Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance

Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance advocates for fiscal responsibility, transparency, & accountability in government. Email: [email protected]

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

Governor Healey claimed today she “never stopped pipelines,” but as AG, she said something very different.

So we put her two statements side by side.

Was she lying then or is she lying now? 👖🔥

Let us know in the comments.

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

🚨 Join us for a special Welfare Spending Town Hall featuring @JoeConchaTV!

Massachusetts taxpayers now fund nearly $30 billion in annual welfare spending. As costs continue to grow, are transparency and oversight keeping pace?

Join the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance and @AFPhq for an evening of discussion featuring Joe Concha, one of the country's leading political commentators, along with a distinguished panel discussing welfare spending, accountability, and the future of public policy in Massachusetts.

Panelists include:
• @pauldiegocraney, Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance
• @ConnollyRoss, Americans for Prosperity
• Ken Sweezey (@RepSweezey), Massachusetts State Representative
• Grace Curley (@G_CURLEY), The Grace Curley Show
• Jon Fetherston (@MaineWireJon), The Maine Wire
• Tim Dunn (@ConsiderMeDunn), The Boston Herald

📅 Thursday, July 16
🕕 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
📍 Downtown Boston (location provided upon RSVP)
💲 Free to attend

Space is limited. RSVP today by emailing Jess at [email protected] to reserve your spot.

We hope to see you there!

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

Massachusetts families and businesses are already paying some of the highest energy costs in the country.

Now Beacon Hill is pushing S. 3143, a Senate energy bill that keeps doubling down on the same costly approach.

The bill gives offshore wind special treatment by allowing troubled projects to reopen contracts, extend permits, and seek public co-investment, leaving ratepayers exposed to more costs and risk.

If lawmakers are serious about lowering energy costs, they should pursue affordable and reliable energy sources like natural gas and nuclear power, not keep forcing ratepayers to rescue expensive energy projects.

Tell the Senate to oppose S. 3143.

https://t.co/cy7ceeyi6l

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

Governor Healey says she's tired of high gas and electric bills.

So are Massachusetts families.

She says she doesn't want us "beholden to some foreign country."

But watch what she celebrates:

🇨🇦 Imported hydroelectric power from Canada.
🚢 More imported LNG into the Everett terminal.
🌊 Offshore wind agreements with Nova Scotia.

And when Massachusetts had the opportunity to expand access to abundant American natural gas?
She bragged about stopping those two new gas pipelines.

Massachusetts doesn't have an energy shortage. It has a policy problem.

Beacon Hill keeps rejecting reliable, affordable American energy while embracing imported and heavily subsidized alternatives. Then they act surprised when families are left with some of the highest energy bills in the country. #mapoli

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

If MassFiscal handed out Pinocchios, Governor Healey would earn four of them for claiming offshore wind is "absolutely key to energy reliability" in Massachusetts during our recent cold and snowy "summer."

That may sound good in a speech, but it doesn't match what happened this past winter.

When electricity demand was at its highest during the coldest days last winter, oil and natural gas carried the overwhelming majority of the load. Renewables supplied just 9% of the power, with wind accounting for only about half of that.

Massachusetts families deserve an honest conversation about what actually powers the grid, what it costs, and what it will take to keep electricity affordable and reliable.

Instead, the Governor continues pushing an energy agenda built around expensive mandates and subsidies for unreliable, intermittent alternative energy sources that are making Massachusetts less affordable, all while gaslighting taxpayers by claiming offshore wind is the backbone of our electric system.

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

There is no such thing as a "minor" constitutional problem.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell now appears to be acknowledging that her office knew the rent control ballot question had a problem tied to religion, but dismissed it as "minor" and certified it anyway.

The SJC saw it differently.

On Tuesday, the Court removed the rent control question from the ballot because the religious housing exemption meant the proposal could not legally proceed.

That should raise serious questions.

The Attorney General is not supposed to be a cheerleader for certain ballot questions. Her office is supposed to be the legal gatekeeper. That means protecting the integrity of the process before campaigns, voters, donors, volunteers, and taxpayers spend months fighting over a question that never should have been cleared in the first place.

Instead, Campbell’s office let a constitutionally defective question move forward, only for the Court to stop it later.

This comes just days after the SJC tossed the income tax cut question because Campbell’s office failed to write a fair summary.

Having three certified petitions removed by the SJC in one cycle is unprecedented.

The ballot process being thrown into chaos by the very office responsible for keeping it on track.

[Jeffrey Cohen @CohenJeffr13976]

@MassFiscal She tried to toss a 4th one that seeked to repeal the Covid era no excuse mail in voting law. She had to be sued to allow for signature collection. The reason she gave for rejecting it? Because it "interfered with the freedom of elections".

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

What in the world is going on over at the AG’s office?

Attorney General Campbell says getting 3 out of 6 legally challenged questions tossed from the ballot is “a great record.”

Most people call that 50%. In school, it’s an F. In Beacon Hill politics, apparently it’s a victory lap.

Her office is supposed to be the neutral gatekeeper of the ballot process. Instead, voters, campaigns, volunteers, and taxpayers are left wasting time, money, and effort on questions her office certified, only to have the courts later reject them and throw the process into chaos.

That is not a great record. That is a serious problem.

