Election in Somerville next Tuesday

[ron_newman]

Next Tuesday, September 25, Somerville will hold a preliminary election. Voters citywide will choose a candidate for Mayor. Residents of Ward 6 (the area around Davis Square) will also choose a candidate for ward alderman. Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm. This page will tell you where to vote, and what ward you live in.

Three candidates are running for each of these offices. The top two finishers next week will move on to the general election on November 6.

Websites for mayoral candidates:
Joe Curtatone (incumbent)
Suzanne Bremer
Rick Scirocco

Websites for Ward 6 alderman candidates
Rebekah Gewirtz (incumbent)
Bob Adams
Charles Chisholm

Links to Somerville Journal coverage
Mayoral hopefuls detail how they would help city’s poorest (each candidate answers 4 questions from local anti-poverty organizations)
Vote to narrow field of candidates Tuesday
In try to unseat Curtatone, challengers have their own stumbling blocks
Ward 6 incumbent facing two challengers

Candidates' responses to questionnaires from ...
Local anti-poverty organizations
Progressive Democrats of Somerville
Somerville Dog Owners' Group (som|dog)

My earlier LJ post about this election

Comments

[elements.livejournal.com]

You rock. Thanks for compiling this!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much for all the data. I gotta say, neither Bremer nor Scirocco comes off sounding very good in most of that coverage. Looks to me like Joe C is a lock.

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Bremer comes across as nice and idealistic-minded but with little idea of how to make things actually work.

Scirocco, meanwhile, comes across as a crazy person who maybe should have had someone working for his campaign fill out the questionnaires for him.

[ron_newman]

I went to the PDS candidates' night. I liked Suzanne Bremer a lot, but she seemed underprepared for the questione. Scirocco came across very badly, especially when he said Somerville tourism would benefit from siting a casino in Revere.

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

So, basically the same thing in person as in writing. :)