35 Burst results for "Massachusetts"
AP News Radio
Guardsman Jack Teixeira, Pentagon leak suspect, due back in court as judge weighs detention
"The Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military secrets will go before a Massachusetts judge today to see if he'll have to remain behind bars. 21 year old Jack to share his due back in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts. A magistrates expected to hear additional arguments on the prosecution request to keep the 21 year old locked up until he goes on trial for charges under the espionage act. In court papers filed this week. Prosecutors said to Cheryl was caught several times before his April arrest, taking notes on classified information and viewing intelligence unrelated to his job. That's raised questions about why he still had access to military secrets. Even after being admonished by his superiors. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits, labor market still showing strength
"The labor market is still showing strength. I'm Lisa dwyer. Viewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week following a previous spike that many analysts took as a sign that higher interest rates were finally calling the labor market. It turns out that the recent jump in jobless benefit applications was largely due to fraudulent applications in Massachusetts, where claims fell this week by more than 14,000. The Labor Department says that the U.S. applications for jobless claims for the weak ending May 6th, fell by 22,000, while news of the fraudulent Massachusetts numbers made the concern of her last week's jump and claim seem overblown, economists still expect a slow uptick in layoffs in the second half of 2023. The fed is hoping to achieve a so called soft landing lowering growth just enough to bring inflation under control without causing a recession, economists are skeptical with many expecting the U.S. to enter a recession later this year. I'm Lisa dwyer
Mark Levin
The EPA Should Not Be Allowed to Control Your Private Home Appliances
"No specific statutory authority for any of this These laws that were passed were passed to the 1970s The Supreme Court ruled less than 20 years ago in Massachusetts V EPA By 5 to four in an outrageous ruling by the activist judges the activist justices which allowed the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide even though it was not and is not a pollutant That opened the door to everything To all of it so none of this is legitimate from a legal or constitutional basis None of it But the left that essentially an importantly the Democrat party has seized on it To destroy our country They've seized on it to empower themselves They've seized on it to reach into your homes Which I thought were private To determine what kind of appliances you're going to have And the government that can reach into your home will determine what kind of stove you're going to have What kind of washing machine What kind of window air conditioning unit are HVAC system That can reach into your garage and determine the make of your automobile From Washington D.C. faceless nameless bureaucrats Who have never gotten any dirt under their fingernails Who don't know anything About what they're regulating It's driven by ideology and power and control
Mark Levin
6.5M People Worth 11 Electoral Votes Have Crossed Border Under Biden
"6 and a half million That's the number you should be thinking about I'll give you a second number to think about 11 11 That's the number of electoral votes that the state of Indiana has Indiana has 11 electoral votes in the presidential election Why is that important Well they have a population of just over 6 and a half million And that would make them the 17th most populous state in this country 6 and a half million people 17th most populous state in the country 11 Electoral College votes for the presidential election That's the equivalent Of the population of illegal immigrants that have passed into this country since Joe Biden became president under three years ago 6 and a half million people and it's about to grow Indiana is about to be left in the dust we're coming up on Massachusetts Tennessee and Arizona But you know it's a challenge for Mallorca It's just a challenge So we're going to have to fix 6 and a half million
AP News Radio
1 killed, 5 hurt by gunfire at Massachusetts house party
"One person was fatally shot and 5 others were injured by gunfire at a house party in Massachusetts. State and city police are investigating after a house party at a third floor apartment in Lawrence, Massachusetts turned deadly, officers responding to a disturbance call and sounds of gunfire around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, found 6 victims, Essex county district attorney Paul Tucker, says all were taken to Lawrence general hospital, where one 18 year old male was pronounced dead, two patients were flown to hospitals in Boston for additional treatment. Neighbors on royal street talked to WCVB TV. They had to stop. No arrests were announced, but the district attorney's office said the gunfire did not appear to be a random act of violence. I'm Jennifer King
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bill O'Reilly Talks About His New Book "Killing the Witches"
"Joining us now is Bill O'Reilly, Bill, welcome back to the program. You have a new book out. Let's start with that. Tell us about it. Killing the witches will be out in September. I hope we can talk that month about it. It's essentially the horror of Salem, Massachusetts to take you through the 20 individuals who were murdered by the authorities in New England. And but we started off in the Mayflower, put you on the boat, you come on over to the new world and then things rapidly get out of control. So I can have the book as Benjamin Franklin who actually witnessed this, which trial stuff in Boston where he was born. He was a kid at the time. And then the third part is about demonic possession today. So this is another one of those killing books that I don't think people are going to be able to put down. So Bill, just a quick question on it. What did you learn in the process of doing this? I always ask you this as we go through your books. What was eye opening? You probably had a perception of what you thought was happening during that. What was the biggest thing you learned in the process of writing the book? The way we live in America today with religion and the state was shaped by the Salem witch trials. So it's relevant to right the second. And the second thing is all of the unbelievably strange stuff that happened on the set of the movie the exorcist. It is absolutely incredible what happened during that shoot. And it has been underreported.
