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Katie Lannan State House News Service Woburn City Clerk William Campbell is one of six finalists being considered for the job as new director of the states Office of Campaign and Political Finance. The panel charged with hiring the new OCPF director is eyeing a mid-February timeframe to interview its finalists, who will face initial questions about their management styles, the agencys nonpartisan nature and their responses to past professional challenges. The search committee -- Secretary of ...

Petition Seeks to Have MassGOP Censure Baker [OPINION] Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is facing a possible censure by his party for supporting the recent impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump. United Cape Patriots founder and Brewster Town Republican Committee Vice-Chair Adam Lange is promoting an online petition asking the Massachusetts Republican Party to vote to censure Baker when it meets next Wednesday. Lange said Baker declared his support for the second Trump impeachment ...

Jennifer Horn is done with Trump and the Republican Party. "Unfortunately, I no longer consider it my party, after watching how they conducted themselves post-election," she says. Horn is the former chair of the New Hampshire GOP and a co-founder of the Lincoln Project — a group of former Republican operatives who produced some of the toughest anti-Trump campaign ads of the election. When most Congressional Republicans refused to condemn Trumps unfounded claims of election fraud, Horn quit th...

It’s gut-check time for Republicans. That means you, Governor Baker The Massachusetts GOP needs moderation if it’s going to survive in a mostly blue state. And it has to come from the top. By The Editorial BoardUpdated January 19, 2021, 11:07 a.m. Email to a Friend For the sake of his own integrity and the future of a moribund party, Governor Charlie Baker needs to make one last attempt to take control of the state GOP or split from it officially over irreconcilable differences.Nicol...

The fight for the heart of the Massachusetts GOP is in full swing on Cape Cod. On Jan. 2, Cape and Islands Republican Committee members gathered in a parking lot at Patriot Square in South Dennis and voted to elect Will Crocker as the district’s new state Republican committeeman. Crocker ran to fill a vacancy left by Francis Manzelli, who died on Nov. 19. He defeated opponent Adam Lange, the founder of United Cape Patriots who is known to ride around in a military-style truck adorned wit...

Massachusetts Republican Party leader Jim Lyons narrowly held on to his chairmanship on Sunday after a disappointing cycle for state Republicans, fending off a challenge from state Rep. Shawn Dooley and positioning himself to lead the party into the next gubernatorial election. Lyons, a former state representative from Andover, defeated Dooley 39 to 36 to win a second two-year term. Seventy-five of the 80 Republican State Committee members voted during a socially distanced, drive-in election in...

Oil companies stock up on drilling permits, challenging Biden on climate Matthew Brown and Cathy Busswewitz Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years and undercut President-elect Joe Bidens plans to curb new drilling because of climate change, according to public records and industry analysts. An Associated Press analysis of government data sh...

With so many people unemployed, the time is not right to accept a legislative pay raise, said Rep. Chris Hendricks.

Four of the six statewide elected officials on Beacon Hill have rejected bumps in their salary this year, despite being entitled to increases worth as much as...

Recap and analysis of the week in state government