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

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

The Somerville News Blog may have some questionable comments, but it also has more truth than many would like to believe. Few on this site, for instance, know that Marty Martinez was not endorsed by the Somerville Police as he claims - but only by the Executive Board (totally different). People on this site are also unaware of Martinez' history with the city, especially in the Youth Department, where he caused many (documented) problems by catering to known members of gangs such as MS-13. So ignore it if you choose, but people who are truly well-informed and intelligent usually like to get glimpses of all viewpoints before making a decision!

[turil.livejournal.com]

The thing is, the point of creating the youth program is to get and keep kids out of the gangs. That would mean that you would indeed have to "welcome" them into the program, so that you could work with them to help them find better things to do with their lives, and better groups to hang out with than the gangs. So Connolly just sounds to me like he actually wants to keep kids in gangs! (Though I'm guessing that that's not really what he wants.)

I don't know much about Martinez, but at least he sounds like he cares. Whereas Connolly sounds like he's a bitter and cranky and confused guy.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

You could actually talk to him. He's very accessible and his office is right in Davis Square. Then rather than guessing what he's about you could actually find out.

[ron_newman]

I wouldn't call him bitter or cranky, but I strongly disliked his campaign literature over the past two weeks. Instead of telling us what Jack would do for the city, he chose to spread fear.

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

The Somerville News blog *does* have questionable comments and probably more truth than we'd like to believe. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to decipher the real information from the personal grudges that a lot of the posters seem to have against anyone in public office. If the goal of the posters is to communicate their dissatisfaction and generate community outrage about injustices, the posters there would be better served by dropping the nicknames, allusions and inside jokes. A clear sourced statement of dissatisfaction would be much more credible and more likely to win hearts and minds.