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Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Massachusetts Political Games
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When Senator Elizabeth Warren told a town
hall audience in Holyoke on Saturday that she’d “take a hard
look” at running for president after next month’s midterm
election, she further stoked talk of her national ambitions.
Political observers on both sides of the
spectrum who have long speculated about the liberal
Democrat’s future on Sunday had a mixed response to Warren’s
surprising statement, which came in response to a question
from the audience.
A favorite of progressives and the party
faithful, Warren has appeared emboldened by the growing
anger toward President Trump and his conservative base. That
anger, particularly among women, was never more apparent
than on Thursday, when Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
was questioned about sexual assault allegations before a
Senate panel....
Warren is facing Republican state
Representative Geoff Diehl in the Nov. 6 election. Diehl on
Sunday said Warren should drop out, in light of her interest
in a White House run.
“She owed it to the people to be honest with
them long before yesterday. I’m renewing my call for her to
drop out of this race now that it’s abundantly clear she’ll
be spending the next two years ignoring the needs of the
people of the Commonwealth focusing, instead, on her own
political profile,” Diehl said in a statement to the Globe
Sunday night.
Warren’s office said Sunday night she will
not drop out of the race and “she continues to fight for
working families.”
Chip Ford, executive director of
Citizens for Limited Taxation, said Warren was doing a
disservice to voters by eyeing the White House while running
for reelection to the Senate.
“We have a senator who doesn’t want to be a
senator running for the Senate,” Ford said. “It’s bizarre,”
he added. “She should pick which job she wants, and run like
hell for it.”
The Boston Globe
Monday, October 1, 2018
For Warren, ‘engaged and enraged’ Democratic women
strong base for potential presidential run
Massachusetts deserves to have full
representation in the U.S. Senate by elected officials who
are dedicated to advocating on behalf of their constituents
and not potential voters in a presidential election.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long been rumored
to be seeking the nation’s highest office, but at a town
hall in western Massachusetts Saturday, she all but
confirmed it....
If Warren is re-elected, her term begins on
hiatus for at least two years as she casts off the onerous
Bay State and crisscrosses the country railing against
Donald Trump. Having learned the lessons from Hillary
Clinton’s loss in 2016, her road trip would likely be more
tireless than we have ever seen.
If she wins in 2020, the voters in the
commonwealth this year will have voted for a senator
deferred for two years, and then unceremoniously canceled in
2021. At that point we would deal with the chaos surrounding
a replacement for Sen. Warren, pending a special election.
If she loses in 2020 then she returns to her
role as the senior senator from Massachusetts — a role she
had eschewed for greater fortunes. How motivated an advocate
could she possibly be at that point? Why would she work hard
for an electorate that she didn’t respect? If she did, she
would not have run for re-election, so that Democrats in
Massachusetts could choose a nominee committed to working
for them and only them for the next six years....
Voters deserve better treatment than this,
regardless of party or ideology.
We have an important election coming up on
Nov. 6, not a qualifier for 2020.
A Boston Herald editorial
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
We need full-time senator
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's efforts to
blur party lines and sell his bipartisan bonafides to a
left-leaning electorate are paying off, according to a new
poll that found more voters think of the incumbent as
aligned with Democratic Party positions than with his own
GOP.
Baker, who is running for a second,
four-year term, leads his Democratic challenger Jay Gonzalez
by 20 points among Democrats, and holds a commanding 66
percent to 22 percent edge overall in his race against
Gonzalez, according to a new WBUR/MassINC poll....
Sixty-seven percent of Democrats have a
favorable view of the governor in the new poll, and 52
percent said they would vote for Baker over Gonzalez
compared to the 32 percent who said they were sticking with
their party's nominee.
Baker also led Gonzalez among Republican
voters 86 percent to 3 percent, and among the coveted bloc
of unenrolled voters who make up more than half of the
electorate and prefer Baker 70 percent to 30 percent for
Gonzalez....
Baker has bucked the national GOP on issues
such as health care and immigration, and 34 percent of those
polled said they think Baker tends to take positions more
similar to the Democratic Party's stance than the Republican
Party. Twenty-nine percent said Baker is more aligned with
the GOP than Democrats, while 21 percent said he's somewhere
in the middle and 16 percent were undecided....
