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Vote--on THURSDAY this week, folks. Just wanted to highlight the unusual day. A nice young canvasser just came by my house to remind me, and I realized I hadn't seen notice of it much on the social media channels.
Sample ballots: http://www.somervillema.gov/alerts/sample-ballots-available-september-8-state-primary
Sample ballots: http://www.somervillema.gov/alerts/sample-ballots-available-september-8-state-primary
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Date: 2016-09-06 02:30 pm (UTC)FYI!
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Date: 2016-09-06 12:48 pm (UTC)I'm mostly just looking forward to the end of the Cheung canvassers and mailers clogging up my mailbox.
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Date: 2016-09-07 12:30 am (UTC)Politics in the Age of Trump comes to Massachusetts: a group run by Wall Street hedge fund executives called Education Reform Now (Sessa Capital, Covey Capital, Charter Bridge Capital, Cubist Systematic Strategies, and Sanford C. Bernstein employ its directors) dumps $200,000 into a state Senate race to try to buy a seat for former Virginia Republican Leland Cheung who backs an expansion of charter schools (13 percent of them for-profit businesses nationwide).
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Date: 2016-09-06 09:24 pm (UTC)Leland Cheung did somehow get my e-mail address and I have been receiving e-mails from him.
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Date: 2016-09-06 09:43 pm (UTC)Last week he sent an e-mail with this line:
"It has been decades since an incumbent State Senator has been successfully challenged in a Democratic Primary."
I have to wonder if he really believes this time will be any different and, if not, what he is hoping to accomplish from running a sure to lose primary campaign against a popular state senator.
I was against Cheung at first, but I will probably vote for him because I agree with lifting the charter school cap, and Pat has really made her opposition a focal point of the campaign. I still like Pat and I really doubt that Cheung's charter school position is popular in this district, though. I would be impressed if he lost by less than 20 points.