Hello All:
This will be my last post on Blue Mass Group. I would like to thank David and Charley for their kind assistance to help me forward my candidacy. I have found that I could not get the help necessary to get the signatures needed to be a candidate for State Senate.
I hereby withdraw myself from this campaign, and I will also inform the Ward 19 Democratic Committee that I no longer wish to be a member of that organization. I will forfeit my delegate seat to the Democratic State Convention also.
If anyone asks for my assistance, it will not be forthcoming. It is now clear to me that no one in the Democratic Party remembers or appreciates the hard work that was done by me on their behalf. I am really disgusted that the people who know me in this forum were not supportive or would not stick up for me. Especially KATE.
I will never seek elective office again, so I have no fear to speak my mind now. Mayor Menino should quit crying about the financial situation in the City of Boston and issue some bonds due to the excellent bond rating we have.
Democrats should stick up for their principles and end the terrible practice of allowing employers and insurers to use someones’ credit rating against them. It is financial discrimination, and it is really targeting the poor and the communities of color in Massachusetts.
I will not bother to contact elected officials regarding issues any longer, as it usually does no good. e.g. Clean Elections (which I worked my tail off for) & Allowing Charitable Donations to be deductible from State taxes.
Sincerely,
Wayne Wilson
Roslindale
P.S. And yes Representative Scaccia, the system is broken and it has been for years.
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17 Comments . Leave a comment below.A few Saturdays in front of the post office gets you much of the way there.
It seems you should stay and fight for your principles.
I especially resent this paragraph:
You always seem to be drawing attention to how much work you've done and insinuating you are somehow owed for that. Is that Kate Donaghue you are refering to above? It's generally not her way to get into back-and-forths about the merits of various candidates, and she does not attack candidates; she usually gives input as to rules and procedures of the party. I really hope I've misidentified whom you are refering to, but she does use Kate as her handle here. She has also probably done more for the party and it's candidates than most of the rest of us combined so to call her out is really not cool.
Were you expecting signature help from here? This is a statewide blog so probably only a handful of regulars live within a given Senate district.
The Globe ran an article on his 2006 campaign entitled "Wayne's World Here's a few quotes:
Despite all this, Wayne felt qualified to attack his opponent's conviction record.
The same article has a brief history of his political activity:
Which makes this diary even stranger.
I had not known/remembered this about him.
You seemed to have expected everyone to jump out of the woodwork to volunteer for you without having to actually bother to first make a case as to why we should support you as a candidate.
For me, this post leads me to conclude that while you may have progressive sentiments, you are far more concerned with how you personally are treated than in actually accomplishing things for your constituents. Instead of pounding the pavement to drum up signatures and volunteers for yourself, you just give up in a fit of petulance. You should have been able to gather 300 signatures all by yourself if it came to it, and with the help of one or two friends should have been able to do the job in an afternoon. If you can't even do that, then how would you have any hope of running a successful campaign or getting things accomplished if elected?
It is really too bad, because I live in the district and probably would have supported you if you had made a better case for yourself.
I was kind in regard to my statement here. I could have been a lot more mean spirited like others here have been to me. My wife works nights on Fridays & Saturdays so getting out on a Saturday with two small children to look after was impossible. I do not believe that it was possible to get the remaining 110 signatures I needed, and I had several people who made promises to help that flaked on me. I got over 200 signatures myself, and the straw that broke my back and my will was that someone who promised the day before to help me didn't show and didn't even call.
My past is far behind me, and I wanted to do some good things if I was fortunate enough to get elected. I will not worry about that now, I will look out for my wife and family first. I had made the case for myself time and time again, but it was falling on deaf ears. Don't worry about me seeking office EVER again, I will not make myself available when the Democratic Party is desperate for someone to coordinate an event or a phonebank. They have been before and they received my help. They will get the same response that they gave to me.
"Are you F___ING happy now I'm lost here with nothing?" - Mudvayne
Sincerely, Wayne Wilson Roslindale
It's not as if the Democratic Party is your friend so that if you do it favors it should do you favors.
In my opinion, you're taking this far too personally. One supports the Democratic Party not because it does one personal favors but to bring about certain outcomes, political and governmental. If you're looking for something cozier, maybe a different civic association would be better for you.
Also being a candidate is immensely hard work. There are a lot of doors to knock on. Fundraising phone calls are best made by the candidate himself (or herself). That means a lot of fundraising phone calls. If getting organized to gather 300 signatures was going to be a problem, then actual campaigning might not prove so successful.
do yourself a favor and quote a song off one of their GOOD CD's.
Couldn't you have gone with "middle finger is the flag that I wave when I'm ......................"
Lost and Found blows.
As long as politician and DJ are not your day jobs, I would reccomend you do not quit your day job.
We all have families and responsibilities of our own. If you choose to run for office you don't get to complain about how you don't have enough time to do what is needed. If you don't have enough time to get signatures then you definitely will not have enough time for campaigning or actually executing the responsibilities of the office you are running for.
I also fail to see why you are blaming the Democratic Party for failing to provide you with enthusiastic and obedient slave labor simply because you express interest in running and have volunteered yourself.
One thing you should learn and learn quickly about volunteer organizations is that volunteers have a tendency to overpromise and underdeliver. No shows without phone calls are not rare and if you need 300 signatures, a plan to obtain exactly 300 signatures is doomed.
You need a plan to obtain at least twice that.
If you're too lazy to go out and get 300 signatures on your own, then A.) You don't deserve to be elected, and B.) If I was a candidate for office, I wouldn't want your help. You have no one to blame here but yourself.
who apparently ran for State Rep. with no incumbent in the race and only managed 75 votes. Seems like delusional is par for this particular course.
...he dropped out before the election, but after the ballot was set.
Takes nothing away from the point many people made here, which is his feeling that because he put time into party activities therefore the party owes him. I always thought that being involved in Democratic politics was done because we actually believed in the values of the party and/or candidates in question. If the only reason to be involved is to get payback at some future date, I'm going about this all wrong.
Also, the mere act of calling yourself a progressive doesn't actually make it so.
GEORGE: I think I could be a philanthropist. A kick ass philanthropist. I would have all this money, and people would love me. Then they would come to me and beg! And if I felt like it, I would help them out. And then they would owe me big time!
...First thing I'm gonna need is a driver.
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