their roof-decks and condo projects. Neighbors waited to comment, while lawyers and city staffers mingled in the hallway outside. But there were signs this was no ordinary day at the board."
- "City Council president calls for IG post in wake of ZBA bribery scandal," by Sean Philip Cotter and Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald: "City Council President Andrea Campbell is calling for the establishment of an inspector general for Boston to "root out corruption, identify mismanagement and waste" and make the government "more accountable to residents" in the wake of a zoning board bribery scandal. The move is also a direct hit at Mayor Martin Walsh, who announced last week he has launched his own probe of the city's embattled ZBA. That's the latest in what Campbell described as the "numerous investigations we are seeing," also including the Boston Calling case."
- "Congestion may be bad, but commute times changing little," by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: "BOSTON IS STRUGGLING with the worst congestion in the nation, but drivers surprisingly say they haven't seen a big increase in their commuting time over the last decade. According to US Census data, the average travel time to work for Bostonians was 27.5 minutes in 2007. In 2017, the travel time was up only 2.3 minutes to 29.8 minutes, a gain of 9 percent. How can that be? Boston was crowned the most congested city in America by the transportation data firm Inrix in February. And a new Urban Mobility Report, put out by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, found the annual delay per driver in hours had gone up 25 percent over the last decade."
- "Twitter to open first Boston office at Center Plaza," by Catherine Carlock, Boston Business Journal: "San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. will open its first Boston office at Center Plaza, a sprawling office and retail complex that formerly was home to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but has recently become a hub for tech companies including Grubhub and Spotify. Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) will lease 44,000 square feet of former Localytics office space. It's the first Boston office for the social-media company, which has had a Cambridge office since 2014. Twitter confirmed the Boston lease to the Business Journal but declined to share any additional details, including how many employees will work at the office."
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- "Senate Dems' campaign arm backs Ed Markey over Joe Kennedy," by Burgess Everett, POLITICO: "Senate Democrats' campaign committee is siding with incumbent Sen. Ed Markey over potential insurgent challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said in an interview on Tuesday. The Nevada senator, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said the DSCC "will be there" for Markey if Kennedy launches a challenge. "That's why we were created, to support our incumbents. And Ed Markey is not only an incumbent but he knows the issues that are important to Massachusetts. He's been out front on so many issues, including climate change," Cortez Masto said."
- "Congressional challenger Morse raps Neal over border spending boost," by Michael Connors, Daily Hampshire Gazette: "Congressional hopeful and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse gathered Tuesday with several progressive political activists outside the office of his opponent U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, where he denounced proposed additional funding for the country's top immigration agencies. Morse, along with the CD-1 Progressive Coalition — a network of left-leaning groups in the 1st Congressional District — called for limiting spending for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Neither Neal, D-Springfield, nor any staffer from his office attended the event outside the congressman's office at the federal courthouse."
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- "East Boston State House Delegation Endorses Halbert Campaign," from the Halbert campaign: "East Boston State Senator Joseph Boncore (1st Suffolk & Middlesex) and State Representative Adrian Madaro (1st Suffolk) have announced their endorsement of former East Boston resident and community leader David Halbert for Boston City Councilor At-large."
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| DAY IN COURT |
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- "Hefner pleads guilty to three counts in sexual assault case that roiled Beacon Hill," by Matt Stout and Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe: "Bryon Hefner, who multiple men said sexually assaulted them after he gained access to the highest echelon of Beacon Hill power, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced set of charges, providing a coda to a case that upended Massachusetts politics and the career of Hefner's husband, former Senate president Stanley C. Rosenberg. Once facing a nine-count indictment, Hefner, 32, will avoid immediate jail time but must register as a sex offender after pleading guilty in Suffolk Superior Court to one count each of indecent assault and battery, disseminating a nude photo, and a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery."
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- "The Second-Most Powerful Woman in Congress Is Also One of Its Most Low-Key Members," by Andrea González-Ramírez, GEN at Medium: "Congress is finally back in session, and Katherine Clark is already drawing up plans: plans to advance her bill to combat workplace sexual harassment; plans to pressure the Senate into working on gun safety reform; plans to make a concerted push for an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. If that seems like an ambitious agenda, the Massachusetts Democrat, who currently sits as the second-most powerful woman in the House of Representatives, has shown a rare knack for good old-fashioned coalition-building — and she's been able to keep her ideological integrity without alienating her more moderate party cohort."
