Special election

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

While looking on the city website for the library hours, I came across this notice:

Board Of Aldermen Sets Calendar For Special Election To Fill At-Large Vacancy

SOMERVILLE – Board of Election Commissioners Chairman Nicholas Salerno announced today the dates and deadlines approved by the Board of Aldermen Thursday for the City’s Special Election for Alderman at Large. The election will be held to fill the Board seat vacated when State Representative Denise Provost resigned on October 26, 2006. The Preliminary Election will be held Tuesday, April 10, 2007, and the Final Election is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15, 2007.


Anyone have any links to the candidates?

Comments

Re: more on Marty...

[ron_newman]

What was Robert Daut like at the second candidates' forum you attended? I only went to one forum, the one sponsored by the Somerville News at the Independent.

Re: more on Marty...

[rollzroix.livejournal.com]

Daut is easily the best public speaker of the three, IMHO (I think he's a former prosecutor of some sort). I gave him a point for political courage at an east somerville forum. There was a question about the hypothetical jail - Martinez and Connolly said what this particular audience wanted to hear (which may well be their opinion, so they didn't lose points with me): that they would oppose it unconditionally. Daut refused to say that, and earned some hissing from the group but a little "non-pander" point from me.

The negative I have for him is that I sense he's not particularly in tune to the issues facing the city. He's selling himself as an outsider, but even outsiders have to have a firm grasp of the issues, and I'm not sure he does at this point.

Re: more on Marty...

[ron_newman]

If there's one issue that people in Somerville are nearly unanimous on, it's that a jail would bring no benefit to our city.

Re: more on Marty...

[rollzroix.livejournal.com]

nearly unanimous?

Did you take a poll?

Nobody wants higher taxes, nobody wants cuts in services, and yet the police station is said to be a "sick building". Something's gotta give.

There would be a benefit: $ not spent on building a new police station.

I don't endorse this approach for financing municipal projects, and I really don't want a new jail in Somerville either. But until we start to change our collective perspective on taxation and services, this type of short-term thinking and associated hare-brained schemes are going to continue to manifest themselves.

Re: more on Marty...

[lena-a-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Robert Daut showed up at the East Somerville forum about 55 minutes late. They even held off starting for a half hour after the posted start time waiting for him but finally had to start without him.