AP News Radio
Guardsman in leak case wanted to kill a 'ton of people': US
"The Pentagon continues facing questions over the history of the Massachusetts air national guardsmen held in a classified documents leak. Federal prosecutors say Jack to share, I kept an arsenal of guns set on social media. He wanted to kill a ton of people and was suspended in high school when a classmate overheard him discussing weapons and racial threats. So did The Pentagon mess up by letting to share it in list, let alone get a high security clearance. I think it's important to allow this investigation to look at the totality of this case. Bring it to your general pat rider says while that plays out. The vast vast majority of people who are awarded security clearances come to work every day and do the right thing. And this investigation will tell us what happened and where this individual did the wrong thing. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
No decision whether guardsman accused of leaks to be held
"There's no decision yet on whether the Massachusetts air national guardsmen accused of leaking highly classified military documents should stay in jail before his trial. Federal prosecutors asked a judge to keep Jack to share it in custody, citing a troubled history of violent statements in arsenal of guns and the possibility he has more sensitive documents to release. In a court filing, they say to share us already caused immense damage to national security and is still capable of causing extraordinary damage. The filings raise more questions about why the 21 year old had such a high security clearance. His lawyers want to share a release to home confinement, saying he is not a flight risk. The judge did not immediately rule. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Guardsman spoke of 'murder,' may still possess secrets: US
"Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts air national guardsmen accused of leaking highly classified military documents remains a grave threat to national security and a flight risk. In a filing asking a judge to keep Jack to share it in custody, prosecutors say the 21 year old captain arsenal of weapons and talked online about violence, murder, and in assassination van. They write the damage to Cher is already caused to national security is immense and the damage he's still capable of causing is extraordinary that he may still have unreleased material of tremendous value to hostile nation states that might try to help him escape the U.S. to share his been in jail since earlier this month and his lawyers are urging the judge to release him, arguing, even if the court thinks he's a flight risk, it could set conditions like home confinement. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Releasing leak suspect a national security risk, feds say
"Federal prosecutors are asking a federal judge to keep an air national guardsmen behind bars, while he awaits trial for allegedly leaking highly classified military documents. The Justice Department filed court papers late Wednesday, saying that 21 year old Massachusetts air national guardsmen jacked to Shearer may still have access to secret national defense information and could expose it, Justice Department lawyers say that would be a grave threat to U.S. national security, a detention hearing is scheduled for today and federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, to shera has been in jail since his arrest earlier this month. I'm Donna water
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Discover the Remarkable Story of Gerald Ford's 1976 Campaign
"I started reading this book, I got to the 1976 campaign, Richard Norton Smith has written this wonderful book. He'll be on with me tomorrow. An ordinary man. It's about the remarkable Gerald Ford. Great man, great American. And Gerald Ford faced Ronald Reagan in the 1976 campaign. It was the first campaign I was ever involved in. I was a young college kid and ran Ford youth campaign in Massachusetts. I was an undergrad. And I went up to New Hampshire to Durham to see him in a rally there, thousands of people. And I discovered yesterday doing some research on this stuff that New Hampshire had 750,000 people in 1976. It's got 1.4 million now. President Trump won the New Hampshire primary in 2016 with a 100,000 votes. It was like 1.3 million people there. One with a 100,000 votes. Ford
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Chairman Mike Gallagher Reacts to Shocking Breach in National Security
"Gallagher, let's start, you were before you were a vaunted congressman and chairman of a select committee. You are a Marine Corps Intel officer. Did any of your young E threes put just stuff randomly on the Internet that is compromised our national security in ways that I'm just dumbfounded by day after day, they did not. And I had very young intelligence analysts that were attached to my team. I had young ish Intel collectors, all of whom were operating with TS SCI clearances. I mean, in the Marine Corps in particular, we devolve a lot of trust and authority and responsibility down to the lowest levels and any time you have a service member betray that trust as it seems happen in this case with the Massachusetts air national guardsmen, and I think undermines the entire system. As well as just the simple fact of putting sensitive intelligence out there, making us look weak, making us look like we just can't handle basic functioning and basic handling of classified information. So and thus far, the answer is an explanations we've gotten from the intelligence community and DoD have been insufficient. There's a lot of unanswered questions. So this is a really damaging situation. And we still need to get to the bottom of it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Josie Glabach Saved Her Daughter From the Trans-Industrial Complex
"To ask about your child, my producer said they were dialog with you in the break that they, that you moved and it saved your child's life, they were going after your child. So talk about how you were able to prevent your kid from being infected with the trans social contagion. Sure. So we were in Massachusetts, which is heavily heavily infiltrated with the trans agenda. And my sweet daughter was told at ten by her friends that she was gay because of how she dressed. She was a tomboy. And she was told she was gay. And so she tried to come out with me at ten years old saying, mom, I think I'm gay. And so as her mother, I actually laughed because she's been writing boys names with hearts around them on the mirrors, and she was 6 years old, so I like my instinct, which is the laugh, and then I looked at her, and I realized she was like, too serious. And I was like, okay, do you have a crush on any girls? And she goes, no. And I'm like, then why do you think you're gay? And she's like, well, my friends told me it's because of how I'm dressing. And she, you know, just kind of like a boy she always wore a backward snapback hat and sweatpants and like a loose fitting shirt and she skateboard and she's excellent at sports. She's terrific. She could be in the Olympics someday. She's so good at them. But she was told very young by friends that how she dressed was because she was gay. And I told her I'm like, all right, well, I know you're not, as your mother. Just your habits, like you weren't, you weren't writing Sally in a heart on the mirror, you know? You were writing boys names. So as your mother will talk about this when you're older, but I don't want you to even worry about it or think about it now. And she said, okay, and then I get a letter from somebody in adult. I'll just say an adult in her life. And they were referring to her as they made them. It took me a little while to read to figure out what they were saying because it sounded like they were talking about a group of people because they would switch from the day then, pronouns, to the she her pronouns, and just them both. And so I actually wrote them back when I figured out what was going on. And I was like, did my daughter tell you to use those pronouns on her? And she goes, no, I didn't want to assume. So there were adult forces that were coming down on her about being non binary. And I'd asked her if this had happened in her school at all and she said it had happened, but she didn't know how to speak out against it. It wasn't a big deal. She just kind of brushed it off. And I was like, all right, well, it's a big deal to me. And there are a lot of issues that have been happening at the same time. Like I said, the pandemic wasn't handled properly by my state. She has my daughter that I'm talking about. She has a one in a million condition where her immune system breaks her bones. And that was being treated in Boston and there were issues going on there where they were trying to force the vaccine on her in this disease. She has this in mRNA and mRNA disease. They were trying to force this vaccine on her at the same time. So it was like coming from us at all different angles. And it just got to the point where we were just like, we got to save our kids. This is not going to stop. It's going to start going for my younger children too. And so, I mean, I was looking at houses in January and we were moved by March of last year. And you moved to Florida. Moved to Florida. Yes. And
The Charlie Kirk Show
Josie Glabach, the Red-Headed Libertarian, Shares Her Story
"This hour we have a very interesting guest and what I'm excited to talk to. Josie gley back, otherwise known as the red headed libertarian from Tim Cass dot com. Josie, welcome to the program. Hi, Charlie. Thanks for having me. So tell us about your story and tell us what you believe and why you believe it, and then we'll talk about more from there. Sure. So my story, I got into the libertarian spectrum. I kind of always was a libertarian, maybe starting in 2012. And I got onto Twitter around 2017, 2018 in that time and kind of just started developing and to who I was. And kind of seeing a cultural shift that I didn't really agree with. And I was living in Massachusetts at the time, and that was when the pandemic happened and everything. And I was seeing some stuff with the trans agenda that was happening in my life and it was starting to come more into my life than I wanted it to come into regarding my children. And one thing happened after another thing happened after another, and I just said, okay, this is it. And move to Florida. So now I'm a libertarian living in Florida and just rolling rolling with emotions. Well, very cool. Were you a liberal before you were a libertarian? I didn't know what I was. Around the time of September 11th, I was pretty conservative given what had happened, you know, and I was in high school at the time, and I just, I just want to justice what I thought was justice. And then around that time living in Massachusetts, there's a lot of liberal influence. So I was kind of bombarded with that at the same time, but nothing really seemed to fit who I was until I found the Ron Paul revolution around 2012.
