Healey’s Cali cash dash
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Texas Democrats who fled the state to try to stymie a mid-decade redistricting effort got a warm reception in Boston yesterday afternoon, including a shoutout from Gov. JB Pritzker and raucous applause from Democrats attending a private lunch at the National Conference of State Legislatures summit where the Illinois governor was speaking.
***DICTATOR GREG ABBOTT WHINING TEMPER TANTRUM & HE REFUSES TO TAKE CARE OF TEXAS RESIDENTS!
TEXAS CONTINUES TO FAIL IN NUMEROUS CATEGORIES:
At home, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was calling for their arrest after dozens of Democratic members of the Texas state House flew to Illinois, New York and Boston on Sunday — breaking quorum and leaving the Texas Legislature unable to carry out its work.
Lawmakers departed the state after Republicans there looked to move forward with a plan intended to keep the GOP in power in Congress next year by creating five GOP-friendly seats in Texas at President Donald Trump’s urging. They plan to stay out of the state until the special legislative session that would set the redistricting plan in motion ends Aug. 19.
“The people expect us to fight for them, and that's what we're doing,” Texas state Rep. Armando Walle told reporters on his way out of the lunch. “We're using the parliamentary rules that have been in place for generations.”
The handful of Texas Democrats in Boston are planning to hold a press conference at the State House at 10 a.m. tomorrow before heading to Illinois, where many of their colleagues holed up in a Chicago-area hotel Monday. More on how the Texas Democrats’ quorum break is playing out.
TODAY — Gov. Maura Healey delivers the keynote address at the National Conference of State Legislatures at 9 a.m. and speaks at Shakespeare on the Common at 7:40 p.m. Attorney General Andrea Campbell participates in a walking tour of Manchester-by-the-Sea's Central Street Bridge project at 11:30 a.m. in Manchester-by-the-Sea. Sen. Ed Markey visits The Pryde, Boston’s first LGBTQ+ senior housing development, at 2:30 p.m. and stops at Ron’s Ice Cream and Bowling at 4 p.m. in Hyde Park. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announces businesses that have been selected to participate in the Supplying Capital and Leveraging Education Program at 12:30 p.m. in Roxbury and joins the Boston Police Department for "National Night Out" starting at 3:10 p.m.
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DATELINE BEACON HILL
— Gov. Maura Healey received written warning about surge of migrants in transition document by Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald: “Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration offered a written warning to Gov. Maura Healey about a surge of migrants and dwindling state shelter capacity in November 2022, or months before she took office, according to a transition document approved by Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Kennealy when he was secretary of state. The heads-up largely focused on the need to expand shelter capacity and provide more funding to the emergency assistance program. It also painted a bleak picture of a struggle to build enough housing as the cost of living was putting Massachusetts at a ‘significant disadvantage.’”
***BOSTON HERALD PROPAGANDA RAG PAYWALL!***
NOTICE HOW ALL OF THE FLUNKIES FLOCK TO THIS RAG THAT NEVER FACT CHECKS, RESEARCHES OR ASKS SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS?
BLOVIATOR HOWIE CARR STILL HAS A GRUDGE BECAUSE THE BOOB WAS TOO DUMB TO GET INTO HARVARD....NEVER REPORTS FACTS, JUST HIS WARPAGE! THE BOOB DOESN'T EVEN COMPREHEND THE IMPACT OF THEIR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH...JUST SHARES BLABBER THE TOO MANY UNINFORMED BELIEVE!
2 MORE REPUBLICAN LOSERS: SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE WHO FAILED TO ADDRESS MBTA PROBLEMS & MAGA TRUMP KINNEALY WHO DID NOTHING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS!
THE MEDIA GAVE THE WHITE TOOTHED GOVERNOR A PASS & IGNORED HIS MASSIVE FAILURES...
In deal with feds, Mass. will have to pay back $2.1 billion misspent by Baker administration
The costly mistake came to light soon after Gov. Maura Healey took office in 2023.
— National lawmakers zero in on political violence, anger in electorate by Chris Lisinski, State House News Service: “A national summit of state lawmakers from around the country opened Monday with a somber tone as hosts reflected on the June assassination of Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and cautioned about the growing threat of political polarization. Legislative leaders from Minnesota paid tribute to Hortman as a beacon of leadership who was unafraid to reach across the aisle, and they urged attendees to honor her by working to counteract increasingly inflammatory political rhetoric. The topic became a consistent theme throughout the opening session to the three-day National Conference of State Legislatures annual summit.”
