My personal editorial comment: There’s one question both Bonifaz and Galvin deal with at length, and the contrast between the two of them shows up very clearly. The question is how to get more people to vote, in light of lower voter confidence and lower turnout in local elections last year.
Galvin says his job was to make it easier to register (stepping around the fact that he’s been in office 12 years without accomplishing the most obvious step towards that goal: election day registration), and the rest is up to the candidates. If they present motivating messages that convince people voting matters, people will vote.
Bonifaz, instead of shifting responsibility, lays out a series of concrete steps the state could take that would not only make voting easier, but would reduce apathy or cynicism and increase motivation. These are things he pledges to do, rather than just wave his hands and say “if only the candidates do this…”
Anyway, do watch the videos. I think both candidates did a good job in the interviews and Q&A, and I think some of the differences between them can be seen. If you learned something you didn’t know before watching these, please do comment here and tell us what it was.
for the heads up.
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I would have never seen the interviews – sunday morning TV is just “wrong” in our house – it competes with the paper đŸ™‚
I had been thinking of posting a request for information on the Secretary’s race. I’ll check out the interviews.
I went to the PDC-DFA barbecue this afternoon, and brought some Bonifaz flyers with me. When I handed them out, several people (including a few I didn’t recognize) said “I just saw him on TV today”. Even though PDC-DFA endorsed John Bonifaz, the barbecue drew a number of people who aren’t members or regular attendees, and it seems many were not even aware there was a contest for Secretary before they say the TV piece.
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P.S. Deval Patrick dropped by the barbecue (we’ve endorsed him), as did Tim Toomey.