MAGA MIKE KINNEALLY

THE MEDIA GAVE THE WHITE TOOTHED GOVERNOR A FREE PASS & IGNORED HIS BLUNDERS, IGNORED THE POLITICAL HACKS HE SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH, IGNORED THE MBTA FAILURES & OVERPAID 'CONSTRUCTION EXPERTS' WHO NEVER CAME TO THE COMONWEALTH....THOSE CHINESE RAIL CARS? THE SAFETY VIOLATIONS? THE WORKERS COMP $2.5 BILLIONS MISSPENT?

And your total comes out to… $2.1 billion. That’s how much Massachusetts has to pay back the feds. Gov. Maura Healey’s administration revealed yesterday that they reached a settlement with the outgoing Biden administration last Friday to pay back most — though not all — of the $2.5 billion in federal COVID pandemic funds that the state misspent under Gov. Charlie Baker. Here’s what to know about the big IOU:

• How was the money misspent? State officials say the Baker administration accidentally used federal funds to pay jobless claims that should have instead been paid using state money. The mistake happened over the course of three years during the pandemic. (As my colleagues reported at the time, the state labor department’s loose financial controls were already under scrutiny.)
• Is $2.1 billion a good deal? It’s still a painful amount of money, but it could have been worse; according to the Healey administration, the bill could have exceeded $3 billion, if the feds held the state to the full amount, plus interest and penalties. (Some speculated Trump’s Republican-led administration would have been less forgiving.)
• How long does the state have to square up? The settlement lets the state spread out the payments over 10 years, starting this Dec. 1.
• Where is that money coming from? Most of the money will be paid from the state’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, which is funded by a tax on employers. However, Healey said employers won’t see any increase in their tax rates until at least 2026, as the state eyes reforms to the unemployment insurance system. Meanwhile, $73 million in back interest will be paid from the general budget.
• What is Healey saying? “It is incredibly frustrating that the prior administration allowed this to happen, but we are going to use this as a moment to come together with the business and labor community to make meaningful reforms to the Unemployment Insurance system,” she said in a statement.
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FROM MIKE KINNEALY'S LILY WHITE LEXINGTON COMMUNITY:

He’s a graduate from Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School, which is where he met his wife, Trisha. They moved to Lexington in 2003 and had three children, all of whom are now adults. Kennealy and his wife have been active in the community since moving to town — Kennealy served on Lexington’s Appropriation Committee for three years and coached dozens of his childrens’ sports teams, and Trisha served on Town Meeting for about 18 years and owns The Inn at Hastings Park.

Kennealy told LexObserver he thinks Lexington is a model for other municipalities because of how diverse and involved its residents are. 

“What you learn living in a place like Lexington is that people here like to come together, work together on things, and they have a variety of different political views,” he said. “That’s a model in a lot of ways.”

WHEN YOU LIVE IN A LILY WHITE COMMUNITY, THERE IS LEISURE 

TIME TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES! 

LEXINGTON MA DEMOGRAPHIC DATA

Per capita Income

Lexington

USA

$109,883

$43,289

Median household income

Lexington

USA

$219,402

$78,538

Median Home Value

$1,504,546

Average Market Rent:

$5,186 / per month

Kennealy, who didn’t explicitly mention the migrant crisis, but who has been publicly critical, observed that “when the federal government offers help to restore order and protect citizens, we take it — because doing the right thing for our people should always come before scoring partisan points.”

MAGA KENNEALY endores the ICE GESTAPO TACTICS & 

illegal & UNCONSTITUTIONAL TACTICS of TRUMP! 

(DOESN'T HAVE A LAW DEGREE & HAS NOT READ ANYTHING 

TO INFORM HIMSELF!) 

ICE GESTAPO ARE ARRESTING PEOPLE - INCLUDING CHILDREN, NO ACCOUNTING! WHERE ARE THEY? 

ICE GESTAPO HAVE CONTINUOUSLY LIED & FAILED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION.... 

PEOPLE ARE DISAPPEARING...MAGA KENNEALY IS ENDORSING THAT? 

IN FLORIDA,THEY'RE REMOVING CHILDREN FROM DAY CARE! 

SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE....CONTINUES TO PROVE HIMSELF 

JUST ANOTHER INCOMPETENT, UNINFORMED TRUMPER!  

Shortsleeve also slammed Healey for her management of the state’s hugely expensive migrant crisis and, by implication, her criticism of the aggressive tactics of federal immigration agents as they’ve rounded up undocumented people across the state.

“If cooperation between the federal and state governments is what she wants, you wouldn’t know it by her refusal to work in an orderly way to ensure criminal illegal immigrants in our state were delivered to federal law enforcement for deportation instead of released onto our streets,” Shortsleeve said.

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