Memo to Maura:
Choose up the telephone. Name the White Home.
As an alternative of continually complaining about cuts of billions in federal assist and help to the state, do one thing about it.
Name and arrange an appointment to fulfill with President Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace to debate the cuts and make the case for Massachusetts. That’s your job.
You are able to do it. He meets with everyone, from Child Rock and Kim Kardashian to Nayib Bukele and Cyril Ramaphosa, the presidents of El Salvador and South Africa. He meets with governors.
He even met unofficially with a bunch of Boston Purple Sox gamers per week in the past, on the town to play the Washington Nationals, who had been touring the White Home. Trump shook fingers with all of them within the Oval Workplace. Healey might have snuck in with them.
What’s fascinating in regards to the rogue go to is that the group is owned by fiercely anti-Trump John Henry, who additionally owns the fiercely anti-Trump Boston Globe, which is run by his fiercely anti-Trump spouse, Linda Pizzuti.
The Purple Sox supervisor is fiercely anti-Trump, Alex Cora, who in 2019 boycotted the group’s official go to to the White Home to greet Trump after they gained the World Sequence.
Whereas the Globe did a short, three-paragraph story on the go to, it didn’t point out the names of the ten gamers who had been greeted by Trump.
Trump’s heat greeting simply could have impressed the Sox to comb the Nationals of their three-game collection, despite the fact that it was rumored (by me) that Trump could have signed an government order forcing the last-place Nationals to fold to the second-to-last-place Purple Sox.
But when a bunch of ballplayers can get to see the president, why can’t the governor of Massachusetts?
The reply is that she will. However she should take some time, simply as anti-Trump Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan did.
Whitmer was in a position to stifle her anti-Trump views lengthy sufficient to get Trump to green-light a brand new Air Nationwide Guard fighter mission at a Michigan air base that saved 600 jobs and offered an $850 million enhance to the Michigan financial system.
She even greeted and accompanied Trump to Selfridge Air Base, the place the announcement was made. In reply to backlash from fellow progressives, she stated there have been instances that “you’re reminded that your job is to place service above self, and that’s what it was all about.”
Healey must do the identical by placing service to Massachusetts above service to her politically progressive self.
The Massachusetts equal to Whitmer could be for Healey, after an Oval Workplace assembly, to greet Trump on the Sagamore Bridge on Cape Cod, the place Trump would announce a grant of a few billion in federal funds to switch the functionally out of date Sagamore and Bourne Bridges.
Healey, like progressive Whitmer, has been a longtime Trump critic, solely worse. In contrast to Whitmer, Healey sued Trump some 100 instances in 4 years throughout Trump’s first time period when she was legal professional basic.
A lot of the fits had been Democrat impressed nuisance fits that Trump shrugged off. Moreover, everyone sues Trump.
Nonetheless, she has been nowhere as nasty towards Trump as are the ineffective members of the state’s delegation to Congress, none of whom have a snowball’s likelihood in hell of ever interacting with Trump, not to mention contacting him. That leaves Maura.
Moreover, if all of the Democrat impressed authorized actions in opposition to Trump had any validity, he would have been behind bars way back.
However he’s president and will probably be for an additional three and a half years.
Make the decision, Maura, and take one for the group.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas could be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
