Our Revolution endorses Bob Massie for Governor of Massachusetts

Bob has spent his life anticipating the future and fighting to make it better. Born with hemophilia — a rare, debilitating blood disease —as a child, he experienced repeated painful bouts of joint bleeding that left him unable to walk. Doctors told his parents he might never walk unassisted, but he struggled to prove them wrong. His parents eventually wrote  a book, Journey, about the struggles of raising a child with a painful illness and battling the health care systems. As an adolescent, his family lived in Paris where he was covered by the French national health system, and he was eventually able to roam the city on his own.

Back in the states, he became an activist at Princeton, and challenged the exclusion of women in the clubs and argued for divestment from South Africa. After college, he worked with Ralph Nader in Washington, and edited a volume on corporate power published in 1980.

The bedrock issues of Bob’s campaign—climate change, social justice, and democracy — have been the focus of his life’s work. Since his organ transplant he has inaugurated two organizations for social change – the New Economy Coalition and the Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston. Bob has left UMass to run for governor, but his work with the challenges of climate change and socioeconomic inequity continues today.

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POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: BAKER’s convention rebuke — KOH airs first TV ad — WARREN’s al fresco town hall

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: BAKER’s convention rebuke — KOH airs first TV ad — WARREN’s al fresco town hall

REPUBLICANS ENDORSE TRUMPIAN DICTATORSHIP....WHAT A SAD COMMENTARY! 

BAKER'S CONVENTION REBUKE AND A HINT AT WHAT'S TO COME - Charlie Baker may be the most popular governor in America, but some Republicans gathered in Worcester on Saturday at the GOP State Convention sent him a message: not everyone's on-board.

The election of controversial anti-LGBT pastor Scott Lively - who delivered a speech rebuking Baker and in full-throated support of Donald Trump - appeared to play out as a proxy for many of the delegates still frustrated with Baker's lack of interest in the Trump train. The Lively-Trump connection was anything but subtle. Throughout the concourse and hall of the DCU Center on Saturday, many wearing red Make America Great Again hats also had "Governor Lively" stickers stuck to the side.

Despite 27 percent of delegates' support at the convention, don't expect Lively (and his anti-LGBT track record) to have any significant traction with Republican primary voters come September. But in the meantime, Lively's going to do his best to act as the bee in Baker's bonnet this summer on the primary campaign trail.

Trump's shadow also played out in the Senate race. Eager to show his conservative bonafides, John Kingston (who left the Republican party over Trump in 2016) at one point in his speech referred to "we deplorables." But the name synonymous with Trump in Massachusetts, Geoff Diehl, made no mention of Trump in his speech. That didn't stop delegates from endorsing Diehl on the second ballot with 55 percent of the vote.

We also got our first glimpse at the Baker reelection talking points. In his speech to delegates, Baker struck a direct comparison to "our opponents" with some red meat for the Republicans in the hall: "Our opponents want to make Massachusetts a sanctuary state. We don't. We support the death penalty for cop-killers. Our opponents don't." Baker went on to note he and Lt. Gov. Polito support reducing the sales tax and making the tax holiday permanent, that "state prison officials should be able to work with federal immigration officials to remove dangerous criminals who are here illegally," that drug traffickers "who kill our kids" should be tried for manslaughter, support for mandatory minimums for fentanyl sale and distribution, no drivers' licenses for non-legal Massachusetts residents, and that public health insurance should not cover marijuana.

And for those following the convention swag - yes, there were really were Elizabeth Warren barf bags.

- "Dems rap Baker's handling of scandal," by Christian M. Wade, Newburyport News: "Democrats are hammering away at Gov. Charlie Baker over a payroll scandal in the Massachusetts State Police as the Swampscott Republican's re-election bid gears up, but political observers say the criticism doesn't appear to be hurting Baker's chances of winning another four-year term. The state police have been embroiled in a series of scandals stemming from an audit that revealed overtime abuse by troopers assigned to the Massachusetts Turnpike."


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POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: The 'BERNIE in our backyard' -- MICELI on the mend -- Boston’s LOGAN bests N.Y.’s JFK

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: The 'BERNIE in our backyard' -- MICELI on the mend -- Boston’s LOGAN bests N.Y.’s JFK

- "Mick Mulvaney would appreciate it if Elizabeth Warren would zip it and let him destroy the C.F.P.B. in peace," by Bess Levin, Vanity Fair:"Unfortunately for ol' Mick, while things have been going quite smoothly, re: rejiggering everything the [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]stands for, his path has not been without obstacles. Namely, Senator Elizabeth Warren who, strangely, isn't thrilled by the fact that the bureau she created is being run by a guy who thinks it's financial institutions, rather than consumers, that need protecting. We are progressively moving to a response that I want to send her, which is essentially to say, 'Look, if you don't like what I am doing, complain to the person who wrote the statute.'"