While Baker easily defeated conservative
Scott Lively in the GOP primary in September, the
controversial Springfield pastor won over 36 percent of GOP
primary voters, or more than 98,000 people. Lively's
performance led some pundits to speculate that Baker could
be in trouble among diehard Republicans who he needed four
years ago to defeat Democratic Martha Coakley.
A close advisor to Baker's re-election
campaign, however, told the News Service that they are not
worried about shedding GOP voters.
"They were trying to send a message to the
governor that we wish you were a little more conservative or
we wish you were a little nicer to the president, but
they're not going to vote for a Democrat," the advisor said.
State House News Service
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Democrats breaking for Baker, giving him a huge lead in new
poll
Nothing could match the surrealism of the
scene in Washington this week, but the dynamic around this
state's governor's race has its own strange feel - and poll
numbers early this week quantified the weirdness.
Gov. Charlie Baker may have endorsed the
entire Republican slate, seemingly just to be polite, but if
you charted the governor's stances you'd find he opposes his
party's candidates for both U.S. Senate and attorney general
on some of the defining issues of our political moment....
Meanwhile, Baker aligned with Elizabeth
Warren and state Attorney General Maura Healey, continuing a
years-long pattern of opposing almost anything Trumpian, and
agreeing with Healey, his potential gubernatorial foe, at
nearly every turn. See in this regard this week's Baker
denouncement of denying green cards to immigrants on public
assistance.
As for his current opponent, well, Baker's
declaration that he believes Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
yanked the hottest-button issue of the year away from Jay
Gonzalez, who was lambasting Baker for not taking a stand.
Baker said he believes Ford, meaning by implication he does
not believe Kavanaugh, who was testifying under oath. That
offhand intimation of perjury was lost in the tumult of a
crazy week, but it was as stark an illustration as we'll
ever get as to how willing the GOP moderate is to align with
Democrats....
STORY OF THE WEEK: He said, She said
in D.C. somehow extrapolated to He Said, He Said in
Massachusetts, as the Republican incumbent governor spoke to
the Kavanaugh issue and his incredible following among
Democrats.
State House News Service
Friday, September 28, 2018
Weekly Roundup - Advice and Dissension
Former President Barack Obama has endorsed
Tram Nguyen, a pro-abortion Democrat running against
conservative state Representative Jim Lyons (R-Andover).
Nguyen, a legal aid lawyer from Andover who
came to America at age 5 from Vietnam, received a
second-wave endorsement from Obama, who announced new
endorsements on Twitter on Monday.
Left-wing Democrats have been gunning for
Lyons, who is the most conservative member of the
Massachusetts Legislature....
Lyons told the Lowell Sun that he is
campaigning door-to-door.
“That’s the endorsement that I’m looking
for,” Lyons said, referring to his constituents, according
to the Lowell Sun. “I’ve gotten it four times and I’m hoping
to get it again. Clearly, the special interest that I work
to represent are the hardworking taxpayers of the district.
I always put my district first and I’m going to continue to
do that.” ...
Nguyen is the only candidate for state
representative in Massachusetts who got an endorsement from
Obama.
The New Boston Post
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Obama Endorses Pro-Abortion Challenger of State
Representative Jim Lyons
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Chip Ford's CLT
Commentary
I was plugging away on Sunday afternoon
feeding the dumpster outside my front door when Boston
Globe reporter John Hilliard called to discuss Sen.
Elizabeth Warren's announcement that she is closer to
running for president, even as she is running for
re-election to the U.S. Senate.
"John, this is not 'breaking
news,' I told him. "It's a dog-bites-man story.
Doesn't everyone know she's really only
interested in an even higher position? The only
thing newsworthy is that she has stopped denying it."
Warren had just announced that she's not
running to be a Senator to represent the citizens of
Massachusetts. She just announced that she's
running for re-election to claim a massive in-kind
presidential campaign contribution imposed on
Massachusetts taxpayers. Warren wants to continue
collecting her generous Senate salary and benefits while
she spends even more of her time continuing to not
do her job as a senator, not representing
Massachusetts. Instead she hopes to continue
running around the country promoting herself for the
next two years for a different job using
taxpayers' money, on our dime while abandoning those she
claims to represent. And she wants and expects
us to pay for her presidential ambition whether or
not we like it, or her.
Sigh, Massachusetts . . .
Democrat Light or Democrat Left for
Governor. That's our choice, and I'm not sure we
even have a Democrat Light candidate any more.