FROM THE HUB
****ED FLYNN IS A MUD THROWER! KEEP WATCHING! NO SOLUTIONS! THE RESIDENTS ARE RIGHT IN THEIR OUTRAGE OVER MASS & CASS....SOLUTIONS? ****
— Councilor Ed Flynn wants Boston to declare a public safety and public health emergency over Mass. and Cass by Niki Griswold, The Boston Globe: “The Boston City Council on Wednesday is set to consider a resolution filed by Councilor Ed Flynn to declare a public safety and public health emergency over open drug use and dealing around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, known as Mass. and Cass. The area has long been the epicenter of the intertwining crises of homelessness and substance abuse in the city. But in recent months, frustration over the issue has reached a breaking point among South End residents, who say that public drug use and dealing have migrated from Mass. and Cass into their neighborhoods.”
***LOOK AT FOXBORO! WHEN WE LIVED NEARBY, WE PLANNED OUR LIFE AROUND FOXBORO TRAFFIC - A STADIUM CRAMMED INTO A SMALL SPACE IN AN URBAN AREA? THIS WILL BE A DISASTER! KRAFT HAS NOT PRESENTED TRAFFIC MITIGATION PLANS! MAYOR WU IS RIGHT IN PROTECTING HER COMMUNITY!****
MAKING THEIR PITCH — The drawn-out battle between Boston and the Kraft Group over a plans for a new stadium along the Mystic River in Everett escalated Monday, as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu gathered with Boston-area electeds across from the Everett site Monday to call on the Kraft Group to agree to do more to mitigate the impact the yet-to-be-built stadium will have on neighboring Charlestown. Hours later, New England Revolution President Brian Bilello and Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria defended the process at their own press conference on the other side of the river. Hanging over it all: The mayoral election, where Josh Kraft is challenging Wu. More from The Boston Globe’s Jon Chesto.
— Injured teen from Gaza arrives in Boston for medical treatment by Yasmin Amer, WBUR.
SPOTTED — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu meeting with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker after his lunchtime speech at NCSL. The duo cut a video Wu posted to Bluesky where Pritzker called her “one of my very favorite people in the Democratic Party.”
THE RACE FOR CITY HALL
MONEY RACE — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ended July with a significant cash advantage over her chief rival, Josh Kraft, according to the latest filings with the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance. Wu raised about $247,000 last month and ended July with close to $2.5 million on hand.
While Kraft raised more than $127,000 during the same period, he spent big in July — paying $1,886,000 to cover a variety of campaign-related costs. That leaves him with under $150,000 heading into the final full month of campaigning before the Sept. 9 preliminary election.
****CARPEETBAGGING NEWTON NEBBISH JOSH KRAFT IS A FAKE & A FRAUD - EVEN HIS ADS ARE FRAUDULENT! ****
HE PROVIDED A SUMMARY OF HIS 'INCOME' - THE PUBLIC HAS NO WAY OF DETERMINING IF HE HAS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!
ONLY THE WEALTHY WITH NO BOSTON CONNECTIONS HAS FUNDED HIS CAMPAIGN!
THE NEWTON NEBBISH HAS NO SOLUTIONS! ****
RELATED — Prominent national Democrats ask Josh Kraft to stop using names, likenesses in unauthorized fund-raising push by Emma Platoff, The Boston Globe: “On first blush, the fund-raising solicitation sure looked like it was coming from US Senator Adam Schiff, the California Democrat well known for tangling with Donald Trump. ‘Hi — this is Adam Schiff,’ the email read, according to a screenshot shared with the Globe. ‘Josh Kraft said I could reach out with this urgent message.’ But the email came from ‘info@joshforboston.com‚’ and it was paid for by the campaign of Josh Kraft, who is running for mayor of Boston, several thousand miles east of Schiff’s district. And, it turns out, Schiff never said Kraft could reach out with that urgent message. The Kraft fund-raising email sporting Schiff’s name and likeness is one of at least five the campaign has sent in recent weeks that feature prominent national Democrats who have not publicly weighed in on the Boston mayor’s race. At least two of those politicians have now asked the Kraft campaign to stop using their names and likenesses in the email fund-raising solicitations.”
— It's not just Wu and Kraft: Meet the Boston mayoral candidates not in the spotlight by Eve Zuckoff, WBUR: “On a steamy Tuesday night in Dorchester, a man trying to replace Michelle Wu as mayor of Boston worked up a sweat over a charcoal grill. Around him, music blasted from a DJ station, kids lined up at the Boston Police Department’s ice cream truck and dozens playing basketball worked up an appetite. It wasn't Josh Kraft."
FROM HARVARD YARD
— Harvard isn't close to a deal with Trump administration, sources say by Kirk Carapezza, GBH News: “Harvard is not ready to accept a deal with the Trump administration, according to sources familiar with internal conversations on the matter. The federal government has cut research funding to numerous universities, launched investigations into those it accused of enabling antisemitic behavior, and demanded changes to school processes around race and gender. Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University all recently announced settlements with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations.”
