POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: CHANDLER’s office space — BAKER, BUMP battle continues — GONZALEZ hires Newton mayor campaign manager
12/12/2017 07:55 AM EDT
By Lauren Dezenski (ldezenski@politico.com; @LaurenDezenski) with Rebecca Morin (rmorin@politico.com; @RebeccaMorin_)
GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah.
ACTING SENATE PRESIDENT HOLDS OFF MEASURING THE DRAPES - Marking the transition into her role as acting Senate President, Harriette Chandler has partially made her way into the office of the Senate President.
Though Chandler won't work out of the currently-under-investigation Sen. Stan Rosenberg Senate President's official space, her current four full-time staffers will - and they'll join nine others already in the office of the Senate President under Rosenberg.
Chandler herself plans to continue to work out of her current Majority Leader's office down the hall from the Senate President's office because "it is the best place for business to carry-on as usual," according to a statement from her staff. "She is comfortable and familiar with the space, and in that atmosphere she is able to be the most effective leader of the Senate."
It's not yet clear where in the building Rosenberg will occupy for his new, smaller office as he transitions to rank-and-file member during the course of the Senate ethics investigation. The six-person panel charged with determining whether or not Rosenberg broke any rules of the Senate in the midst of accusations of sexual misconduct by his partner is in the process of naming an independent investigator to kick off the inquiry.
Rosenberg plans to hold on to four staffers in his new downsized role, including Mara Dolan and Natasha Perez, his office confirmed. Another, Pete Wilson, left Rosenberg's office last week to begin as communications director for the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, according to State House News.
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TODAY - Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Israeli Consul General Yehuda Yaakov participate in the ceremonial lighting of the menorah at the State House's Grand Staircase. Baker and Yaakov will later participate in the Copley Square menorah lighting. - Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello appears on WBUR's Radio Boston at 3 p.m. - The Young Democrats of Massachusetts plans to phone bank for Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama special Senate election from MassDems' offices on Beacon Hill at 5 p.m.
DATELINE BEACON HILL -
- "State Auditor On DCF Report: I Don't Regard This As An Indictment Of The Agency," from WGBH's Greater Boston: "A recent audit of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, which details a failure to report multiple instances of serious mistreatment of children under the department's supervision, has sparked conflict between Gov. Charlie Baker and the woman behind it."
- "Baker, Bump continue to clash over DCF audit," by Matt Murphy, State House News Service: "Gov. Charlie Baker delivered a forceful rebuke Monday of Auditor Suzanne Bump's review of the Department of Children and Families, calling the claims in the audit release last week 'irresponsible' and in some cases 'simply not true' in a letter to DCF staff."
- "Baker outlines plan for 135,000 new housing units by 2025," by Andy Metzger, State House News Service: "Aiming for the construction of 135,000 new housing units by 2025, the Baker administration on Monday heralded $10 million in incentives to encourage cities and towns to promote development within their borders. Gov. Charlie Baker also proposed legislation that would make it easier for municipalities to change their zoning to promote multifamily developments, reduce their parking requirements, and make other changes to smooth the way for more housing."
ON THE STUMP -
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK - A NEWTON HIRE FOR GONZALEZ: The Jay Gonzalez gubernatorial campaign has hired Newton mayor-elect Ruthanne Fuller's campaign manager Amaury Dujardin as field director, the campaign tells me. He began the new position on Monday.
- "Republican John Kingston says his campaign's message, focus on service will set him apart in 2018 US Senate race," by Shannon Young, Masslive.com: "Despite a crowded field of Republicans looking to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018, John Kingston, a Winchester businessman and political newcomer, said he believes he's the best GOP candidate to defeat the incumbent Democrat next fall. In an interview last week, Kingston said he's not worried about the threat posed by other GOP challengers, or his chances in a potential one-on-one contest with Warren, who has become a high-profile figure in Democratic politics and an oft-rumored contender for the Oval Office."
- "Income surtax opponents call proposal 'truly radical,'" by Andy Metzger, State House News Service: "A proposed constitutional amendment that roughly 70 percent of Bay State lawmakers voted to put before voters is 'truly radical,' a group of business representatives told the state's highest court in a brief filed Monday."
- "St. Hilaire tapped as state GOP director," by Salem News: "Matt St. Hilaire may have lost out a bid for a seat on the City Council, but he will be right in the thick of politics when it comes to the 2018 general election. St. Hilaire, who came up short by 11 votes in his Nov. 7 bid for a council seat and forced a unsuccessful recount last weekend, won the recommendation to serve as the Massachusetts Republican Party's executive director from MassGOP chairwoman Kirsten Hughes."
TSONGAS ARENA -
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK - "Juana Matias endorsed by vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus, Congresswoman Linda Sanchez," from the Matias campaign: "'I am proud to endorse Juana Matias in her campaign for Congress,' Congresswoman Sanchez said [in a statement]. 'Juana's story is relatable to so many people across this country, and when I first met her, I was inspired by her drive and passion to create better opportunities for working people. Juana truly embodies the next generation of leaders we need in Washington, and I can't wait to call her a colleague in Congress.'"
