POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook DEVAL’s return to the campaign trail — ROSENBERG hopes name will be cleared — MOULTON, McGOVERN big on Twitter
12/08/2017 07:00 AM EDT
By Lauren Dezenski (ldezenski@politico.com; @LaurenDezenski) with Rebecca Morin (rmorin@politico.com; @RebeccaMorin_)
GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Get those space savers ready - snow's in the forecast for Saturday.
DEVAL'S ALABAMA WEEKEND - Former Gov. Deval Patrick is making a rare return to the campaign trail this weekend with a swing through Alabama to campaign for Democrat Doug Jones in the high-stakes special election to fill the US Senate seat vacated by now-US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The Jones campaign reached out to Patrick at least a week ago, Patrick's former spokesman Doug Rubin tells me, as well as a handful of other surrogates including Sen. Corey Booker. They're expected to be a part of a high-profile push to turn out African American voters in Tuesday's election, with Patrick expected to make visits to a college campus and GOTV rallies over the weekend.
Despite Obama-world hopes that he will consider running for president in 2020, Patrick has largely stayed out of the political sphere as a high-powered surrogate. He's been mostly absent from races in Massachusetts, and was hardly a national campaign trail fixture in 2016 despite being on Hillary Clinton's VP candidate shortlist, though he did host at least one fundraiser for her.
Patrick has history with Alabama, and bad blood specifically with the Sessions. He was a member of the 1985 defense team that successfully defended three black civil rights leaders from a voter fraud case brought forth by Sessions, and in 1986 successfully testified against Sessions' nomination to become a federal judge. In January, Patrick sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committeecalling Sessions the "wrong person to place in charge of our justice system," and said the voter fraud case was a "cautionary tale."
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TODAY - Sen. Ed Markey holds a press conference about the "GOP Tax Scam" at his office in Boston this morning - Gov. Charlie Baker, Massport CEO Tom Glynn, and others mark the first direct flights between Boston and Brazil in an event at Logan Airport with LATAM Airlines. This Sao Paolo stop is Logan's only nonstop destination south of the equator - Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan hosts a Lowell Opioid Task Force meeting at Lowell General Hospital.
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DATELINE BEACON HILL -
- "Rosenberg: 'I hope my name will be cleared,'" by Stephanie Murray, State House News Service: "Former Senate President Stan Rosenberg stepped away from a tumultuous Beacon Hill on Thursday afternoon to speak to a class of political science students at his alma mater. After the visit, Rosenberg said he hopes his name will be cleared by an upcoming Senate investigation."
- "Scathing audit finds Department of Children and Families failed to report crimes against children," by Andrea Estes and Laura Krantz, Boston Globe: "The Department of Children and Families failed to report rapes, abuse, and other alleged crimes committed against children in its care, according to a scathing audit to be released Thursday by state Auditor Suzanne Bump. And in many other cases, social workers didn't know that children they were monitoring had been badly hurt."
- "Massachusetts spent $20.6 million on drug lab scandals involving Annie Dookhan, Sonja Farak," by Shira Schoenberg, Masslive.com: "Massachusetts has spent $20.6 million over the last five years responding to two scandals involving misconduct at state drug labs, according to the Executive Office of Administration and Finance. The money covers the investigations, the prosecution of the two chemists responsible, and the costs of notifying defendants and dealing with thousands of drug cases tainted by the misconduct."
- "The acting Senate president has a PhD and MBA and won 24 straight elections," by Michael Levenson, Boston Globe: "She has a PhD in international relations and an MBA, and has never lost an election in a legislative career that began more than two decades ago, when Bill Weld was governor. ... But few outside of her Worcester district had heard of Harriette L. Chandler until she was chosen this week to serve as acting president of the Massachusetts Senate, replacing Stanley C. Rosenberg, who stepped down as he faces an ethics investigation stemming from allegations that his husband sexually assaulted and harassed four men."
TRUMPACHUSETTS -
- "Lawrence, Sessions spar over immigrants," by Keith Eddings, Eagle-Tribune: "The city on Thursday pushed back against a warning by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he will cut off its federal public safety grants unless it reconsiders a policy limiting what police can tell federal immigration agents about undocumented immigrants in the city's custody. The City Council voted 7-2 three years ago to limit what police can tell federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents about undocumented immigrants they're holding unless the agents have a criminal warrant for the immigrants. The vote put the city on a list of more than 300 states, counties and municipalities that have declared themselves sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants they're holding by limiting what their police can tell ICE about them."
- "Here's How Massachusetts Reps Voted On The Resolution To Impeach Trump," by WBZ News: "Representatives Mike Capuano, Jim McGovern, Katherine Clark and Seth Moulton all voted against tabling Green's impeachment resolution. ... Representatives Richard Neal, Niki Tsongas, Stephen Lynch, and William Keating voted with Republicans to kill the resolution. ... Rep. Joseph Kennedy III did not vote."
THE WARREN REPORT -
- "Trump and Warren Find Common Ground on Antitrust," by Gina Chon, New York Times: "President Trump and Senator Elizabeth Warren make odd antitrust bedfellows. Ms. Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat, says megadeals like Aetna's $77 billion sale to CVS could kill competition. She also backs the Justice Department's fight against an AT&T-Time Warner merger and has concerns about past merger remedies. That puts her in the same camp as the president."
