Evan Horowitz

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My guest today is Evan Horowitz, CEO and co-founder of Movers and Shakers, a social first creative agency that helps some of the world's biggest brands connect with culture.

Evan has spent more than 20 years helping brands build buzz and market share with experience that includes in-house roles at Samsung and Macy's.

Today, he works with marketing leaders to break through the organizational barriers that too often hold brands back Layers of approval, silo teams, risk-averse decision-making, and the outdated idea that social is merely another content channel rather than a living, breathing part of the brand.

Evan Horowitz, welcome to the show.

Pleasure to be here, Steve.

Thank you.

You can imagine in the gym business, like New Year's is when you want to keep up the mind.

That means all candidates from all parties would appear on the same ballot, and the top two vote-getters would move forward to the general election.

WBUR's Tiziana Dearing spoke to Tufts University's Evan Horowitz.

He's the executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis, which publishes guides every year on the potential impacts of these questions.

Here's Evan.

Maybe it's probably the most impactful and most close run of the ballot question.

So it's definitely the one that's getting sort of the most attention from people who are interested in interesting political ideas.

That was Evan Horowitz on Question 3.

He also spoke with WBUR's Tiziana Dearing about Question 7.

That's-- I mean, we're now semantics.

Less re-- and with all due respect, our bible for this is somebody who's objective, Evan Horowitz at Tufts.

He doesn't talk about twelve hundred.

He says taxpayers would receive roughly two hundred to two fifty per year, accounting for both refund and non-refund years.

I saw him on your [laughs] television show a few years ago.

That was, uh-

Just, just take somebody apart and, and-

He debated Josh Zakim-

Whatever you call them, they could meaningfully change how politics work in the state.

For more, we're joined by Evan Horowitz, who heads the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

Good morning.

Good morning, Gisana.

Maybe the, the...

It's probably the most impactful and most close run of the ballot questions, so it's definitely the one that's getting, uh, sort of the most attention from people who are interested in interesting political ideas.

Evan Horowitz is executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

Thanks, Evan.

Whichever way you go, this podcast is just meant to show you each individual question, and then hopefully you can discern an opinion from that.

For that, we're going to bring in Evan Horowitz, executive director for the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University, to wade through everything that we're talking about here.

Evan, thanks so much for jumping on.

We appreciate it.

And you've got to prevent those from getting to voters.

That's great.

Evan Horowitz from Tufts University, thanks so much for stopping by the podcast, explaining all of this.

Hopefully, viewers really take it home and are able to vote better.

Those types of records that, for example, your auditor can see, the inspector general, the attorney general's office might be able to review to make sure that the law is being followed, those types of things are not able to still be subject to public disclosure, meaning-

Evan Horowitz from Tufts says that while it's clear the way the law is dra- the ballot question is drafted, uh, c- uh, constituent communication will be exempted if the legislature is who, legislator is who you're dealing with, it's not clear that it's exempted if you're communicating with the governor's office.

Do you agree with that?

Uh, I think that it covers both, Jim.

Okay.

Number two, you said there was no constitutional issue.

Again, Evan Horowitz says there might be a constitutional issue.

Only a brief answer if you can, because the enforcer of all this would be the secretary of state who's in the executive branch, where there may be a separation of powers thing.

Highlights from the week in under an hour.

Today in the podcast, we'll speak with Evan Horowitz from the Tufts Center for State Policy Analysis.

We'll explain some of the Massachusetts ballot questions for us.

It's Cape Cod's Joseph Carr sharing his story of a midlife career change that brought us all Josh wines.

And live music Friday with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

And here's the show.

We're now joined on Zoom by Evan Horowitz, who knows almost as much about the nine ballot questions as I do.

He's executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University's Tisch College.