POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Show me the MONEY — Northeastern on ICE — Trump taunts Warren

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Show me the MONEY — Northeastern on ICE — Trump taunts Warren

07/06/2018 07:09 AM EDT
By Stephanie Murray (smurray@politico.com; @StephMurr_Jour) and Brent D. Griffiths (bgriffiths@politico.com; @BrentGriffiths)
GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. TGIF.

SHOW ME THE MONEY — Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley raised $370,000 this quarter in her bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Mike Capuano. For a primary challenger against a veteran congressman, that's some decent cash.

Her campaign announced the numbers Thursday afternoon, ahead of the July 15 filing deadline.

Overall, Capuano outraised Pressley by nearly double this quarter — he spent the spring packing $680,000 into his warchest. But Pressley is raising enough to compete by raking in small-dollar donations. She had over 2,400 campaign contributions this quarter, with the average donation at $135.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning upset over Rep. Joe Crowley in New York's Democratic primary last month — a longshot win that has parallels to the Massachusetts 7th race — appears to have provided an adrenaline shot to Pressley's fundraising. She raked in $18,000 in the 36 hours after Ocasio-Cortez's victory (Ocasio-Cortez tweeted her support for Pressley in the hours after her epic win), and 80 percent of those donations were $100 or less.

Pressley also reported a spike in web traffic and media coverage after the young Democratic Socialist's win over Crowley, the House Democratic Caucus chairman.
Capuano's campaign says he isn't taking this race for granted. Still, all of the chatter surrounding Pressley led the Boston Herald to take this dig at Capuano this week: "Congressman Capuano, call your office — while you still have one. The 10-term representative is toast. Stick a fork in him, he's done."

There's another woman running to unseat an establishment Democrat in Massachusetts, and she's also feeling the Ocasio-Cortez effect.

Springfield lawyer Tahirah Amatul-Wadud is challenging Rep. Richard Neal, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee. Amatul-Wadud declined to share her second quarter fundraising numbers, but said she saw a spike after Ocasio-Cortez won.

"We had an uptick in new donors June 26-June 30. We attribute that to Alexandria's win and our end of quarter push," Amatul-Wadud told POLITICO.

Neal's campaign is still tallying fundraising numbers, a spokesperson said.

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TODAY — Rep. Richard Neal attends a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a pediatric rehabilitation unit at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Springfield. Rep. Mike Capuano holds a rally in Cambridge. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh hosts first-annual city soccer tournament the Boston Unity Cup.

DATELINE BEACON HILL —
- "With budget late, top legislator: "We're trying to get through it,'" by Matt Murphy, State House News Service:"The lead budget negotiator for the House downplayed animosity between his branch and the Senate on Thursday as the Legislature departed Beacon Hill for the weekend without a deal in place to fund state government for the fiscal year that began on Sunday. House Ways and Means Chairman Jeffrey Sanchez, a Jamaica Plain Democrat, said Thursday that proposals continue to be traded back-and-forth between the House and Senate."

- "Former Springfield Mayor Michael Albano lands $101,000 state job in Labor Department," by Shira Schoenberg, MassLive.com: "Former Springfield Mayor and Governor's Councilor Michael Albano has found a new job in state government, earning $101,000 a year as a member of the Board of Review at the Department of Unemployment Assistance. Albano, a Democrat, was appointed by Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, and started the job in May."

TRUMPACHUSETTS —
- "'Northeastern University under fire for receiving millions from ICE contract," by J.D. Capelouto, Boston Globe:"A group of students, activists, and faculty members is calling on Northeastern University to drop its multimillion-dollar contract to do research for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the government agency at the center of a national conversation on human rights and immigration. Northeastern has received $2.7 million from ICE over the last two years to support a faculty member's research on exports that could be used as illegal weapons, according to federal spending data available online."

- "Government begins returning migrant children to their parents," by Akilah Johnson and Liz Goodwin, Boston Globe: "The federal government — facing multiple lawsuits and a looming court order — has begun releasing a few children to their mothers and fathers, and said Thursday that it plans to reunite nearly 3,000 children by the end of the month. Angelica Rebeca Gonzalez-Garcia, who was separated from her 8-year-old daughter on May 11, was reunited with the girl at Boston's Logan Airport Thursday afternoon, the day before a judge was scheduled to hear her case."