The Trish Regan Show
Jack Teixeira: What We Know About the Pentagon Leaks Suspect
"Speaking of people in government, there's a lot of controversy over this 21 year old kid and a Massachusetts. Look, we don't know everything yet, so I'm hesitant to give a real view on this, but I will say this. He seemed pretty scared. We got the reports today of him in the courthouse, his father was there. He shouted out. I love you, Jack. 21 year old kid really young. Maybe sharing things on Discord, social media that he shouldn't have been sharing, but simultaneously, I get back to who has access to this stuff. Who is the government giving access to? So he had this clearance, and then he's sharing it. And I will also say this. I mean, if you think about it, if you're Joe Biden, who benefited from that. I know they're all worried, oh, it's a major leak, blah, blah, blah. But simultaneously, the leak was actually in Joe Biden's favor, right? It made it look like the U.S. had it all going on with Ukraine. I think a lot of Americans have been frustrated because we're looking at this war. We're now more than a year in, and people are saying, okay, well, when is this going to resolve itself? Is it ever going to resolve itself? Did we just get ourselves into another Afghanistan? These are all the questions that are starting to surround the conflict in Ukraine. And while we don't have troops there, we're certainly doing a lot monetarily to support the situation. And so there's concern over that. Well, this leaked document, these Pentagon documents, they actually actually make it look as though rasa is really fall apart, is on its last legs, and I would just say strategically, it's actually beneficial from what I've seen thus far. Now, I know it's sensitive stuff and you've got to be careful with sensitive stuff, but it just leaves me asking a whole lot of questions.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Judicial Watch's Chris Farrell Reacts to the Alleged Leaker's Arrest
"Farrell, thanks for coming in. Great to be with you, Seth. Thank you. All right, so initial reaction we've got the breaking news at the top of the show, this individual who has been arrested with the S.W.A.T. teams with ballistic helmets. I mean, antifa never got this kind of treatment. He is a Massachusetts air national guardsman in his early 20s, a Jack takes Ira is allegedly the leaker of hundreds accordingly that now we know hundreds of classified documents to his gamers Discord chat room what a bloody joke. But I'm sorry. Take it away. Take it away. Yeah, this is a controlled leak by The White House or elements within The White House. I want to be I'm not going to try to pin the tail on the donkey exactly. But it is a controlled leak of classified information, you don't have an Air National Guard junior airman 21 years old with direct access to CIA operations center summary memos. It just doesn't happen.
The Officer Tatum Show
Document Leak Story Isn't Adding Up
"Okay, so now Washington Post Washington Post was dealing with this other young man that was on this platform. I guess he was going around giving information. Let me ask you this. What's the significance between this guy allegedly being at for Brett or at fort Bragg, which he was not but ultimately at the Massachusetts base? Does it matter? As far as the access he would have had not really because so at four rack is the joint special operations command. And so that has people from army air force navy there within that part of fort Bragg. So there are some air force people stationed there. And with what they did with his intelligence wing, he was in an intelligence part of the air force. And what they did, I've been told from my sources that he would have had that act that information would have been going through that base where he was, not necessarily that he should have been accessing it, but it would have been going through there. So for this, it doesn't matter whether he was at fort Bragg or he was on Cape Cod.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jennifer Horn and Mike Rogers Discuss the Recent Classified Leak
"So much about this leak that needs to be unpacked. And representative, former representative Mike Rogers joins us right now, not from Alabama, Mike Rogers. This is the former congressman from the great state of Michigan. He is now the founder of lead America lead America dot org is where you can find it and you can give him a follow at rep Mike Rogers and congressman, thanks for being with us today. It's so important because not only are you formally of the house Intel committee, but you are also former FBI, former U.S. Army and you've got a great understanding of what's going on here. So thanks for being with us on America first. I am honored to be here. Thanks for having me. So let's start a little bit about what happened today. You see this 21 year old air guardsman from Massachusetts in federal court, Jack to share is his name. The mainstream news media going crazy to creating this pile of things. He was a God guy. He was a gun guy. He's an extremist guy. He looks like a 21 year old kid, but he did allegedly distribute some classified information. What do you make of his arrest and the charges today? Well, I mean, I think this is very, very serious. I mean, everybody is going to paint their political canvas on this, but what you have is somebody that fit the same profile, by the way, of Chelsea Manning. Do you remember he was in a very similar job? His job was to control basically a traffic cop for information flying across both secure and unsecure data transmissions. This is the same individual in a different place who also had this sense of in grand eisman. He thought, hey, you know, I could be important. I should be important. Nobody's noticing me. Intelligence work can be pretty lonely stuff if you really get down to it. So I think there's a lot of similarities and what he did. He'd knowingly broke the law. This isn't something that he accidentally did it. He knowingly broke the law. He puts things out there that he likely knew would harm the United States of America. And I don't think this is done yet either. So you think about it, I've read the affidavit. It's pretty thin. And we know that there's a lot more to the story, meaning that they went back to December and we're finding release of information December, January up till now, and we know that there were Russians in the chat room. Now, as an old FBI guy, I would say that's a clue.
The Jimmy Tingle Show
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Jimmy Tingle Show
"To go to the doctors, right? So don't you want people to be properly licensed. And there's a way to do that that is by the law that prevents fraud and that's all that's all possible. And so that's why I supported it. And that's why I stood with many public safety officials supporting. Tell me Mara, some of you are proudest accomplishments and then a closing statement of where people can find you where they might want to volunteer or make a donation. Some of the proudest accomplishments of Maura healey. As attorney general, I'm really proud of The Office that I ran and the people that worked with me in that office brought it every day, trying to help consumers and workers and seniors and protect their young people and who weren't afraid to go after those who were violating their civil rights were polluting our environment. These people working really hard. I'm really proud of that to make that we ran an office very successful about 500 people, $60 million a year budget over the last 7 years. I have brought back or saved the Commonwealth of Massachusetts close to $7 billion and believe that's what I think the return on investment from our office has been pretty good. I will also say that I'm particularly proud of our work going after Purdue pharma and the sacklers. Shut them down. We drove them out of business. We investigated, we expose the lies, and we held them accountable. And we're using all of that money and the money that we got from going after other opioid manufacturers and distributors and McKinsey and to fund prevention and recovery services. Close to half a $1 billion that my team and I brought back to the state. That's what it's going to be going to. I'm also proud that we were there in the Trump years when a lot of things were threatened. Trump threatened to take away healthcare. He threatened to take away DACA and the dreamers program, he imposed a ban on travel that really hurt so many of our colleges and universities. He tried to take back take us backwards on the environmental regulations that have been put in place to deal with climate change. I could go after time and time again, but we held the line. And as AGs, we held a line and we stood up for the rule of law. We stood up for protecting the constitution. And we stood up to show that no one, even the president of the United States is above the law. And I'm proud that I was able to do that during that time. If folks want, I welcome support in this race. I welcome I welcome teammates and people coming on board. You can find us at Maura healey dot com. It's remember. And you can sign up, we're looking for volunteers, people with canvas, people and not doors, people get involved. It's all about teamwork and we're building a really big tent here. So I hope to see people headquarters is in charlestown, but we've got regional field offices around the state, so I'd love to get books involved. Mara hilley dot com, everybody. Thanks morrow, best of luck, continue success and thanks again for doing this. And being part of the meet the candidate series. Thanks, Jimmy. Always great to be with you. Take good care of you soon. Thank you for joining us today. This has been a humor for humanity, production. Our mission is your mission, humor for humanity. Jimmy tingle dot com. Thank you.
