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WHO ROB DELANEY DONATES TO — What do Ed Markey and Rob Delaney have in common, aside from a penchant for one-liners?
An interest in politics and a shared home state, apparently. The Boston-born comedian donated $250 to Sen. Ed Markey's reelection campaign in September, according to the lawmaker's quarterly FEC filing. Delaney is outspoken on climate issues and Democratic politics online.
Looking through recent campaign finance documents, there are some familiar and not-so-familiar donor names. Among them: Markey received a $5,000 boost from the Waxman Campaign Committee, the account belonging to retired California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman. The pair partnered on the 2009 Waxman-Markey climate bill.
And Rep. Joe Kennedy III, who is running for Markey's Senate seat, received $4,000 from Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's campaign account. Sinema had openly urged the 39-year-old congressman to run against her colleague in the Senate before he jumped in.
But instead of tallying up the lawmakers, bundlers and donors that appear in this quarter's campaign finance reports, here's a lighthearted look at the famous — or at least semi-famous — names I noticed in the FEC filings.
Markey's donors include Peter Farrelly, who is known for directing and producing the movies "Dumb and Dumber" and "There's Something about Mary," among others. Farrelly gave Markey $200. Rick Rosenthal Jr., the filmmaker who directed "Halloween II," gave Markey $250. Actress and activist Heather Thomas, who starred in the 1980s television series "The Fall Guy," gave Markey $2,800.
The guy who managed the band AC/DC in the 1980s, Peter Mensch, donated $5,600 to Markey's campaign. Mensch formed the management company Q Prime and counts Def Leppard as a client during his career, along with Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol and others.
Remember Lloyd Braun , one of the many recurring characters on "Seinfeld?" He was played by actor Matt McCoy, who donated $250 to Kennedy this quarter. McCoy is also known for his role in the 1992 film "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle."
And speaking of "Seinfeld," Rep. Ayanna Pressley received $500 from environmental activist Laurie David, who produced the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." David was previously married to "Seinfeld" co-creator and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David. Pressley also received $500 from Gavin Polone, a film and TV producer who was nominated for half a dozen Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, the 30-year-old waging a generational campaign against Democratic Rep. Richard Neal, got a boost from one of the founders of a quintessential millennial brand. Neil Parikh, the co-founder of Casper, the company that will mail you a mattress in a box, gave Morse $2,800. Morse and Parikh both went to Brown University.
REPORT: PRIVATE EQUITY BOOSTS MASS. ECONOMY — The private equity industry supports 741,000 jobs in Massachusetts and around $1.8 billion in state and local taxes, according to a new report from Ernst & Young and the American Investment Council. The industry employs 243,000 workers in Massachusetts, who earn on average $74,000 a year in wages and benefits. The report comes as the private equity industry comes under fire on the 2020 campaign trail — perhaps most notably from Bay State Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Get in touch: smurray@politico.com.
TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker speaks at the National Council of State Housing Agencies annual conference. Baker speaks at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission annual health care cost trends hearing.
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito attends several STEM events in Westfield, attends a ribbon cutting at Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School in Fitchburg, and attends a ribbon cutting at the Cisco Networking Academy in Somerville. Polito visits the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh receives an award at the Mass Health Council awards gala. Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins is a guest on WGBH's "Greater Boston."
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- "House Readies K-12 Education Bill for Debate," by Colin A. Young, State House News Service: "The House on Monday teed up an education financing reform bill for debate Wednesday, giving initial approval to a piece of legislation that hews more closely to the bill that came out of the Education Committee than the version the Senate passed unanimously earlier this month. After House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Senate President Karen Spilka and each branch's Education Committee chair unveiled consensus legislation that would invest a new $1.5 billion in the state's public K-12 education system over the next seven years with a focus on providing resources that will help low-income students, the Senate unanimously passed its own amended version on Oct. 3."
- "Lawmakers: Baker's health care bill a good start," by Andy Metzger, CommonWealth Magazine: "LAST SESSION, Beacon Hill's big three - the governor, the House speaker, and the Senate president — each had fundamentally different ideas about how to reform the state's health care system, and attempts at compromise sputtered and failed. Now, Gov. Charlie Baker is taking another go at changing the health care marketplace, and he's getting some early buy-in from House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Karen Spilka, which may have something to do with the fact that the governor's sweeping health care proposal borrows extensively from provisions that have passed either the House or Senate but stopped short of becoming law."
