Juliette Kayyem’s campaign has just emailed the following statement:
Today Juliette did what she has done from the beginning of this campaign – she put bold ideas on the table to move Massachusetts forward. While the campaign fell short of our 15% goal, Juliette got people talking about criminal justice reform, climate change, and strengthening our state’s infrastructure. Even though Juliette won’t be going to the Corner Office, she’ll keep fighting to level the playing field so that every person has a fair chance.
I haven’t seen anything official yet from the Avellone campaign, but it seems very clear that he, too, will not reach the required 15% to make the ballot. UPDATE: Avellone has now confirmed that he did not reach 15%. The vote-tallying is not complete, but as of now it seems that Martha Coakley and Don Berwick are in a close race for second place, after Steve Grossman.
Developing, as they say in the journo biz…
before it was announced on the floor? I’ve been hearing unofficial tallies for over an hour, but nothing official.
nt
…based on rounded percentages and my memory. Others can feel free to clarify or correct.
GOVERNOR
Grossman – 35%, then endorsed by acclamation
Coakley – 23%, withdrew from second ballot
Berwick – 22%
Kayyem – 12%
Avellone – 7%
LG
Kerrigan – 37%
Lake – 35%
Cheung – 16%
Arena-DeRosa – 11%
Second ballot waived
AG
Tolman – 52%
Healey – 48%
TRG
Goldberg – 38%
Conroy – 34%
Finegold – 27%
Second ballot waived
There was also an overwhelming viva voce approval of a resolution calling for the MA Constitution to be amended to clarify that “Corporations are not people; money is not speech.”
There was no opportunity for delegates to vote Yea or Nay, simply a loud applause when the motion to endorse Grossman by acclamation was made.
This is not my idea of a democratic process.
Otherwise the convention went very well.
I voted for Dr. Don Berwick, but had to, after casting my vote and getting the tellers to count it, withdraw from my seat (having not slept after Glodis Groups bash of cigars, broads, booze, carrot sticks and fresh new post-Springsteen American music), once my other Spilka-seat fellow delegate had to haul back in for work obligations.
Incidentally, I have not peeled off my Grossman bumper sticker since a State Committee member had given it to me (and have Tom Conroy stuck there, too).
I give my orange congratulations to our Treasurer and now Nominee for Governor Steve Grossman (whom his namesake neighbor of mine voted for, as did most of my town).
I voted for Mike Lake, but did predict Cheung would get 16+ % (17.76 was my Rayleigh-Jeans calculation).
I did predict Berwick’s percentage of delegates would be in the 20’s %, not just a lean 15%.
I did predict Representative Conroy’s percentage within a point and that feeder of not-so-starving delegates Goldberg would edge out our two men.
I congratulate Representative Conroy for making it on the ballot, and having fought at the convention (against our woman who spent well on mailing literature, reserving a meeting place filled with delegates, eggs and links)… for Conroy earning his own dream four years ago to run statewide (at first as Treasurer, and then as United States Senator).
I did predict our AG bets, win or lose, would have spiritually each half of us delegates. I voted Tolman and attended his function and not Maura Healey’s, but I thought that girl power, supergirls or (as Cher Sings) “It’s a Woman’s World” would sweep the count. I pound my chest that I beat neighbor Mel in my winning pick for this race to primary, which Mel believes, already in itself lands the general election and seat, with no earnest, worthy GOP contender.
Rayleigh-Jeans describes spectral radiation in EMR. How do you use it to project delegate counts in a four-person race?!
Yes, it was noisy, but the chair clearly said he would entertain such a motion. It was moved, seconded and voted by voice. He did ask for both the yeas and the nays.
To the candidates that made it on the ballot!
I invite Arena De Rosa supporters to join me in backing Mike Lake who our fighting inequality front and center in his speech. I would also invite Kayyem and Avellone supporters to join me in supporting Don Berwick as our progressive champion and next Governor!
And I invite the Treasurer candidates to make their case on BMG so I can make up my mind!
…there’s no point of having a second-ballot provision if the voting and counting is so disorganized that nobody will wait the six hours to cast one. The speakers and decisions were wonderful, but the operation of the convention was an utter farce. I have no idea how it could take two hours for the voting to occur.
I’d suggest that the MDP take some time to observe other large meetings and learn how to conduct such simple procedures without embarrassing itself.
Have we ever actually managed to have a second ballot since the epic disaster of the 2002 convention? Anything post the Dukakis/McGovern commission that resulted from that?
Maybe it’s time we give up and say 50%+1 or 10 percentage points above the second place finisher automatically gets the endorsement.
I was done when the beach ball came out and people started doing the wave.
Props to Martha Coakley for conceding the endorsement to Grossman without a vote. Grossman clearly had the supporters still there to win a vote if there was a quorum, but whether one remained at that point was highly doubtful. One DSC colleague estimated that a third of the Senate District tellers had gone, making it an open question how a vote would have been administered. It would have been a painful exercise whatever the outcome.
…which I think is only 500 or something like that. I have to say I don’t understand or have much sympathy for people leaving. This date is known at the caucuses and delegates should be aware that if they run, the convention becomes the ONLY plans they should be making that day.
I’m not going to judge people who left before the final gavel on this one.
to review what to do in the case of a second ballot. As I understood it, while they were meeting they got the word, no counted second ballot. Quorum is 750. It may have appeared that tellers were gone because they were at the meeting.
Steve, no there never has been a counted second ballot since the new rule went into place. There have now been three constitutional years (2006, 2010 and 2014) and the US Senate open seat in 2012. None went to a counted second ballot.
But in 2006, the LG’s race would have gone to a counted ballot if Murray and Silbert hadn’t made an agreement. In 2010, the Auditor’s race would have as well. Now this year, three races were in those same circumstances. Maybe this is something the rules committee needs to look into before 2018. If we’re not going to put the convention in a place where a counted second ballot is a realistic possibility, shouldn’t we just drop the pretense all together?
(don’t forget, we had a counted ballot in 2008 as well for the US Senate primary, but obviously no second was needed that year either)
For the Scot Lehighs of the world, I don’t think most of us are trying to keep people off. I am a longtime Grossman supporter and voted accordingly, but would not have complained if everyone managed to make the ballot, and I thought Kayyem was going to. Each of us only gets one vote, after all, and we vote for the one we most prefer.
I have seen Keyyum a better LG candidate than Governor. She has no Executive experience to bring to the table. As it says here, she was a “former advisor” to Pres. Obama and Governor Patrick.
If she were to serve as LG, I probably would have considered her a better candidate to Governor (as that seat works with the sitting Governor). Both Cellucci and Swift are good examples of LGs becoming Governor after holding the other seat.