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In the Boston Globe: Two MIT grads put climate on the ballot in two Boston suburbs

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By Laur Hesse Fisher
Posted Oct 30, 2018
 
Two recent MIT graduates -- Daniel Mascoop and Max Dunitz -- secured hundreds of signatures to put climate change on the ballot in two Boston suburbs.
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Two MIT grads are goading Bob DeLeo with ballot measures in his district

By Joshua Miller, GLOBE STAFF // OCTOBER 26, 2018
 
WINTHROP — Robert A. DeLeo may be Mr. Speaker on Beacon Hill. But here in this pretty seaside town, he’s just “Bobby,” the affable, cigar-chomping state representative since 1991.
 
He doesn’t have an opponent this year — he rarely does — and yet the powerful leader could face an embarrassing rebuke on Nov. 6.
 
Two recent MIT graduates who have never lived in the district but are concerned about what they see as DeLeo’s thwarting of major climate change legislation, gathered signatures from hundreds of his constituents to put some pointed nonbinding measures before residents of Winthrop and the part of Revere he represents.

 

Read the full article on the Boston Globe.

 

Stock image by Steve Rhodes

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Among so many important

Curt Newton1 year ago

Among so many important results in yesterday's election, these voters delivered to MA Speaker DeLeo what the Boston Globe calls a "rebuke

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of sorts". They overwhelmingly approved both resolutions that took pointed aim at DeLeo's leadership.

I hear in this vote the ringing echoes of this fall's primary upset of Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez, part of DeLeo's house leadership and the Ways and Means chair, by new progressive champion Nika Elugardo.

The climate change resolution specifically states that their representative “be instructed to vote in favor of the Global Warming Solutions Implementation Act [GWSA] which would require the state to create a clean energy roadmap for meeting 2050 emissions limits.” [Read more about the GWSA here.]  As the MA House blocked progress on GWSA last session, in spite of unanimous Senate support, it'll be quite interesting to see how the next session's climate legislation unfolds.

 

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I love this.

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