Tuesday Election (7am-8pm)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

The primary election is this Tuesday, September 16th
Polls are open from 7am-8pm

To see what your ballot will look like, and/or to find your voting place, go to:
http://www.WhereDoIVoteMA.com

To expand on ron_newman's post from August:

Contested Democratic Races in the area:
• US Senate - John Kerry (incumbent) vs Ed O'Reilly
Video of their debate: From WBZ

• 34th Middlesex State Rep (parts of Somerville and Medford): Carl Sciortino (incumbent, but not on ballot; you must use a sticker or write-in) vs Bob Trane

• 29th Middlesex State Rep (part of Cambridge and Watertown): Blank ballot as a result of Rachel Kaprelian's resignation to become Registrar of Motor Vehicles. All candidates are running sticker campaigns.

• 35th Middlesex State Rep (parts of Medford and Malden):
Incumbent socially conservative Democratic Representative Paul Donato
Kosovo veteran & SEIU ogranizer Patrick McCabe
Blogger and OpenMass founder Jim Caralis
See cos's detailed discussion.

•Register of Probate
"Thomas B. Concannon, 8 Bacon Rd., Newton", a previous candidate for the office is running a write-in candidacy against indicted incumbent Buonomo.

•Councillor Sixth District
Michael J. Callahan
Roseann Trionfi-Mazzuchelli


Republican Ballot:
write-in campaign for Middlesex County Register of Probate
From politickerma.com: "While there is no competition in this race, Natick Republican John Lambert, son of the former Middlesex County Register of Probate Donna Lambert, is running for the Republican Nomination to replace disgraced Register John Buonomo (D). However, Lambert is a write-in candidate, and will need to collect 1,000 Votes County Wide to win the Republican Nomination."

Working Families Party Ballot:
write-in campaign for Middlesex County Register of Probate
Sean O'Donovan (according to my mail endorsed by John Connolly and Joe Curtatone)

For more information check out posts on this community with the local politics tag.

(Edited to add the Councilllor's race and Concannon 's write-in campaign)

Comments

Democrat Tom Concannon for Register of Probate

[cos]

You should add that former Newton Mayor Tom Concannon, who apparently came close to getting elected Register of Probate a few elections ago, is running a write-in campaign for the Democratic nomination for that office this year. More info here.

Re: Democrat Tom Concannon for Register of Probate

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Done, thanks.
(Is anyone else tempted to flag political posts "adult content"? I mean you have to be 18 to vote, right? :-)

My personal endorsements

[cos]

Here are my favorite candidates running in contested primaries near here this Tuesday:

• Carl Sciortino (write-in, incumbent) for state rep, Somerville/Medford


• Patrick McCabe for state rep, Medford


• Sonia Chang-Diaz for state senate, Boston


• Jason Lewis for state rep, Winchester/Stoneham

I think Kerry is a much better Senator than O'Reilly would be, though I'm not calling Kerry one of my "favorites".

I think writing in Tom Concannon for Register of Probate is a better idea than leaving it to town & ward committee caucuses, which is what will happen if Buonomo wins and withdraws (likely scenario), because there's such a short time to do them that it'd be a scramble, many committees won't meet or won't find enough delegates, and the result will be somewhat haphazard and messy.

[ron_newman]

If anyone here has any opinion whatsoever about the Governor's Council race, I'd like to hear it now.

Callahan did not impress me at all when he ran for State Senate a few years ago, but that doesn't mean much about how he performs in his current job.

[allonymist.livejournal.com]

Roseann Trionfi-Mazzuchelli's website seems to be here (http://governorscouncil.com/1.html). (It's hard to find, since her name is barely on it.) I can't find one for Mike Callahan. I wrote up my impressions of the race here (http://allonymist.livejournal.com/15943.html); like all opinions you get on LJ, it may not be worth much more than what you've paid for it. ;)

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

Thanks a ton for this post; we just got around to researching our candidates tonight.

Why is Buonomo on the Ballot???

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

The guy was videotaped stealing money at his office, REPEATEDLY! I definitely don't want this guy in ANY public position.

http://politics.hiasys.com/news/regional/politics/view.bg?articleid=1111752

[m00n.livejournal.com]

While we're at it does anyone know of a good place to go (other than the candidates web sites') to learn about the differences between Bob Trane and Carl Sciortino?

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

I don't, but just from their websites I am pretty unimpressed by both of them. Bob is for casino gambling in the state? Ugh, no thanks. Carl couldn't get his act together to get his nomination papers in? How is he supposed to represent my community?

Without being rude, I'm sort of disappointed with the options. If someone has a positive opinion on one of these folks fill me in....

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Carl Sciortino is not on the ballot because he had nomination papers stolen from his office during the campaign. I'd say that if he can still manage to win on a write-in campaign, that makes him doubly qualified to represent the community.