and every month to talk to senator brownsburg about certain brownsburg or about certain issues but first i want to wish you all wonderful holiday season because it's december third as we tape this and we're live tonight too but this will show we'll play through the month of december so if we sound like we're talking about old stuff it's because by december thirtieth we will be anyway hi well of all let's talk about we met here a month ago on the day after election day when charlie baker had just been elected governor of the commonwealth how do you think it's going so far or i think it's too soon to tell i think if they put their shoulder to the will there are they're  know double them in the state i was so rude so so far so good i think so now have you met the new governor i've met the new governor not since the not since the election so he hasn't made the rounds of so but they're feeling must be feeling a little bit on one sure and i think you know they've got all the so the number of a party that has half a government so you know which of course are happy now of course the big issue that landed on the table recently was the issue of the pay raise for the legislative leadership it would put our leaders i e the house speaker and the senate present at the top of the pay scale nationally you know at one hundred seventy five thousand dollars a year it would put the governor up to one hundred eighty four thousand dollars a year and it would also provide raises i assume all down the food chain to the constitutional officers and i assume it would come to the members of the senate in the house eventually i was half hours yes a no no no no i mean i think it i think it i don't the all of senators and representatives yes is set by constitutional moment it's defined by this this rule that you know goes up or down according to how household median income is moving so that's set in stone that's not going to change what they can change and it sort of comes down to the same thing is the compensation that goes along with being a committee chair or sofa and i gather there is some intention to make a difference there as well i don't actually relish the prospect of you know explaining a pay raise in this environment so i'm not why the last to say that people don't deserve some additional money that they are working hard because they are and they're not you know they're all good people and s so why then ok when you don't support the pay raise but there are certain people that are i'm sure behind the scenes pushing the pay raise so i think it's a i think it's a listen i think it's kind of a tempest in a teapot because honestly really can't imagine how that's going to get through the legislature first of all because it only takes one person to object and i just cannot imagine that there's not you know ten reps in the house of the will stand up an object to that and probably some members of the senate i don't think i mean i'm not going to start a war on it either way you know i don't want to stand in the way of what people try to do but i'm not i don't think is going to happen i think it's like ok so i think it's sort of a test is one of these things come up that people know people think it's a good idea people think that you know people who work very hard bring a lot of qualification to the public sector should be well paid that's hard to argue with i think in the legislature though you know we are elected by the people who are represent we represent people of all incomes and i don't i don't i don't know we were talking about your sixty thousand base pay and i'm now part of this is that you're going to have to part i guess part of the compromise is that you will base pay will be base pay and that's it you can't but i can respect that also ok so the pay raise is in our discussion here it's off the table you're not supporting it i'm not i'm not i'm not supporting it but i'm not doing anything actively  that about why this is a sensitive subject it's one of those subjects that makes people crazy and you know i think that a lot of people are struggling and i think you know when we represent all the people we don't want to be giv ourselves a raise when things really are very good ok now every once in a while there's a big old juicy gossip piece story that breaks on beacon hill and this morning on the front page of the boston globe it was that stanley rosenberg's lover a twenty something man had been tweeting mean things about race mary and about his own power that he would have when senator rosenberg became the president of the senate is that a story rich i did read that story ok how could you resist it was the story do you or do you think this it all i don't want his part to express anything along those lines i'm quite confident that senator rosenberg has fully conveyed to him that it is immature and unacceptable behavior and i rather suspect it will not continue at all he the part that troubled me was not what he was tweeting about to race merrier or i mean that was mean but it was you know just childish childish  but the bit about you know i've gotten in with this guy and i can't in the silly just get committee assignments going to nobody nobody with any knowledge of the operations of the senate would give any credence to that kind of statement i mean  you know it's very poor judgment on the part of the young man's part to even say something like that even think something like that much less much less say it but i really don't think that's you know what i did though i have a lot of confidence in stan rosenberg's approach to how he's going to run the sun i think it's going to be very participatory process and he has got a lot of respect for the body so the idea that somehow some kind of figure behind him is going to be calling the shots you don't know what even if the figure behind him you can't say i mean i don't know what he's i don't tell a top i don't i'm not worried about that because i think the major decisions that are going to get made are going to be collective decisions of the senate and i think that that's really stance whole hallmark of what stance trying to do as a state senate president is to really emphasize the full responsibility of every member of the senate as opposed to you know it's the senate president making all these calls what what do you anticipate the senate great job for a lot to do ok and i think and i think so far people feel like you know handle it pretty well and there's you know the people see that i'm kind of beginning a lot of things so hopeful that you have any assurances from him that i don't think stan has made any i really don't know  status at this point but my impression is he's held his cards very close to his vest and he hasn't made any promises to anybody but i've certainly had a lot of conversations with him about the issues before the judiciary and i've never had any reason to believe that it was going to continue i just want to say one thing though i know that you can say i'm not at all you know and i believe you when you say that i'm not all swayed by this guy you know bryan hafner and anyway but he does work for one of the big smash and grab lobbying firms in boston george reading communications so you don't know what he's doing you know yeah but you know just to take out a lot of clients they oh i'm sure but you know i think not aware of it but you know stan is emphasise that he really wants to delegate to the committee chairs their role so he'll meet with whoever wants to meet with them some lobbyist wants to come in and make a pitch about something by the first question is going to be if you met with that much less relevant ok it's just his personal life it sounds like this guy makes a very happy so we should be happy for him yeah absolutely and i had no idea that he was in foster care is t politician is not run as a foster child he's running as what we need to do together for the commonwealth and that's that's you know the requirement is a lot of politicians who were on the sleeve you know i came from this place