I’m overwhelmed with gratitude today, and I wanted to take a moment to thank the BMG Community for everything you’ve done for me and for my campaign over the past few months.
Your support — the time you spent volunteering for this campaign, the money you contributed, and of course the BMG Kiss of Death (!) — has been nothing short of incredible.
Although we didn’t reach the result we were hoping for last night, we have much to be proud of.
In just five months, we went from zero — no name recognition, no money, just a few hardy volunteers — to 36% percent of the vote, against an incumbent who began this campaign with over $1 million in the bank.
That’s a serious accomplishment, and it could not have been done without you.
The fact is, we sent a message. Voters registered their dissatisfaction with the job that Congressman Lynch has been doing — and although, in a low-turnout election, it wasn’t enough to put us over the edge, I know he heard the message.
In my work over the years, I’ve learned that one of the most important ways of building power and influence for the progressive movement is by reminding those in power that we DO notice when they vote the wrong way. And when they vote the wrong way too often, on too many important issues, we hold them accountable.
That’s what we did in this campaign. Thanks to you, Congressman Lynch knows we are paying attention — and I think he’ll think twice before casting votes that would hurt working families again in the future.
And the fight for Better Democrats doesn’t end here. We lost this race, but there will be more elections to come, and many more ways for all of us to get and stay involved, and keep pushing for better representation.
Thanks again for all of your help and support over the past few months. A candidate couldn’t have asked for a better team of supporters to have on his side.
It takes two tries to knock off someone so deeply entrenched. Imagine if you don’t start from zero, where you could end up…
This was the start, and in 2012 when you run against Lynch, you’ll be leaps and bounds ahead of where you were in APril 2010!
How about against Brown?
Lynch is running for Senate in 2012. It’ll be an open seat.
The notion of “Senator Lynch” gives me serious heebie jeebies.
I’d vote for Brown-the liberal in that race.
It gives me nausea
he’ll never get passed a statewide primary.
Thanks for carrying the banner. More time we could have done better for you. In Medfield this week the headline is D’Alessandro Beats Lynch 453 – 453.. Seriously, you tied a long time incumbent US Congressman, in not the most liberal town in the district.
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p>We need to keep this going, keep this organization going. A couple of years of work and we can do much better. I know you’ve got a family to take care of, but I hope you can be a part of this going forward.
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p>A few months ago, when this idea of challenging Lynch started percolating, someone here asked who the progressive champion in the 9th district was.
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p>Now we know.
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p>Thanks Mac!
Coulda knocked me over w/ a feather when I heard. Kudos.
But just that one more vote!!
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p>It was Mac. We had him on TV, he came to our breakfast, we saw more of him than we’ve ever seen Lynch. Good grassroots (love those dear friend cards) effort for the time we had.
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p>But seriously, this was people responding to Mac, and a latent anti-Lynch vote.
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p>www.medfield.tv has Mac’s speech at our breakfast. He was really hitting his stride.
DINO.
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p>Perhaps,the public needs a good dose of right-wing policies before they come to their collective senses.
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p>This is far worse than the days of Barry Goldwater’s “In your heart you know he’s right”. Today, if you take a deep breath you may inhale the faint smell of burning books and more – the marginalizing of “defectives” and those vile suspects are not part of the master race.
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p>If you need more proof just check out that certifiable nut, Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor of the great state of New York.
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p>If you can’t say it can happen here look to Berlin in the 1930’s -the most sophisticated city in Europe and how if fell into the sewer of history.
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p>Wilkommen and Bienvenu – come to the Caberet.
For running. Without “more and better Democrats” actually doing the running, we couldn’t have a choice. I second the “run again, especially run for this seat again please!”
Deval lost in South Boston to Blank, 45 to 55. Run again if you want, Mr. Mac, but if you refuse to come to your senses on your policies, you might want to find more hospitable territory next time.
I find it extremely hard to believe that South Boston pulled a total of 110 Democratic ballots.
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p>Perhaps you mean one particular ward? 110 would still be a low turnout, but talking junk to somebody who ran for Congress because of the results of one ward in South Boston is what some like to call overexuberant extrapolation. The plural of anecdote is not data, m’kay?
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And totally unreported. I haven’t seen Governor’s numbers by neighborhood anywhere.
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p>It’s possible, I suppose that you are talking about a single precinct’s votes?
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p>But there were 6,700 votes cast in the Fourth Suffolk House race (this “South Boston” district includes all of Ward 6, most of ward 7 and two other precincts). With a total of 21 precincts, that’s an average of 319 votes per precinct.
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p>To get only 110 votes, you must be “reporting” on one of the lowest turnout precincts in the whole district?
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p>What are you talking about?
Not sure what the Governor’s results have to do with Mac. What exactly do they have in common? Hmmm….. oh yeah, they’re both….. from Milton.
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p>You’re probably right, South Boston is not “hospitable territory” for Mac. But he went in there and he talked to people. Lynch hides in there, won’t come out and talk to anybody else. His office is as far away from the people in the district as it could be; it’s closer to Nova Scotia than to most of us.
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p>And, as for blanks, Lynch gets a boatload himself.
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Like most Republican policies, actually.
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p>Also, you are full of sh*t.
Remember our man Harold Washington had to try a few times before he was finally the Man on Five. To go from where you started from just seven months ago to where you were today. Now you have a full two years to go. And who knows, maybe Lynch will vote like a Democrat after this.