election tomorrow

[cos]

Tomorrow, Tuesday May 15th, is the general election for the open seat on the Somerville Board of Aldermen. The two top candidates from last month's primary, Marty Martinez and Jack Connolly will be on the ballot.

Polls are open 7am - 8pm, and you can find your polling place at WhereDoIVoteMA.com. All Somerville voters can vote in this election (election info from the city).

Many people who voted in the primary will forget to vote again tomorrow, so both candidates need some new voters as well as many of their supporters from April as they can get. If you're supporting Jack, this is your chance to make a comeback; if you're supporting Marty, don't assume he'll win. Vote!

Comments

[ron_newman]

davis_square is also an 'open blog', but it feels very different from the Somerville News blog. Read both for a while and you'll see what I mean.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what you mean. Sometimes Somerville News-y posters leak in, but the moderators usually ban them. I don't think anybody's ever been banned from the Somerville News blog.

I find the Somerville News endlessly amusing because (especially in the print edition) they really seem to assume you know who they're talking about, even when they don't use real names.

It's still better than the Talk Back (or whatever it is called) section in the Somerville Journal.

[ron_newman]

Speak Out. I consider it entirely worthless and never read it. I don't understand why the Journal devotes so much space to it, let alone the staff time of transcribing all those phone calls.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it is still true, but back in the day when I worked on a newspaper you had to have a certain amount of content to offset the ads. I don't remember the exact ratio, but it was something like 33% news to 66% ads. Speak Out counts as news, and transcribing phone calls is less work than actually writing an article (and hopefully editing and fact-checking it).

Blah, blah, blah.

[turil.livejournal.com]

Please put that in the paper...

:-)

I haven't actually read the paper in a couple of years, so I don't know if that person still calls Speak Out at least a couple of times a week any more, but I was always amused when he or she popped up with that same phrase...