Left and Lefter is more accurate these days, as Charlie
Baker strives to out-liberal his Democrat challenger,
Jay Gonzalez.
Some choice, voters.
After completing another day of
excavating 22 years of CLT accumulation from my house
into the dumpster and talking with the Globe reporter,
on Sunday evening (10:00 PM) I caught "Life,
Liberty & Levin" on Fox News Channel. To my
pleasant surprise, there was my soon-to-be governor,
Matt Bevin (R-Kentucky), interviewed for the full hour.
Mark Levin was obviously impressed with Governor Bevin,
and so was I – even more so
than I already was. I'm still marveling at this
whole new world out there that's so obscure and alien to
most Bay Staters.
Governors in Kentucky are elected to
four-year terms, during odd-number years. Bevin
will be running for re-election next year, 2019, so I'll
be voting for him a year from next month. As in
Massachusetts, where my vote is smothered by the
Liberals and has never counted for much if anything, in
Kentucky my vote won't count for much if anything
either. The big difference will be, in Kentucky
I'll be voting on the winning side at last!
To see what's possible in other places,
watch last Sunday's "Life, Liberty & Levin" interview.
Fox News often re-runs the program on the following
Saturday at 7:00 PM, or you can watch it from the links
below:
Short Excerpt
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Full Interview
My Relocation Project |
The Dumpster
See my CLT offices and storage room, before excavation
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and I'm still feeding it.
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The Boston Globe
Monday, October 1, 2018
For Warren, ‘engaged and enraged’ Democratic
women
strong base for potential presidential run
By John Hilliard
When Senator Elizabeth Warren told a town hall
audience in Holyoke on Saturday that she’d “take
a hard look” at running for president after next
month’s midterm election, she further stoked
talk of her national ambitions.
Political observers on both sides of the
spectrum who have long speculated about the
liberal Democrat’s future on Sunday had a mixed
response to Warren’s surprising statement, which
came in response to a question from the
audience.
A favorite of progressives and the party
faithful, Warren has appeared emboldened by the
growing anger toward President Trump and his
conservative base. That anger, particularly
among women, was never more apparent than on
Thursday, when Supreme Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh was questioned about sexual assault
allegations before a Senate panel.
As a high-profile Democrat, Warren is
well-positioned to tap into the anti-Trump
sentiment, particularly among female voters,
said Ray La Raja, a professor of political
science at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
“I think she has seen that women in the
Democratic party . . . are engaged and enraged,
and that is a strong base for her,” La Raja
said. Democrats want someone who is “a fighter,
someone who is compelling emotionally,” he
added.
Noting the record number of women running for
Congress this year, Rachael Cobb, chairwoman of
the political science department at Suffolk
University, said Warren appears to be putting up
a “trial balloon,” ahead of what will likely be
a crowded field for Democrats running for
president in 2020.
“The sense among women, especially of the
importance of running, of putting themselves
forward, being clear where they are on things,
is not going to fade,” Cobb said. “I think this
is a critical event in American politics and
will have long-lasting repercussions.”
Warren is facing Republican state Representative
Geoff Diehl in the Nov. 6 election. Diehl on
Sunday said Warren should drop out, in light of
her interest in a White House run.
“She owed it to the people to be honest with
them long before yesterday. I’m renewing my call
for her to drop out of this race now that it’s
abundantly clear she’ll be spending the next two
years ignoring the needs of the people of the
Commonwealth focusing, instead, on her own
political profile,” Diehl said in a statement to
the Globe Sunday night.
Warren’s office said Sunday night she will not
drop out of the race and “she continues to fight
for working families.”
Chip Ford, executive director of
Citizens for Limited Taxation, said Warren
was doing a disservice to voters by eyeing the
White House while running for reelection to the
Senate.
“We have a senator who doesn’t want to be a
senator running for the Senate,” Ford said.
“It’s bizarre,” he added. “She should pick which
job she wants, and run like hell for it.”
One national conservative strategist said
Warren’s interest in the White House could harm
Democrats running next month in more
conservative-leaning areas of the country.
“I’m a little surprised by the timing.
Interjecting herself into the national
consciousness right now is not a good idea for
Democrats nationally,” said Jon McHenry, who is
based in Virginia.
The prospect of a Warren candidacy could pose a
problem for centrist Democrats such as West
Virginia Senator Joe Manchin ahead of the
November midterms.