The Jimmy Tingle Show
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Jimmy Tingle Show
"Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show. I am Jimmy, and I want to introduce you to a new segment of our show, the meet the candidate series. It is intended to give candidate 20 for public office a platform and a voice. So voters know who is running for office, why they're running and what they hope to accomplish if they are so fortunate to be elected. So please feel free to share these interviews with your family and friends and citizens around this fine land because an educated and informed population is essential for a healthy democracy, and isn't that what we all really want, a healthy, democracy, enjoy the interviews, stay healthy. My name is Jimmy tingle, and I approve this message. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the meet the candidate series. We have a very special guest today. Please welcome to the show. The current attorney general of Massachusetts now running for governor of the fine state of Massachusetts as a Democrat, the one the only attorney general Maura hilly. Hello morrow, welcome to the show. Hello, Jimmy. It's great to see you. Great to be with you. Great to see you as well. I know you've been working hard criss-crossing the state and was on your website looking at your background. You're one of 5 children, I think, from a single mother, did you ever think you would be running for governor of Massachusetts? And what got you into the political phrase, so to speak? What it got you into public service? Yeah, you know, it's a little bit about my background, Jimmy. My parents are from Newport up in the north shore. And I grew up by Hampton beach. I was raised just over the border in New Hampshire. I am the oldest of 5. My parents divorced when I was about ten, and my mom then raised us. And you know, she went back to work as a school nurse. She was a nurse before that. And she worked incredibly hard to keep things together. All of us kids worked, I started out probably the apple Orchard working when I was about ten and camp counselor and a variety of jobs. I wait just my way through high school college and law school, including for many years at the Hampton beach casino ballroom, where probably performed. Learned a lot about life there, probably more than I learned at Harvard. And I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. I after college, I had a brief career. I played professional basketball for a couple of years in Europe. And I came back and went to law school at northeastern and began a legal career. I think I was drawn towards service though from my legal experience and that led me to run the civil rights division for the attorney general's office years later. It's what led me to run to be the people's lawyer because when you're in these jobs, when you're in public interest work, when you're in public service, you do have an ability to help people. And that's been incredibly satisfying. I've been privileged to be attorney general for the last 7 years, built a great team of 500 really hardworking men and women who are trying to deliver for people around the state day in and day out. And I'm running for governor because I believe that these are really challenging times. There are a lot of challenges. We face up there. But they're also opportunities, Jimmy. And we can be and do so much more here in this great state. In a time when our nation needs it, we need leadership, and we need leadership from the states, and there's no better state to lead from or lead by example from the Massachusetts. Right. Well, tell me, I know you're following Charlie baker and he had a big approval rating among Democrats and I think more among Democrats than Republicans in our state. First of all, how do you think he did and what would you like to do differently? Well, governor baker and I have had from day one a great working relationship. And we've worked on a number of issues, probably most intensively, the opioid crisis. I mean, we were right together fighting manufacturers and distributors trying to get relief for families across the state. And he made that a top priority. I made that a top priority. We worked together. It shows what's possible when people are willing to work together. And I think that's what we've modeled for the state. I'm a Democrat. He's a Republican. We work extremely well together. I think about his leadership. I really appreciate that he was somebody and is somebody who really wants to study the issue and I know COVID was incredibly difficult and challenging in terms of some of the decisions he had to make. But I know that every day he was bringing a commitment to try to help as many people possible and see our way through that. I think as we look ahead, there are real challenges for the next governor. We've got inflation. We've got high cost of living in our state right now. People are priced out of housing, whether it's rents or mortgage payments. Some people can't even afford to downsize because they can't afford to buy another home. Transportation. I mean, you know, we've got a T, it's outrageous. It's on fire. It's derailing every other day every other week, something's happening. That's got to be fixed because we can't have a functioning economy without a functioning public transit system. We've got to invest in workforce development and job training, invest in child care. There's so much we need to do. But for me, Jimmy, I come back to how great this state is. We've got the greatest collection of human capital intellectual capital research innovation, know how. We have a history of going first, whether it was on universal healthcare or marriage equality, we've got to really draw upon that and I mentioned those basketball players. I was a point guard. And point guards, they like to have the ball in their hands, but the real job of the point guard is to get people working together. And get every teammate, you know, playing well with one another. And the greatest statistic for a point guard is not how many points you score. Actually, the assists, right? And so I think about that in governance. It's how I've tried to lead his attorney general and it's how I would lead as governor. I don't want to brag marvel, but I play point God as well. Cambridge. Cambridge Latin 1973, suburban league co champs. That is something to brag about. That's some serious serious ball. Oh yeah, it was division one high school. But anyway, you're right. It's about assist. It's about team play and Bill Russell just passed. Great team player. Great team player. That's what he's known for his rebalances, team playing, and that's what we hope to get from any of our elected officials. A person who can work across the aisle and a person that can share the spotlight with their, you know, their team as well. And I know we're going to be getting a lot of money from the infrastructure Bill. I know there's going to be hopefully more money in the conference here in Massachusetts. So what would you ever agenda be to bring Massachusetts up a few notches? Well, the first thing we've got to do is provide some relief to people. I want to see the legislature act now and pass some tax related. People need money back in their pockets because gas, groceries, you name it. It's all too high right now. Number two, we need to make the investments using the money that you speak of. We need to invest in housing. What am I talking about? Building new housing. You know, the way through this housing crisis and crunch is to create more housing, not just at the lowest income level, but for the middle class as well. We just don't have enough housing. And I wear a Jimmy about Massachusetts losing its competitive advantage. I don't want to see companies leave Massachusetts. I don't want to see people leave Massachusetts, but a reason they might is because our housing costs are too high. So that's the first thing. Let's
The Jimmy Tingle Show
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Jimmy Tingle Show
"When you take on an issue like that, which is kind of uncharted territory in terms of the auditor's job historically, do you think you're going to need to get partners, for example, in the transportation sector that are on board philosophically with this approach? Because I imagine there's a lot of folks there that might not be as that up to date with carbon. And do you have any influence with those type of appointments, do you think? Well, look, I have a collaborative leader and I want to always welcome people into the conversation. The role I'm running for is independent. It's elected by the voters and it's very important that it doesn't report to the governor reports only to the voters. So I'll be proud of that independence and I'll use it to its full potential, but I don't think anyone can succeed in this job if they're just a bomb throw. Because the role doesn't have direct policy making ability have to work with people and that means you can sometimes disagree, but you can do it without being disagreeable. That's always been my approach and it's the approach that I'll take in the office, it will mean that there are some tough conversations, but I truly believe that we can do anything we put our minds to in Massachusetts, especially when we're working together and more following the facts and the data. And I want to be a leader for us in the Commonwealth and doing that through the power of the auditor's office. Do you think we'll be able to use some of this federal money for, say, ramping up with electric vehicles and ramping up with charging stations and all that sort of thing? Well, we have to. I mean, we've got this one time pot of money in. I'm proposing in that first plan I mentioned to try to track those dollars in as close to real-time as possible. Most state programs are budgeted on an annual basis.
