Preliminary election on Tuesday (9/10)

[3rdragon]

There are three candidates for mayor:

Joe Curtatone, incumbent (website)
Marianne Walles (website | campaign announcement in the Patch)
Kenneth Van Buskirk III (???)

Here's an article on campaign funding in Wicked Local.

Ron's post in 2017 suggested that Kenneth Van Buskirk wasn't running much of a campaign, and he doesn't seem to be running much of one this time around, either. Googling his name mostly turned up articles about how he got bumped out in the last preliminary election. I will admit to a certain amount of puzzlement as to his motivation here.

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Ward 3 also has a contested race for School Committee (note that Wicked Local has a 2 article limit unless you have an account, and a five article limit with a free account, so you may want to pick your links carefully if you don't have a paid account):
Sarah Phillips (Wicked Local Candidate Profile | Wicked Local article)
Mary Marshall (Wicked Local Candidate Profile | Wicked Local article
Michele Lippens (Wicked Local Candidate Profile | Wicked Local Article

I don't know about races in any of the other wards. Sorry if any of those links are messed up; I just realized that I should have left the house ten minutes ago.

Comments

[ron_newman]

There were no other races on the ballot in any other ward. None of the incumbent ward councilors have an opponent in November. There is one other contested School Committee race in Ward 7. The four incumbent at-large councilors have four challengers, so that will be on the November ballot. (If there had been nine candidates, we would have had a preliminary for that, too.)