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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
NEW: CAVELL FOR CONGRESS — Dave Cavell announced he's running for Congress this morning, bringing the race to replace Rep. Joe Kennedy III to six candidates.
Cavell, who lives in Brookline, recently stepped down from his role as assistant attorney general in AG Maura Healey's office to prepare a campaign. He was on Healey's senior leadership team and played a role in the office's more than 50 lawsuits against President Donald Trump. Before that, Cavell was a speechwriter for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and for Gov. Deval Patrick.
"I'm running for Congress because we need to restore the rule of law in Washington and deliver bold, transformational change for people in this entire district," Cavell said in a statement.
Cavell's first stops on the trail will be in Attleboro and Taunton, where he will talk about the opioid epidemic, an issue he says will be a focus during his campaign. Covering all his bases in the 4th District, Cavell's campaign website is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: DUNN EYES SENATE SEAT — Vinny deMacedo hasn't officially resigned from his post as a state senator, but news that the Republican lawmaker is taking a new job at Bridgewater State University has many buzzing about who will run to replace him. DeMacedo's career move was reported by the State House News Service.
Brian Dunn, political and legislative organizer at the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, tells me he is among the potential candidates considering a run. Dunn, 30, is a lifelong resident of Plymouth and serves on the town's advisory and finance committee.
"I've gotten a lot of calls. It obviously just happened today, but it's definitely something I'm looking at," Dunn told me yesterday. "I think we still have a little bit of time to go before we have to make those decisions. I have a lot of people that I'd like to talk to before I do that."
Dunn said he spoke with deMacedo to congratulate him on his new role at the university, where he will serve as director of regional partnerships. "I haven't talked to him about the seat in particular," Dunn added. Before deMacedo took office, former state Senate President Therese Murray, a Democrat, held the seat for more than two decades.
SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET SAGA — A dispute between several state lawmakers played out on the House floor yesterday when members voted on a supplemental budget bill to handle the state's $400 million surplus. The flare up illustrates a clash that has been brewing for months between some new lawmakers and more senior House members over how the Legislature does business.
It all started with an amendment to the budget bill filed by first-year state Rep. Maria Robinson, which had to do with the federal tax code. When Robinson spoke on the amendment, state Rep. Denise Garlick asked her to yield for a question. Robinson declined and continued speaking, which was a shock to Garlick.
"It is not my experience, in nearly four terms in the House, that a colleague would not yield for a question," Garlick said. "I was surprised by that, I have to tell you ... This is a colleague who would not yield to a woman colleague for a question."
But in first-year state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa's view, there was no promise the floor would go back to Robinson if she yielded for Garlick's question, and Garlick should not have interrupted in the first place. Sabadosa, a co-sponsor on Robinson's amendment, slammed Garlick's behavior as "atrocious" in a phone call last night.
"We're feeling a little bit like the women of the State House are being treated rather poorly — the young, new women," Sabadosa told me.
Sabadosa says she and fellow new lawmaker and co-sponsor state Rep. Tami Gouveia tried unsuccessfully to speak before members voted it down in a roll call. Sabadosa says she made leaders aware she wanted to speak ahead of time, and even waved her arms and yelled to get the attention of state Rep. Paul Donato, who was presiding over the session.
"Even though we represent the exact same number of constituents, for some reason our voices matter less. There's something to be said about seniority, but if we cannot have an actual robust debate about something as important giving corporations $37 million in tax breaks, why are we even here?" Sabadosa said. "It's not only disrespectful to us, but disrespectful to our constituents." She also blasted the move on Twitter.
But according to Garlick, the problem was in the process. Garlick says the roll call on the amendment had already begun before Sabadosa tried to speak.
"People weren't shut down — they didn't speak up in time," Garlick told me last night. "There are real rules, and you can't interrupt a roll call. And even though it might feel bad for an individual, your perception of that doesn't change the rules."
"And if you allow your perception to be the statement that you make, it is disruptive to the House of Representatives. We've got 160 people who have to play by the rules. You've got to know the rules and you've got to use the rules appropriately," Garlick added.
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TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker and state Senate President Karen Spilka speak at the Massachusetts Cybersecurity Forum. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito visits AIS in Leominster. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh makes a special child care announcement at Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, speaks at the Catherine Hardaway Residences naming ceremony. Baker and Walsh speak at a ribbon cutting for the Valina N. Jackson Center. Rep. Ayanna Pressley launches a new caucus focused on the future of transportation in Washington, D.C.
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- "House Uses FY19 Surplus To Shore Up Reserves And Pad Ed Spending," by Colin A. Young and Chris Lisinski, State House News Service: "The House moved to close the fiscal year 2019 books Wednesday with near-unanimous approval of a $723 million supplemental budget that would stash $400 million of last year's surplus in reserves and spend millions more on the MBTA and other priorities, while also setting a schedule for voting in 2020. Members voted 151-1 Wednesday night to pass the bill (H 4127) after a lengthy session dotted with hours of public inactivity. Boston Democrat Rep. Russell Holmes cast the lone dissenting vote."