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| FROM THE HUB |
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- "City man accused of threatening to kill Boston city councilor Michael Flaherty," by Milton J. Valencia, Boston Globe: "Boston police arrested a city man Monday morning in relation to threats against City Councilor Michael Flaherty, the councilor confirmed. The man, who was not immediately identified, was arrested during a violent struggle with police in which he drove his car into police cruisers in the Stop & Shop parking lot in South Boston. Officers were forced to break the car window and grab him out of the car. The incident occurred not long after the man arrived at Flaherty's headquarters nearby and threatened that he would kill the councilor and those affiliated with him."
- "Activists Say A New Name Means A New Dudley Square, Others Not So Sure," by Saraya Wintersmith, WGBH News: "Two weeks before Boston voters weigh in, opinions in Roxbury are mixed on whether to rename the neighborhood's commercial center. But residents and business owners agree depressed conditions in and around Dudley Square need to change. Ballots citywide in the Nov. 5 election will include an advisory referendum on making "Nubian Square" the official name of what once was one of the busiest shopping districts in Boston."
- "Trooper at center of discrimination case the State Police lost is still vetting recruits," by Victoria McGrane, Boston Globe: "Ten months after a federal jury found that Massachusetts State Police discriminated against a black recruit, denying him entrance to the academy because of his race, the trooper who conducted the background investigation that triggered the rejection is still working in the unit responsible for vetting recruits. In December, jurors ruled that Orlando Riley, a veteran New Bedford police officer, had been barred from the State Police Academy because he is black and awarded him $130,000. The case largely turned on Trooper Robert Lima and the background investigation he had performed on Riley."
- "Vertex's drug for almost all cystic fibrosis patients approved five months early," by Allison DeAngelis, Boston Business Journal: "Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has achieved one of the biggest feats to date for cystic fibrosis patients — a treatment that could benefit 90 percent of patients with the rare lung disease. The FDA approved a combination of three drugs Monday called Trikafta, which targets a mutation in the F508del gene. That genetic error is found in approximately 90 percent of patients with the rare lung disease."
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| PRIMARY SOURCES |
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- "SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF TOMPKINS ENDORSES KENNEDY FOR U.S. SENATE," from the Kennedy campaign: "Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins endorsed Congressman Joe Kennedy in his bid to join the United States Senate. "Since his election back in 2013, Congressman Kennedy has shown himself to be a champion for civil rights, a powerful opponent of economic and educational inequity and a staunch supporter of criminal justice reform. I am proudly endorsing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate," Tompkins said."
- "Senator Ed Markey Endorsed by Association of Flight Attendants, Communications Workers of America," from the Markey campaign: "Senator Ed Markey received the endorsement of the Association of Flight Attendants-Communications Workers of America (AFA-CWA) in his bid for re-election to the United States Senate, Union President Sara Nelson announced. "This endorsement of Ed Markey by our Flight Attendant union is also a personal one for me. I'll never forget standing in the middle of our crisis room at the Hilton Logan in the wake of 9/11, grieving the loss of people I love and trying to make sense of our new world, when Ed walked in without fanfare to listen, grieve with us, and commit to Never Forget," Nelson said."
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| ALL ABOARD |
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- "Scenes from a Disaster: Today's Surprise Orange Line Shutdown," by Alyssa Vaugh, Boston Magazine: "As part of its aggressive new weekend repair schedule, the MBTA shut down the Orange Line from Sullivan Square to Tufts Medical Center Friday night at 8:45 p.m., intending to open the stretch back up at the beginning of service on Monday. However, the overnight work schedule was interrupted due to an accident, which meant that the track replacement work was not completed in time and the eight stops in the middle of the line had to remain closed—during the Monday morning rush hour."
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| THE OPINION PAGES |
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- "Want to protect jobs? Protect the ocean." by former Sen. John Kerry, Boston Globe: "Our ocean is miraculous and mysterious. When it is healthy, it regulates our climate, supplies three-billion people with food, and contributes $1.5 trillion to our global economy annually. But today we need to navigate not just a roadmap to increase the value of the marine economy's bounty, we need to unite as a blue generation that carves a path to protect the ocean for the next generation, the ocean that our generation pushed to the brink of breaking."
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| DAY IN COURT |
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- "Suspended troopers investigated in overtime abuse scandal cannot be reinstated, Mass. Superior Court judge rules," by Steph Solis, MassLive.com: "Four troopers who were suspended without pay amid an overtime abuse investigation should not be reinstated to the Massachusetts State Police until the probe is complete, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled. In his order, Judge Paul D. Wilson said the MSP is entitled to complete its investigation into whether these troopers engaged in that "serious breach of the duty of honesty and integrity," and that the agency has a public duty to answer that question."
