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Ducking WHAT?? I used to live in Quincy! I voted for him thinking he was more liberal than his predecessor!
I feel betrayed even though I haven't lived there in a decade. What a douchecanoe.
Yes, a curfew that European countries already tried during the summer/fall (now a growing number of them are back to national lockdowns!) as if the plague is nocturnal.
Also continues to massage the metrics of his vaunted map, to better browbeat school districts into bringing everyone back in person. Which we should maybe attempt!
...after making sure to close restaurants and casinos, oh and also maybe funding for staff and facility/building upgrades? But since Baker has an R next to his name, we're reminded that sales tax revenue, and satisfying the business lobby, is more important than prioritizing health and wellness.
Baker is going to get more people unnecessarily killed this winter between refusing to close businesses with demonstrable transmission of covid (restaurants), and forcing people to get evicted. It just won't be covered that way because he's being polite and "moderate" about it.
Oh also, where the fuck is the Dem statehouse supermajority during all of this?
*Crickets*
The funny thing is my Trumpist inlaws an hour west of Boston hate Baker for even acknowledging COVID is a thing.
Hey - mine are an hour south of Boston, but the sentiment is the same!
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Well, that didn't take long. Either he really fucked up at the law school, or he wants to jump into the Massachusetts governor's race. (Even though he lives in NH these days.)
I’m a NESL grad. I look back on the shitstorm his appointment set off with the alumni, and he didn’t even last a year.
Personally, I’d bet good money that claims of “rebuilding the Republican Party” are just saving face. No one voluntarily leaves that kind of position without another job waiting or retiring.
While I hope it turns out to be so, I'm not holding my breath that this is the final whimper we're going to hear about the guy.
The student body is generally left-leaning, but the leadership trends conservative and wealthy. Most alumni assumed they picked Brown to funnel money to the school through his political connections. I'm guessing that didn't happen, because he certainly didn't have any other qualifications to run a law school.
It's worth remembering that this sort of position (dean of a small law school) was the same sort of position that Alex Acosta wound up in when he was dismissed as a US Attorney after Obama's election.
https://www.concordmonitor.com/Scott-Brown-returns-to-NH-politics-41931686
Seems like Annissa Essaibi George got her strongest turn out in Southie, Roslindale and Hyde Park. And, if I remember correctly, those are the WHITEST neighborhoods in Boston. I can't help but wonder at the fact that Essaibi George has relatively low melanin (her father is Tunisian, but they're generally light skinned) was the reason she won in those districts. Kinda depressing if true.
Also on a side note, I've always been amused by the 404 messages on Politicians web pages, and while most of them in the mayoral race didn't do anything interesting, Michelle Wu's website was kind of fun. https://www.michelleforboston.com/totallynotareallink
Boston has a long, ignoble history of racism (see: bussing riots, the Red Sox being the last MLB team to integrate, among others.)
But seriously, those are also the most affluent* communities and according to that WBUR article the neighborhoods with the highest turn out (which is also a phenomenon of affluence) so admittedly, I feel like Essaibi George won't be anything new after the long line of white men before her.
*Southie has become gentrified in the past 20 years and it's now fashionable to move to Southie because of all the movies that came out about it.
https://www.concordmonitor.com/BowandBelmontatOddsWithProTrumpSignage-42646392
And I came across this gem of a paragraph halfway down:
Gee, I wonder where the Monitor stands on Maga chuds' antics? LMAO
Although everyone should read up on that incident because it was truly insane.
Dude is super complicated. I hope he gets the help he needs
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I think you mean Dorchester (where AEG is from) slash some of west Roxbury. Roslindale is where Wu resides, and along with JP comprises a white-affluent-liberal bloc that has been gaining clout over the predominantly white "old Boston" neighborhoods of southie/Dorchester. JP/Roslindale are the neighborhoods that helped propel Ayanna Pressely over Capuano for rep, and helped land Rachel Rollins in the Suffolk county DA seat (who is also going national as a Biden nom for US attorney, unsurprisingly being delayed by republicans).
Not coincidentally the "old Boston" neighborhoods fall under the district of the very "old Boston" rep Steve Lynch. Worth noting that these towns were also the base for now-labor-secretary Marty Walsh.
Also worth noting that the majority of white Boston voters, who didn't break for AEG in the enclaves that represent her base, went for Wu instead and citywide! Most voters of color (concentrated in Roxbury, Mattapan etc) broke almost evenly for the candidates who are African American women (the "token guy," which is crazy to say, got barely any votes). So it's a question of seeing where they go for round 2, but smart money is on Wu given her track record getting votes as city councilor, and the name recognition she's built up campaigning for mayor for over a year now.
A likely Mayor Wu, who is unapologetically progressive, will be an interesting counterpoint to the "new face of the democratic party" narrative that's been written about by likely Mayor Eric Adams of NYC. I think it's fair to say both likely mayors will represent it! Almost like the party is a big tent coalition! Exclamations!
But would someone explain Maine Question 3 to me? It's a constitutional amendment that says:
This doesn't sound bad on its face, but I'm also not sure what problem it's trying to solve, or why it's seen as necessary. Or what legal effects on agricultural practices it could have. Is this is a good thing? Bad thing? Inconsequential thing?
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Not again. Why the f did he move to my state. Go away.
The state already has the lowest vaccination rate in New England and small local hospitals are getting overwhelmed by similar surges as seen in other less vaccinated areas.
This is actively shitty for other reasons as well from what I understand. It's basically NIMBYism (except it's not even necessarily in anyone's backyard but way out in the middle of nowhere) fighting against attempts to make the north american electrical grid more secure and also cleaner because of where the power is coming from.
This is literally the bullshit that prevents the problems with the electrical grid from being addressed.
Though I'll note even the R governor is rip shit at them.
It's a bad thing for a number of reasons.
First, it is enshrining agriculture as a protected right, which can be problematic.
Second, by allowing everyone the right to practice agriculture, you could end up with people in apartments with goats, pigs, and chickens as pets.
Third, it is very difficult to regulate small operations. So the animals and plants could end up as disease vectors or bring new pests to the region.
Fourth, what happens when someone uses this new right to produce home grown coca plants?
Let's not forget that it was Sununu senior who orchestrated the entire modern day opposition to any sort of climate change action. Ronald Reagan was originally on board with taking some modest action to combat climate change, but Sununu, in his paranoia, convinced Reagan it was a hoax orchestrated by Democrats to ruin Republican businesses.
Oh, I'm in the same boat, just pointing out it's by no means a cohesive picture in NH.
I keep hearing things from environmental groups about how it will fuck up animal migrations and have other detrimental environmental effects. I'll do more research over the next couple of weeks to see if I think that's overblown, but the arguments against the project that have given me a negative perception of it are ecological, not about property rights.
Scott is also a republican and he's pretty much told the party to fuck off in regards to Covid. That's a big part of why his approval ratings are so high here.
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Even if that's the case, that's not what this ballot initiative actually does. It's literally just gonna be a NIMBY veto.
Not the best year for ballot initiatives in Maine, it seems.
Same with Baker, it's always amusing to see my town's maga heads complain bitterly that Baker is a RINO.
Massachusetts Democrats are particularly powerful these days which means that ambitious and unscrupulous people who want to cheat and steal will likely run as Democrats and could easily win if they can get a plurality of the electorate. Or will the Republicans find that unicorn and get another RINO who actually reminds the independents of the Baker administration instead of some frothing-at-the-mouth maga lunatic?