A bit of old news from Cambridge: multi-term City Councillor Marjorie Decker has decided to focus on school — she is a student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government — and will not contest fellow multi-term City Councillor Anthony Galluccio in his race for the Senate seat currently held by Jarret Barrios. That leaves Galluccio without a declared opponent to the best of my knowledge.
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An uncontested election for an open state Senate seat? Come on, residents of the helpfully-named Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex district – at least make it interesting!
At least the Libertarians or Greens should run a candidate.
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If the Greens ran a candidate, they could beat the GOP into third place.
is that a candidate from Chelsea is taking his sweet time on getting into the Dem. primary. Word is also that he would be more conservative than Galluccio.
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in any event, we will hopefully have Galluccio at the March DFA Cambridge meeting, so we’ll get to grill him till the cows come home on rent control, taxes, schools.. you name it!
Alice Wolf indicated interest in this race — Is she out?
I saw a source on this about three weeks ago, although I don’t have it at hand.
That’s a shame–I would have supported Alice big time. I work in the area, though i don’t live there, and would have been happy to volunteer for her after work. As for Gallucio–no way.
Alice would have been nice, but you will be happy with Galluccio. I live in the district in West Cambridge and have become a big fan of his over the years. He is true progressive â not some limousine liberal from Brattle Street who shows up to cocktail parties with a lot of hollow talk. And he is certainly not a conservative, as many of those folks in that crowd like to paint him as.
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Heâs pro-choice (http://bostonnow.site.yahoo.net/camcan.html), pro-marriage (http://www.baywindows.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=8A63B81671FA4D6082283EB26335A4C8), pro-labor, supports election reform in Cambridge and youâll never find anyone who works harder on affordable housing issues in our city (http://www.galluccio.org/issues.html). If his opposition to rent control makes him conservative, than I guess he and Robert Reich are two peas in a pod (http://robertreich.org/news/Press090602a.asp).
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He has support from people all over the district and with many different views and backgrounds and it takes someone like that to get 21 votes together to actually get legislation passed in the Senateâ¦hopefully youâll get a chance to meet him at the March DFA meeting, I think you like what you hear from himâ¦
I would love for Galluccio to surprise me. But honestly, having moved about 6 times in the 7.5 years I’ve lived in Boston, often because of rising rents, I think that rent control is a real issue. The fact that Robert Reich didn’t support it means next to nothing to me. Reich is a lovely guy, but he’s no yardstick to determine what a progressive is.
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When you say that no one works harder than Galluccio for affordable housing, could you elaborate? his website lists four things, all of which are good, though many are things on which I suspect that he didn’t have much opposition (like the CPA. It says that he was involved in the creation and preservation of 464 units of affordable housing in the last 4 years. How many of those were created in that time, and how many were preserved? I’m fairly cewrtain that 464 new units weren’t built in the last four years, and that wording sounds pretty slippery. What does he say of the fact that even with those units, the Cambridge Housing Authority waitlist is two years long and, last I heard, not even taking new names? What affordable housing organizations are supporting him?
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I don’t disbelieve you, but a vague statement like that doesn’t convince me either. As I said, I’d love for Galluccio to surprise me, but you haven’t won me over yet.