MOULTON MATTERS -
- BIG ON TWITTER: Rep. Seth Moulton's "Witch hunt" tweet is the second-most retweeted tweet for a member of Congress this year, according to analysis from Quorum. BONUS: Rep. Jim McGovern is also one of the most active members of Congress on Twitter with 701 retweets per 100 followers.
- "Seth Moulton: For trying to show the United States what bipartisanship might look like," by Jenna McLaughlin, Global Rethinkers: "He may have done four tours of duty in Iraq between 2003 and 2008, but Rep. Seth Moulton isn't afraid to call out military leaders for mismanaging defense strategy and budgets or kowtowing to the president, even if it means challenging decorated eminences inside the Beltway. 'It's sad for a fellow Marine to see Gen. Kelly bring his own integrity into question,' the Massachusetts Democrat says of President Donald Trump's chief of staff."
ON THE STUMP -
- "Baker continues fund-raising with RNC, despite its support of Moore," by Frank Phillips, Boston Globe: "Governor Charlie Baker's political crew is quick to distance him from Alabama GOP senate candidate Roy Moore - but it's clear he is not distancing himself from the money that is helping the accused sexual predator in the Alabama special election on Tuesday."
TSONGAS ARENA -
- "Juana Matias Releases First Campaign Video" from the Matias campaign: "Juana Matias, candidate for Congress in Massachusetts' 3rd District earlier [Thursday] released her campaign's first video: 'Humble Beginnings.'"
WOOD WAR - Herald: "JUSTICE DEPT. PROBING PLANNED PARENTHOOD," "8 STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT," "'DIRTY' LAUNDRY" - Globe: "Most city schools to get new start times," "12,000 women, so many #MeToo moments," "When they leave but won't go," "Audit finds DCF didn't report cases of alleged rape and abuse," "Tax vote turns Collins backers sour."
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THE LOCAL ANGLE -
- "JetBlue CEO: Worcester-NYC flights will begin in May," by Cyrus Moulton, Worcester Telegram: "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere ... and Worcester travelers can make it to New York and beyond on JetBlue beginning May 3, the airline's CEO and President Robin Hayes announced Thursday at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting. 'Finally, it's official; it's what we've been waiting for,' said Worcester County Sheriff Lewis G. Evangelidis, the chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority. 'I think it is a big step in making the airport successful and connecting us to the world.'"
- "Northbridge voters to decide on pot shop opt-out," by Susan Spencer, Worcester Telegram: "It will be up to voters to decide whether to ban recreational marijuana establishments, selectmen voted unanimously on Monday. The question on the May 15 town election ballot will be part of a two-step process to prohibit operation of marijuana cultivators, testing facilities, product manufacturers, retailers or other types of licensed marijuana-related businesses in town."
- "Falmouth protesters fight for net neutrality," by Christine Legere, Cape Cod Times: "Cape Cod residents joined Thursday's nationwide protests of a proposal to dismantle net neutrality protections put in place during the Obama administration, calling the plan an effort to undermine the public's free and open access to information. Gathering in Falmouth Village just in time to catch late-afternoon homeward bound commuters, a group of about a dozen protesters toted signs with warnings like 'Killing net neutrality kills free speech #StoptheFCC,' and chanted slogans like 'Stand up. Fight back. The Internet is under attack.'"
- "Norfolk votes to ban recreational pot businesses," by Stephen Peterson, Sun Chronicle: "The town has banned recreational marijuana businesses. Voters at this week's town meeting, after much debate, voted not to allow businesses to cultivate and/or sell pot for recreational purposes. The town meeting action does not affect the sale of medical marijuana."
- "Attorney General seeks more time for Berkshire Museum art sale probe," by Larry Parnass, Berkshire Eagle: "The Attorney General's Office needs nearly two more months to complete its inquiry into the Berkshire Museum art sale, the office says. And wrapping up an investigation by Jan. 29 still depends on cooperation from the museum."
- "Middle-mile network operator loses one court round, opens new front," by Larry Parnass, Berkshire Eagle: "A May court order requiring continued operation of the state's $90 million "middle-mile" broadband network remains in effect, despite an effort to quash it. That development comes as the arcane legal dispute mushrooms, nine months after the network operator's surprise bankruptcy filing."
- "Marblehead students walk out over racial incidents," by Paul Leighton, Salem News: "More than 100 Marblehead High School students walked out of school Thursday in protest of the administration's handling of racial incidents. The students poured out of the front door at noon, holding signs and chanting, 'The people united will never be divided.' Several students gave speeches under a flagpole near the front entrance, interrupted often by cheers from the crowd."
HAPPY BELATED - to Boston University's State House journalism program professor Jerry Berger, who celebrated yesterday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to Leicester Rep. Kate Campanale, Liberty Square Group president Scott Ferson, Honey Sharp of Great Barrington (h/t grateful and lucky son Daniel Lippman), and Jonathan Kamens.
HAPPY BIRTHWEEKEND - to Boston Globe scribe Matt Rocheleau, who celebrates Saturday.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? Yes! - The Bruins beat the Coyotes 6-1.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE ALERT - An emergency episode of The Horse Race, hosted by yours truly and MassINC Polling Group President Steve Koczela: Allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct leveled against Bryon Hefner, husband of Senate president Stan Rosenberg, are roiling Beacon Hill. In an emergency podcast, we explain what this means from the standpoint of the senate. We also recap the results of the Worcester/Middlesex state senate special election, and celebrate Ballot Question Deadline Day! Listen in on SoundCloud and iTunes.
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