STATE HOUSE — The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a conservative non-profit that has established itself as a foil to Democratic lawmakers on Beacon Hill, believes the new organization formed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to carry on the ideals of his presidential campaign may be violating state campaign finance law.
Our Revolution, which launched this week, organized itself as a non-profit and has a page devoted to highlighting candidates around the country at the federal and state level with its support. Among the candidates listed are Sens. Jamie Eldridge and Patricia Jehlen, Rep. Mary Keefe and Democratic House candidate Mike Connolly.
STATE HOUSE — MBTA janitors and their supporters protested planned layoffs Thursday, occupying the lobby and hallway outside Gov. Charlie Baker's office and filling the State House with the sound of chanting and singing on an otherwise quiet August day.
"Everybody's for running a system efficiently, but we don't believe letting the MBTA stations be trashed is anything related to efficiency," said Eugenio Villasante, a spokesman for the union representing the roughly 300 T janitors, SEIU 32BJ. He said, "Who in Boston thinks the T stations are super clean? Most riders would say we need more and not less cleaners."
