Page 10 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020 State Rep. candidate Joe Gravellese to host Virtual Town Hall on helping small businesses with Daniel Takash of the Niskanen Center O n Wednesday, May 27 at 5 p.m., State Representative candidate Joe Gravellese (Massachusetts 16th Suff olk District – Revere, Chelsea and Saugus) will host a Virtual Town Hall with Daniel Takash, a regulatory policy fellow at the Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C.–based think tank. The event will be streamed on Gravellese’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/joegrav. Gravellese and Takash will discuss ways to reform and modernize regulations to allow small businesses to fl ourish, especially in the postCOVID-19 environment. “Democrats don’t often talk about regulatory reform, but we need to acknowledge that there’s a difference between useful regulations that protect public safety, and those that are designed to entrench the status quo by burying small businesses in red tape,” said Gravellese. He added, “In the COVID-19 environment, cities and towns are realizing that they need to be fl exible to let small businesses fi nd new and creative ways to operate without burdening them with needless hoops to jump through. The cost and challenge of opening a small business has made it so often only businesses at the high end survive. As an equality of opportunity issue, Democrats need to be talking about this…During my campaign, I’ve talked JOE GRAVELLESE about how progressives, moderates, and conservatives can fi nd common ground without sacrifi cing our principles. This is one such area. “ Takash contributes to the Niskanen Center’s “Captured Economy” project, which discusses how regressive regulations “have allowed wealthy special interests to capture broad domains of the policymaking process and twist the rules for their own benefit.” Learn more at www.niskanencenter.org.
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