It’s hard to tell what the Massachusetts Republican Party stands for these days. Gov. Charlie Baker, the state’s leading Republican, disavowed President Trump on Monday, calling him out for his lack of compassion and leadership. “That’s not what we need in Boston, it’s not what we need right now in Massachusetts, and it’s definitely not what […]
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Mass. GOP takes a pounding
THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS in the Massachusetts Senate, which was already down to six lawmakers, will now have just enough members to pop open a card table for a game of bridge. Which they might as well just do, for all the clout they’ll be wielding in the 40-person chamber. Democrats grabbed two Senate seats previously held […]
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Mass. GOP takes a pounding
The Republican caucus in the Massachusetts Senate, which was already down to six lawmakers, will now have just enough members to pop open a card table for a game of bridge. Which they might as well just do, for all the clout they’ll be wielding in the 40-person chamber. Democrats grabbed two Senate seats previously […]
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‘A low point for Republicans in Mass.’
Two Republicans trying to straddle the deep ideological divide in the Massachusetts GOP say the bitter fight that culminated in last week’s state committee election was all about gaining control of the party’s resources. On the CommonWealth Codcast, Amy Carnevale, who was reelected to the state committee last week, and Anthony Amore, the GOP nominee […]
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What’s behind the split within the Mass. GOP
THERE IS A STRUGGLE going on for the soul of the Massachusetts Republican Party between Trump loyalists who control the party apparatus and a more moderate brand of Republicanism espoused by Gov. Charlie Baker. The state party is headed by Jim Lyons, a social and economic conservative who said in a recent email to state […]
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What’s behind the split within the Mass. GOP
There is a struggle going on for the soul of the Massachusetts Republican Party between Trump loyalists who control the party apparatus and a more moderate brand of Republicanism espoused by Gov. Charlie Baker. The state party is headed by Jim Lyons, a social and economic conservative who said in a recent email to state […]
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Trump knows what he’s doing
For months, Donald Trump has been defending his plan to deport illegal immigrants by following the lead of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who took action to oust 1.5 million undocumented aliens in 1953. It was a calculated determination by Trump to invoke the name of America’s favorite general because, after all, who doesn’t like Ike and his […]
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GOP debate becomes a two-ring circus
When it comes to tagging a group with the circus label because of behavior that veers toward the clownish, it seems two can play the game. So it was that the big storyline from Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate became the table-turning focus on the CNBC media panel, with the candidates and various pundits charging the […]
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GOP debate only skin deep
With reality TV star Donald Trump leading the field, should anyone have been surprised that the most memorable moment of the longest presidential debate in history was about appearances? Trump, as expected, was put on the defensive over his comments last week about Carly Fiorina‘s looks — “Look at that face! Would anybody vote for that?” Fiorina, […]