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My old comrade-in-arms Billy Glidden, who I worked with on Don Berwick's campaign for Governor of Massachusetts,* has launched a podcast. One of Holyoke's longtime sitting City Councilors is a MAGA Republican who introduced a resolution in Council seeking, ostensibly, to declare that Holyoke isn't a sanctuary city -- and inviting ICE to please come and see for itself.
I've had a lot to say about that resolution, and my own conviction that no American worthy of our founders could accept, let alone welcome, the way ICE is operating in the time of Trump. Billy kindly invited me on to talk about it. Here's that conversation.
The Podcast
*One of those painful lost opportunities. Dr. Berwick is a distinguished physician who had been head of the Center for Medicare Services: a gifted administrator and medical troubleshooter who'd seen too much of what was wrong with how American medicine works. He believed that Massachusetts could establish a single-payer healthcare system within the state, without waiting for the federal government to see the light, and had solid plans for how it would work. Small business owners and healthcare advocates loved him, but voters didn't know him, and introducing him and establishing to the press that he was not some crank was hard work. We were succeeding, though, and to this day I swear that if we'd had another three weeks before the primary we'd have won. Bitter, much? Nah, not me.
I've had a lot to say about that resolution, and my own conviction that no American worthy of our founders could accept, let alone welcome, the way ICE is operating in the time of Trump. Billy kindly invited me on to talk about it. Here's that conversation.
The Podcast
*One of those painful lost opportunities. Dr. Berwick is a distinguished physician who had been head of the Center for Medicare Services: a gifted administrator and medical troubleshooter who'd seen too much of what was wrong with how American medicine works. He believed that Massachusetts could establish a single-payer healthcare system within the state, without waiting for the federal government to see the light, and had solid plans for how it would work. Small business owners and healthcare advocates loved him, but voters didn't know him, and introducing him and establishing to the press that he was not some crank was hard work. We were succeeding, though, and to this day I swear that if we'd had another three weeks before the primary we'd have won. Bitter, much? Nah, not me.
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