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Today on Beacon Hill

9:00am Joint Committee on Municipalities & Regional Government, Public Hearing

10:00am Department of Public Health Hearing, Via conference call

11:00am Senate Session, Full Formal Session

11:00am House Session, Informal Session

Must-Reads

Mass. lawmakers agree to make vote-by-mail permanent, balk at same-day registration » Boston Globe

Attacks on LGBTQ people ‘one of the great, sad stories of our time,’ says Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano » MassLive

Supreme Court decision could unravel key plank of vaunted Mass. gun safety law » Boston Globe

Diehl, short on campaign cash, opts for public financing; only gubernatorial candidate to do so » Boston Globe

Opioid overdose deaths reach new high in Massachusetts in 2021 » WGBH

Boston City Council proposes $13M cut from police department to fund other initiatives » Boston Herald

Boston BDS map of Jewish groups has ‘potential to incite violence,’ Auchincloss says » Jewish Insider

NY: NYC Mayor Adams testifies before Congress to push for new gun restrictions to stem mass shootings: ‘It’s high noon in America’ » New York Daily News

NY: Hochul Hints Congestion Pricing on a Slower Drive to Finish Line » The City

FL: DeSantis vetoes Everglades bill that advocates said would harm water quality » Tampa Bay Times

SC: Nikki Haley battles Trump in House primary turf war » Politico

FL: Florida still has the most people facing January 6 insurrection charges. It’s not even close. » Herald Tribune

Opinion: The Jan. 6 Committee Has Already Blown It » New York Times

How the House Landscape Changed » Sabato's Crystal Ball

Bernie to Dems: Change course before you nosedive in November » Politico

Danielle Allen returns as a Washington Post Opinions contributing columnist » Washington Post

Brookings Institution Puts President on Leave Amid Lobbying Inquiry » New York Times

Facebook Algorithm May Have Aided GOP Over Democratic Party Groups: Research » HUFFPOST

CA: The Chesa Boudin Recall Was a Fight to Protect the Status Quo » The Appeal

Less Love for Legislators - MA Democratic Party Convention 2022

This past weekend on June 3-4, the Massachusetts Democratic Party held a convention in Worcester in order to help establish the party’s endorsements for the 2022 state election. In each election, approximately 4,000 votes were cast by delegates, and the results were interesting, to say the least. While there are a number of trends worth noting from the results, one of the most notable is that no current legislators received a majority percentage of delegate votes. In our analysis of each race, we detail why this was the case and how legislative data may lead to a different result in the actual party primary. Click to see more: https://blog.instatrac.com/blog/less-love-for-legislators-ma-democratic-party-convention-2022

“You take a look around to some of the other states: The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ movement in Florida, whatever that really is. I never understood it,” Mariano said. “I guess they’re going to eliminate the word from the English language.”
House Speaker Ronald Mariano
Lawmakers gathered outside the State House Wednesday to raise a rainbow flag in honor of Pride Month, Mariano excoriated discriminatory laws passed elsewhere across the country, including in Texas and Florida, attacking members of the LGBTQ community.