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| ABOVE THE FOLD |
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— Herald: "LESSONS FROM THE HEART." — Globe: "New Patriot accused of rape in lawsuit," "Bolton is out as security adviser," "Medicare costs get harder to figure," "TAPS FOR ANOTHER BOSTON INSTITUTION." |
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- "Activist 'funeral' for Wendell State Forest ends with seven people arrested," by Douglas Hook, MassLive.com: "Early Tuesday morning a group of around 16 activists known as the Wendell Forest Alliance gathered to have a funeral for the trees they have lost in their long fight to stop the logging being done by Department of Conservation and Recreation. The service was led by Interfaith Minister Sarah Pirtle who gave prayer to the forest and its spirits and used a Native-American style flute as part of the ceremony."
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| THE LOCAL ANGLE |
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- "City Council votes to temporarily remove Mayor Correia from office," by Jo C. Goode, The Herald News: The City Council tonight voted 8-1 Tuesday night to temporarily remove Mayor Jasiel Correia II from office, in the wake of the mayor's arrest and indictment on charges of bribery and extortion. The council also voted to give Correia, who is up for a third term, to remove himself from office and hand in his keys to Government Center by 5 p.m. on Friday. Correia is facing 24 federal charges related to alleged misappropriation of investment money regarding SnoOwl, a smartphone app he created, and alleged extortion of marijuana companies."
- RELATED: "Lawyer: Fall River mayor may ask for 2 separate trials," by Tim White and Ted Nesi, WPRI: "Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia's lawyer said Tuesday he may ask the courts to split up the federal criminal case against him into two separate trials. The mayor's attorney, Kevin Reddington, said the decision will depend on "how much discovery" the government hands over in connection with the new charges announced Friday. Correia is currently scheduled to go on trial in February, but that date was set prior to last week's superseding indictment, which added 11 additional counts against him including extortion and bribery. He now faces 24 counts."
- "Mayor Joseph Petty once again top vote-getter in Worcester primary election," by Noah R. Bombard, MassLive.com: "The turnout may have been the lowest ever for a Worcester city election, but Mayor Joseph M. Petty was once again the top vote-getter pulling in 5,004 votes or 14.32% of the vote, giving him a clear lead heading into the November election. At-large City Councilor Kate Toomey was the closest runner up at 3,893 votes. Of 100,404 registered voters, only 8,726 ballots were cast in Tuesday's primary."
- "Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno cruises to top spot in preliminary election; faces Yolanda Cancel in November," by Peter Goonan, Springfield Republican: "Mayor Domenic J. Sarno cruised to victory in Tuesday's preliminary election, and will face the second-place finisher Yolanda Cancel in the final election on Nov. 5. A third candidate for mayor, Jeffery Donnelly, was eliminated in the preliminary. A fourth person on the ballot, Linda Matys O'Connell, announced in July that she was suspending her campaign due to illness."
TRANSITIONS - Tara Smith leaves her post as communications director for state Sen. Patricia Jehlen to join the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges.
- Lon Povich, former chief legal counsel to Gov. Charlie Baker, joins Boston law firm Anderson & Kreiger.
FOR YOUR COMMUTE: "#MApoli Breakfast Club." On this week's Horse Race podcast, Labor Day is over and it's back to business in Massachusetts politics. A possible primary race between Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III is heating up, and Pat Reilly of Change Research joins the pod to discuss a recent survey that found Kennedy with a 17-point lead over Markey. In Beacon Hill news, state Sen. Brendan Crighton and state Rep. Christine Barber break down their bill that would allow Massachusetts residents to obtain a drivers' license, regardless of immigration status. The legislation drew hundreds to a hearing at the State House. Subscribe and listen on iTunes and Sound Cloud.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY - to Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, who celebrated yesterday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to former state Sen. Ben Downing and Cannabis Control Commission Director of Constituent Services Matt Giancola.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? No! The Blue Jays beat the Red Sox 4-3.
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