BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey wants Massachusetts bars open until 3 a.m., forever. The Massachusetts Democratic Party's chairman, Steve Kerrigan, spent his summer on court probation for drunk driving.

You could not script it better.

The state's temporary 3 a.m. last call — passed by Beacon Hill Democrats in June to accommodate the World Cup matches at Gillette Stadium — sunsets in a week, on July 31. And the loudest voices on Beacon Hill are already trying to make it permanent.

Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu back the whole package.

Kerrigan was arrested at midnight on June 13 in Southborough. Charges: OUI–Liquor, negligent operation, marked lanes violation. Two days later, at his June 15 arraignment in Westborough District Court, he pled into the Commonwealth's first-offender OUI diversion program under General Laws chapter 90, section 24D. That is a Continued Without a Finding — no conviction, but he admitted facts sufficient to warrant a guilty finding, lost his license for 45 days, and is now serving a year of court-supervised probation that runs until June 15, 2027.

He is the Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He is also, at this moment, enrolled in the state-mandated 14-day residential alcohol education program.

Neither he nor the party has publicly acknowledged any of it.

The pro-3 a.m. crowd's pitch is that later last call brought tourists and revenue during the World Cup. Fine. What they will not say out loud is what any bartender in the state already knows: pushing last call from 2 to 3 a.m. does not mean everyone drinks the same amount and goes home an hour later. It means people drink an extra hour. And then they drive.

Healey's own party chairman just demonstrated the point in miniature. Kerrigan wasn't tossed at closing time at 3 a.m. He was arrested at midnight — an hour when Massachusetts bars have been open, uncontroversially, for a century. Add another hour of drinking to that Saturday and the police log gets longer.

The Fiola bill was sold as a temporary World Cup accommodation. The Payano amendments are quietly trying to convert it into permanent state policy. Once 3 a.m. is on the books, no legislature in this state ever rolls it back.

Healey's 3 a.m. push and her party chairman's DUI are two sides of the same coin. Beacon Hill Democrats want the state drinking later, while the guy running their party can't legally drive home.

If you want to see what a permanent 3 a.m. last call in Massachusetts is going to look like, you don't need to imagine it.

You can just read the docket.