STATEHOUSE ROUNDUP: Riding shotgun
Recap and analysis of the week in state government
Kids, grandkids, neighbors. Strangers online. Suddenly everyone this week was craving a little quality time with the older and wiser among us, looking to get out of the house and go for a drive . maybe to Gillette Stadium, or the Eastfield Mall.
The sudden popularity of the so-called Silent Generation had to do with Gov. Charlie Baker s new policy on vaccinating the 75-and-older cohort. Beginning Thursday, Baker said that anyone who accompanied an eligible senior citizen to a state-run vaccination site could get the shot as well, regardless of their age or health.
normally-reputable Boston Globe, a Massachusetts climate official made some controversial statements recently, and in response a group of Republican lawmakers asked the Republican governor to cancel (“immediately dismiss”) the official.
Now what sin did this official supposedly commit that has a handful of state reps abandoning their conservative allegiance to free speech? Well according to
a forty-second snippet of a meeting with Vermont officials, posted by a conservative dark-money group with a local reputation for deception Massachusetts state Undersecretary for Climate Change David Ismay said that when it comes to climate action these days, “we have to break your will.”
Group of state reps call for firing of Mass. Climate Change Undersecretary David Ismay after he was caught saying state needs to ‘break’ the will of consumers
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
A group of Massachusetts lawmakers are calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to fire his undersecretary for climate change over a video that surfaced last week in which he says the state needs to “break” the will of consumers “so they stop emitting.”
In light of what eight state representatives described as “insensitive and offensive remarks” made by Undersecretary for Climate Change David Ismay last month, the lawmakers sent a letter Monday evening to Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito demanding the environmental official be immediately dismissed from his position within the administration.