The Jimmy Tingle Show
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Jimmy Tingle Show
"You are not at 30,000 feet surveying the state like California or a state like Massachusetts. You're there in the neighborhood with the people on a day to today basis. And to your point, there's no place to hide. So if you've survived 16 years, were you actually mayor for 16 years? I have been, yeah, I feel fortunate. This is my 17th year, been reelected 5 times by the people in my community. And I feel blessed. So tell us about why you're running for lieutenant governor. What do you hope to bring to the office? You know, I touched about it earlier. I really feel like for the Commonwealth to be vibrant and thriving, we need our communities working. And right now, a lot of our communities are working, but not all. Salem's a gateway city, which means that we have a very diverse population, both in income and race and language and culture. I think it makes us more livable, but it also can bring different challenges. And we know there are gateway cities throughout Massachusetts, places that were regional economic hubs that some are doing better than others for our Commonwealth to do well, frankly, we need all of our cities working well, not just Boston and Kendall square and seaport district. I hope as mayor, as someone who's been an innovative leader with executive experience as a city that's nearly 400 years old, we have to not only be mindful of our history, but also be thinking forward thinking in a way that what's the next iteration of our community going to be, who are we going to benefit and how are we going to do that work?
The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery
"He not only gave countless readers to first exposure to non western models of thinking metaphysical concepts and sacred mythologies he also shaped the way subsequent generations of american writers and thinkers approach the vast cultural resources of asia and the middle east. He died on april twenty-seventh eighteen eighty two. And i didn't get into it here because this would pick a whole nother episode but all of these authors that we just talked about knew each other and spend a lot of time together and they all were part of the trump transcendental community and everything that was going on at the time. i just didn't include that in the script. Only because again that would take a whole nother episode to discuss all the happenings. That went along with that but they all were very well acquainted and shared a lot of the same philosophies and stuff so if you haven't ever studied any of their readings or writings you'll find a lot of similarities between them. It's just i. I'm picturing locking on that ridge. Oh yeah i mean. It's you've seen it right you've been there it's phenomenal. I was so thrilled when we got to go and minority side was like was just having a moment that day on our to our next author is harriet. M loath rock. Who published under the name margaret. Sidney harry m stone was born on june twenty second eighteen forty four in new haven connecticut. Although her life spanned more than half of the nineteenth century we know little about her until the eighteen eighties when her five little peppers and how they grew appeared in wide awake at children's magazine and she met and married. It's publisher daniela throw together they. Hawthorne's home. The wayside in concord massachusetts in eighteen eighty three from that time on her boundless energy and sunny disposition was seen in all that she undertook raising her daughter. Margaret who was born at the wayside in eighteen eighty. Four writing for children under the pen. Name margaret sidney founding the national society children of the american revolution in.
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"I do think that this will be a part of our portfolio We hired a principal and she's hired from teachers and today we started off with a five students because again the students have to be referred and there's special Referral the referral process. And where except. We're being innovative. And i told the virtual school staff The other day as they're going to be some bumps along this road. This is a brand new endeavor for us and welcome to the roller coaster. We're gonna get through this together. We're gonna create. We're going to be innovative in and how we do this and we're going to meet the needs of individual students. So i'm thinking about masks to superintendent Statewide mask mandate was issued on the twenty fifth of august for students and staff in massachusetts public schools. You had a letter from a couple of days before leading a families know that you want there to be masks but we also know there had been some open discussion that the state was going to do this. So had you planned ahead of the state to require masks and and if so why was that an important step to take. I had already. I didn't know that the state was going to issue a math mandate Won the state did our when desi did I was already moving in that direction because of our community and in conversation with multiple stakeholders and talking to our families so when i went to my school committee i said here is my recommendation that we universal masking and then the following week. School committee voted to approve the universal masking. And then i think it was a couple of days later. The department desi and the commissioner went ahead and made the mandate so we were. We were just ahead a little bit ahead. It's a conversation that i had been having With multiple stakeholders over the summer..
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"What are you hearing from members about the work that's going into physical spaces to make employees feel safe returning the are hearing that employers are evaluating and thinking about the purpose of the physical work space The layout and design of their office space. And you know their footprint here in massachusetts and in good news and we heard from our members earlier this spring eighty percent of our members express plans to op stay here in massachusetts expand or relocate your massachusetts so they're certainly a strong commitment within the business unity to continue to to thrive and do business here if they are considering plans are relocating or what their footprint looks like. It's not because of a reduction headcount but really thinking more about what that collaborative space can be to bring people together. And i think employers are also realizing that that physical office space really needs to have a purpose for why their employees would come together and the importance of putting quality in human interest. I in the spirit of that in person work environment anything that also is true for how companies have been thinking about their culture and their organization in bringing together their employees remotely in these virtual times as well. Yes oh so. Let's get into a little bit of that sort of social aspect of work you know so. Many companies before the pandemic of put a big focus on office culture. Dri morale team building. Perks as we move into maybe more hybrid type world Schengen how can employees and employers continue to foster that healthy culture in that growth attention at the end of the day particularly on the i focused And and continuing to keep the door open to those conversations especially for black and brown workers. It's going to be important that no matter what the decision is whether it's to have a hybrid approach for everyone to work in the office at work from home That employers are keeping in mind the health and mental health about being of their employees particularly employees of color Where you know. Kovic has really devastated. Our communities All of our communities of course but You know ours in a particular way. And so like i said just keeping those lines of communications open for folks to be able to chat about how they're feeling to offer their thoughts on how to make their workplace more open Open open to them to to feel as if they're Welcome All of that is going to be important as moving forward and lauren. What's next what to businesses and workers need from from state leaders from the government moving into september. What are you looking for from our leadership. I think employers are Certainly paying attention to what state government is doing sharon massachusetts by they're also Thinking about their employees and what their leadership within their operations can look like so that Whether it's in september or six months from now Their employees feel like they are hard. Obey driving community and a safe environment to be working in terms of State government. we were closely with with the Stayed and i think if anything we find that opportunities to focus on workforce development One thing we didn't get talk about the importance of Talent development and making sure that there's opportunity of Retaining talent growing talent and ways that we can partner with the stage to Provide workforce training for both incumbent workers as well as those that are unemployed looking for work Because that's a huge part of the future work as well. Let's lorne jones executive vice president at massachusetts business roundtable lauren. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having and she couldn't eat a president and ceo of the black economic council of massachusetts. Thank you as well. This was great reshape. The opportunity thank you. That's our show for today. Radio boston is produced by critic. Walter wolfman amanda beland and cynthia visa with help from elliot. Debt and stephen gilman marquees..
