Kelly Garrity, “The perils of one-party rule,” POLITICO, July 24, 2023.
“There’s a sense of complacency in the Massachusetts Legislature,” Jonathan Cohn, political director for Progressive Massachusetts, told Playbook. “When you have a situation where most of them never face any type of electoral challenge — primary or general — if you don’t finish something, you can get the band back together in the next legislative session.”