Healthcare workers continue to suffer assaults and other incidents of workplace violence. The Massachusetts Nurses Association, the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, the Massachusetts Division of 1199SEIU, the Massachusetts Emergency Nursing Association and the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians have come together to support meaningful, measurable and enforceable legislation addressing workplace violence in our healthcare facilities. Pass H.4767.
KELLER @ LARGE
“Keep in mind that if you're defending Platner at this point you're signing up for 5 more months of defending an obvious pathological liar.”
– Writer Nate Silver on X, June 4th
Sign me up, said prominent Senate Democrats five weeks ago after Graham Platner lied to their faces about the extent of his abusiveness.
Sign us up, said an all-star array of left-wing political groups like the Bernie Sanders spinoff Our Revolution. He “represents the kind of working-class leadership Our Revolution was built to support,” they wrote in their November endorsement, “authentic, service-driven, and unafraid to take on the powerful.” Edit:…a grotesquely inauthentic, self-absorbed candidate eager to exploit and mislead others. Fixed it.
Sign us up too, said 156,084 Maine Democrats and independents on primary day. Let’s be generous and say two-thirds of them were so eager to take out Susan Collins and so underwhelmed by the underwhelming Janet Mills they tossed the dice on Platner.
Snake eyes. He has them, they rolled them.
That leaves 51,507 adults proving Hannah Arendt’s observation in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” that due to a “mixture of gullibility and cynicism,” the victims of mass propaganda “did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
Every statement a lie. Clear the shelves of those red hats with the broken “Make America Great Again” promise to make room for the new king slogan!
Lying in politics is not a new thing. But it used to carry at least a whiff of stigma.
Scammers are getting smarter—and Bay Staters are paying the price. Criminals are using cryptocurrency ATMs to commit fraud, stealing people's retirement savings and costing Bay Staters millions of dollars a year. It’s time to crack down. Pass the SCAM Act to protect Bay Staters' hard-earned money. Learn more at aarp.org/ma.
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Healthcare workers continue to suffer assaults and other incidents of workplace violence. The Massachusetts Nurses Association, the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, the Massachusetts Division of 1199SEIU, the Massachusetts Emergency Nursing Association and the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians have come together to support meaningful, measurable and enforceable legislation addressing workplace violence in our healthcare facilities. Pass H.4767.
FROM BEACON HILL
MAKING THE BALLOT, LITERALLY: The big question in deciding which ballot question gets which number turns out to be: how do you make them all fit on the page? Secretary of State Bill Galvin is delegating the task to a top deputy this year as he champions a question that would allow voters to register on Election Day. | CommonWealth Beacon
MAKING THE BALLOT, LEGALLY: Republican attorney general candidate Michael Walsh is back in the race after a court ruling Friday. But the judge said the State Ballot Law Commission was correct to block Anne Manning Martin, another GOP contender tied up in the same dispute over alleged signature fraud, from the ballot for lieutenant governor. | Boston Globe
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GOING ROUND AND ROUND: A deal between the Merrimack Valley Transit Authority and the Teamsters local representing its bus drivers ends a 10-day strike, but doesn’t resolve the main sticking point over how to handle Saturday schedules. | WBUR
GABRIEL HOUSE ANNIVERSARY: Today marks one year since 10 people died in a five-alarm fire at a Fall River assisted living facility. The deadly blaze at the Gabriel House prompted a push to change sprinkler-inspection rules, multiple lawsuits and statewide assisted-living reforms. | MassLive
BATTERY OF REAL ESTATE DEALS: Former U.S. Sen. John Kerry is the co-chair of a company that bought up properties in Franklin, Auburn and Hopkinton with clean energy plans on the mind, including battery storage. The company, Galvanize Real Estate, was co-founded by billionaire Tom Steyer, who was knocked out of the California governor's race last month. | Banker & Tradesman
SHELLFISH BEAT: The Trump administration is looking at how to reopen a section of Georges Bank, known as the Northern Edge, more than 30 years after it was closed to scallop fishing. Meanwhile, the state is offering $300,000 in aid to North Shore shellfish harvesters and oyster growers whose work was disrupted by the sewer line failure in Haverhill last month. | The Vineyard Gazette and The Eagle-Tribune
MARKEY ON THE RECORD: Sen. Ed Markey, facing two challengers, touts his endorsements from within the progressive movement and says he’s not riding “the pollercoaster” to track primary foe Rep. Seth Moulton’s progress. | WCVB
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