Emails Reveal State Officials' Flawed Excuses For Taking Away Riverbend Park Access in Cambridge - Streetsblog Massachusetts
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Emails obtained under the Massachusetts Public Records law reveal how Governor Healey’s newly-hired Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Rebecca Tepper, decided to restrict access to public parkland by cancelling her agency’s popular car-free Saturdays on Memorial Drive in Cambridge earlier this year. In a memo to the Governor, Tepper wrote that “this has become […]
  • aegis_sum@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Decker seems like a real slimy one. Refuses to state whether they are for or against it while working behind the scenes to end the Saturday closures.

    • GrossMargin@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I agree. What jumps out to me is that the other rep on this openly supports the Saturday closures, while Decker says… nothing? She really can’t say whether or not she supports it? Doesn’t take a big stretch to read between the lines there that she’s against but just doesn’t want to take the political flak from saying it.

  • SpaceBar@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Rep. Marjorie Decker has some wealthy donor angry that there are too many commoners around their house on weekends.

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    How much of a piece of shit do you have to be, to be firmly against your constituents’ desires for such a simple thing?