Show threaddeckchairs kittyAug 17, 2020
«The executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, as the scandal around congressional candidate Alex Morse began to implode, told student leaders to delete records of communications between themselves and the state party, according to five sources with knowledge of the matter.

The executive director, Veronica Martinez, had personally coordinated with College Democrats ahead of the release of allegations of sexual impropriety against the Holyoke mayor.»

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oh god I am EATING this up, it's an absolutely fucking PERFECT example of Clinton-Biden style establishment Democrat corruption, and 1000% on-brand for Massachusetts politics 😂

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Show threaddeckchairs kittyAug 17, 2020
Articles by The Intercept detail possible plot by College Democrats to derail progressive's congressional campaign

In the latest of several jolting investigative reports, The Intercept detailed communications between College Democrats and top leaders of the state [Democratic] party, who, according to the report, helped the college students get in touch with a prominent lawyer, Jim Roosevelt, who is connected to the state party...

On Tuesday, The Intercept first published a report revealing a possible plot by a key leader of the UMass Democrats to derail Morse’s congressional campaign. The details of the story centered on the group’s chief strategist, Timothy Ennis, and recountings by former UMass Democrats that Ennis had personal political ambitions to land an internship with Morse’s opponent, Congressman Richard Neal.

In an interview with WAMC, Morse said he believed Neal, his opponent in the race for Massachusetts 1st District, was possibly involved with the letter’s release.

“Any implications that I or anyone from my campaign are involved are flat wrong and an attempt to distract from the issue at hand,” Neal said in a statement Thursday...

“We’ve had the best fundraising week of the entire campaign, since Friday. [Wednesday] alone, we raised $130,000 from over 3,000 individual contributions. In one day,” Morse said in the interview with the Berkshire Eagle. “Our previous high day was $27,000.”

https://dailycollegian.com/2020/08/articles-by-the-intercept-detail-possible-plot-by-college-democrats-to-derail-morse-campaign/

#Massachusetts #MApol #AlexMorse #RichardNeal #RichieNeal #UMassAmherst #UMass #Democrats #MAdems
deckchairs kittyAug 17, 2020
As the primary in Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District turned into a national story following allegations of misconduct against Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse ... behind the scenes, the state [Democratic] party had been coordinating with the College Democrats of Massachusetts to launch those very allegations...

[T]he Massachusetts Democratic Party’s executive director Veronica Martinez and chair Gus Bickford connected the students with attorneys: among them was the powerful state party figure and attorney Jim Roosevelt, who worked with the college group on a letter alleging Morse behaved inappropriately...

On Thursday, the College Democrats posted a statement that apologized to Morse, adding, “We wrote the letter to Alex Morse’s campaign on the advice of legal counsel,” but did not specify who that counsel was.

The grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt, attorney Jim Roosevelt is a major power broker within the state and national Democratic parties ... [with] a history of tangling with the Bernie Sanders-aligned wing of the party.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/14/alex-morse-richie-neal-state-party/

#MApol #AlexMorse #UMass #UMassAmherst #Democrats