The candidate added that he supports an effort to reinvigorate the Clean Elections laws (blocked by the hackocracy). This has been done, he said, in Maine, Arizona, Connecticut and Vermont. He urged that we make voting easier through election day registration and other measures.
With respect to the Secretary’s management of corporations, Bonifaz pointed to his Corporate Citizenship Initiatives, which maps out a variety of approaches that would stiffen regulatory oversight over corporations.
Bonifaz said he supported Open Document over the proprietary Microsoft-only document management software systems currently used by the state in many areas. “I do not think that any one corporation should dictate the document formatting system for the state,” he said.
In general, he said, we should make more documents more available online. “We ought to set the tone: government is us, it is about us,” he added.
Finally, the discussion turned to politics. I asked why Galvin is called the Prince of Darkness. “He’s certainly not one who is visible. He’s a machine politician who has worked to build up his position over the years,” Bonifaz offered. He said Galvin may have broken campaign finance laws by accepting free office space for his campaign from a corporation without reporting the values of the office space as a donation. Click here for the Bonifaz campaign’s complaint to OCPF.
Galvin has not faced a challenger since he was elected in 1994, according to Bonifaz. Click here for the sound of a panicked incumbent actually aware that he has a race on his hands. A recent Suffolk University poll found that 49% of voters are undecided in this contest, Bonifaz said.
the “chicken cackle” recording at the bottom is in poor taste.
At a minimum, please alert the reader about the link target, at the maximum, delete the link.
I would give you a zero, for the chicken-cackling clip. That sort of thing is no different than some of the foolishness we’ve seen here on this forum that has generated warnings from the moderators, or has been outright deleted.
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The chicken that says “W. Galvin” on every page is allowed to cluck but the diary isn’t?
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Do senses of humor stop working within two weeks of the election?
It’s a blog, not a university seminar, and Galvin should debate.
If you posted a picture of a person in a straight jacket and labeled that person “Smart Mass” we’d delete the comment. The rules are intended to maintain civility in the community of people on this blog. But if you labeled that person “John Bonifaz” there would be no problem: it is a comment on a politician and public figure, not a personal attack on one of the members of this community where we are trying to have a conversation. More broadly, Galvin is being an absolute wuss by refusing to debate and should be fired immediately on grounds of cowardice, if nothing else, so long as he refuses to participate in the democratic process that got him his job working for us in the first place. The cluck cluck cluckeroo is hilarious, and apt.
Name sounds familiar – do he work for Massachusetts?? I have never seen or heard of him in my neck of the woods.
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Put him in the entitled category with Steve Lynch http://www.boston.co…
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Why do OUR elected official feel that WE (the electorate) do not matter????
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I am getting more and more excited to vote for John Bonifaz, who I don’t even really like and kind of think is completely too liberal and represents all the things that the Republicans and Moderates think of when they stereotype liberal democrats.
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But for it is a vote against Galvin. I must remember on election day I am voting against Galvin and not necessarily for Bonifaz!
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GALVIN HAS GOT TO GO!!!!
That seems a little random. It’s probably in the range of 100,000-150,000, but that’s just an educated guess.