[Fiscal Alliance Foundation @FiscalAlliance]

🚨 The Fiscal Alliance Foundation is celebrating today’s Supreme Judicial Court decision removing the proposed statewide rent control question from the November ballot.

This ruling is a major victory for taxpayers, homeowners, renters, and communities across Massachusetts. The question was knocked off the ballot for a constitutional defect, but the practical result is that the Commonwealth has been spared from one of the most damaging housing policies in the country.

1/9
https://t.co/MOiOppGyv4

[Chris Van Buskirk @byChrisVan]

RENT CONTROL: The Supreme Judicial Court ruled this morning that a ballot question to impose rent control in Massachusetts cannot proceed to the November ballot because it relates to religion, religious practices, or religious institutions. #mapoli

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

Has Speaker Mariano reached the Biden years?

Thirty-five years on Beacon Hill is a long time and it shows.

Massachusetts taxpayers deserve leadership that can answer basic questions, defend its record, and meet the moment clearly.

Instead, Beacon Hill keeps giving them the same tired excuses and the same insider politics from the same politicians who have been in power for decades.

Massachusetts is facing serious problems.

Affordability is getting worse. Transparency is still being resisted. Employers are leaving. Families are being squeezed.

And Beacon Hill looks like it is running on autopilot.

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

Beacon Hill’s indifference to our economic well-being strikes again.

Coca-Cola is closing its Northampton production facility by the end of the year.

Massachusetts keeps getting more expensive for families and harder for employers to operate in.

Policies have consequences.

[Boston 25 News @boston25]

Coca-Cola Company closing one of its Massachusetts production facilities https://t.co/M6hWOXqSmH

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

“Massachusetts should be doing everything New Hampshire is doing on tax policy. Reducing the state income tax is the quickest way to bring broad-based tax relief to taxpayers. This latest tax setback will continue to send the message that New Hampshire is where you go to keep more of your hard-earned money.”

[NH Journal @NewHampJournal]

MA Court Blocks Vote on Tax Cut, Highlights Divide With Tax-Free NH

https://t.co/Ofi6hZMvRR
@nhgop @nhdems @MassDems

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

"'This is a disgraceful outcome for Massachusetts taxpayers and a direct result of the Attorney General’s failure to do her job properly. More than 100,000 residents signed petitions to put tax relief before the voters. They followed the process, did the work, and earned a place on the ballot,' MassFiscal Executive Director Paul Craney said in a written statement.

You’d think that would be enough. Those who voted for the Legislature’s audit certainly thought so.

'The SJC did not reject the tax cut on the merits. The court did not say taxpayers were wrong to want relief. The court removed this question because the Attorney General’s summary failed to meet the constitutional standard required for ballot petitions. That is an extraordinary failure by an office that has enormous responsibility over the initiative petition process,' Craney continued."

[Boston Herald @bostonherald]

Opinion | So much for power to the people. A chance for Bay Staters to vote on lowering the state income check just got hip-checked by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. https://t.co/QU0aYX097q

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

🚨 On Thursday, the SJC ruled that the ballot question to reduce the income tax from 5% to 4% will not be on the November ballot, citing failure on the part of Attorney General Andrea Campbell to provide a fair and accurate summary of the question.

“This is a disgraceful outcome for Massachusetts taxpayers and a direct result of the Attorney General’s failure to do her job properly,” said Paul D. Craney, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance.

“More than 100,000 residents signed petitions to put tax relief before the voters. They followed the process, did the work, and earned a place on the ballot. Now, because the Attorney General’s office produced a summary the court found to be significantly misleading, voters are being denied the chance to decide for themselves whether Massachusetts should lower its income tax.”

This decision doesn't make Massachusetts more affordable.

#mapoli

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

Today’s decision does not make Massachusetts more affordable. It does not stop people from leaving. It does not help small businesses compete. It simply protects Beacon Hill from having to face voters on tax relief. Massachusetts taxpayers still deserve relief, and the fight to make this state more affordable must continue.

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

This is a disgraceful outcome for Massachusetts taxpayers and a direct result of the Attorney General’s failure to do her job properly. More than 100,000 residents signed petitions to put tax relief before the voters. They followed the process, did the work, and earned a place on the ballot. Now, because the Attorney General’s office produced a summary the court found to be significantly misleading, voters are being denied the chance to decide for themselves whether Massachusetts should lower its income tax.

https://t.co/wYLKRLcbOJ

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

The people of Massachusetts deserved a vote on whether to lower the income tax from 5 percent to 4 percent. Instead, their voices were silenced over language written by the very office responsible for presenting ballot questions to voters. This decision should prompt serious scrutiny of the Attorney General’s role in the ballot process, because no future campaign should have its question thrown off the ballot due to mistakes outside the proponents’ control.

[Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance @MassFiscal]

“The state’s pension system exists to serve retirees, not as a venture capital fund for politicians. Investment decisions should be based on maximizing returns for beneficiaries, not on what projects state officials want to promote,” MassFiscal Executive Director Paul Craney told the Herald in a written statement.

[Boston Herald @bostonherald]

Editorial | Gov. Maura Healey has managed to unite many Bay Staters around a single cause: slamming her proposed bill to use the state’s pension system to fund economic development grants. https://t.co/czhVPl7mlI