- "Baker shrugs off transparency complaints in RMV investigation," by Mary Markos, Boston Herald: "Gov. Charlie Baker is shrugging off complaints that his administration is veiled in secrecy and trying to avoid a paper trail in the RMV scandal, saying Wednesday that his staff did "exactly" what they "should have been doing" when ordering RMV employees not to email about important issues. "Calling for meetings, creating a sense of urgency and focus in the aftermath of a tragedy like that one is exactly what people in my administration should have been doing and were doing," Baker told reporters Wednesday, 'and that's why we moved so quickly on so many files and unopened letters.'"
- "DeLeo: Too Early for Subpoenas in RMV Probe," by Chris Lisinski, State House News Service: "Despite a top deputy complaining that the Baker administration has withheld documents, House Speaker Robert DeLeo threw cold water on the idea of issuing subpoenas to advance the Transportation Committee's investigation into the Registry of Motor Vehicles. DeLeo said he believes it is "a little bit too early" to play the subpoena card. Rep. William Straus, who co-chairs the committee that's exploring problems at the RMV, held a press conference Tuesday where he produced emails he said he acquired from an outside source after the Department of Transportation failed to provide them."
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- "Walsh Vows 'More Than Tweaks' To Zoning Board Of Appeal," by Isaiah Thompson, WGBH News: "Mayor Marty Walsh says change is coming to the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal. Walsh did not offer details, saying he will wait until he reviews the findings of an ongoing review of the board, commissioned by the mayor and being conducted by an outside law firm. "There are probably going to be some changes, and I think they're probably going to be more than tweaks," Walsh told WGBH News at an unrelated press event Wednesday."
- "City pulls $248m in pension money from firm after CEO's off-color comments on women," by Shirley Leung, Boston Globe: "The City of Boston on Wednesday terminated its relationship with billionaire money manager Ken Fisher, pulling about $248 million in pension fund money from his firm following lewd comments he made last week. The Boston pension board voted 5 to 0 at a regularly scheduled meeting to drop Fisher Investments, joining a growing number of government pension funds that have cut ties with the Washington state company."
- "Flynn, Janey plan hearing on 'health disparities' in Communities of Color," by Katie Trojano, Dorchester Reporter: "Boston City Councillors Ed Flynn and Kim Janey will be hosting a hearing next week to discuss public health disparities in communities of color in the City of Boston. The hearing will take place next Friday, Oct. 25 at 10 a.m. in the Boston City Council's Iannella Chamber. The hearing will be facilitated by the Committee on Healthy Women, Families, and Communities. "The lack of equity in our public health systems has dire consequences for the residents I serve, especially communities of color. We must do more to remove implicit and explicit racial bias from our health care system," said Councillor Janey."
- "Wynn brings in new managers in Everett," by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: "WYNN RESORTS shuffled its top management team at Encore Boston Harbor on Wednesday, removing president Robert DeSalvio and elevating Brian Guilbrants, the head of food and beverage, to replace him. Rumors have circulated for months that DeSalvio was not going to be the long term leader of the hotel and casino in Everett and that Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox had concerns about the way Encore Boston Harbor was being led."
- "No easement? No problem. Condos rise in a backyard," by Yawu Miller, Bay State Banner: "When Nashira Baril moved to Taylor Terrace just three years ago, she and her husband were drawn to the quiet dead-end row of single-family homes off of River Street in Mattapan. A single-family and a duplex lay just beyond her back yard. Then, in a scenario that's playing out in neighborhoods throughout Boston, the single-family was torn down to make way for a seven-unit condo development. "It came down in hours," she said."
- "City breaks ground on new $30 million police station in East Boston," by Alyssa Lukpat, Boston Globe: "City officials broke ground in East Boston on Wednesday on a $30 million police station — the first new police facility in almost a decade, officials said. Mayor Martin J. Walsh, state politicians, and Boston police hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the new A-7 police station, which is set to open in 2021 at 338 East Eagle St. "It's the first complete new station that we're building in Boston in a decade. B-2 in Dudley Square opened in 2011," Walsh said. 'When I first got elected mayor, I thought we were going to be breaking ground. I was all excited. And here we are six years later, breaking ground.'"
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- "Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley holds off on presidential endorsement as colleagues back Bernie Sanders," by Benjamin Kail, MassLive.com: "A day after the fourth Democratic presidential debate and following reports that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders could pick up endorsements from three progressive congresswomen, U.S. Rep Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts held off from backing any candidate. The Washington Post and others reported that freshman Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said they would support Sanders, who has consistently polled in third place behind former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren."
