| | | |  | BY STEPHANIE MURRAY | Presented by Uber Driver Stories | GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. SCOOP: ANDY CARD RAISING CASH FOR EVERETT DEMOCRAT — Andy Card, who was chief of staff to President George Bush, is wading into the race for mayor in Everett. And the well-known Republican operative is doing it by raising money for a Democrat. In the shadow of Boston's blockbuster race for mayor, another contest is shaping up in nearby Everett. Mayor Carlo DeMaria is running for reelection, and he hasn’t had an opponent in years. Plus, the city has undergone some pretty significant change over the last decade -- the easiest to spot being the Encore Boston Harbor casino. Everett was named a "top spot to live " north of Boston by the Globe earlier this month. And some say the diverse, growing city of 46,000 has outgrown its electoral system. Everett City Councilor Fred Capone, who hasn’t yet launched a mayoral campaign, will hold a fundraiser in June which features Card as the special guest. A description of the event obtained by POLITICO notes it is for Capone’s mayoral bid, and is planned for the Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus on June 22. Card didn’t respond to a request for comment. “Andy Card has a tremendous relationship with Everett over the years. He’s actually an individual who has worked with both sides of the aisle. So it's actually a perfect blend because I view it the same way. I don't get caught up on political designations,” Capone told me yesterday, confirming the fundraiser. Card served as a Holbrook state representative and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1982. In recent years, he’s been supportive of Gov. Charlie Baker. Capone said he’s focused on “fiscal prudence, inclusiveness” and “trying to keep everything transparent.” The Democratic councilor's mayoral ambitions are “not really a well-kept secret,” and he plans to make an announcement in the coming weeks, perhaps sooner according to the Everett Leader Herald. For his part, DeMaria says his work isn’t done . “Under Mayor Carlo DeMaria’s leadership, the city of Everett continues to thrive. Mayor DeMaria has a record of ensuring that all Everett residents have a safe, inclusive, and prosperous community to call home,” a spokesperson said in a statement. DeMaria was first elected in 2008. Capone may not be DeMaria’s only opponent. Gerly Adrien, the city’s first Black woman councilor, is another Democrat who may jump into the race. Adrien has been actively raising campaign cash in recent weeks. And she’s got some allies in high places -- Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey and former Rep. Joe Kennedy III were among those who rallied in support of Adrien last year during a dust-up with her council colleagues. ONE MORE THING — Have you ever wanted to be the source on a Mass Playbook scoop? My last day is Friday, so it is now or never. Reach me at smurray@politico.com. Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Get in touch: smurray@politico.com. TODAY — President Joe Biden delivers his first joint address to Congress, members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation attend. Sen. Ed Markey is a guest on GBH’s “Greater Boston.” Rep. Jim McGovern, chair of the House Rules Committee, holds a hearing on the hunger crisis in the United States. Rep. Jake Auchincloss is a panel guest at Kennedy Institute, and hosts a Facebook Live. | |
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| – “Massachusetts reports fewer than 1,000 new COVID cases for second straight day as active infections drop to 28,043,” by Tanner Stening, MassLive.com: “Active COVID cases decreased by more than 1,500 on Tuesday, from 29,601 to 28,043, according to the latest data from the Department of Public Health. State health officials confirmed another 825 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday.” | | DATELINE BEACON HILL |
| – “Baker relaxes outdoor mask mandate in Mass., announces timeline for reopening bars, other businesses,” by Matt Stout, Jon Chesto and Felice J. Freyer, Boston Globe: “More than 13 months after COVID-19 first gripped Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday mapped a return to something resembling normal life, saying he will ease the state’s outdoor mask mandate by week’s ends, allow bars and street festivals to return by Memorial Day, and potentially release businesses from all pandemic-era restrictions by mid-summer.” – RELATED: “‘There is a general sigh of relief’: Businesses have mixed reactions to Baker’s reopening timeline,” by Anissa Gardizy, Boston Globe. – “Massachusetts orders all high schools to fully resume in-person classes by May 17,” by Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com: “Massachusetts officials are moving to ensure that every high schooler in the state will get at least a month back in the classroom this spring, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Jeff Riley, the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education, announced Tuesday afternoon that all high schools must resume in-person classes five days a week by May 17.” – “Tarr seeks cap on state's income tax rate,” by Christian M. Wade, Eagle-Tribune: “As a proposed tax on top earners inches toward the 2022 ballot, some lawmakers want to build a dam to hold back future increases. A bipartisan plan before the Legislature's Revenue Committee would ask voters to amend the state Constitution by capping the personal income tax rate at 6.25% to prevent the levy from rising above that level. The flat tax rate went down to 5% in January 2019.” | | VAX-ACHUSETTS |