“Getting a lot of questions about Liz Warren is
not a way to maintain those [centrist]
credentials,” McHenry said.
In Holyoke, Warren linked her potential
candidacy to damage she sees President Trump
doing to the country, and how Republicans
handled sexual assault accusations by Dr.
Christine Blasey Ford against Kavanaugh.
Ford has accused Kavanaugh of sexually
assaulting her when they were teenagers growing
up in the Maryland suburbs. Kavanaugh vehemently
denied the accusations in a senate hearing last
week. The FBI is now investigating the validity
of the claims.
Warren said she watched “powerful men helping a
powerful man make it to an even more powerful
position,” as the Senate Judiciary Committee
voted 11-10 along party lines to advance
Kavanaugh’s nomination to the full Senate.
At the town hall, she noted those who have “less
power” go beyond women, and include the nation’s
LGBTQ community, immigrants, seniors, and
students saddled with debt.
“This is about power . . . who’s got it and who
doesn’t plan to let it go,” Warren said. “So I
will tell you this: Today, I am angry.”
Victoria McGrane of the Globe staff
contributed. Material from prior Globe stories
was used.
The Boston Herald
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
A Boston Herald editorial
We need full-time senator
Massachusetts deserves to have full
representation in the U.S. Senate by elected
officials who are dedicated to advocating on
behalf of their constituents and not potential
voters in a presidential election.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long been rumored to
be seeking the nation’s highest office, but at a
town hall in western Massachusetts Saturday, she
all but confirmed it.
“I watched as Brett Kavanaugh acted like he was
entitled to that position and angry at anyone
who would question him,” she told a gathering in
Holyoke. “I watched powerful men helping a
powerful man make it to an even more powerful
position. I watched that and I thought, ‘Time’s
up.’ It’s time for women to go to Washington and
fix our broken government and that includes a
woman at the top. So here’s what I promise.
After Nov. 6, I will take a hard look at running
for president.”
After Nov. 6?
Sen. Warren is brazenly telling us that she
intends to drop all commitments to the voters in
Massachusetts, soon after her re-election to the
U.S. Senate. All of the promises and commitments
she is making now — all of the current projects
and initiatives that are currently underway,
they all collapse as she moves mentally, and
then possibly physically, into the White House.
If Warren is re-elected, her term begins on
hiatus for at least two years as she casts off
the onerous Bay State and crisscrosses the
country railing against Donald Trump. Having
learned the lessons from Hillary Clinton’s loss
in 2016, her road trip would likely be more
tireless than we have ever seen.
If she wins in 2020, the voters in the
commonwealth this year will have voted for a
senator deferred for two years, and then
unceremoniously canceled in 2021. At that point
we would deal with the chaos surrounding a
replacement for Sen. Warren, pending a special
election.
If she loses in 2020 then she returns to her
role as the senior senator from Massachusetts —
a role she had eschewed for greater fortunes.
How motivated an advocate could she possibly be
at that point? Why would she work hard for an
electorate that she didn’t respect? If she did,
she would not have run for re-election, so that
Democrats in Massachusetts could choose a
nominee committed to working for them and only
them for the next six years.
No one believes that Sen. Warren was suddenly
inspired to run because of the Kavanaugh
hearings, and the laziness of the explanation
shows a certain disdain for her followers. Maybe
she feels that she could stand in the middle of
Brattle Street and shoot somebody and not lose
any of them.
Obviously, this kind of thing is not so rare in
politics but there is a consensus that politics
in 2018 has hit a new low. From the executive
branch to the legislative branch and even,
indirectly, the judicial branch as evidenced by
the Kavanaugh hearings, the climate in our
discourse is contemptuous, on a good day.
Voters deserve better treatment than this,
regardless of party or ideology.
We have an important election coming up on Nov.
6, not a qualifier for 2020.
State House News Service
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Democrats breaking for Baker, giving him a huge
lead in new poll
By Matt Murphy
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's efforts to blur
party lines and sell his bipartisan bonafides to
a left-leaning electorate are paying off,
according to a new poll that found more voters
think of the incumbent as aligned with
Democratic Party positions than with his own
GOP.
Baker, who is running for a second, four-year
term, leads his Democratic challenger Jay
Gonzalez by 20 points among Democrats, and holds
a commanding 66 percent to 22 percent edge
overall in his race against Gonzalez, according
to a new WBUR/MassINC poll.