THE WARREN REPORT —
- "Trump says he'd give Senator Elizabeth Warren $1m for charity if she can prove she's Native American," by Jaclyn Reiss, Boston Globe: "President Trump joked Thursday night that he would give Senator Elizabeth Warren $1 million to a charity of her choice if she took a DNA test and it proved that she has Native American roots. Trump made the comments during a rally in Montana, at which he spoke at length about the Massachusetts Democrat, calling her his favorite politically incorrect nickname — "Pocahontas" — and chiding her about her undocumented claims of Cherokee heritage."

- "Trump unleashes in Montana," by Matthew Nussbaum, POLITICO: "President Donald Trump went on offense on Thursday at a campaign-style rally in Montana, deriding the state's Democratic senator but also launching attacks against the Justice Department, the media, Hillary Clinton, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the "Me Too" movement and more. He previewed themes he will highlight as he works to unseat Democratic senators in the midterm elections, while returning to many of his favorite 2016 attacks."

- "Warren: Trump should have fired Pruitt '28 scandals ago,'" by Max Greenwood, The Hill: "Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) hailed the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt on Thursday, saying that he should have been fired ;28 scandals ago.' 'A man who doesn't believe in climate change never should have been in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency in the first place,' Warren said in a statement."

- "Charlie Cook: Elizabeth Warren a Clear 2020 Frontrunner; Surprised If Gillibrand or Harris Didn't Run," by Ian Schwartz, RealClear Politics: "Election prognosticator Charlie Cook of The Cook Report told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday that Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris are top-tier candidates to be the 2020 Democratic nominee for president."

THE KENNEDY COMPOUND —
- "Kennedy family wears jackets protesting Trump immigration policy at Fourth of July parade," by Kevin Slane, Boston Globe: "The weather may have been sunny and warm down on the Cape, but the Kennedy family celebrated the Fourth of July in Hyannis Port in very particular jackets. At the Cape Cod town's Fourth of July parade, several members of the Kennedy clan donned green camo-colored jackets with 'I really do care' written on them, an apparent reference to the 'I really don't care, do u?' jacket first lady Melania Trump wore on her trip last month to a Texas facility housing migrant children separated from their parents."

WOOD WAR — Herald: "REUNITED," "DESPERATE SCRAMBLE TO PREVENT TRUMP'S SUPREME COURT PICK: DEMS' MAD DASH" — Globe: "Families reunited," "Pruitt resigns as head of EPA," "Activists seek T discounts for low-income," "He's on top of his game at the front of the house," "What's facing schools chief"

THE LOCAL ANGLE —
- "The Mass. State Police overtime scandal: How much money has allegedly been taken so far?," by Gintautas Dumcius, MassLive.com: "The recent arrests of three Massachusetts State Police troopers, and the guilty plea of a fourth, provide an early look at the amount of money allegedly taken as part of the agency's overtime abuse scandal. The amount will likely only grow as more comes out about the alleged abuse."

- "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lawyers seek to unseal interview with brother's associate," by Laurel J. Sweet, Boston Herald: "Appellate lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are fighting to get their hands on sealed interviews with Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen national who was fatally shot by an FBI agent after allegedly confessing that he and Tsarnaev's late brother Tamerlan were behind an unsolved triple murder in Waltham. The attorneys, whose argument for sparing Tsarnaev's life is due next month before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, filed a motion with the court late Tuesday asking that the reasons for their request be sealed, as well."

- "Alan Dershowitz's dance card full amid outpouring of support," by Sean Philip Cotter, Boston Herald: "Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz is a Trump pariah no more on Martha's Vineyard, after news that he was being shunned by the island's summering elites prompted a flood of invitations from people across the political spectrum — and he'd like to air the issue in a public forum. 'I've gotten invited to like 25 4th of July parties,' Dershowitz told the Herald yesterday. 'I have more people welcoming me now than ever before.'"

