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[camwyn]

Massachusetts is having one of its outbreaks of democracy tomorrow. There's a state Senate seat coming up for special election- the office holder left so he could go be a lobbyist- and the primary's tomorrow. We've got ... I think six.... Democrat candidates running for the seat, and I think I saw something in the North End news web site about a Republican trying for it as well. Not that you'd know it. There are signs ALL. OVER. THE. PLACE. for the various Democratic candidates, and there are phone calls- I've been ignoring those- and there are action committee people going door to door (including, in one particularly outstanding case, one candidate's father). And there are candidates at the subway stations. Not just campaigners for them. Actual candidates. I think I've seen Joseph Boncore two, maybe three, times, and Lydia Edwards at least once, and... shoot, one of the other guys, might've been Petrucelli. I'm not really used to having this many political people showing this much enthusiasm for the area where I live.

I've already warned my boss that I may be late tomorrow because I plan to vote before coming in to work. I'd rather get my 'I VOTED NOW LEAVE ME ALONE' sticker as early as possible.

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[sdelmonte]

Is there a candidate you actually like (as opposed to the standard "holding your nose and picking the least of the evils")?

[camwyn]

Two, actually. One of them is an attorney who worked to push through the Massachusetts law offering basic rights protection to domestic workers- she's been an advocate and an attorney on behalf of a lot of low-income causes, especially immigrant domestic workers grossly abused by their so-called employers- for years. The other one is an immigrants-and-women advocate who founded a leadership group for getting her fellow Asian-American women into politics and has experience in legislation on immigrants' rights and affordable health care.

Not so thrilled with the other four, esp. the real estate developer who was formerly mayor of a nearby town, but I have a hold-my-nose candidate among them if there's a runoff and neither of the two women I favor gets a slot.