Obscured amid the controversy over crowd size and the women's march that followed was the substantive policy at the heart of President Donald Trump's inaugural address.
That came in the language about "we are transferring power from Washington D.C., and giving it back to you, the people," and is being followed up with a reported congressional initiative to turn Medicaid, the federal healthcare program for the poor, into "block grants to the states."
Our Massachusetts Republican Party will have an election for party chairman on Wednesday, January 25. The chairman controls the state party office on Merrimac Street in Boston, where a small staff works to grow the party and win elections.
Kirsten Hughes, our current chairman, is up for re-election against State Committee member Steve Aylward. She is a strong supporter of Governor Charlie Baker, who has brought money, dignity, and hope to a party that desperately needs it. Under Baker and Hughes, the party brand makes sense to most people in our state. The MassGOP is a moderate, ideologically flexible party that reaches out to all kinds of people to win elections. Considering we are only about 10 percent of the voters, it's the only strategy that makes sense.
