Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito has no problem showing her campaign donors a little love this Valentine’s Day--she just handed another one of her donors a lifetime, high paying court appointment. 

I wouldn’t be asking if it wasn’t important--can you chip in $3 right now to help the MassDems take on Polito and her patronage pipeline? With over $1 million in her war chest, Polito’s rigged system is helping her raise money hand over fist for her re-election campaign.
 

It’s a disturbing pattern. Just last year, Polito’s son’s youth football coach and her college roommate both landed top clerk positions. In 2017, a man who left his job as a court officer after being arrested for an OUI and leaving the scene of an accident ended up in the office of the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, no surprise--he’s the son of two Polito donors. 

And who could forget Plates Polito? She was at the center of a scandal in which 68 of the first 100 low-number charity Red Sox license plates went to people with ties to the LG. 

Opportunities in our state shouldn’t be based on how much you donate to Karyn Polito’s campaign. Help the MassDems build the grassroots networks they’ll need to take on Polito, Governor Baker, and their patronage pipeline.