I don’t know much about each race, but here is a listing of the Senate races. I hope you all will help and chime in with opinions on who progressives should be supporting and why.
In parentheses are the current seat holders and the party that they belong to.
First Bristol & Plymouth (Menard-D)
Michael Coogan
Lieutenant, Fall River Fire Department
Lorne Lawless
Former Somerset Selectman
John Mitchell
Attorney and former Mayor of Fall River
Michael Rodrigues
State Rep. (8th Bristol)
Cape & Islands (O’Leary-D)
Sheila Lyons
Barnstable County Commissioner
Daniel Wolf
Co-Founder of Cape Air
Hampden (Buoniconti-D)
Susan Dawson
Former Agawam Mayor
Ronald Patenaude
President of United Auto Workers Local 2322
James Welch
State Rep. (6th Hampden)
First Middlesex (Panagiotakos-D)
Christian Doherty
Prosecutor – Middlesex District Attorney’s Office
Eileen Donoghue
Attorney and former Mayor of Lowell
Middlesex & Essex (Tisei-R)
Katherine Clark
State Rep. (32nd Middlesex)
Michael Seamus Day
Attorney
Second Essex & Middlesex (Tucker-D)
Barry Finegold
State Rep. (17th Suffolk)
Debbie Silberstein
Andover School Committee member
John Wilson Jr.
Attorney and former Chief-of-Staff to Senator John O’Brien
(John Kelly will appear on the ballot but has dropped out and endorsed Wilson)
Suffolk & Norfolk (Walsh-D)
Michael F. Rush
State Rep (10th Suffolk)
Michael F. Walsh
Attorney
Norfolk & Plymouth (Morrissey-D)
John Keenan
Quincy City Councilor
Arthur Tobin
State Rep. (2nd Norfolk)
None of these races are mine – I will certainly have more of an opinion on some of the open house races in the far-west of the state.
Who are you supporting? And why?