| – SHOT: “Baker laissez-faire on vaccine requirements,” by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: “Gov. Charlie Baker said his administration will leave it up to businesses and organizations to decide whether they want to adopt vaccination requirements for employees or patrons, and added that the executive branch of state government won’t require its employees to be vaccinated.” – CHASER: “Healey Doubles Down On Mandatory Vaccination For Public Employees,” by Adam Reilly, GBH News: “Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey reiterated her call for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for public employees Tuesday during her regular appearance on Boston Public Radio, calling it ‘just a matter of public safety.’” | | FROM THE HUB |
| – “The 100 Most Influential Bostonians,” by David S. Bernstein, Boston Magazine. – “Kim Janey announces Boston reopening on a three-week delay behind Massachusetts,” by Sean Philip Cotter, Boston Herald: “Don’t fire up the karaoke machine quite yet — Boston’s following the state’s lead in opening back up further, but doing so on a three-week delay for most rules, Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced. On June 1, road races, various amateur athletic events and singing indoors in restaurants and other events will begin — three weeks after the rest of the state allows those activities.” – “Boston Public Schools to receive $400M in federal funding, new commission to help allocate,” by Alexi Cohan, Boston Herald: “Boston Public Schools will receive nearly $400 million in federal relief funding and Superintendent Brenda Cassellius announced a new commission that will advise the district on how to spend it.” – “Growing calls for BC president Leahy to step down after allegations of sexual assault surface about former priest,” by Deirdre Fernandes, Boston Globe: “Boston College’s president, the Rev. William P. Leahy, is facing growing criticism that he mishandled student complaints about inappropriate behavior by a priest in the late 1990s who has recently been accused of sexual assault.” – “In Massachusetts, More Than 130 COVID Clusters Linked To School Sports,” by Adam Reilly, GBH News: As Massachusetts high schools begin a new, pandemic-altered sports season, data obtained by GBH News shows that the state Department of Public Health identified more than 130 clusters of COVID-19 linked to organized athletics between late July 2020 and late January 2021.” – “Boston employers are embarking on a grand experiment, by shifting their offices to a hybrid model,” by Jon Chesto, Boston Globe: “A grand experiment is about to take place in office buildings across Greater Boston, as many businesses begin reopening their offices to employees with newfound expectations around working from home.” – “Anti-Semitic incidents remain at ‘historically high’ levels, rise in ‘Zoombombing’ in Massachusetts during pandemic: Report,” by Rick Sobey, Boston Herald: More than 100 anti-Semitic incidents across five New England states were reported to the Anti-Defamation League in 2020, as there was a rise in Zoom videoconferencing attacks in Massachusetts amid the coronavirus pandemic.” – “In a boost for home cooks with small-business hopes, Boston will soon allow ‘retail residential kitchens,’” by Kara Baskin, Boston Globe: “Boston food entrepreneurs will get a boost beginning on Friday, April 30, when a retail residential kitchens ordinance goes into effect. This allows home cooks to prepare shelf-stable foods in their homes for resale at farmers’ markets, online, and through the mail. They can make up to $25,000 per year.” | | THE RACE FOR CITY HALL |
| – “Boston's $3.75 Billion Budget Is A Political Battle Ground — Especially If You're Running for Mayor,” by Saraya Wintersmith, GBH News: “A year after an unusually contentious budget battle split the Boston City Council along ideological lines over the future of police and social services, the council is again hunkering down for fiscal combat — this time with a one-time injection of federal pandemic relief funds to fight over.” – “Former Rep. Carvalho jumps into race for District 4 council,” by Bill Forry, Dorchester Reporter: “Former State Rep. Evandro Carvalho has jumped into the crowded field of candidates hoping to succeed Councillor Andrea Campbell in District 4. The Fuller Street resident — who represented the Fifth Suffolk district from 2014 to 2019— is the only former elected official currently seeking the district seat, which Campbell will vacate as she runs for mayor.” | |
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| – “An ex-staffer’s perspective on T governance,” by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: “Laurel Paget-Seekins spent six years at the MBTA, rising through the ranks to assistant general manager for policy before she left at the end of last year to become a fellow at the George Soros-backed Open Society Foundations. She was considered one of the T’s top employees and often made presentations to the Fiscal and Management Control Board, which makes her recent blog musings on the T’s governance structure illuminating.” | | DAY IN COURT |