The poll highlights the challenges Gonzalez
faces in trying to break through against a
better-funded opponent whose popularity crosses
party lines. Twenty percent of voters said they
had a favorable view of Gonzalez compared to 74
percent for Baker, while 45 percent said that
with just weeks left before the Nov. 6 election
they still hadn't heard of the Democratic
challenger.
The poll of 506 likely voters was conducted
Sept. 17 through Sept. 21, overlapping with
Gonzalez's announcement of a plan to tax
university endowments and pro-Baker super PAC
ads airing that tout the governor as someone who
has held the line on taxes.
Gonzalez's support in a head-to-head matchup
against Baker has climbed only three points
since November 2017, based on MassINC polls,
while Baker's number climbed seven points over
the same time period with 10 percent still
undecided.
Sixty-seven percent of Democrats have a
favorable view of the governor in the new poll,
and 52 percent said they would vote for Baker
over Gonzalez compared to the 32 percent who
said they were sticking with their party's
nominee.
Baker also led Gonzalez among Republican voters
86 percent to 3 percent, and among the coveted
bloc of unenrolled voters who make up more than
half of the electorate and prefer Baker 70
percent to 30 percent for Gonzalez.
Gonzalez, in the days after winning the
Democratic primary, tried to hurt Baker by
criticizing his endorsement of the GOP slate in
Massachusetts that includes U.S. Senate nominee
Geoff Diehl, a prominent support of President
Donald Trump.
While only 29 percent of voters said they have a
favorable view of Trump, 55 percent said Baker's
endorsement of Diehl against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth
Warren made no difference to them, while 28
percent said it made them less likely to vote
for the governor.
Baker's positioning vis-a-vis Trump has been a
closely watched and choreographed affair since
he pronounced Trump unfit for the White House in
2016 and did not vote for the president.
Forty-six percent of those surveyed said they
think the governor has handled Trump
appropriately, while 31 percent said he's has
not been critical enough and 10 percent said
he's been too critical.
Baker has bucked the national GOP on issues such
as health care and immigration, and 34 percent
of those polled said they think Baker tends to
take positions more similar to the Democratic
Party's stance than the Republican Party.
Twenty-nine percent said Baker is more aligned
with the GOP than Democrats, while 21 percent
said he's somewhere in the middle and 16 percent
were undecided.
Democrats have tried to paint Baker as a "status
quo" leader who has failed to invest enough in
transportation, education or environmental
preservation and clean energy, but Baker has
also worked with Democratic leaders on Beacon
Hill on issues like access to contraception and
transgender rights that have endeared him to
some voters on the left. Baker next week plans
to give the keynote address in Washington, D.C.
at the annual dinner of the Log Cabin
Republicans, a pro-LGBT rights group.
While Baker easily defeated conservative Scott
Lively in the GOP primary in September, the
controversial Springfield pastor won over 36
percent of GOP primary voters, or more than
98,000 people. Lively's performance led some
pundits to speculate that Baker could be in
trouble among diehard Republicans who he needed
four years ago to defeat Democratic Martha
Coakley.
A close advisor to Baker's re-election campaign,
however, told the News Service that they are not
worried about shedding GOP voters.
"They were trying to send a message to the
governor that we wish you were a little more
conservative or we wish you were a little nicer
to the president, but they're not going to vote
for a Democrat," the advisor said.
Baker's lead in the WBUR/MassINC poll was larger
than in last week's Globe/Suffolk poll that had
Gonzalez trailing Baker 55-28, with 17 percent
undecided.
State House News Service
Friday, September 28, 2018
Weekly Roundup - Advice and Dissension
By Craig Sandler
(Review and analysis of the week in state
government)
Nothing could match the surrealism of the scene
in Washington this week, but the dynamic around
this state's governor's race has its own strange
feel - and poll numbers early this week
quantified the weirdness.
Gov. Charlie Baker may have endorsed the entire
Republican slate, seemingly just to be polite,
but if you charted the governor's stances you'd
find he opposes his party's candidates for both
U.S. Senate and attorney general on some of the
defining issues of our political moment.
And what the heck, let's do it.
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Baker (R) |
Diehl (R) |
McMahon (R) |
Healey (D) |
Warren (D) |
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Pro-Life |
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Pro-Gun Control |
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Pro_Obamacare |
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We could extend this. And of course, there's
the all-consuming topic du an: Brett Kavanaugh.
