POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: The down-ballot race dividing top Mass. progressives
View in browser BY LISA KASHINSKY SPLIT DECISION — It’s not often you find Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley on opposite sides of an issue. But the Democratic primary for attorney general, perhaps the marquee race of a sleepy but intensifying election cycle here, is pitting the state’s most prominent progressives against each other. Warren, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and former Acting Mayor Kim Janey endorsed Shannon Liss-Riordan on Friday following polls that showed the labor attorney closing the gap with Andrea Campbell after pouring at least $3 million of her own money into her campaign to fund $4.5 million in ads. That puts the trio in conflict with Pressley, Sen. Ed Markey and Attorney General Maura Healey, who are among the bevy of progressive electeds and federal delegation members backing Campbell in the race to succeed Healey, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor. “I’ve been attorney general for eight years. I’...