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- "Suspended Judge Shelley Joseph ready for trial if motion to dismiss fails," by Andrew Martinez, Boston Herald: Suspended state Judge Shelley Joseph is ready to go to trial if her motion to dismiss federal obstruction charges fails, lawyers on both sides of the controversial case stated Wednesday. The Newton District Court judge on paid leave from her $184,000-a-year post, and retired trial court officer Wesley MacGregor, are fighting charges of obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant escape the courthouse in April 2018 to avoid a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent."
- "John H. Nardozzi, accountant for former Sen. Brian Joyce, convicted on fraud charges in federal court," by Scott J. Croteau, MassLive.com: "John H. Nardozzi, the certified public accountant for former state Sen. Brian Joyce, was convicted by a federal jury for conspiring with the late senator to defraud the IRS from 2011 through 2014, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Nardozzi, 67, of Waltham, was convicted after a seven-day trial of defrauding the IRS of approximately $600,000. He was found guilty on charges of conspiring to defraud the IRS and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns."
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- "Warren's blasts at tech leave Biden in the shadows," by Nancy Scola, POLITICO: "Elizabeth Warren is setting the Democratic field's hostile tone on tech — and Joe Biden is struggling to find his voice. That's one upshot from Tuesday night's debate. The former vice president was the quietest person on stage on the question of how to handle Silicon Valley. His rivals, echoing Warren, expressed degrees of unease with companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Twitter and how they're reshaping everything from elections to news to jobs to privacy."
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- "Pressley holds town hall in Randolph," by Yawu Miller, Bay State Banner: "The constituents who came to Stetson Hall in Randolph brought questions about immigration, impeachment, women's rights and growing inequality to 7th District U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley's town hall meeting Saturday. In her speech and her responses to audience members' questions, Pressley brought a message of hope. "I didn't come here to talk to you about how sobering the landscape is, because at this moment, all that I feel is hope," she said at the beginning of her address."
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| IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN |
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- "Gas Compressor Opponents Dealt Setback With Wetlands, Waterways Appeals," by Chris Lisinski, State House News Service: "A proposed natural gas compressor station cleared two more major hurdles Wednesday when a state adjudicator recommended upholding wetlands and waterways permits that opponents had appealed. Jane Rothchild, a hearing officer who rules on appeals cases for the Department of Environmental Protection, disagreed with petitioners who claimed the project would violate environmental regulations. She suggested the department uphold its initial approval of wetlands and waterways permits."
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| MARIJUANA IN MASSACHUSETTS |
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- "Holyoke marijuana company Positronic Farms plans bankruptcy filing after board resigns," by Shira Schoenberg, MassLive.com: "The entire board of Holyoke company Positronic Farms has resigned, and the company is considering filing for bankruptcy, as the secretary of state investigates the company's role in violating state securities laws. "Now that the company does not have a ... practical path forward ... myself and the entire board of Positronic Farms have submitted our resignations to the secretary of state," said former President Morriss Partee. Positronic Farms, a company founded by David Caputo, had rented space in a former paper mill at 5 Appleton St. in Holyoke. Caputo planned to lease that space to a separate company, Holyoke Gardens, which applied for a state license to grow marijuana."
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— Herald: "SURPRISE PARTY," "WOULDN'T THIS BE FUN!" — Globe: "Warren quiet on health care specifics," "Fury over Syria aligns parties vs. president." |
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- "'No majors, no departments': Hampshire College votes to shape academics around modern challenges," by Jacquelyn Voghel, Daily Hampshire Gazette: "As Hampshire College prepares to defend its credentials to the New England Commission of Higher Education accreditation agency next month, the board of trustees has voted to reshape the college's academic model around challenges in today's world. "We are restructuring ourselves to move questions and projects to the center of every student's education," Hampshire College President Ed Wingenbach said at The Red Barn on Wednesday."
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- " Officials: Racist post at Framingham High was faked," by Zane Razzaq, MetroWest Daily News: "An investigation found that a high school student's Instagram account was hacked to post racist comments online, a school official said Wednesday. "What's important for people to know is simply that this is an unfortunate incident in terms of a young person unfairly being targeted and that the way in which this person was targeted also harmed communities of color by using such a vitriol word," said Joseph Corazzini, the assistant superintendent for Equity, Diversity, and Community Engagement, in an interview."
- "'No silver bullet solutions' in long-awaited Cape shark study," by Doug Fraser, Cape Cod Times: "Six Outer Cape towns, along with Cape Cod National Seashore and Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, released a long-awaited report Wednesday on shark detection, deterrence and exclusion technologies. The $50,000 study by the Woods Hole Group reinforces the efforts by towns and the Seashore to educate the public on reducing the risk of attack and upgrade emergency communications and trauma response at beaches. But the report also downplays hopes in emerging technologies and alternative strategies, saying they need more research and testing before deployment."
MAZEL! to the wonderful and capable Katie Holzman, who is joining the Meredith Corporation as a PR coordinator in New York City.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to retired Amherst state Rep. Ellen Story and Marcus Gadson.
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