The counter-protest to the Free Speech Rally on the Boston Common went off near to what I had expected. I went as an observer, with the intention to only watch and report on what happened, while not identifying myself, debating anyone, or talking to the press.
Since my Republican job description includes the Massachusetts Republican National Committee Delegation and Republican State Committee, it was prudent to go incognito, sunglasses and all. Had the assembled mob recognized this sometime Trump campaign spokesman from TV it could have been — nay, would have been — exceedingly dangerous, to say the least.
MONTPELIER — The state of Vermont has reached a punishing settlement with the man who became famous not for his role in helping to craft President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act — but his remarks boasting about how a lack of transparency was crucial to the passage of the sweeping health care bill.
Word of the settlement, stemming from the discovery of economic consultant Jonathan Gruber's bogus billing practices, trickled out from Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan's office on Friday afternoon.
