VOTE TOMORROW (Thursday 9/17) if you live in Ward 6

[ron_newman]

If you live in Ward 6, tomorrow (THURSDAY, September 17) is preliminary election day. Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm. To find your polling place, enter your street address into this form. Street addresses of polling places are on this page.

You will find four candidates for Ward 6 Alderman on your ballot. The top two vote-getters in this preliminary election will face each other in the November 3 general election.

Learn more about the candidates by following the links in this earlier post, which I have updated. Recent posts in the local politics tag contain extensive discussion of this race.

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Ward 6 election podcast just released

[taltalschil.livejournal.com]

A podcast about the the Ward 6 election, focusing on Liz Weinbloom's campaign, was just released today. It's about politics (local), place (Somerville), and what it's like to be 30 and putting yourself out in the public square. Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/pat-m-tomaino/the-campaign-episode-1

Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Anonymous flyer stuck in my door citing a recent article in the Somerville Times, then goes into a superficial breakdown of Lance Davis's campaign contributions. Asks among other questions "Why is Mr. Davis being dishonest with the voters?", then ends with "SAY NO! TO LANCE DAVIS AND HIS BIG MONEY CONTRIBUTORS!" No other candidate is mentioned.

There's only one candidate whose campaign seems to be interested in discussing Lance Davis' campaign contributors to this point. lanze108, you know anything about this?

RE: Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[keithn.livejournal.com]

I got the same thing, but I didn't view it as very anonymous since there was also a Charles Chisholm door knob tag on my door. Here's both, for anyone who may be interested: http://i.imgur.com/fKm4kGI.jpg

RE: Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting an image.

Looks like the calculus on my block was nobody with a yard sign was blessed with a Chisholm doortag, just the boo-scary surface analysis of Lance Davis contributors.

If you had no yard sign, you got both pieces dropped. Several neighbors (without yard signs) got both.

Someone who looked an awful lot like Chisholm's campaign manager (plus a cohort) were working both sides of Willow near the Brown School around 10:00 this morning. If so, isn't this a little embarassing? At least have the cojones to put your candidate's name on the screed next time.

RE: Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[ron_newman]

A friend who reads DSLJ but doesn't have an LJ account sent me this, with permission for me to post it here:
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I got the same treatment at 0917 on Cottage. My first thought was,
"Wow. An anonymous last-minute uncited anti-candidate screed. We've
had candidates put their names on anti-other-candidate statements, but
I think trying to get away with doing so anonymously is a first in at
least the 17 years I've been living here." And then I found the
Chisholm tag and thought, "It's unlikely these were two separate
visits---I'd have heard the door twice." Then I looked on the DSLJ,
and this thread confirms it. I wonder if his campaign will deny it?
If so, -that- would sure lead to some ugly press, and even if it's
after the election, it's something else to stick in the historical
file, along with the Chisholm research in the earlier thread.

RE: Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[keithn.livejournal.com]

I think there's a very real chance that Chisholm takes the #2 spot today and the general election is Davis vs. Chisholm, in which case this will be an issue for the next six and a half weeks. It won't be pretty.

RE: Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[ron_newman]

I'm so glad that your prediction turned out wrong. (And I bet you are, too.)

RE: Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

I notice that the normally very vocal Lanze108 is surprisingly quiet right about now.

RE: Somebody out there really doesn't like Lance Davis

[ron_newman]

His answer is in this thread. I'm linking to the top of the thread rather than to his specific reply, in order to provide full context.