This time Rep. Steve Walsh of Lynn will resign to become Executive Director of Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals. I think there should be a provision (obviously requiring a constitutional amendment) that says that a seat filled by special election after the filing deadline for the regular election is exempt from being contested in that regular election. In other words, whoever is elected to fill Walsh’s seat this summer shouldn’t have to run again until 2016.
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I suspect April 1 will be the last special election this year.
That’s not my preference either. If it were after the summer recess starts, OK, but there will probably still be sessions and votes after April 1.