INBOX: "Teamsters Local 25 Endorses Lori Trahan for Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District," from the Trahan campaign: "In giving its endorsement, Teamsters Local 25 cited Trahan's support for organized labor and working-class families, as well as her proven record of leadership in the business world as top reasons for endorsing her candidacy."
TRUMPACHUSETTS -
- "Baker backing Democrat Jones in Alabama Senate race," by Andy Metzger, State House News Service : "The Republican governor reiterated his belief Monday that Moore is unfit for the office and noted that Doug Jones, a Democrat, is the only alternative on the ballot in Tuesday's contest. ... 'I certainly don't want to see Roy Moore win. That means, obviously, that I would be supporting the alternative,' said Baker, when asked if he supports Jones. ... Although the Republican National Committee has resumed its support for Moore who received an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Baker does not plan to end his participation in a joint fundraising effort between the MassGOP and national Republican Party that sends 40 percent of contributions raised by the governor for MassVictory to the RNC, according to the Boston Globe."
- Another take, in an email from the team of Setti Warren, Democrat vying for governor: "BAKER REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO RAISE MONEY FOR ROY MOORE-BACKING REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE."
- "From Reps. Neal And McGovern, No Transparency On Tax Returns," by Sam Hudzik, NEPR: "Springfield Congressman Richard Neal, like many Democrats and some Republicans, has repeatedly called on President Trump to release his tax returns. Neal is the top Democrat on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and has made that statement in hearings, including in late March. ... To see how the proposals would benefit or hurt Neal when he files his personal income taxes, in June we asked his office for a copy of his last two tax returns."
WOOD WAR - Herald: "THE LONG STARE," "DECISION TIME!" - Globe: "Ex-prison guards are acquitted," "COLOR LINE PERSISTS, IN SICKNESS AS IN HEALTH," "Accusers urge investigation of Trump," "For pupils, unwanted lessons of dealing with dirty needles," "A HALF-CENTURY OF DELIVERING FAR REACHES OF GLOBE."
THE LOCAL ANGLE -
DAY THREE OF THE GLOBE'S SERIES ON RACE IN BOSTON - "Color line persists, in sickness as in health," by Liz Kowalczyk: "Patients fly in from all over the country to get care at Massachusetts General Hospital. Yet, most black Bostonians don't travel the five to 10 miles from their neighborhoods to take advantage of the hospital's immense medical resources. Just 11 percent of Bostonians admitted to the city's largest hospital are black, far less than its peers."
- "Black leaders unsettled by timing of Globe series after mayoral election," by Dan Atkinson and Antonio Planas, Boston Herald: "Black leaders questioned the timing of a massive Boston Globe report on racial disparity in the city's institutions, saying it should have been released during Tito Jackson's campaign to become the city's first black mayor. They also questioned the disconnect between the Globe's decrying of scarcity of blacks in the city's top business and political leadership when the Globe endorsed incumbent Martin J. Walsh, the white establishment favorite, over Jackson, who is black and fought for the neighborhoods."
- "Details Emerge About Accusations Against Ashbrook," by Martha Bebinger, WBUR: "Tirades directed at young women in the studio. Name calling and belittling critiques of show ideas during meetings. 'Creepy' sex talk, hugs and back or neck rubs after a dressing down. That's the pattern of alleged abuse described by 11 mostly young women and men who filed a multi-page document outlining their complaints against On Point host Tom Ashbrook."
- "Indispensable and unstoppable, Gloria Negri was at the heart of the Globe," by Thomas Farragher, Boston Globe: "There had been a shooting on the North Shore and as the all-male editors of The Boston Globe scanned their sparkling new newsroom on Morrissey Boulevard on that sleepy Saturday afternoon in the late 1950s, their options for quick coverage were slim. The only reporter in sight was the new kid, a young woman fresh from the Miami Herald, a Brown University graduate named Gloria Negri. Surely they couldn't send a woman to a grisly crime scene, could they? And then Negri walked up to the city desk and said something she would repeat countless times over the next half century. 'Send me,' she said."
GET WELL SOON - to Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who on Wednesday is undergoing surgery to remove a foot-long benign tumor in his left thigh, caused by a rare disease. Fernandes will be "immobile for much of December," he wrote in an email to supporters yesterday, but "my doctor is confident that I will not miss a vote once session begins in January and that by early Spring I will be ready to knock on doors as I campaign for a second term."
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to At-Large Boston City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George, sports writer Alex Reimer, and to Jeff Goldstein, MBA/MPA concurrent degree candidate at Dartmouth Tuck and Harvard Kennedy School (h/t Katie Glueck).
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? No! - The Patriots fell to the Dolphins 27-20.
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - State Rep. Angelo Scaccia was first elected to the House far before 1994. He served in the House from 1973 to 1978, and then from 1981 to now.
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