STATE HOUSE — Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Thomas McGee has reached out to his legislative colleagues seeking manpower to help blunt an "all-out blitz" planned by a right-leaning independent group backing two Republicans running for House seats in special elections to be decided next Tuesday.
The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a conservative non-profit that has spent heavily in election cycles to target Democratic candidates for state office, started blanketing the Fitchburg-Lunenburg area targeting Democrat Stephan Hay, a Fitchburg city councilor, over transparency, internet sales taxes and illegal immigration.
STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker reiterated that he is "unlikely" to endorse a candidate in the Republican presidential primary and encouraged reporters to put the same question to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat and an influential voice in liberal politics.
"I'm going to focus on my day job, because this is going to be a long, grinding, torturous process between now and the end of it, and I don't want to be distracted by it," Baker said Thursday on his way from an event back into the governor's office suite when a reporter asked him about Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