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"Across industries And what we found was prepaid domestic. Ninety percent of our members were working in operations here in massachusetts in person and that completely shifted during the pandemic certainly But they anticipate that ship to continue post pandemic with seventy nine percent of those same respondents looking to switch to hybrid work model and that is what will be the plan whenever they bring everyone into that new work environment for those who can work remotely I think many of our employers are trying to monitor what is happening on and thinking about what those policies will look like and then at the same time might like joseph mentioned there are some companies that have employees who have to be in the office. Labs in actually touching and working on a on on products or i'm with teams and so with that companies are also being diligent and vigil. End making sure that those who are coming into the office Are able to do so safety. Sap as possible right so. Let me turn that to chagall to a president and ceo of the black economic council of massachusetts You know when we talk about return to work return to the office. We leaving out a whole swath of essential important massachusetts businesses. We heard we heard already from a caller who was been out there this whole time. So what are you hearing from from folks who have been opened this whole time businesses. That weren't able to go remote a year and a half ago. Well well i act apologize for the technical difficulties. Quite ray we've become very used to and to your point about the original caller or the earlier caller. When i think cat for all that she has been doing for the commonwealth as we're talking about The future of work in on the side of a black businesses in particular but businesses on by people of color lot of folks like you said have not been able to close their doors over the last. eighteen months You know most of our many of our businesses. Our main streets businesses restaurants and barber shops and hair salons and It's dry cleaners and a lot of them have relied on the foot. Traffic around the downtown boston area Nubian squared cetera of folks being in the office in so as we're talking about You know folks being able to work from home etcetera At the decreased footprint decrease to for traffic in these areas is going to have a negative a huge negative impact on our businesses. I think of business into the in square Who i. I won't call out but i know that her restaurant or food businesses located right in the bowling building in so that business has relied on the one thousand plus folks who work and move through that building working for eps And because very few people have been coming into the building those catering opportunities The luncheon Breakfast opportunities accelerator. The folks in the building have dramatically decreased in so now The scramble is on to try to that only new contracts but to stay open in general so certainly our businesses who have been opened. This whole timer are thinking about how to survive if we move toward folks most folks working from home right one eight hundred four two three eight.
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"Having also with us is kim dawkins president of pathways for change a rape and sexual assault crisis center that services dozens of communities in central massachusetts kim. It's good to have you as well. Hello jamie it's great to be on thank you. Both for joining us representative higgins. I do want to start with you just so that we're all on the same page here briefly. What do we mean when we say rape test kits so they are sexual assault. Evidence kit sped are collected Usually between three days after an assault In a hospital and there are the evidence that documents The trauma perpetrated upon survivors spotty so the legislature beckon twenty one thousand nine passes a bill that includes funding for testing backlogged kits here in massachusetts but at the beginning of this year you file the bill to test some sixty three hundred kits that were excluded from testing under that original bill. Why weren't these kids ever tested would happen. So we're still trying to get answers at the out how we got here and I did not do this alone. Really singled to have a partner in minority leader. Brad jones Working on this issue and we kind of agreed. We didn't care how we got but we needed to move forward and we had these sixty three hundred kits that were tested or fully tested were dna tested and we wanted to make sure that we removed any loopholes or any language that the crime lab was pointing to that said that they could not test. The kids So that's yeah so. This year's bill What is the state doing to comply. So we were -quired the crime lab to to take an accounting of the kits There are a number of kits that they Continue to claim cannot be tested. There are at least one category where that is the case that the dna evidence kid is so small that it would be exhausted There's a separate process that needs to go through. The frustrating part is we haven't been able to get an accounting of how many kits fit that profile and need to be put aside They've had eight million dollars. They've spent we believe about four million of it and they've had two additional years and having come up with a plan to test the kids that can legally be tested. And that's what we're really asking for and so we put stricter timelines more Accountability quarterly reports to make sure That these kids are being tested that there's a plan and we know it may take a few years because there are sixty three hundred kits but we need a plan and survivors and their Deserve to know how the how this backlog point to the address so do to note that we have put in a request for comment to the state police crime lab. We've not yet received a response. I guess i'm just wondering what your hearing in terms of. Why not just do this. I don't think that we've heard a real compelling other than that we can't and we've we've said were the legislature will write the legislation. We'll give you the money. We'll give you the resources that we want to asleep..
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"The hardest hits by civil forfeiture tend to be people who can least afford it and as far as a breakdown by race. Law enforcement in massachusetts doesn't track that information in records so that's a difficult one to quantify. But we're working on figuring out how to do just that and shannon. No this is in your reporting but for someone whose property is taken by this method. What's the typical way that law enforcement reaches out potentially to get it back to understand the question. Yeah sure. I do so by law. Da's have to try to notify somebody that they intend to keep their property or their money in their two ways that a district attorney can can can do that in massachusetts. One is by sending a certified letter to the last known address for someone. And so you know logically. One would think that if there's an address on a arrest report for instance or in the dmv that that's the address the district attorney would try to send a certified letter to We found that because of some of the delays that we talked about You know waiting decades to file these notices A lot of people aren't the same address in it can be really difficult to to track them down so the other way. If there isn't a known address for someone the other way that a district attorney legally you can Try to notify. Somebody is by lifting a classified ad in a local newspaper. So very twenty one. Yes yes in our story. One of the gentlemen. We speak with You know he actually. His charges have been dismissed for years. Prior to the district attorney in worcester filing a forfeiture case officially trying to keep his money And the way that he was supposed to have been notified was by an ad in the worcester telegram and gazette in which his name appeared along with hundreds of other people who had money in the custody of the da. In its in minute font And you know. He told us learn..
