The Globe's Brian Mooney reports that while Baker is calling on Cahill to fully disclose all his donations, Cahill's donations are more fully disclosed than Baker's own. Conor Yunits points out in his Sunday shorts that Baker has way more donors to disclose, though.
In the meantime, Cahill is still trying to brand himself as the anti-healthcare reform candidate, to get everyone's mind off the donors thing. Conor Yunits reports that Cahill has issued a press release warning Mass voters to beware of Baker's latest plans (lobbying the Legislature to allow municipalities to form their own healthcare plans). Cahill calls Baker's experience (with the Big Dig) into question about why Baker's plans are bad, which is nothing but an ad hominem attack, really. He doesn't mention why the municipal care plan is bad, other than it comes from Big Dig Baker. The press release is also vague about Cahill's solution.
The Herald's Christine McConnville also reports on Cahill's anti-affordable care law stance. Cahill claims that he's been telling us that Romneycare is bad for Massachusetts and Obamacare is bad for America. McConnville also reports on criticism of Cahill's claims.
The Metro-West Daily News's Krista Perry reports on a meeting of Mendon Republicans, including gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, yesterday.
The AP's Glen Johnson reports on Romney's tricky dance with healthcare reform. "Mitt Romney has a problem with Obamacare. It looks a lot like Romneycare."
Universal Hub's Harry Mattison links to full video of a debate between the candidates running for the Middlesex, Suffolk, Essex Senate seat (the Galluccio seat).
The AP reports that labor groups and Victoria Kennedy are marching on Beacon Hill in support of a bill that would guarantee sick days to workers.
The AP reports that Massachusetts will hand out almost half a million dollars to protect open space in the state. The Worcester Telegram's Linda Bock has more.
The Globe's Yvonne Abraham has some advice for new MBTA Chief Richard Davey.
The Globe's Peter Schworm reports that many "high hazard" dams in the Bay State are uninspected. He notes that the Department of Conservation and Recreation has a limited budget and the public doesn't actually care until it starts raining. Only then do we wonder why the dams are uninspected.
The Herald's Christine McConnville reports that MassHealth was swindled out of $300K by a pharmacist.
MassElections2010 reports that Rep. Eugene O'Flaherty (D-Suffolk 2) is blocking CORI reform on Beacon Hill.
We're getting information regarding last-minute donations in the Senate race that ended with Mr. Brown going to Washington. The Globe's Matt Carroll and Steve Rosenberg report that, in addition to the widely reported out-of-state donations Scott Brown received, he did receive alot of donations from within Massachusetts in the final days, as well. And the Globe's Casey Ross notes that Martha Coakley received donations from the chief executive of Caritas, and she's now in the middle of reviewing a proposed acquisition of Caritas by a New York buyout firm. And the Metro-West Daily News's David Riley notes that Coakley lost despite earning more in-state donations than Brown.
The Herald's Peter Gelzinis expected more from Senator Brown than picking fights with liberal cable news pundits who happen to be constituents. Instead of simply apologizing to Maddow for using her name, Brown's spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom is claiming that Maddow's ad was "written by the DNC", reports the Herald's Hillary Chabot. And then Fehrnstrom insults Maddow with a nice (if unnecessary) burn by saying, "I think Rachel Maddow would be an interesting candidate. The problem she would have is that winning requires more votes than she has viewers." The Globe's Stephanie Ebbert argues that Maddow's response doesn't matter and the facts don't matter to Brown's campaign, because the rumor is enough to get Brown cash money.
The Herald's David Wedge reports that our senior Senator John Kerry has pledged to work with Senator Brown, and has blasted voter anger and violence while stumping in support of the affordable care law in Boston yesterday.
Universal Hub's Adam Gaffin posts pictures from a march against library closures at Copley. Gaffin notes another march is planned at City Hall for this Thursday.
The Globe's Joanna Weiss reports on the Greater Boston Tea Party movement.
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