Memo to Maura:
Choose up the cellphone. Name the White Home.
As an alternative of regularly complaining about cuts of billions in federal support 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 all people, 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 Pink Sox gamers every week in the past, on the town to play the Washington Nationals, who have been touring the White Home. Trump shook palms with all of them within the Oval Workplace. Healey might have snuck in with them.
What’s attention-grabbing concerning the rogue go to is that the staff 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 Pink Sox supervisor is fiercely anti-Trump, Alex Cora, who in 2019 boycotted the staff’s official go to to the White Home to greet Trump after they received the World Sequence.
Whereas the Globe did a quick, three-paragraph story on the go to, it didn’t point out the names of the ten gamers who have been greeted by Trump.
Trump’s heat greeting simply might have impressed the Sox to brush the Nationals of their three-game sequence, despite the fact that it was rumored (by me) that Trump might have signed an government order forcing the last-place Nationals to fold to the second-to-last-place Pink 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 the time, simply as anti-Trump Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan did.
Whitmer was capable of 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 economic 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 mentioned there have been occasions 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 interchange 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 occasions in 4 years throughout Trump’s first time period when she was lawyer basic.
Many of the fits have been Democrat impressed nuisance fits that Trump shrugged off. Moreover, all people 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 might be for an additional three and a half years.
Make the decision, Maura, and take one for the staff.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas will be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
