To say it's been a bad few months for the Massachusetts Republican Party and chair Jim Lyons would be an understatement.
After embracing Donald Trump and repeatedly sparring with then-Governor Charlie Baker, Lyons and the Mass. GOP had an awful 2022 election cycle — losing the governorship, falling short in every other statewide race, and watching their already meager legislative numbers dwindle even further.
More recently, the party's deep internal dysfunction has been thrust into public view by extensive reporting from the Boston Globe and other outlets.
On this episode of Talking Politics, Adam Reilly is joined by the Globe's Emma Platoff and former Baker spokesperson Lizzy Guyton to discuss an upcoming Mass. GOP meeting at which Lyons will try to keep his job in the face of multiple challenges — as well as what it would take to make the party competitive again and why voters who aren't Republicans have a stake in what comes next.
Later, Reilly talks with former Massachusetts transportation secretary Jim Aloisi and Allston civic leader Tony D'Isidoro about why the federal government is balking — for now — at funding a $2 billion project that would shift the Mass Pike in Allston, how the project would benefit the surrounding neighborhood and the greater Boston area, and why proponents remain bullish on the work finally getting done despite this recent setback.
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