The Massachusetts Democratic Party's state convention is set for Worcester on Friday and Saturday this week and one liberal pundit has a demand for the delegates: support women and minority candidates.
Liberal CBS Boston pundit Jon Keller wrote in his weekly MASSterList column that he wants state Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz (D-Jamaica Plain) to get at least 15 percent of the delegates' support so she can make the ballot; he also complained that there are white men running for lieutenant governor.
An illegal immigrant convicted of raping a child who was hiding out in a sanctuary city will soon have to go home.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 31-year-old Vagner Brito Paixao on Wednesday, June 1; he awaits a 14-year prison sentence for child rape in his home country of Brazil. He had been living in Somerville, Massachusetts, a sanctuary city.
