| | |  | BY STEPHANIE MURRAY | Presented by CuriosityStream | GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. CAMPBELL WEIGHS ‘21 RACE: 'WE CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE' — As she considers taking on another tough Boston political fight, City Councilor Andrea Campbell talked about the 2015 victory that landed her a seat on the council during a panel last night. In her first run for political office, Campbell beat former Councilor Charles Yancey, who had been in office for more than 30 years. She represents parts of Dorchester, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain and Roslindale. And now she is eyeing another incumbent: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Campbell reflected on her initial campaign during a panel with Rep. Ayanna Pressley and state Rep. Nika Elugardo. The hourlong program, titled "Black Boston: Changing the Face of Politics" was moderated by the Boston Globe's Kimberly Atkins and hosted by Boston University and WBUR's City Space. "Folks suggest we wait our turn. I don't think any — we can't wait anymore. If we truly want these systems including the political system to be reflective of the demographics in the city of Boston, where I'm born and raised, then we have to think about how we how we encourage and support those who are different, who look different, but who reflect that demographic, to take this on," Campbell said. The comments come as Campbell, who previously served as City Council president, is "seriously considering" running for mayor next year. The councilor said in a GBH radio interview on Friday that she may jump into the 2021 contest, and that a decision would come within a week. Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu is already in the race, and Walsh is expected to run for a third term, though he has not announced his plans. A poll conducted by GBH and MassINC earlier this month found the incumbent Walsh leading a potential race with 46 percent of support, followed by Wu with 23 percent and Campbell with 4 percent of support among registered voters. Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Get in touch: smurray@politico.com. TODAY — Rep. Katherine Clark holds a press conference with other House lawmakers. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh speaks at a Massachusetts Opioid Screening and Awareness Day virtual town hall, and speaks with Dr. Karilyn Crockett on a panel on racial justice hosted by Liberty Mutual. | |
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| – “Number of new Massachusetts COVID cases dips slightly to 244 as positive tests stay below 1%” by Tanner Stening, MassLive.com: “As the nation approaches 200,000 coronavirus fatalities, Massachusetts health officials on Monday reported another seven COVID-19 deaths, bringing the statewide death count to 9,107. Officials also confirmed another 244 cases of the virus, for a total of at least 125,723 statewide cases since the beginning of the pandemic.” | | DATELINE BEACON HILL |
| – “After Ginsburg's Death, Pro-Choice Advocates Seek Beacon Hill Vote On ROE Act,” by Mike Deehan, GBH News: “Abortion-access advocates hope the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court and potential threat to abortion rights at the national level will propel Massachusetts lawmakers to expand access in the commonwealth, granting women the right to end some pregnancies after 24 weeks and allowing minors to seek abortions without parental consent or court proceedings.” – “With Audit Threat, State Escalates Push For In-Person Schooling In Low-Risk Communities,” by Max Larkin, WBUR: “State officials are stepping up pressure on school districts to resume in-person schooling as soon as possible this fall, even as they have signaled deference to local control. Local authorities say the latest escalation poses a threat to months of detailed planning, and could force risky changes even after the school year has begun.” | | FROM THE HUB |
| – “Boston is set to consider wide scale police reforms. But many of them have been pitched before,” by Milton J. Valencia and Gal Tziperman Lotan, Boston Globe: “Over the last three decades, whenever a crisis of confidence in local law enforcement erupts, city officials turn to a task force for answers. Each time, the task force recommended an array of Boston Police Department reforms, pitched as common sense policies that would address bias in policing and increase accountability within the force. And that’s often where it has fizzled out.” – “Across Massachusetts, Gatherings To Remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Adrian Ma, WBUR: “Throughout the weekend, public gatherings took place in communities across the state to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday night. In communities including Cambridge, Concord, Medford and Lowell, people came together to mourn the loss of the legendary jurist.” – “How to Disrupt the Whiteness of Boston Philanthropy, One Dollar at a Time,” by Arielle Gray, Boston Magazine: “Massachusetts, and Boston in particular, are known for having a strong culture of philanthropy, and many charitable organizations fund groups that work in communities of color. But most do it by funneling money through organizations led by white people, in some ways reinforcing the very dynamics that their efforts are supposedly trying to dismantle.” – “‘If this was real school, I’d be paying attention, but here I’m so distracted’: Some Boston students are attending virtual school from the YMCA,” by Jenna Russell, Meghan E. Irons, Bianca Vázquez Toness, Naomi Martin and Felicia Gans, Boston Globe: “No school year in history, arguably, has brought such uncertainty and stress for so many — or come with higher stakes. Monday, the first day back across Boston Public Schools, students of all ages and backgrounds logged in for a remote start to the school year. To offer a glimpse of the stakes (and, we imagine, plenty of stress), the Globe’s Great Divide education team followed a range of students, educators, and support staff through their first day back.” – “At Boston College, A Question of Priorities: Academics Vs. Athletics,” by Kirk Carapezza, GBH News: “A graduate student at Boston College who is teaching both in-person and online courses this semester says he doesn’t feel safe because COVID testing on campus is ‘completely inadequate.’ At the same time, football players and other in-season athletes are being tested for COVID-19 weekly, much more frequently than other students, faculty and staff.” | | PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES |