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| THE VAPING SALES BAN |
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- "Superior Court Judge: Vaping prohibition to stay in place, says lifting ban would be against public interest," by Tanner Stening, MassLive.com: "A Superior Court judge denied in part a motion to lift Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's temporary ban on the sale of vaping products on Monday. In his ruling, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins wrote that the "balance of harms weigh" in favor of the state, and that the requested injunction would "contravene the public interest." Wilkins laid out a series of steps the state must take before continued enforcement of the ban."
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| WARREN REPORT |
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- "Democratic 2020 hopeful Warren still weighing Medicare for All financing options," by Amanda Becker, Reuters: "White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren is taking heat from her Democratic rivals for her demurrals when asked whether her Medicare for All healthcare plan would require raising taxes on middle-class households. One explanation, according to sources close to Warren's campaign, is that the U.S. senator from Massachusetts is still considering financing options and at least one under review does not include a middle-class tax hike. How best to expand health insurance coverage has become one of the defining issues in the Democratic nominating contest to take on Republican President Donald Trump in November 2020."
- "Warren releases education plan that would boost funding for public schools and end it for expanding charter schools," by Ryan Wangman, Boston Globe: "Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said Monday she wants to boost spending on public schools, eliminate high-stakes testing, and end federal funding for charter school expansion as a part of a comprehensive education reform plan. Warren, who got her professional start as a public school teacher, released a plan in which she also promised if elected president to use federal funding as an incentive for more states to better integrate their schools — a move she said is crucial to achieving the best educational outcomes for all students."
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| MARIJUANA IN MASSACHUSETTS |
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- "How One Mass. Town Learned To Love The Cannabis Business," by Steve Brown, WBUR: "Voters attending the Fall Town Meeting in Uxbridge Tuesday night will be asked if they want to remove a cap on the number of cannabis businesses allowed in the town. The Cannabis Control Commission has already granted five licenses in the town of roughly 14,000 people. Four other Uxbridge businesses have applications in the queue waiting for the commission to act, and the town has heard from more businesses wanting to set up shop."
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| EYE ON 2020 |
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- "Cory Booker, Yankees fan, seeks support in Red Sox territory," by Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press: "New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a Yankees fan, worked to whip up support for his presidential bid by venturing into the heart of rival Red Sox territory — a sports bar across from Fenway Park. On Monday, Booker told backers at the fundraising event that fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls should aim higher than just trying to oust President Donald Trump in next year's election."
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| THE LOCAL ANGLE |
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- "Want to know a Newton City Council candidate's opinion on Riverside? Northland? Don't ask." by John Hilliard, Boston Globe: "As the Nov. 5 municipal election approaches, many candidates running for Newton City Council are keeping their opinions to themselves on two major mixed-use developments that will need council approval. A city attorney argues that councilors must not say whether they support or oppose those proposals in order to maintain the fairness of the city's formal review process. And many challengers are following suit — they, too, have remained silent in case they are elected and asked to deliberate on the projects."
- "State fines former Pepperell selectmen $6,000," by Jon Winkler, Nashoba Valley Voice: "The state Ethics Commission has fined the former chairman of the Board of Selectmen $6,000 after he admitted to violating the state's conflict of interest law multiple times over the last year. According to a press release from the Ethics Commission issued on Monday, Roland Nutter violated the law by participating in discussions involving the employment contract and salary of his wife,Treasurer-Collector Debbie Nutter."
- "Bodies unclaimed: No one required to pick up the dead in Mass." by Brad Petrishen, Telegram & Gazette: "No state law requires anyone to retrieve a body in a timely fashion, and no state regulations define whose responsibility it is to arrange for that to occur. That means that, unless the state Medical Examiner accepts a case, the job falls to police. And it can be a very difficult job, as a Western Massachusetts police officer learned. "We tied up two officers for a total of five hours while we made arrangements," Hadley Lt. Mitchell Kuk recalled recently of a case in which a man died in his town with no immediate kin."
WELCOME TO THE WORLD - Shane Dunn, head of development and alumni relations at Brandeis International Business School and a GLAD board member, and Elizabeth Bernardi welcomed their second child, Eleanor, on Oct. 13.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to state Rep. John Rogers, public information officer & education policy adviser for the city of New Bedford Jonathan Carvalho; Lindsay Kalter, Jenna Lamond, and Connor Meoli, who is 25 today.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? Yes! The Patriots beat the Jets 33-0.
FOR YOUR COMMUTE: WU TRAIN PLAN - On this week's Horse Race podcast, Steve Koczela and I break down the latest Democratic presidential debate. We speak with Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu about her proposal to scrap the BPDA, and Steve talks about Gov. Charlie Baker's ban on vaping sales with Allyson Perron of the American Heart Association. Subscribe and listen on iTunes and Sound Cloud.
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