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[ron_newman]

Questions 5 and 6 are on the ballot only in Denise Provost's legislative district, which covers about half of Somerville. Question 4 is also on the ballot in many other parts of the state, but not in the parts of Somerville that are in Tim Toomey's or Carl Sciortino's districts.

All of these are non-binding questions, "instructing" the legislator to vote in a particular way. Anyone can put such questions on the ballot by collecting 200 valid signatures within a legislative district.

I'm enthusiastically supporting Question 4, to immediately withdraw all US troops from Iraq. I'll be distributing their flyers around my neighborhood later this week.

I'm voting no on 5 and 6, primarily because I don't want to reward the obnoxious behavior of their sponsors, the Somerville Divestment Project. They have disrupted a Board of Aldermen meeting (and been expelled from it), they have harassed a friend of mine by calling her a "racist" in public, and they refused to follow established rules when collecting signatures for a city referendum campaign last year.