WARREN REPORT
*****NEVER MIND LABELS!
LISTEN TO ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S WORDS:
AFFORDABILITY!
ANYONE WHO HAS PAID ATTENTION TO NYC KNOWS WHY CUOMO DIDN'T WIN!
WORN OUT CANDIDATES WITH KNOWN HISTORIES ARE NOT WHAT VOTERS ARE LOOKING FOR!
— Warren boosts Mamdani as model for Democratic victory by Emily Ngo, POLITICO: “Elizabeth Warren doesn’t have a problem with Zohran Mamdani being the face of the Democrats. In fact, she wants the rest of the party to follow his example on affordability. The progressive senator from Massachusetts swung by New York City on Monday to pay homage to Mamdani, who overwhelmingly won the Democratic nomination for mayor in June — but still hasn’t secured endorsements from many of New York’s party leaders.”
excerpts:
Monday’s event on the need for publicly funded childcare, held at the lower Manhattan headquarters of the District Council 37 labor union, included advocates for immigrant and low-income communities sharing stories about choosing between paying for groceries and daycare — and also served as a reminder of what fueled Mamdani’s 12-point win over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the primary. In a nod to the scarcity of coverage for families who need low-cost childcare, toddlers ran around the room as Warren, Mamdani and DC 37 executive director Henry Garrido spoke.
Warren joins Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in boosting Mamdani and his message as the way forward for the Democratic Party. Establishment Democrats have applauded Mamdani’s focus on making New York less expensive for working-class families but have been reluctant to publicly support him.
“If we want this city to be a place where New Yorkers can raise their kids, then we have to make it so,” Mamdani said. “And the context that we are in today is one where, after housing, childcare is the cost that is pushing New Yorkers out of these five boroughs.”
FROM THE 413
CHICOPEE!
— Making Chicopee ‘a destination’: City councilor aims to renew proposal to revitalize corridor by Namu Sampath, MassLive: “Memorial Drive in Chicopee is a bustling, multi-lane corridor that connects the city to several surrounding towns. The 3.7-mile stretch is a 'goldmine,’ according to Ward 6 Councilor Sam Shumsky, who’d like to make it safer for pedestrians and drivers alike and create more opportunities for economic development in his ward. He’s proposed a related order that the City Council will take up at its meeting Tuesday.”
— State throws weight behind regional affordable housing projects by Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette: “Nearly 200 new apartments to be constructed in Easthampton, Hadley and Holyoke, almost all of which will be set aside for low- and moderate-income residents, are moving forward as part of $182 million in low-income housing credits and subsidies supporting 21 developments statewide approved by the Healey-Driscoll Administration.”
PAY WALL
THE LOCAL ANGLE
***THIS IS A MUST READ!
THE NEW BEDFORD LIGHT DOES SOME IMPRESSIVE & THOROUGH REPORTING! PLEASE SUPPORT THEM! ****
— How much committee work gets done by New Bedford’s legislative delegation? by Abigail Pritchard, The New Bedford Light: “New Bedford’s legislators sit across 23 committees. So far, just 11 of those committees have reported bills out with recommendations, seven don’t have any bills assigned to them, and four haven’t held any hearings.”
****KELLY DOONER ??? THE WHITE TOOTHED GOVERNOR PASSED THE MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT...MAGA TRUMPER KINNEALLY EXPRESSED SURPRISE THAT IT WAS 'CONTROVERSIAL'? WHERE WERE YOU?
ISN'T THIS THE SAME GOVERNOR WHO LEFT BEHIND MASSIVE MBTA COSTS & FAILURES? HOW ABOUT THAT MASSIVE GAZILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT FOR BAKER'S MISSPENT $$$ THAT FAR EXCEED YOUR PITTANCE?****
— Taunton state official looking to change controversial MBTA housing mandate by Daniel Schemer, The Taunton Daily Gazette: “‘I’ve always been pro-development, but this one-size-fits-all mandate doesn’t work for some of my smaller communities,’ said Kelly Dooner, state senator for 3rd Bristol district, who testified against the MBTA Communities Act at a recent Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government.”
PAY WALL
A surprising history of how a bill became the MBTA Communities law
GBH CHARLIE BAKER'S LEGISLATION
HEARD ‘ROUND THE BUBBLAH
TRANSITIONS — Joe Hale is joining the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate as chief development officer. He most recently served as president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.
— Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia is a finalist for the Northeast Renewable Energy Coalition’s “Mayor of the Year Award.”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY — to former ambassador Rufus Gifford, Christina Pacheco, Crooked Media’s Matt Berg and the Boston Globe’s Jim Puzzanghera. Happy belated to Republican gubernatorial hopeful SLOW ZONE Brian Shortsleeve, who celebrated Monday.
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