Setti Warren: ‘Being the mayor is my first priority’
In an interview with the TAB’s Laura Lovett, Mayor Setti Warren emphasized his focus would remain on Newton as he begins his quest for governor.
Setti Warren Announces his run with a Dream
At the launch of Setti Warren’s campaign for governor. #TeamSetti #mapoli pic.twitter.com/50osvM9sCx — Tracey Leger-Hornby (@tlegerhornby) May 20, 2017 I always joke that there are two great seasons in Massachusetts, the month of October, with its crisp...Surprise! Setti Warren is running for governor!
Update: Here’s the Boston Globe story. Here’s Mayor Warren’s commentary in this week’s TAB. ...
Is Setti Warren officially announcing run for governor this weekend?
Mayor Setti Warren is hosting a family block party Saturday outside his home on Beaumont Avenue. On his Facebook page, he wrote that he’ll be announcing “his own next steps” in his work “towards a brighter future for the Commonwealth.” ...
Warren: I’d open Newton City Hall to immigrants too
Newton Mayor Setti Warren told Boston Herald radio yesterday that he would follow Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s lead and open Newton City Hall as a safe haven for illegal immigrants if President Trump steps up deportations.
“If in fact there are draconian measures taken by the federal government and people feel unsafe and they need places to go, of
Setti Warren: “Jeff Sessions doesn’t decide what happens in Newton”
Gubernatorial candidate, I mean Mayor, Setti Warren released the following statement in response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ threat to strip some sanctuary cities of Justice Department grants: “With all due respect to the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions... Warren inches his way toward run for governor
Mayor Setti Warren plans to officially change the wording on campaign documents that the office he is seeking is governor, according to Frank Phillips in the Boston Globe. Warren is still saying that he hasn’t made up his mind, but this move allows him to raise...VIDEO: Setti Warren’s case against one of the most popular governors in US
Setti Warren outlined his case against Charlie Baker on WGBH’s Greater Boston recently. Do you think our mayor’s arguments stand a chance against one of the nation’s most popular governors?Go to Read More to watch
Should Creem, Balser, Khan and Lawn override Baker’s pay cut veto?
On Friday Gov. Charlie Baker vetoed a pay raise package for legislative leaders, judges and others but considering that the Senate approved the raises 31-9, and the House supported it 116-44, the votes clearly exist to override the governor’s veto.
Should they?
In particular do you support our local delegation — Reps. Ruth Balser, Kay Khan and John Lawn, or state senator Cindy Creem — voting to override the veto?
Or do you think Setti Warren was right when he
Mayor picks up endorsements for Gov.
Mayor Warren apparently picked up a couple of endorsements today, before officially announcing his candidacy.
This came across in the MASSter List this morning:
Setti’s coup
Newton Mayor Setti Warren has landed major endorsements from three former state Democratic Party leaders, suddenly making his yet-to-be-announced gubernatorial candidacy a very legitimate, and non-laughable, matter. According to Kevin Franck, Warren’s recently hired communications advisor,
Globe: Joe Kennedy and Setti Warren have been ‘less openly critical of Trump’ than other Mass Dems
An article in today’s Globe observes that many “Massachusetts Democrats who are widely considered the party’s rising stars” have been openly critical of Donald Trump.
And then writer Jim O’Sullivan adds this observation…