- "Groups want the T to provide fare discounts for low-income riders," by Adam Vaccaro, Boston Globe: "With MBTA fares likely to increase next year, Boston transit advocates are campaigning for a discount that could benefit tens of thousands of low-income riders. Inspired by a similar push in New York City and the new fare technology that's coming to the T, the activists see an opportunity to help needy passengers."

- Marijuana still illegal on Mashpee tribe's land, at powwow," by Tanner Stening, Cape Cod Times: "The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe will be enforcing federal law on its reservation during the tribe's annual powwow this weekend, meaning, among other things, the use of marijuana will not be permitted despite the 2016 legalization of the drug in Massachusetts. The occasion will mark the first time the tribe will host its members and the public on its federally protected reservation since the 2015 decision by the U.S. Department of Interior to take the land into trust."

- "Mass. business confidence back to summer 2017 levels," by Colin A. Young, State House News Service: "Confidence among Massachusetts employers took a dive in June, dropping more than five percentage points in the Associated Industries of Massachusetts index as businesses begin to see "a perfect storm" of state and federal issues on the horizon. The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Business Confidence Index stood at 61.3 in June, down from 66.6 in May and half a percentage point below where it stood a year ago but still 'well within the optimistic range,' analysts said."

- "Initiative petition process 'Broken,' Southern Mass. chambers say," by Michael P. Norton, State House News Service: "Feeling stung by new minimum wage and paid leave laws, business officials south of Boston, including SouthCoast, say a constitutional amendment may be needed to address a 'broken process' and 'absurdly low' threshold to put proposed laws on the statewide ballot. 'The so-called 'grand bargain' gave proponents most of what they wanted, all of which have very real consequences for small businesses and large businesses alike,' the Southeastern Massachusetts Legislative Alliance of Chambers (SEMLAC) wrote in an op-ed submitted by SouthCoast Chamber President and CEO Rick Kidder."

- "NY gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon holds fundraiser in Northampton," by Bera Dunau, Daily Hampshire Gazette: "North of 50 people showed up at the Iron Horse Music Hall on Thursday to see New York gubernatorial candidate and former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon speak. Nixon is running as a progressive Democrat against incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the state's Democratic primary."

- "Your high school yearbook is going online," by Billy Baker, Boston Globe: "If you went to high school in Massachusetts and believed/hoped/prayed your high school yearbook would stay buried in the attic forever, the Boston Public Library has some news for you. It's going online. It's part of a project to find and digitize as many of the state's historically significant documents as possible and make them available online."

- "On a sweltering day, a Boston cop made sure a black lab kept cool," by Danny McDonald, Boston Globe: "On a day that saw temperatures soar into the 90s, a Boston police sergeant made sure a black labrador retriever named Olive kept cool. Sergeant Sam Silta was working a detail at Boston Children's Hospital on Thursday when a family who was rushing their son to that hospital approached him. Silta, according to police, helped the family with parking and then offered to keep the dog with him for the duration of his detail."

MAZEL! To Kevin Duffy, formerly of MassLive. Duffy will lead the Boston Herald's coverage of the New England Patriots.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY — to Garrett Bradley and state Rep. Harold Naughton, who celebrated on Wednesday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY — to Wrentham state Sen. Richard Ross, Ludlow School Committee member Jake Oliveira and Tyler Pager.
HAPPY BIRTHWEEKEND — to Lowell Rep. Rady Mom, Mike Rigas, Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, former Boston.com scribe Julie Xie and Vanessa Gatlin, regional director for Sen. Ed Markey, who all celebrate on Saturday and to Sunday birthday-er former New Boston Post reporter Evan Lips.
THE HOME TEAMS DID NOT PLAY YESTERDAY
DO NOT MISS THIS — THE LATEST EPISODE OF THE HORSE RACE: State Senate President Harriette Chandler joins us for a special extended edition of The Horse Race. We ask her about the Grand Bargain, legislation vs. ballot questions, the fallout from Stan Rosenberg, and what she has learned in her time at the top. Then WBUR's Shannon Dooling discusses what the immigration debate means for Massachusetts. Plus, what the NY-14 result means for the Pressley-Capuano matchup. Subscribe and listen on iTunes and Sound Cloud
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