Democratic Primary election, Sept. 8, a Thursday.

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

[craigindaville.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was a big dummy and made the "Tuesday is election day always!" assumption and almost walked into my polling place this morning before realizing there was no election going on.

I'm mostly just looking forward to the end of the Cheung canvassers and mailers clogging up my mailbox.

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

Why so many mailers, btw? Cheung is really over doing it - to the point today in my head I said i would vote for the person who sent the least! jk of course but still

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

I heard he got money from outside donors that probably paid for a lot of mailers. http://bluemassgroup.com/2016/09/i-miss-the-peoples-pledge/

[keithn.livejournal.com]

The same is true of Pat, as the article points out.

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

Massachusetts Teachers aren't from Massachusetts? Fascinating.

[keithn.livejournal.com]

There was nothing in your comment or the context of the thread that would clue me in that you were arbitrarily defining "outside" as "outside the state" rather than the commonly understood definition. (https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/) A simple clarification would have been more appropriate than gratuitous sarcasm.

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I should have totally said Wall Street hedge fund guys and not teachers in our state, to be clearer. You are quite right. http://bluemassgroup.com/2016/09/200000-to-buy-a-mass-senate-seat-for-a-former-virginia-republican/

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).

[keithn.livejournal.com]

I have been receiving mailers mostly from Pat Jehlen and groups campaigning on her behalf. I had three delivered at once on Saturday. It's getting a bit absurd.

Leland Cheung did somehow get my e-mail address and I have been receiving e-mails from him.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if I was the only person who was getting spam from him without having signed up for anything. Apparently not. :/

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Yep, me too. And I would never have given him my e-mail since I support his opponent. Ugh.

[avacon.livejournal.com]

He got my (single-use) email address from when I donated to the Elizabeth Warren campaign which is how I know where he got it from. I find this extremely sketchy and it reminded me a few weeks ago that I needed to ask for one of Pat's yard signs.

[madrigal.livejournal.com]

I've been getting them, and I don't live in Somerville, Medford, Cambridge, or Winchester.