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  1. I have been trying to get a bonifaz sign for this afternoon but have not been getting through (via email) to the b’faz campaign… sigh I guess I’ll have to pick up the phone

    • Look for me in front of Hudson’s Stop and Shop tonight. I’ll be the one with both a patrick and a bonifaz sign…

    • Galvin has been actively avoiding any debate with his opponents. I don’t see how pointing that out is a cheap shot in any way.

      • to call him a coward for it?

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        Maybe a debate simply isn’t in his interest- it often isn’t for politicians who are in the lead or who have more name recognition.

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        I don’t know. Like I said, I’m not following the race.

        • I don’t see the word coward anywhere in the post. To say he is afraid, well yes…I think he is afraid.

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          This is all aside from the fact that as the primary protector of the election process, he should be willing to participate in a debate, which is a vital part of that process.

        • but his interests have nothing to do with it. He’s the elections leader and should be doing things that are in democracy’s interest. You don’t always debate because you want to, you debate because it’s the right thing to do.

        • Maybe a debate simply isn’t in his interest- it often isn’t for politicians who are in the lead or who have more name recognition.

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          That’s exactly right – Galvin calculates that having a debate with Bonifaz would not be in his interest.  And I agree – he’d lose votes.  I think so because I believe Bonifaz is a superior candidate.  Galvin’s take is probably more along the lines of “voters don’t know who Bonifaz is yet, and if I don’t engage in a campaign, fewer of them will try to find out,” which I think is what you’re suggesting.  Either way, this is about his interest in getting re-elected.

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          The blogs, though, are more concerned with the voters’ interests, and debates between the candidates serve those.  Long before most of these blogs endorsed Bonifaz, they were calling for Galvin to debate him, even though some of them were leaning towards supporting Galvin.

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          Bill Galvin fears losing votes.  He’s looking out for his interest.  Calling him on it, is part of looking out for the voters’ interest.

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          P.S. If elected, John Bonifaz will debate any opponent who runs against him, regardless of the political advantage.

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          p>  — Cos, Bonifaz’s campaign blogger

            • We’ll see how that endorsement goes over tomorrow bright and early (8AM!) at the GLAD meeting. 

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              I’m usually a Saturday-sleeper-in type, but I’m not missing this for nuthin’.  g

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              Plus, you gotta get there somehow, right? đŸ˜› 

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              I voted for Galvin at the convention.  I’m voting for Bonifaz in the primary.

  4. As does every politician in a democracy. The chickens who refuse to debate dishonor themselves and undermine our democratic system. Basically, they’re not democrats although they may be Democrats. It is particularly galling that the state’s chief elections official has such evident disdain for the system he is sworn to uphold. A symptom of the disease incumbentitis entitlitis that afflicts our Commonwealth.

    • A load of rhetorical bullshit. Politicians are forced to  be interested in, to at least some degree, strategy. ‘A duty to debate?’ You’ve got to have some better reasoning than that, Bob.

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