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"It doesn't happen that often but Over the years it does happen. It's usually just curiosity. The sharks are curious about the camera being in the water and a couple of times. We've even lost cameras to shocks that. Were especially serious. Is that because they use their mouths to to see the world is that is that why. Yeah it's exactly the you know. They don't have hands and they use their mouths like you said they have to go up in test. What what they're looking at and unfortunately sometimes they take a camera or two or more. We'll get to the second but okay so you know. I can't believe we're already mid august. Where are we in shark season in massachusetts and is that even a thing. We're as much as people associate the sharks with summer and summer is winding down. We're actually just getting into the upswing. In shock activity in massachusetts the peak will be the end of september into october. And why is that is it. Is it a water temperature thing. Is it a food supply. What why why's the. It's a combination of all all of that. You know a lot of people think that you know the sharks prefer Cold warmer water. But you know some preferred cooler water. We got all the seals. The shocks just migrating through the area like they have for for years and We've noticed since we've been tagging the Ba shock season edgy. Called it really starts to pick up. Even though shocks there's ben shocks since the spring The the numbers start to increase as regret into august and through september into october. And then as temperatures drop you know the sharks migrate back south. So i guess we're shark every week shark week but You know thinking of the shark titi app and i. I love that app. I bring it up on my phone. Just check to see where the latest sightings are. It's from the Like i said the atlantic white shark conservancy and and so they have a number of things there. And i'm wondering do sharks do the sort of increase shark sightings that we're seeing. Does that mean that there are more sharks or just that we're seeing more of them from the coast Combination of both again There's definitely been an increase in shock numbers since they've been protected since nineteen ninety seven but the and i just recently It's this question from another person. Asking about how come there were so many shock things last week on a specific day the week was quiet and then all of a sudden you know there was a bunch of pains that a whole bunch of shock show up and that is actually an artifact of people being on the water looking so days that the research team or the eco-tourism boats or the spot pilots route..
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"Do criticizing our our existing republican governor. And not just criticizing but also achieving those results achieving those winds on police reform on vaccine equity on criminal justice reform that translate into real results films lives so in our remaining time. You know i. I'm listening to listening to the agenda. I'm thinking about the moment. This is a staggeringly complex moment to lead a state Between one hundred year pandemic our reckoning was systemic racism income inequality the issues that you laid out what comes first in terms of issue tackle. However you want to answer that. Well i think that the imperative before us and also the good news is that we can't. We should not limit ourselves to choosing one issue to work on at a time. One because we're better than that in massachusetts we we can walk and chew gum in massachusetts at the same time. We have a ton of talent here in the commonwealth theon. We you know medical talent. Technological talent education talent Creativity and had a lot of resources. We've gotten ourselves into the of scarcity mindset but in fact we are the very wealthy state and so we have the building blocks that we need to Confront these issues head on and again you know not nibble around the edges and not put our head in the sand and you know sort of hide from these problems and then i said good news right. Is that when we tackle one. We are often tackling another at the same time right when we tackle our transportation infrastructure and we get ambitious about building twenty-first-century infrastructure. We are also tackling in an aggressive way climate. Change right which we do. We need to be aggressive. It's an existential threat to our our planet and certainly to our state and so we can but we can't feed two birds with one hand. They're same thing again with education equity in education justice when we get that right. We're taking huge bites out of income inequality out of housing instability out of racial racial inequality in racial injustice in our state..
Radio Boston
"massachusetts" Discussed on Radio Boston
"Well to see a always hard to choose one or two because the issues are so intertwined but you know just to to again approach it from the experience of your typical working family here in massachusetts Housing costs are going up and up. healthcare costs are going up and up. People are sitting a long time in traffic. And that's time that folks would much rather be at home taking care of their Aging parents helping their kids with their homework being civically active in their communities. And so those are the those issues that are going to be a first and foremost on my priority list and these are issues where again. I'm interested in tackling them at their roots. It's been too long. That beacon hill has been saying to families That we should have just nibbling around the edges is enough or the people should need to wait another year or another term for really profound change on these issues so you ask for a specific example And i'll i'll go. I'll go to economic development and economic opportunity and justice right our our wealth gap and particularly racial loss. Gap in massachusetts is one of the largest in the nation and we have folks who have been working and working their butts off. If i can say that on the radio for year network hub and not seeing race relative to inflation. Right does a huge problem for our commonwealth things. We can do to address that one. Is you know as much education isn't an issue that i'm known for him beacon hill. It is not a silver bullet but is the single biggest lever. We have from public policy standpoint. for tackling both economic inequality and injustice and economic opportunity. Right building opportunity because if we can equip young people with that strong nation in life. day they're going to be able to do the rest of the work right. They're gonna go far and we also know that. A prepared workforce is one of the things that has hamstringing our industries in our employers in massachusetts is one of the most common frustrations that i hear from employers. Is the selling me for interrupting years. Just there's so much i want to get to. What is a specific for example policy idea on an educated workforce that you're thinking about so i'll give you to write about one is that we need to follow through with discipline and with vigor. Our implementation of student opportunity act which is something that i fought for and succeeded getting into law a five year battle right to get it into line passed in twenty nineteen. But that's a seven year in process and we have to do it with discipline less. We not hit that goal. The second something that So many folks really came face-to-face with during the pandemic which is the need for universal high-quality frisk preschool access in our state right. Our childcare.
The Political History of the United States
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Political History of the United States
"Reluctantly connecticut accepted and was entered into the growing dominion. The charter was allowed to survive. Though for the time autonomous ruling connecticut. I come to a close. None of the colonies in new england served as more of a warning against the growing risk of royal control than to new hampshire new hampshire drain. The eighties was still a very small colony with a little over. Two thousand colonists. However the events of the late sixteen seventies and early sixties in new hampshire would have a dramatic impact on the entirety of the england. Going back. A bit new hampshire had been embroiled in a controversy regarding a royal rule for a few years before the emergence of the dominion. the problem. was that roger mason. The descendant of the colonies original proprietor had spent much of the sixteenth seventy s fighting to increases holdings. This included an amount of land that had become disputed between new hampshire massachusetts through a court battle. The king decided that mason had an absolute right to sell the land which he owned. The problem is that will he controlled the land. The king ruled that he did not give him the right to control the government over seeing that land in sixteen. Seventy nine charles. The second made new hampshire a royal colony and said edward cranfield over as the governor. This was a disaster for massachusetts by the time that cranfield was in the colony massachusetts expansion. Meant that the colonies had made their way into mason's territory. Massachusetts was not interested in the land itself but felt they had a right to enforce the governance over the colonists in the region the kings ruling however was that mason control the land but hill no rights over the government which meant that masons territory were massachusetts colonists. Had settled was now directly under royal rule with cranfield at its head. No cranfield was not a popular figure anywhere in new england. During his time in new hampshire he clashed with just about everybody there over. pretty much. Everything the new hampshire colonists hated him so much that at one point they ended up violently revolting. Cranfield survived the revolt and sent the ringleader edward g-o-v to england for execution. Before you go and spend too much time. Worrying about mr gov. It should be noted that he will survive this entire ordeal. He will be pardoned and he will eventually returned to new hampshire. Ask for cranfield. He is going to rule new hampshire with an iron fist. The navigation x. Were going to be applied to their fullest extent with absolutely no wiggle room allowed. Liberty of conscience was also not going to be a thing in new hampshire. Cranfield recognized that the anglican church was the official church and he determined. That is what people would practice under his watch.