and you know i've been through this and therefore you know you should you should it like me because of that yeah it stands about you know what we need to do together i can do it together and that's what it's going to be i think now how do you get to be president of the state senate what do you have to do  paying attention to the sort of politics of the senate quite as much i mean the politics of you know the who's going to be next on a president so i came out a little late in the process but it's about gathering the confidence of enough other members of the s so in building consensus and talking about issues you must talk about airport noise you're leaving here right after this and you're going to a meeting with airport more noise i don't know what airport noise because airport no is can have proponents they have detractors people concerned about her portnoy's people concerned about airport delays there you go and you're going to meeting with us people we've talked about that a few times on this show and here's the message that always seems to come back that is it's bad but nothing we can do right now i think our options are very limited the amount that we can affect this problem or is mall enough i think that nobody's ever going to feel particularly like oh we solve the problem of is there nothing we can do you know i think there's some things that we can do or talk about doing but our ability to really change the pure game is very limited i here's what i want to know about issues like this then why keep having these meetings that i keep is there what is what is gained in conversation you can educate me on that because i don't look you are is a reality right on any public issue yes you and i might sit down and we might spend months working on it and we might say you know what we came in with this idea but it's not a good idea came in with that idea that's not a good idea  this is a pretty good i will try to do this but inevitably somebody who has been through those months of conversation reflection already going to come in and come back with initial i did say how come we can't do this i say you guys aren't getting enough attention to this option and the answer is well you know we actually thought about that for months we had a whole series of meetings on and i went and met with the f a a and i went and met with massport and i know i've done a lot of reading and analysis and i don't think that's going to work why think i should give it some more thought  ok so you have to have you have to have you have to have a continuing conversation you have to keep bringing people along you have to have you have to keep having a conversation with people because there's always people who are coming in new to the conversation i understand there's conversations done and people are always coming  without a baseline and so you have to keep providing that baseline for people it's an important part of the job of public leadership in a democracy and you can't get frustrated with that one more airport meeting i no no no no no i mean i i happen to enjoy talking about issues otherwise i wouldn't enjoy my job and you know it's all good so basically you're just going to tell them what you've told us well no i think my the lead in leading leading the me will be and when when you finally say hey we talked enough about this and i'm not sure you ever end on an issue like this i guarantee you that in five years i'll be someone who's going to you know call me and say you know what do you do about the they were twenty or thirty years ago vastly quieter than they are and they're vastly more efficient and we can hope for continuing improvements i mean there's there's a secular there's a long turn trend which you have to be positive and the other thing is you know they're there for the make much more efficient use of their airspace there's a lot fewer planes in the sky than there were more recent people are flying more yeah but as you know if you get on a plane it's packed yeah they it's no more you can sleep in the middle seat you know that isn't happening anymore because they you know they've got the computer systems in the tech techniques to pack those airplanes even though there's more and more people flying they've been fewer flights in the air over the last you know ten fifteen years an interesting point so you know a lot of interesting points and then thought about why the planes  backed that well so in a lot of ways the problem's a lot is a lot less in some ways than it was and compared to where we are now noise levels to where we are fifteen years ago or twenty years ago i want to surprise a lot noisier twenty or thirty years ago but compared to last year the year before it has gotten a bit noisier and belmont and watertown and some parts of arlington and cambridge so yeah people are feeling it and many are concerned when your office pay for noise beaumont yeah welcome that's the conversation ok speaking of money i recently got a very polite nice letter from you asking for money and we're going to talk about just campaigning and putting my name out there and reaching out to people so i concluded i really didn't need to do that in two four twenty fourteen without an opponent i didn't we didn't raise any money at all and we're just a small amount of money this year but it's not really healthy for someone to sit a politician to sit with basically nothing in the back i mean my campaign account was down to maybe a little under a thousand and so i just basically sat there for a while so that's something we had to address and you should always have a bit of a be very scrupulous about how i use campaign money some people you know buy a lot of gifts and things that i don't do that ok or use for core campaign communications in an off year in a run the website you know keep developing for the future that kind of stuff i think there's a couple of thousand people of maybe maybe maybe three thousand you know who have contributed over the over the years and i don't know maybe five five hundred or a thousand them are our sort of real regulars and is that who you always go bac so well you got to try and expand the survey you did you obviously tend to go back to your good friends and never take that for granted i'm always grateful for folks who feel able and willing to to to support on an ongoing basis it's very healthy to keep expanding that circle i by the way i focus my fundraising efforts in my district you know i don't raise lobbyist money don't raise pac money i don't do that kind of fundraising so it does mean i lean a little harder on my supporters so some guys who raise all their money downtown from lobbyists and so forth and they come home and they basically spend a lot of money you know giving those contributions to the various various charities non profits in their community which is it's a nice way to operate but so far i've really felt that that was not how i wanted to operate or as i raise money for my constituents and i don't give as much to charitable causes that fundamental by you know page in  a program or something but things that have advertising value all the talking about nonprofits and giving i understand you're anchoring an hour of the telephone here this weekend i gather i am this is for the belmont food pantry yeah and they are you're anchoring an hour and right here and this is a giving time of year when everyone should be noise and you know how you have to keep bringing people through the conversation you know what i saw that was a wonderful beautiful way it worked in terms of an issue getting resolved and talked about was the pool the new pool well you know there was a model i watched it on belmont belmont community access and every meeting was a little jewel in getting something done well that's that's a been a great process and it's going to be a is on this board and others among us that work to get it done and hey listen continue to get things done all right and we'll see you in january and we wish everybody happy holidays to all those there everybody