| – “T targets white, wealthier riders with service cuts,” by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: “The MBTA moved cautiously on Monday toward embracing a framework for making budget-balancing service cuts that will fall disproportionately on white, wealthier riders who have more transportation options. Facing a budget shortfall ranging from $300 million to $600 million, T officials won backing from the Fiscal and Management Control Board on a plan to retain or improve services that cater to low-income, minority riders who either don’t have cars or limited access to them.” | | BALLOT WARS |
| – “Even basics in dispute on Right to Repair ballot question,” by Shira Schoenberg, CommonWealth Magazine: “Massachusetts voters will be asked in November whether to update the Right to Repair law — but they may have a hard time wading through the complexities of a ballot question when supporters and opponents cannot even agree on the basics of what it will do.” – “Massachusetts has been pummeled by ads about Question 1. They veer into exaggeration and ‘fear-mongering,’ experts say,” by Matt Stout, Boston Globe: “Massachusetts voters are being asked this November to not only weigh whether to expand the state’s “Right to Repair” law, which gives independent mechanics access to a car’s diagnostic codes, but seemingly which dystopian future they most want to avoid. Fueled by a multimillion-dollar battle between car companies like General Motors and aftermarket chains like AutoZone, the 30-second spots pummeling local airwaves offer what experts say are inflated versions of the ballot question’s potential impact.” – “Question 2: What to know about the debate over the Massachusetts ranked choice voting ballot measure,” by Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com: “A pattern has emerged in recent Massachusetts primary races. More than three quarters of voters in the recent 4th District race cast ballots against its ultimate winner, Newton City Councilor Jake Auchincloss. And in the deep-blue state, where Democratic primaries often prove most decisive, it was hardly the first time.” | | DAY IN COURT |
| – “Florida prosecutors’ decision likely clears Robert Kraft of solicitation,” by Terry Spencer, The Associated Press: Florida prosecutors said Monday that they won’t appeal a court’s decision blocking video that allegedly shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft paying for massage parlor sex, making it likely the charges against him will be dropped.” – “Bar oversight agency considers misconduct by attorneys in lab scandal case,” by Shira Schoenberg, CommonWealth Magazine: “The state Board of Bar Overseers on Monday began a two-week hearing to decide whether to recommend disciplinary action against three attorneys who worked for former attorney general Martha Coakley, who are accused of withholding evidence in the case of rogue drug lab chemist Sonja Farak.” | |
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| – “Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders Want Big Banking Reforms Following The FinCEN Files Investigations,” by Jessica Garrison, BuzzFeed News: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on Monday for reforming the government practice of offering banks deferred prosecution agreements instead of real punishments when they are caught abetting money laundering, one of the problems highlighted in the series.” | | NOVEMBER IS COMING |
| – “Poll: Most Young Americans Prefer Biden, But Trump Backers Are More Enthusiastic,” by Juana Summers, GBH News: “Young Americans favor Joe Biden over President Trump, according to a new survey, but Trump's supporters appear more enthusiastic about that choice. Sixty percent of likely voters under the age of 30 say they will vote for Biden, compared with 27% for Trump, according to a poll from the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics out Monday.” | | YOU'VE GOT MAIL |
| – “Mail-In Voting In Massachusetts: How It Went, And How It Compares To Other Systems,” by Edgar B. Herwick III, GBH News: “Massachusetts voters set a record earlier this month: the best-ever turnout for a state primary election, with the casting of 1.7 million votes in the Sept. 1 election. One factor driving this historic turnout was the expansion of mail-in voting, which was offered as an option to all voters for the first time due to health concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic.” | | TRUMPACHUSETTS |
| – “‘Trump 2020’ spray-painted across on Route 44 in Plymouth, Plympton continuing month-long vandalism on Massachusetts roads,” by Michael Bonner, MassLive.com: “Several spots along Route 44 in Plymouth and Plympton became unofficial campaign sites for the releection of President Donald Trump, continuing a trend that began in August. Photos from WBZ’s helicopter show a pair of ‘Trump 2020’ phrases spray painted in yellow on the two-lane roadway.” | | DATELINE D.C. |