The Young Jurks
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Young Jurks
"One of our past guests who we love City councilor at large boston. City councilor at large julia. He posted a comment and she posted her name. And i'm wondering what that means the. Let's just go to the you know. Boston mayor's race because this is the i'm circling it like with my cursor. People probably can't see that. But i wanna know if julius running because everyone else is running and and i love some of the campaigns and i know you do Julia i just love what she's been doing lately and i love her always on our show. What what are your comments on. This mayor's race. Kelly walsh boston mayor. Marty walsh just recently announced. He's he's going to be taking a position with the joe biden's library labor as as his labor secretary. What do you think how so I definitely don't think that marty walsh the best option for labor secretary so i apologize to the rest of the country when i say i'm thrilled for boston And for what this means for the mayor's race. I think he was really hard. Pointed unique and the fact that Deceit is now open. I think we still need to really Appreciate how michelle wu and andrea campo jumped in before this was in open field before they were going up against someone who had millions of dollars in his campaign account because that was really Counselor makiya just left accommodate. Yeah i do think people assume that massachusetts is a highly educated but they didn't do enough education on voter education to the places that needed it But yeah i think that The fact that michelle went andrea campbell jumped in before this was an open feel really shows how committed they are actually making change In boston whether it's desperate there it's not just for their own political gain In i guess. I'm supporting michelle. Wu think she's the only candidate who has proposed plan so far that boston really needs on lakers white green deal on fairfield public transit of be Really big structural change like elizabeth warren size who endorsed through today are on angrily looking forward to seeing more comprehensive plans to defend the police zoning reform on a lot of issues that needs to be addressed and I'm looking to senior else jumps in. I think it's likely going to be a crowded fields And i just that every campaigning. No centers people in boston. Listens to their voices And keeps on developing on developing more policy..
The Young Jurks
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Young Jurks
"So i don't necessarily think you know starting A new party all in its own right now is the best solution to that and i think we need to take away power from the republican party which has lost all legitimacy and also create more viable opposition from the left. I'm does a lot of good work by running candidates in democratic primaries and really creating on institutional opposition from the last But yeah. I think the two party system isn't working for anyone. That's part of the reason why i really supported the right choice. Voting initiative in massachusetts which. I'm really sad. But i think that we need to create pathways for candidates who don't feel represented by either party to still be able to run and win and serve in office and we have an comment agreeing with you. It's exactly who america is in has been which that's when i when i look at What i see the videos. I'd say that's america. That is a that is a reflection of of who we are and we've been seeing it. In a local town facebook groups. We've been seeing it at local protests. We've been documenting been interviewing folks who are experts on this stuff locally. Who told us it was happening. And they predicted that it would get worse and guess what they were all right so With a young jerks. I'm sorry cala. Do some say on that. I agree. I think some of the pictures like you were talking about. The ones that stood out to me the most were people. You know waving confederate flags You know throwing stuff around Attacking each other on an behind them on the walls of the capitol where pictures of bearing similar means of you know. American soldiers attacking native americans or Fighting fighting in different wars and it really just shows you how this violence whites premise White supremacist violence is a very very common pattern. In american history. And it's really interesting to see those images juxtaposed get more comments another question to Asking hillary diane who has done some great work. she actually helped Pass a hemp bill for local hemp farmers. The state house. Recently she asked Rank choice voting. What do you think about that. I was a big supporter of the right choice building campaign..
The Young Jurks
"massachusetts" Discussed on The Young Jurks
"Welcome we're live by crawford young jerks promise you a another special show tonight. It is a special show. We have a guest waiting patiently. We're already talking. I can't wait to get her on. I'm going to get around right now. I don't even wanna wait. We're gonna talk a lot about two massachusetts politics. There's things happen on the mayoral race. Isaiah race we. I mean it's a race now. I it was already a race now. It's a real race because we don't even know who's running. There's so many people that may may not be running. We're gonna find out tonight What cala walsh. Thanks here. she is kelly walsh. Welcome to the show. Hi thanks for having me on. I'm really excited to the ear. I think i hit the. I got so excited. Hit the button early. I meaning to give you like a big introduction. Sorry i don't need a big run. Will you know what can do it for us. Because i think you're you're you're you would do a better than i will. Of course i'm so my name is cala. She her pronounced and sixteen. I live in cambridge. And i have been active in massachusetts politics on for two years. Now i guess And most of my involvement has been working on campaigns You know advocating for candidates. Like ed deal with warren jordan on also doing more issue focus work like with the climate strike and organizing with act on mass for more transparency in the state house. So yeah. I've been following all the races and all you know the drama Developed in the past few weeks on. And i'm really excited to be here talk more. I can't wait 'cause like i was thinking just the last couple of days like who dawn on me because how much i re tweet your stuff like i was just like who do i reach more than cal right now and i was like schilling title. And you are like the top two if its cannabis shalini. I'm always re tweeting. Almost everything she posts and the same with you on the mass paula. What do we say. mass police. Mass all napoli. Napoli thank you but with an m mapelli so the mapelli hashtag map alie. It's it's always you. So i'm always re tweeting and i was like mad. Gotta get are on the show because you provide so much information. I started off. I don't know if you wanna talk about him right now. Even kick it off. Allan tino how we say. His last name capobianco. Yep you got it right. i did. He had some interesting tweets. I think we should talk about him. Tonight i wanna talk about the mayor's race. I wanna talk about the governor's race but i think to open out. We should definitely talk about the topic of the day in america. The topic of the day in the whole world probably at this point is what just happened in washington. Dc in the coup. And how you've been posting videos and stories what do you what's your takeaway. What do you wanna say about all of that. Yeah i mean. I think we're so many different take weights and things to think about. I definitely say like these. I'm really grateful to meet represented by someone like me..