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Former Assistant Transportation Secretary Chris Dempsey Running For State Auditor In Massachusetts

Another Democrat plans to run for state auditor now that incumbent Suzanne Bump won't run for re-election. In addition to governor's council member Eileen Duff, Chris Dempsey says he's running. Dempsey previously served as the assistant secretary of transportation for Massachusetts, as many news

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FiveThirtyEight Says Massachusetts Is The Most Democratic State In The Country

How Democratic is Massachusetts? It's the most Democratic state in the country, according to FiveThirtyEight.

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Seth Moulton Took $1,000 From Big Tobacco In 2017

What do Seth Moulton (D-Salem) and Richard Neal (D-Springfield) have in common? A lot, probably. They're both Democratic congressmen from Massachusetts. They both won primaries against Democrats to their left last year. And they both take corporate political action committee money.

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Homosexual Republican Congressional Candidate Jeffrey Sossa-Paquette Attacks Massachusetts Family Institute And Renew Massachusetts Coalition For Supporting The Traditional Family Unit

An openly homosexual Republican Congressional candidate attacked organizations that promote traditional family values in a Facebook video on Tuesday morning. Jeffrey Sossa-Paquette, who is running in the Second Congressional District in central Massachusetts, went after both the Massachusetts Family Institute and Renew Massachusetts Coalition, calling them bigots and extremists, and

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Transgender Conservative Althea Garrison Will Run For Boston City Council At-Large Again This Year

The answer is yes. Althea Garrison, a former state representative and former member of the Boston City Council, plans to run for city councilor at-large once again this year. Garrison filed a statement of candidacy to run, a spokesman for the City of Boston told NewBostonPost in an email message

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National Review Internship Led Democratic (Almost) Candidate for Governor To Go From Pro-Life Conservative Republican To Liberal Democrat, She Says

Danielle Allen was a conservative pro-life Republican in college before she did an internship at National Review, she told an interviewer Sunday. Allen, a Harvard professor who is exploring a run for governor of Massachusetts, said her family was conservative and that her father even ran for U.S. Senate

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Two Massachusetts Democratic State Reps Called For Their Party To Not Repeal The Hyde Amendment Last Year

If President Joe Biden has it his way, Congress will repeal the Hyde Amendment — and at least a couple of Democrats in the Massachusetts legislature won't be happy about it. President Biden proposed a $6 trillion federal budget on Friday, May 28 that does not include the Hyde

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State Auditor Candidate Grilled Judge Nominee On Religion, Said She Has Seen Catholic Faith ‘Actually Interfere With People’s Judgment’

A Democratic candidate for Massachusetts state auditor once asked a judicial nominee probing questions about his religious faith and described the Roman Catholic Church as a discriminatory organization. Eileen Duff, a member of the Governor's Council, asked the questions in October 2016 of James Gavin Reardon Jr., who