Republican Geoff Diehl declared the series of
misconduct allegations against President Trump's
Supreme Court nominee a "stalling technique"
Monday, and did nothing to modify that position
after Thursday's momentous hearing. Republican
attorney general candidate Jay McMahon is
holding off on taking a position on Kavanaugh,
but small-government, pro-gun, pro-life
Republicans are solidly with the embattled
nominee, and McMahon is all four of the above.
Meanwhile, Baker aligned with Elizabeth Warren
and state Attorney General Maura Healey,
continuing a years-long pattern of opposing
almost anything Trumpian, and agreeing with
Healey, his potential gubernatorial foe, at
nearly every turn. See in this regard this
week's Baker denouncement of denying green cards
to immigrants on public assistance.
As for his current opponent, well, Baker's
declaration that he believes Dr. Christine
Blasey Ford yanked the hottest-button issue of
the year away from Jay Gonzalez, who was
lambasting Baker for not taking a stand. Baker
said he believes Ford, meaning by implication he
does not believe Kavanaugh, who was testifying
under oath. That offhand intimation of perjury
was lost in the tumult of a crazy week, but it
was as stark an illustration as we'll ever get
as to how willing the GOP moderate is to align
with Democrats.
Care to guess the result?
A WBUR/MassINC poll showed Baker leading
Gonzalez by 20 points - among Democrats. That
was the smallest margin of support - he only got
52 percent of respondents who identified with
the other party. Among his own party, Baker
polled at 80 supportive, 3 percent opposed. And
among the state's largest voting bloc, the
unenrolled, Baker polled 70 percent to Gonzalez'
30 percent. With only about a tenth of the
governor's money, five weeks to make his case
and 45 percent of the poll respondents saying
they've never heard of him, Gonzalez has got to
be feeling grim....
STORY OF THE WEEK: He said, She said in
D.C. somehow extrapolated to He Said, He Said in
Massachusetts, as the Republican incumbent
governor spoke to the Kavanaugh issue and his
incredible following among Democrats.
The New Boston Post
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Obama Endorses Pro-Abortion Challenger of State
Representative Jim Lyons
By Staff
Former President Barack Obama has endorsed Tram
Nguyen, a pro-abortion Democrat running against
conservative state Representative Jim Lyons
(R-Andover).
Nguyen, a legal aid lawyer from Andover who came
to America at age 5 from Vietnam, received a
second-wave endorsement from Obama, who
announced new endorsements on Twitter on Monday.
Left-wing Democrats have been gunning for Lyons,
who is the most conservative member of the
Massachusetts Legislature.
“I stand for inclusion, equality and making sure
that we have the quality of life we deserve in
the district,” Nguyen said, according to the
Lowell Sun. “I stand polar opposite to my
opponent in this race.”
Lyons told the Lowell Sun that he is campaigning
door-to-door.
“That’s the endorsement that I’m looking for,”
Lyons said, referring to his constituents,
according to the Lowell Sun. “I’ve gotten it
four times and I’m hoping to get it again.
Clearly, the special interest that I work to
represent are the hardworking taxpayers of the
district. I always put my district first and I’m
going to continue to do that.”
Lyons has drawn ire from left-wing critics for
supporting repeal of the so-called Bathroom
Bill, which guarantees a right of biological
males who identify as women to use bathrooms and
locker rooms meant for females (Question 3 in
November); and for opposing a ban on so-called
conversion therapy for minors.
As of six weeks ago (the latest for which
figures are available), Nguyen had significantly
outraised Lyons in campaign donations.
As of August 17, Lyons had $39,119.92 cash on
hand, out of a total $78,733.97 he had during
the previous six months when adding in beginning
balance ($29,692.92) and amount raised during
that period ($49,041.05), according to the state
Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
As of August 17, Nguyen had $72,307.05 cash on
hand, out of a total $134,104.58 she had during
the previous six months when adding beginning
balance ($14,208.81) and amount raised during
that period ($116,895.77), according to the
state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
Nguyen is the only candidate for state
representative in Massachusetts who got an
endorsement from Obama.
A state Senate candidate on the South Shore and
an incumbent state senator on the Cape also got
an endorsement from the former president, as did
the Democratic candidates for governor (Jay
Gonzalez) and lieutenant governor (Quentin
Palfrey). So did Ayanna Pressley, a Boston city
councilor running unopposed in the Seventh
Congressional District in November. |
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