10/04/2017 07:01 AM EDT
By Lauren Dezenski (ldezenski@politico.com; @LaurenDezenski) and Rebecca Morin (rmorin@politico.com; @RebeccaMorin_)
GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Sunny with a high of 79 today.
FOLLOWING THE MONEY TO THE COURTROOM - The fight over a ballot question that could reshape the state's tax code has a powerful conservative group deploying a new tactic.
As part of an effort to block the so-called millionaire's tax, Mass Fiscal Alliance, the nonprofit group frequently backing conservative candidates and campaigns, has joined a network of business groups challenging the ballot question in the state's highest court.
And because the battle's in the courtroom, Mass Fiscal employed a new tool: Fiscal Alliance Foundation, its newly created 501c(3), a private foundation exempt from federal income tax that is prohibited from fundraising for political campaigns - but is not barred from bankrolling legal battles.
MassFiscal spokesman Paul Craney tells me the foundation doesn't have a fundraising goal for this year, but hopes to raise between $500,000 and $1 million next year, 99 percent of which would come from in-state donors.
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TODAY - Gov. Charlie Baker addresses the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce dinner - The House and Senate both meet in full formal session - The Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition kicks off at the Hynes Convention Center.
WHAT CITY HALL IS READING - "WBUR Poll: Walsh Has Big Lead Over Jackson; Housing Is Voters' Top Concern" by Anthony Brooks, WBUR: "In the live telephone survey of 405 likely voters, Walsh out-polls Jackson, 60 percent to 24 percent. The survey also finds that the cost of housing is the top issue for Boston voters." (topline results, crosstabs)
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DATELINE BEACON HILL -
- "About $800,000 in pledges pours into Mass. United for Puerto Fund," by Cristela Guerrera, Boston Globe: "The Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico fund's advisory committee hopes to have the first round of money sent out by Friday. Up to one-third of the money raised will be immediately distributed for relief efforts. The remainder will be deployed over the next year, through 2018, for reconstruction and to support resettlement efforts in Boston and throughout the Commonwealth."
- "Healey cites 'public health crisis' in wake of Vegas shootings," by Katie Lannan, State House News Service: "As Las Vegas grapples with the aftermath of Sunday night's mass shooting that left 59 dead and over 500 injured, Attorney General Maura Healey said she has offered help to her counterpart in Nevada. Healey said she spoke Monday with Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt and proposed making support from her office available to him."
- "Senate goes big on criminal justice bill," by Michael Jonas, CommonWealth Magazine: "The bill aims not only to reduce incarceration rates, but to eliminate various ways people get tripped up by a system that sometimes seems designed for them to fail, said Sen. William Brownsberger, the measure's lead sponsor. 'It's about lifting people up, not locking people up,' he said of the bill. 'And it's about reducing entanglements with the criminal justice system.'"
- "Forces line up behind compromise birth control bill," by Andy Metzger, State House News Service: "The morning-after emergency contraception pill would be as accessible as a flu shot in Massachusetts and birth control pills could be purchased in 12-month supplies, under compromise legislation agreed to by the insurance industry and reproductive rights advocates."
- "Solar industry turns up heat on Mass. Legislature," by Jon Chesto, Boston Globe: "When lawmakers struck a solar energy compromise on Beacon Hill last year, the industry claimed it was inadequate. The promise: We'll be back soon, asking for more."
TRUMPACHUSETTS -
- "Rising Mass. biz confidence may soar higher with tax reform," by Michael P. Norton, State House News Service: "The Associated Industries of Massachusetts reported Tuesday that its business confidence index rose 1.2 points to 62.4, tying its high mark for the year."
THE WARREN REPORT -
- "Elizabeth Warren demands that a second Wells Fargo CEO be fired," by Claire Zillman, Boston Herald: "At a Senate banking committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Warren argued that current Wells Fargo CEO Timothy J. Sloan should be fired too since he was part of the culture that encouraged employees to create millions of phony accounts for customers without their knowledge or consent."
ON THE STUMP -
- Democratic gubernatorial contender Jay Gonzalez will hit the stump for Democratic state Sen. candidate Paul Feeney in Mansfield alongside longtime Democratic organizer Kate Donaghue tonight, per the Gonzalez campaign.
