The resounding success of the state’s Democratic celebration is the results of grassroots efforts, give attention to native points and an absence of infighting, somethings Republicans have been lacking, the outgoing celebration chairman mentioned.
“Really it comes down to looking at every election as being a local election,” four-term Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Gus Bickford mentioned.
Bickford, talking with WBZ’s Jon Keller, mentioned the success his celebration has seen in eight years — 13 flipped seats within the Legislature, holding or taking each statewide workplace, all 9 House and each Senate seats — comes right down to a matter of listening to candidates and constituents.
“Figuring out how can we be helpful, and it’s a proverbial we,” he mentioned. “When I took over as chair, I said to the membership and I said to the activists, ‘What I really want to do as chair is provide you the tools to be successful.’”
Republicans, Bickford mentioned, ought to maybe take a touch on the matter, what with their shedding virtually each race they mounted final election cycle and contemplating the previous report of former President Donald Trump within the deep blue Bay State.
“They didn’t keep it simple,” he mentioned. “They followed Trump, which was bad for the country and bad for Massachusetts.”
Part of the issue for Republicans was Bickford’s conservative counterpart for the final two cycles, then MassGOP Chairman Jim Lyons, he mentioned. That modified on the finish of January when Lyons, who discovered himself surrounded by interparty controversy following November’s disastrous election end result, misplaced his job to newly elected celebration Chairwoman Amy Carnevale.
That’s a great signal for the state, the chief of its liberal celebration mentioned.
“I myself am very happy with the new leadership on the Republican State Committee and I think it will just be good for Massachusetts,” he mentioned.
Bickford will go away workplace on the finish of April and has endorsed, together with Gov. Maura Healey, former Lt. Gov. candidate Steve Kerrigan, who shouldn’t be at present a member of the state celebration committee.
Kerrigan, who ran for workplace with former Attorney General Martha Coakley, could have his work reduce out for him regardless of the celebration’s management of basically all the pieces within the state, Keller famous, saying that — identical to the MassGOP — the Democrats even have their ideological extremes.
Bickford mentioned that’s not essentially a foul factor.
“We need to have quality debate and so I think it’s really good that we have a left wing, but we also have a moderate wing, and so they just need to work together so that they represent all of the constituents in Massachusetts and make Massachusetts better,” he mentioned. “It’s a juggling act, but its really good to have a left wing, a progressive wing, you know, pushing us forward.”
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