GLOUCESTER — A Donald Trump-inspired newcomer to the Republican Party is making waves, and claims that longtime MassGOPers are working behind the scenes — and engaging in a harassment campaign — to block her bid to land a seat on the state committee.
Dianna Ploss, the subject of a lengthy New York Times profile and additional pieces aimed at explaining Trump's effect on those previously uninvolved and uninterested in politics, confirmed this week in an interview with New Boston Post that she is running for a Republican State Committee seat.
When politicians pass laws and regulators make rules aimed at punishing corporations, the big companies usually aren't the ones that really feel the pain. The real victims are small businesses — often with no more than 50 employees — who don't have armies of lobbyists to create special loopholes or well-staffed compliance departments to prepare the new paperwork.
Fortunately, the House Small Business Committee, a permanent standing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, is fighting for these small business owners to ensure that they are not forgotten in the back-and-forth of policymaking.
