The Dorchester Reporter has always been one of the quality neighborhood papers in terms of political reporting, and this piece goes beyond the neighborhood borders to report on the inclinations of John Connolly, John Tobin, Sonia Chang-Diaz, Linda Dorcena-Forry and more.
Well worth the read. Pieces of it will probably find its way into the MSM soon.
Please share widely!
interesting article, howard.
<
p>
question: is an at-large city council seat considered “better” than a state rep seat?
<
p>
there was a mention of perhaps linda dorcena forry, recently elected as state rep, serving as a city coucil member. is that a step up or down?
On what one wants to do, Linda could certainly move up the House ranks, become a committee chair or vice chair. Charlotte Richie became Housing and Urban Development Chair fairly quickly and Marie St Fleur has been Education Chair and Ways and Means Vice Chair.
<
p>
The flip side is, at large councilors represent the whole city, get to pick the issues on which they’d like to focus, and (as is true for all councilors), they make more money than their House counterparts. And people perceive that it’s a good launch pad for mayor, though only Ray Flynn got elected from that job (and Ray had been a state rep before)in recent years. Joe Tierney, Maura Hennigan, Rosaria Salerno and Bruce Bolling were all at large councilors who ran for mayor and .
<
p>
I like Linda a lot, she’ll be great whichever way she decides to go.
<
p>
H.
left out the words “were unsuccessful”