| – “Romney faces another crossroads on Trump's Supreme Court push,” by Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine, POLITICO: “Don’t assume Mitt Romney will stick it to Donald Trump and try to block the president’s new Supreme Court nominee. After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Utah Republican finds himself at another legacy-defining crossroads. He must decide whether to support an effort to install Trump’s third Supreme Court justice and shift the balance of the court to the right for decades to come, or oppose the move on principle and hinder the plans of Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.” | | MARKEYCHUSETTS |
| FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: "Massachusetts AFL-CIO Endorses Ed Markey for Senate," from the Markey campaign: "The Massachusetts AFL-CIO today endorsed Senator Ed Markey for re-election. The role of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO is to serve as the unified voice of more than 800 local unions and 400,000 organized workers in the Commonwealth and to be a voice for all working people, those in unions, and those not yet organized.” – “Biden warns that a quick replacement of Ginsburg would ‘plunge us deeper into the abyss’” by Sean Sullivan, Matt Viser and Annie Linskey, The Washington Post: “Some on Biden’s team have been aggravated by the calls on the left to expand the court, expressing particular annoyance with Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) for urging Democrats to abolish the filibuster and add more justices if Senate Republicans move to fill the vacancy.” – “Police organization slams Ed Markey for call to disarm officers of ‘weapons of war’” by Erin Tiernan, Boston Herald: “The leader of the state’s oldest police lobbying organization is calling on Sen. Ed Markey to resign and denounced the progressive senator’s calls to disarm police of ‘weapons of war.’ ‘I personally have been a supporter of yours for your entire career in Congress. I can no longer support you, and frankly, you should step down, as you are out of touch with the American people,’ Massachusetts Police Association President James R. Guido wrote in a Sept. 18 letter to the senator.” | | MEANWHILE IN MAINE |
| – “Collins trails Gideon in Maine Senate race, according to a new Suffolk/Globe poll,” by Victoria McGrane, Boston Globe: “Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine is narrowly trailing her Democratic challenger, Sara Gideon, the incumbent’s reelection bid hindered by diminished popularity among moderate Democrats and independent voters who’ve soured on her since President Trump’s election, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of likely Maine voters.” | | ABOVE THE FOLD |
| — Herald: “SEVERE IN REVERE," "GET BACK TO SCHOOL,” — Globe: “199,818," "Democrats find options few, drastic on nominee.” | | FROM THE 413 |
| – “Springfield’s Black Lives Matter mural vandalized 2nd time in a week,” by Patrick Johnson, Springfield Republican: “The Black Lives Matter mural pasted on Court Street by City Hall has been vandalized for the second time in a week, and Mayor Domenic Sarno said Monday the city has video of the suspect and will be pursing a complaint.” | | THE LOCAL ANGLE |
| – “City Councilors eye taking over some School Committee powers,” by Robert Mills, The Lowell Sun: “The buck stops where? That’s the question City Councilor Dan Rourke, with support from several other councilors, wants to find an answer to via a motion he filed for Tuesday night’s city council meeting. He wants to have the Law Department prepare a report on whether the council, via the city manager, can take over some of the of the legal authority of the school committee.” – “Nantucket group seeks crackdown on short-term rentals,” by Joshua Balling, Cape Cod Times: “ACK Now, the political action group whose self-stated mission is to stop the erosion of Nantucket’s quality of life, has set its sights on short-term vacation rentals and the property management companies and off-island investors who operate many of them.” – “Council to consider $15M loan order to address air quality in public buildings,” by Nick Kotsopoulos, Telegram & Gazette: “City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. is recommending to the City Council a $15 million loan to fund the purchase and installation of ionization devices throughout all regularly occupied city and public school buildings. The devices are designed to improve indoor air quality and reduce the potential spread of biological contaminants.” – “Police are charging three Sudbury family members for violating the social host law. The party led to remote learning at Lincoln-Sudbury High due to COVID-19 concerns.” by Norman Miller, MetroWest Daily News: “Police have filed criminal charges against a teen and his parents who hosted a large underage drinking party two weeks ago, which led to Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School switching to remote learning for the first few weeks of the school year. Police Chief Scott Nix said police filed a charge of violating the social host law in Framingham District Court against the parents and Framingham Juvenile Court against the teen.” HAPPY BIRTHDAY – to Abigail DesVergnes, ESPN’s Mike Knittle, Sean Moynihan of the The Moynihan Group; TT Sitterly, Helena Zay and your Massachusetts Playbook author. Want to make an impact? POLITICO Massachusetts has a variety of solutions available for partners looking to reach and activate the most influential people in the Bay State. Have a petition you want signed? A cause you’re promoting? Seeking to increase brand awareness among this key audience? Share your message with our influential readers to foster engagement and drive action. Contact Jesse Shapiro to find out how: jshapiro@politico.com. | |
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