| – “Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins is in the final stages of being vetted for US attorney,” by Andrea Estes, Boston Globe: “Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins is undergoing FBI background checks, the final step before she can be nominated to be the next United States attorney for the district of Massachusetts, according to a person briefed on the process.” – “'I thought he was the Boy Wonder': Investors testify in Jasiel Correia's corruption trial,” by Dan Medeiros, Linda Murphy, Lynne Sullivan and Jo C. Goode, The Herald News: “Like a Dickens novel, it was a tale of two Jasiel Correias on day six of the federal case against the former mayor. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington portrayed the now 29-year-old Correia as an ambitious and passionate young entrepreneur. Federal prosecutors Zachary Hafer and David Tobin painted Fall River’s youngest mayor as a slick, master con man.” – “ICE To Limit Arrests Of Immigrants At Courthouses,” by Sarah Betancourt, Law360: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it would start limiting its controversial practice of arresting immigrants at or near courthouses, saying its agents would only detain individuals in matters involving national security and other extreme circumstances.” – “Former Boston police officer James Carnes pleads guilty in overtime fraud scheme at evidence warehouse,” by Melissa Hanson, MassLive.com: “A former Boston police officer on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges in connection with $20,000 in overtime fraud at the department’s evidence warehouse.” | | WARREN REPORT |
| – “Elizabeth Warren takes aim at FedEx, Nike, Amazon in push for corporate tax hike,” by Brian Schwartz, CNBC: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren took aim at FedEx, Nike and Amazon on Tuesday as she championed the need to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthiest Americans.” – “Elizabeth Warren brings back her $700 billion universal childcare plan and wants the wealthy to pay for it,” by Ayelet Sheffey, Insider: “Ahead of President Joe Biden's second infrastructure proposal unveiling on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released a plan on Tuesday to help families get quality, affordable child care in the US.” | | FROM THE DELEGATION |
| – “Rep. Richard Neal sees permanent child tax credit, universal family leave, child care funding as keys to restoring a robust economy,” by Jim Kinney, Springfield Republican: “A proposal unveiled Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal for universal paid family and medical leave, guaranteed access to child care and for the child-tax credit to be made permanent offers a path back from the lingering economic troubles of the pandemic, the congressman said in an interview.” – “Rep. Pressley Doubles Down On Calls For Police Reform Following Chauvin Verdict,” by Paris Alston and Tiziana Dearing, WBUR. – “As YMCA in Worcester celebrates delivering 1 million meals amid COVID pandemic, Rep. Jim McGovern says US can learn from the organization,” by Michael Bonner, MassLive.com. | | ABOVE THE FOLD |
| — Herald: “BREATH OF FRESH AIR,” — Globe: “Baker eases mask rules, plans reopening.” | | FROM THE 413 |
| – “Mailed ballots will decide Mass MoCA union campaign Wednesday,” by Larry Parnass, The Berkshire Eagle: “Roughly 100 employees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art will learn Wednesday whether a brief union campaign won them a say in their work conditions.” | | THE LOCAL ANGLE |
| – “Compressor station coming back online after April 6 shutdown,” by Jessica Trufant, The Patriot Ledger: “The energy company that owns the natural gas compressor station on the banks of the Fore River plans to start the facility back up, several weeks after the third unplanned gas release at the site since September.” – “Wakefield Town Election: 'Yes' Wins, New Members Elected,” by Mike Carraggi, Patch: “After all the Facebook wars, sign skirmishes and an actual official decision, the people have finally spoken: The Wakefield Warrior logo should stay. An unofficial look at precinct-by-precinct numbers showed a few-hundred count advantage for the ‘Yes’ side of a nonbinding question of whether to keep the logo.” – “Nurses: Tenet offer 'insulting' as strike enters eighth week of unresolved staffing issue,” by Cyrus Moulton, Telegram & Gazette: “A day after an attempt to restart negotiations between striking nurses and management at St. Vincent Hospital fizzled, U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan joined the nurses on the picket line Tuesday and urged the hospital to return to negotiations.” – “Pandemic Prom: Some South Shore students will get to dance the night away,” by Mary Whitfill, The Patriot Ledger: “Madison and Mackenzie Smith, like any other high school junior girl in the region, went shopping for their upcoming proms last February. The twins both came home with stunning floor-length gowns, navy for Madison and red for Mackenzie. They, of course, never got to wear them.” HAPPY BIRTHDAY – to Sports Illustrated’s Jason Schwartz, and Patrick Lally, director of sports marketing for the University of Georgia Bulldogs and former adviser to Sen. Ed Markey. NEW EPISODE: RECOUNTING THE DAYS – On this week’s Horse Race podcast, hosts Jennifer Smith, Steve Koczela and Stephanie Murray discuss the race for mayor of Boston, and the Boston Globe’s Matt Stout breaks down a legal battle involving the secretary of state, the city of Boston and the MassGOP. Subscribe and listen on iTunes and Sound Cloud. 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. | |
A message from Uber Driver Stories: When Olivia was diagnosed with MS in 2017, it became clear to her that having a regular job would no longer be possible.
“I drive with Uber because I love to drive,” she says. “It just puts the MS far out of my head. There’s no way I could work a regular 9-5.”
With Uber, Olivia can choose when, where, and how long she wants to drive. This flexibility lets Olivia be there for her daughter and for her own health needs.
If she’s not feeling well, or her daughter needs her, she doesn’t have to worry about asking her boss or requesting time off—she can take the time she needs to focus on herself and her family.
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