The clerk of the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates upgraded hotel rooms during a junket in Boston to deluxe suites, costing the cash-strapped county more than $2,000.
Six of the assembly's 15 delegates and the clerk attended the recent Massachusetts Municipal Association conference in Boston, where group rates at the Sheraton Boston Hotel were $174 for a single and $184 for a double room, according to The Cape Cod Times.
More than anyone else, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick would bring much more harmony to Republicans than to the masses should he formally announce a 2020 presidential candidacy. And more so than Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Patrick is still today's marquee progressive. A gift for the GOP.
Patrick recently told a Kansas City public radio station that a presidential run is "on my radar screen." He was in Missouri for an event whimsically billed "An Evening with Deval Patrick: Reinvesting in America." There, a panel discussion waxed on today's "political moment." To wax off these days of discord (certainly and entirely President Donald Trump's fault) Patrick believes we need to "model an alternative."
