Several key figures in Massachusetts politics are facing difficult questions: Governor Baker, now facing calls for him to testify on Beacon Hill about the deaths of veterans at the Holyoke Soldier’s Home last year; former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, whom embattled Police Commissioner Dennis White has said knew about domestic abuse allegations against him; and the Massachusetts Republican Party, now facing a reckoning over homophobic comments from a member of their state committee.

To discuss, Jim Braude was joined by Jennifer Nassour, former chair of the Massachusetts Republican party; and Michael Curry, the chair of the NAACP Advocacy and Policy Committee.

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“All that Jim Lyons is doing at this point is making the Mass. GOP obsolete,” Nassour said about the party leader.

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