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Ranked-Choice Voting Supporters Planning To Try Ballot Question in 2020

Matthew McDonald

Supporters of ranked-choice voting plan to try to get a referendum on the 2020 Massachusetts general election ballot.

"While we will continue advocating for the successful passage of two ranked choice voting bills before the Legislature this session, we are finalizing language to submit to the Attorney General as the first step toward getting RCV before the voters on the 2020 ballot," said Emily Fitzmaurice, a spokesman for Voter Choice Massachusetts, in a statement to State House News Service.

Zero Vetoes: Fiscal Conservatives Hit Charlie Baker for Rubber-Stamping Massachusetts Legislature’s Budget
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Zero Vetoes: Fiscal Conservatives Hit Charlie Baker for Rubber-Stamping Massachusetts Legislature’s Budget

Matthew McDonald

Some fiscal conservatives are criticizing Governor Charlie Baker for signing an approximately $43.3 billion budget approved by the Massachusetts Legislature without vetoing a single line item.

Paul Craney, spokesman for the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a tax and spending watchdog, noted that state spending has increased more than $5 billion since Baker, a Republican, took office in January 2015, and that even Baker's liberal Democratic predecessor Deval Patrick vetoed certain earmarks in past budgets approved by state legislators.

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