Angelo Scaccia

Angelo Scaccia speaks: Why is Massachusetts helping Leonardo DiCaprio more than the developmentally disabled?

adamg — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:52:18 +0000

Blue Mass. Group posts comments from the Hyde Park Democrat on how Beacon Hill is broken:

... "We give tax subsidies to the movie industry now," Scaccia told family members and a small handful of lawmakers this past Friday at a legislative breakfast at the Fernald Developmental Center. "We have to subsidize Leonardo DiCaprio because he's apparently so poor. We've created 14 jobs at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Meanwhile, the DDS and the DMH have laid off hundreds of people. Those are our priorities now." ...

Ed. note: Scaccia is possibly the quietest state rep. ever. I've been his constituent for like 16 years now, but before this, all I knew about him was that he got involved in a liquor-license dispute in Westwood, which he doesn't represent.

What's the deal with Angelo Scaccia?

adamg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:21:48 +0000

Seems like the only time you ever hear of this guy, the august state rep from Hyde Park (and my small sliver of Roslindale) is when he manages to grind the legislature to a halt over some issue that doesn't involve his district at all (anybody remember how he tied up the disposition of the old Boston State Hospital for years?). This time: A liquor license for some supermarket in Westwood.

Via Robert David Sullivan.

Or maybe he wants to tax Trojan Magnums

adamg — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:43:05 +0000

Kathleen Powers quotes my state rep, the normally reclusive Angelo Scaccia:

"Mr. Speaker, we have a chance to tax the well-endowed." ...

He was, allegedly, referring to a proposed tax on private colleges with endowments of more than $1 billion.

Two state reps of one mind

adamg — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:01:42 +0000

And if so, does that mean Mike Rush of West Roxbury and Angelo Scaccia are half-wits when apart? If nothing else, they should realize that sending press releases with the same exact quote to the newspaper that covers parts of both their districts might get a reporter to blogging.