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House and Senate Candidate Update

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I started with the official candidate list as published by the Secretary’s office. The Green and Libertarian parties each list one candidate on their sites. The Republicans have a few more candidates that are not on the Secretary’s site; some of them I could verify as write-in candidates, so I assume the rest are as well. The Democrats’ candidate list looks like a straight reprint (although it’s missing the candidates for the Senate seat in Berkshire et al.)

Non-party candidates are at the mercy of mentions in the media or online, as the Secretary’s office hasn’t published that list yet.

I then cross-checked the list against the Office of Campaign Finance list of campaign committees. There are three new committees that are not on my list because I can’t find any evidence of an actual campaign (Looby, Devers, and Plasse).

Most of the web sites came via Google, although there are a few sites out there with local candidate links, or partisan links such as GOP News.

This is a work in progress, as I assume that there are more candidates with web pages out there, or will be added as we approach the general election.

I’m maintaining the list in a spreadsheet, which will assist in revisions and the full-scale reorg after the primary.

Feel free to link to this or use it, but I’d prefer some sort of credit.

Suggestions for improvement are also welcome.

Patrick

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    • my point of that post was to give you a reference to compare too, and to encourage you to update the wikipedia article if needed đŸ™‚

  2. A while ago I’d emailed around the links to David’s BMG “The Fix 1 and 2”, and also printed them out for the Alliance to Defend Health Care to use as a resource for electoral district-based community organizing.  Patrick, what you have built with the links and all is going to be so useful.  Thank you.

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    p.s. it continues to stun me when I see the pitifully low number of legislators who have a candidate challenging them/ engaging them and the local community in a dialogue about pressing issues.

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