According to Statehouse News Service Speaker of the House Robert "Bob" DeLeo (D-Winthrop) will be attending a conference in Annapolis, Maryland this weekend. The goal of the conference is for the leaders of State Legislatures to strategize how to get more money from the Federal Government.
DeLeo will attend the National Speakers Conference in Annapolis, Maryland, planning to strategize with other legislative leaders over how to press the federal government for additional stimulus aid. Bay State budget authors have been grappling with how to solve a developing $687 million problem in their fiscal 2011 budget arising from Washington's unwillingness so far to authorize $24 billion in Federal Medical Assistance Percentages.
Given that our debt just reached historic levels with Communist China, perhaps learning to live within our means might be a better topic for the strategy sessions. Hopefully the talk by Charlie Cook of the "Cook Political Report" will put some fear into the assembled leaders, and the aforementioned goal might be the take away.
On Friday, speakers can hear a morning discussion on developing and communicating effective messages, followed by Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report, delivering a talk entitled "Election 2010 and the Angry Voters: Who is Going to Pay?"
One can only hope that in Massachusetts the answer is the Democratic Party. |
