~some personnel news~
@KellyGarrity3
is joining me in authoring
@politico
’s Massachusetts Playbook as I pivot to focusing more fully on the 2024 presidential race/New Hampshire primaries. Say hi when you see us around and drop us a line to set up a coffee!
#mapoli
#nhpolitics
Manchester, NH — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is here to support the write-in Joe Biden campaign. She brought Dunkin for the volunteers out holding signs in the 16* weather
“The idea that a family who has gone through every possible option before finally turning to IVF, having that option ripped away from them, is just a pain that I can't imagine.”
Rep. Lori Trahan gets personal on reproductive rights via
@politico
An employee handed out MTBA-themed, heart-shaped pins ahead of Gov. Maura Healey’s press conference covering transportation funding in her FY25 budget.
Healey rode the Green Line here, staff says.
NEW: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is endorsing Enrique Pepén in D5, a blow to her former council colleague & incumbent Ricardo Arroyo.
“Enrique is exactly the kind of leader we need in government,” Wu said. with
@lisakashinsky
@Reporter_Mia
NEW: Over 260 former campaign staffers signed a letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, demanding that she call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas: via
@lisakashinsky
& me
@politico
happy monday! filling in for
@lisakashinsky
in this week’s newsletter starting off with:
— The politics of the Mass. migrant crisis
— Healey’s executive branch workforce swells
— Unite Here Local 26 endorses
@EnriquePepen
in Boston’s D5 race
Gov. Maura Healey on
@CNN
on Trump's abortion statement today: "Donald Trump is a direct threat to women, and a direct threat to reproductive the freedom.... That's what he said today."
Healey has "no doubt whatsoever" that Trump would sign a national abortion ban if reelected.
On
@BosPublicRadio
,
@MassGovernor
is asked if she has any regrets about the size of the tax cuts passed last year:
"Not at all," she tells
@jimbraude
; says it was one of the "most significant accomplishments" of her admin, and will make the state more affordable
New: Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy is running for the Suffolk County SJC clerk seat Maura Doyle is vacating. "I feel that my decades as an educator and my time ... on the Boston City Council has prepared me to take on what will be an important role as the clerk of the Supreme…
Inbox: Rep. Lori Trahan is bringing Dr. Pietro Bortoletto, director of reproductive surgery at Boston IVF, as her guest to the State of the Union speech Thursday.
subbing in on Massachusetts Playbook this morning with
@sophie_gardnerJ
to talk convention center tensions and new orange line trains dropping this month🚇 check it out here!
Massachusetts connection in tonight's debate: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis picked former Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge when asked which former president he draws inspiration from
INBOX:
@SecYellen
will be joined by
@MassGovernor
and
@MayorWu
at Roxbury Community College Wednesday to talk Biden admin’s efforts to lower energy costs through the IRA:
Inbox: First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Massachusetts Tuesday night after speaking at a Biden Victory Fund fundraiser in Connecticut.
She’ll speak in Cambridge Wednesday morning as part of the White House’s Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
teaching my first every workout classes 8/31 and 9/1! hosted at my place, it's a combo stairs/weightlifting HIIT workout and there's a bunch of fun challenges I created like How To Fit The L-shaped Couch Through the Door, dm if u wanna sign up!!!
State Auditor Diana DiZoglio arrived at the hearing for the ballot question she’s pushing that would give her office the explicit power to audit the Legislature with a prop: a trolley packed with past audits
During a Governor's Council hearing, Gov. Maura Healey's SJC nominee Gabrielle Wolohojian, who Healey previously had a romantic relationship with, confirms that she applied for a seat on the state's top court during Charlie Baker's administration but didn't get it.
Gov.
@maura_healey
expects to hit the 7,500-family capacity limit for the emergency shelter system “in the next day or so.” The shelter system was serving 7,423 families on Friday, the most recent day of data available
#mapoli
NEW in MA playbook this am: details from Gov. Maura Healey’s March calendar (courtesy of a
@lisakashinsky
records request) including:
— an interview for a new transportation safety chief
— a meeting with
@WHCOS
More⤵️ w/
@sophie_gardnerJ
@Reporter_Mia
.
@MassGovernor
on the shooting in
#Lewiston
, Maine: “It's incredibly unnerving. I will tell you that law enforcement here is in close contact with law enforcement in Maine” and throughout the New England region
Clinton’s cat was named Socks and every time Trump talks about the “Socks Case” I think of the cat and not a sock drawer. That Socks the cat somehow ran off with classified information.
BREAKING: Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown has agreed to a five-year, $304 million supermax contract extension with the franchise, per sources. This is the richest deal in NBA history, negotiated by agent Jason Glushon.
Fully guaranteed, with a trade kicker. No player option.
New: After President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, was removed from the White House following a series of biting incidents, Rep.
@virginiafoxx
is demanding details about workplace safety measures in the White House. via
@politico
Almost half of Massachusetts voters surveyed in a new Suffolk poll say immigration is an “emergency situation”
62% support a measure to grant temporary work visas to migrants at the new shelter site in Roxbury ⤵️
For nearly 8 in 10 Massachusetts voters, immigration is a major problem or emergency situation, but accompanied with a compassionate twist.
"Thinking about the U.S. border and the number of immigrants entering the country, which of the following four statements comes closest to…
Asked about the MCAS ballot question while addressing Boston’s business community, Senate Pres. Karen Spilka says she “cannot support totally getting rid of MCAS” as a graduation requirement “without some reasonable alternative.”
5 pool reporters will be allowed to take still photos, but no cameras in the courtroom for Trump’s arraignment: “The populace rightly hungers for the most accurate and current information available,” NY Judge Juan Merchan said Monday night via
@politico
✅IN: passing the extra time your commute enjoying the snow-related puns in today’s Playbook
❌OUT: passing the extra time on your commute being mad at the mbta and not reading today’s Playbook
#mapoli
via
@politico
from the creators of the american revolution comes: “I didn’t invite these people,” a warm boston welcome to the prince & princess of wales 🥰
@BostonGlobe
Trump has successfully fundraised off his last two indictments — now one of his critics/GOP primary opponents
@AsaHutchinson
is trying to get in on the action
Exactly one year ago, I told the
@washingtonpost
that Trump had disqualified himself from ever being President again.
Today’s
#TrumpIndictment
reinforced that.
America deserves a leader who respects the rule of law.
Help me get to the first debate:
Speaker Mariano's office notes that the House rejected an amendment last year that would've added a residency requirement. "We're not interested in revisiting that," spox says.
"We were talking about a lot of different options," Mariano told reporters when asked if EA changes…
The Mass. House is considering changes to the state’s emergency shelter program. House leaders didn’t close the door to possible residency requirements or time limits for shelter stays, but say they aren’t considering changing the right-to-shelter law.
TGIF ☁️ in today’s newsletter:
— MassDems dispute over an amendment to the party’s charter
— An update on the Boston City Council letter alleging bullying & harassment of Council attorney
— New penalties for towns that don’t comply with MBTA zoning law