- "Mayoral candidate Tito Jackson gets a cold shoulder from political establishment," by Meghan E. Irons, Boston Globe: "With less than six weeks until Election Day, the icy political treatment has become Jackson's reality. He trailed Walsh by more than 30 percentage points in the Sept. 26 preliminary election and is now contending with the political isolation that comes with attempting to oust a popular mayor."
WOOD WAR - Herald: "WHAT DOES SHE KNOW?" "Triple threat thriller" - Globe: "Gunman planned attack with care," "In country music, an opening on guns," "Groups sue to keep tax on wealthy off ballot," "Lab tech to Nobel laureate," "TRUMP OFFERS AN ODD KIND OF COMFORT TO PUERTO RICO," "As challenger, Jackson gets cold shoulder."
THE LOCAL ANGLE -
- "UMass Memorial team met Hurricane Maria's wrath, aftermath in Puerto Rico," by Elaine Thompson, Worcester Telegram: "Gina M. Smith has responded to many hurricanes and other disasters in the past 23 years, but she hasn't seen anything quite like the devastation that Hurricane Maria dealt to Puerto Rico. ... Ms. Smith and five other UMMC employees, including Shauneen A. Valliere of Leicester, a surgical research nurse practitioner, returned Sept. 29 from the island after serving 20 days as part of the National Disaster Medical System."
- "Cape Air resumes commercial flights to the BVI," by BVI News.com: "'The safety of our employees, resuming daily service, and offering relief flights in the region has been the sole focus of our company for the last two weeks,' said the Chief Executive Officer of Cape Air, Dan Wolf."
- "Blacks in Worcester envision better paths to equality," by Steven H. Foskett Jr., Worcester Telegram: "At a Governor's Black Advisory Committee listening session Tuesday night at the Boys & Girls Club, local black residents talked about what they feel holds them back and what they see as pathways forward in the areas of economic opportunity and educational achievement."
- "Local emergency management officials say region is prepared for mass shootings," by Geoff Spillane, Cape Cod Times: "Even before Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas, emergency management officials in Massachusetts and on the Cape and Islands were preparing for a similar tragedy here, including plans for how to get information to the families of the dead and injured. 'A lesson learned from the events in Orlando and other mass casualties, including San Bernardino and the Boston Marathon is it's necessary that incident commanders set up a family assistance center,' Kurt Schwartz, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, said during an interview with the Times last month after he spoke at a meeting of the Barnstable County Regional Emergency Planning Committee."
- "This old outhouse: Privy tied to Paul Revere is excavated," by William J. Kole, Associated Press: "Archaeologists are excavating what they believe was the site of an outhouse next door to Paul Revere's home - and the privy, as the colonists politely called their potties, could be flush with artifacts. People typically dumped trash and household goods in their outhouses. Volunteers with the City of Boston Archaeological Program already have pulled fragments of pottery, bottles and a tobacco pipe from the bricked yard of the Pierce-Hichborn House in the heart of Boston's North End."
MEDIA MATTERS - "Something old, something new planned for Globe site: Developers pitch modern lab space inside existing Boulevard footprint," by Jennifer Smith, Dorchester Reporter: "The development company that has agreed to buy the former Boston Globe complex on Morrissey Boulevard is proposing to renovate and re-use the existing newspaper facility as a hub for high-tech jobs, including robotics. Todd Fremont-Smith, senior vice president of development at Nordblom Co., offered a short but warmly received presentation on the 135 Morrissey project to the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association at its monthly meeting on Monday."
MAZEL! - to Daphne Griffin, former chief of human services under Boston Mayor Tom Menino, who has been appointed Executive Director of Scholar Athletes, the non-profit founded by Suffolk CEO John Fish in 2009.
BELATED MAZEL! - Former AG Martha Coakley and current AG Maura Healey staffer Scott Grannemann and Erin Murphy, senior copywriter with John Hancock, were married this last Saturday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to Rep. Joe Kennedy, Provincetown state Rep. Sarah Peake, Wellesley state Rep. Alice Peisch, Melwood Global co-founder Jon Tapper, InkHouse VP of media strategy Elizabeth Yekhtikian, the Boston Herald's Zuri Berry, aetnahealth's Eliza Adelson, and state Sen. Eric Lesser's Legislative Director Samantha Kelly.
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