POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: More change for AMHERST — CONLEY is out — SYRUP not officially sweet
02/21/2018 07:25 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths ( bgriffiths@politico.com ; @BrentGriffiths) AMHERST'S DEMOCRATIC DEPARTURE - The State House delegation from the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts is going through yet another shift - Rep. Solomon Goldstein-Rose , an Amherst Democrat, announced yesterday he is ditching his Democratic Party affiliation. Goldstein-Rose said in his announcement the move is not a rebuke of the state Democratic Party, but instead, a chance "to be truer in letter to the nonpartisan spirit he has sought to embody through his legislative work." The took most by surprise, including Rep. Ellen Story who preceded Goldstein-Rose and represented the Amherst-based district for 24 years. As Story put it to NEPR yesterday, "I just don't completely understand his reasoning for this. Yes, it is difficult." The now-unenrolled state rep. has also just o...