go vote!

[totient]

I got a letter the other day from Jack Connolly, Bruce Desmond, and Dennis Sullivan. You may have too, if you live in Somerville, but even (especially) if you don't: These are the three biggest old-school machine politicians left in Somerville government, the ones I'd most like to see defeated every time Aldermanic elections come around. They're endorsing Guy Glodis in the primary election for Auditor, and they're why you should go vote for Suzanne Bump today. These guys -- and Glodis himself -- got where they are by having a machine, and defeating them requires good turnout.

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Almost as bad as Verizon FIOS

[drbitch.livejournal.com]

Glodis had already pissed me off with postal and phone spam before I read up on him. I know that inundating me with glossy, smarmy flyers does not necessarily correlate with "avoid," but sometimes the personal is indeed the political :-).

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

did my civic duty. ho hum.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed that they're endorsing Guy Glodis. I agree with you on Connolly, so really I could care less if he endorsed an annoying candidate, but I actually generally like Dennis Sullivan. I've never met him, but have found the fact that he seems to genuinely be available to listen to his constituents all over the city refreshing. Not so surprising that plenty of those constituents believe in the old-school style of Somerville politics, I suppose, but am I wrong to believe that if I went to his "office hours" and talked to him he wouldn't tune me out?

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually I'm pretty neutral on Sullivan, and he seems from what little I've seen of city government to at least be responsive to his constituents, though I might not always agree with what that means.