The following candidates have submitted letters of intent to seek the nomination of the Massachusetts Democratic Party at the 2010 Democratic State Convention in Worcester:
Deval Patrick for Governor
Grace Ross for Governor
Tim Murray for Lieutenant Governor
Martha Coakley for Attorney General
Bill Galvin for Secretary of the Commonwealth
Steve Grossman for State Treasurer
Steve Murphy for State Treasurer
Suzanne Bump for State Auditor
Guy Glodis for State Auditor
Mike Lake for State Auditor
Yesterday, was the deadline for these letters, but a candidate can also get 500 delegate signatures like Chris Gabrieli did in 2006. I have included links if I know them.
Please share widely!
as in, Boston City Councilman at-Large Steve Murphy?
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p>Dang, that dude sure doesn’t give up.
he only runs for other offices when he doesn’t have to give up his Council seat.
So when would he have to give up his seat to run for another office (other than Mayor)?
But wouldn’t it be nice if maybe he didn’t run for his Council seat this time and ran for Treasurer instead? We already knew that there would be a vacancy.
as many times as Steve Grossman has. And only half as many times as Chris Gabrieli has.
it makes us find the best candidates and bring out the best in eachother mark my works Deval wins another term
I think competition is great, and I hope that anyone who works for this job gets a place on the ballot. Haven’t seen much on Mike Lake or Steve Murphy, but I know Suzanne Bump has earned the chance to make her case to the voters. As for Grace Ross, I think (as I did two years ago with Ed O’Reilly), incumbent Democrats should be forced to make their case to the party every time.
And hopefully someone can step-up to challenge the Prince of Darkness and the Woman Formerly Known as the 60th Senator to Be, to primaries. In the case of Galvin we definitely need a change, and in the case of Coakley I think she needs another lesson in learning that she needs to earn votes and not take them for granted.
Letters of intent were due yesterday for Democrats, so Galvin and Coakley won’t have Dem challengers.
They could always get delegate signatures, but I don’t see that as realistic unless something drastically changes the race between now and convention. If you’re interested in running, why do all that work when your alternative is to just write a letter?
Though I agree a simple letter is a lot less work.
Are you high, tyler?
although you may no better than i do. Any competition is good. Gives the Dems press when it would be a Deval walk in without and at all
the democratic nominee will win
I thought several people were aching to get that job, have they actually backed out now that Coakley is back in or are they still out for it?
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p>Politics 1 has the following on its site:
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p>Are Keating, Donahue, Galvin, and/or Sutter still interested?
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p>One suspects Galvin stays put (AG not that big of a promotion) but I suspect the other three might smell blood in the water and have less to lose…
Yes, the assumption was that Coakley would become Senator. They certainly could primary her anyway, but nobody filed by yesterday at 5PM.
500 I believe is the number, and they can be collected before the convention convenes.
I still hope someone comes forward.
she oviously cant run a good campaign
And said the same thing up thread but apparently that merited me two 3’s…
it was the other bits — the obnoxious bits.
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p>Lose the pot shots, keep the substance.
It’s time for Galvin to get an opponent. Look at his web-site. The most recent “news” he posts is for a trip to Billerica in August!
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p>Galvin is sitting on a pile of cash. He should be meeting with voters.
Galvin’s Democratic opponent was John Bonifaz. I don’t think he broke 15% in the primary.
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p>Jill Stein, running for the Green-Rainbow party, made a run at Galvin in the general election, and did somewhat better. But I still don’t think she broke 40%, if I remember correctly.
Both Bonifaz in the primary, and Stein in the general, scored a mere 17% against Secretary Galvin, who exceeded 82% of the vote both times.
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The electorate is fed up with establishment Beacon Hill candidates who snub their noses at voters. Galvin is vulnerable.
Times have changed for offices in which the media can get people in a tizzy. Gov, Senate, maybe even some state lege positions. But Sec? AG? Nah. You can’t be fed up with what you don’t know exists, or give a care about.
Coakley is extremely vulnerable in my view since she was taken down a notch by Brown, the state now knows who she is and a lot of people don’t like her. Galvin could sit tight, but last time around was a Democratic year and this year I sense an anti-incumbent wave. People are tired of politics as usual and his 20 year reign of darkness is certainly indicative of politics as usual.
Absent Galvin being caught in a personally compromising position of Edwards/Sanford proportions, the vast majority of the voters in the general election simply won’t care enough to vote him out. S of S and Auditor are two positions that people simply do not care enough to figure out what they are about.
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p>Coakley — there’s another story. Yes, she’s vulnerable — especially if she’s forced to actually campaign, since she’s shown that she simply doesn’t have the political skills to known how to sell herself as a person. But is there a credible candidate from either party to take her on?