While most government employees in Suffolk County will spend their Evacuation Day holiday taunting the British and toasting General Washington, House and Senate Republican leaders will be meeting at the State House to discuss jobs and the economy with a leading local economist and respected small business advocate.
At 11 a.m., GOP leaders will be meeting with Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Michael Widmer and National Federation of Independent Business-Massachusetts State Director Bill Vernon in the office of Senate Minority Leader Richard R. Tisei.
At noontime, immediately following the meeting, there will be an open caucus where members of the House and Senate Republican leadership teams will answer questions from the press.
Republicans on Beacon Hill have been pushing, unsuccessfully to this point, to end the Suffolk County holidays of Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day.
An advisory from Senator Tisei’s office noted that the caucus will spend the holiday discussing jobs because the state unemployment rate is at 9.5 percent, and more than 320,000 Massachusetts residents out of work.
