There are some contested races for Democratic State Committee that happened on Tuesday. I’m wondering if anyone has any results?
First, congrats to my friend and long time BMGer, Steve Owens, who blogs here as sco. Steve wrote on his facebook page, “By my count, I’ve won my race for Democratic State Committee: 63.2% to 36.8%. 14,153 votes to 8,241. Thank you to everyone who voted!!! I’m looking forward to serving!”
I’ll see what else I can find….
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I know the make seat in 2EM was contested and I heard that two candidates were actively courting write-in votes for the 1ES male seat.
That should of course read MALE seat in 2EM.
I have to tell you that explicitly labeling seats as “Male” and “Female” strikes me as antithetical to the vision we espouse as Democrats.
Do we also have a specified number of “Black”, “Latino” and “Asian” seats?
The more I learn about the formal processes of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, the less I like it. I mean no personal affront, and instead offer an impression from an outsider.
What I see is an increasingly irrelevant institution with no effective influence on its elected members coupled with internal processes and procedures that are arcane and at best dated (at least with respect to gender roles), while our ostensibly “Democratic” state government follows practices that are indistinguishable from the GOP on the issues that matter most to most Massachusetts voters.
What are those?
…I believe as defined by the EEOC. After the 160 elected members are chosen a number of such add-ons are elected so that the DSC as a whole reflects the proportions present in the population. However, affirmative action is a general category and there are no specific numbers of specific racial/ethnic groups.
MGL specifies the male and female committee positions. The Republican Party has the same division.
Is there anyone on the committee that identifies as non-binary, and, if so, which type of seat do they take?
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…for female-identified and male-identified transgendered persons. Presumably such can also run for the gender seats per their identity.
I didn’t know that, I appreciate the clarification.
The 80 ballot-elected positions (2 per state senate district) are the ones defined by MGL. (This is true for all parties which have ballot status in Massachusett, so that currently also includes Green/Rainbow and UIP, and from time to time has included the Libertarians). Our additional 80 conference (or “caucus”, tho that’s a misnomer) seats follow the same male/female pattern, but as creatures of the Mass Dems state charter (and ultimately because of the absolute gender equality rules of the National Dems charter). All of our other DSC “add-on” categories follow this same pattern.
To also try to answer Jasiu’s query (below), yes, sort of (tho possibly not in the way that Jasiu is asking): there are now (added about 5 years ago, iirc) a pair of dedicated transgender seats, the defining rubrics for which are “male identified” and “female identified”. Beyond that, a person identifying as non-binary gender would have to choose between running for either the male or female seat in their district or add-on category.
From Arthur Powell: “It has taken a night of ballot counting, but I have been supplied sufficient information to congratulate Scott Spencer and Julie Curtis as our newest Democratic State Committee members from the Second Essex District. Sincere thanks to Duane Anderson and Marsha Finkelstein for their willingness to be a part of the process and for their ongoing leadership as city committee chairs. I also want to add a big shout out to Lynne Ferreira-Barrett for her friendship and many years of service. Our friend Jim Fleming will serve going forward as the dean of our delegation as a 20 year member.”
Based on a facebook post from his opponent, Brian Corr, incumbent Calvin Brown was victorious. Congratulations Calvin.
From Joe’s facebook page: “I want to thank all of you who shared my page, helped my campaign, supported me and voted for me. All our efforts paid off!!”
State House News, citing an unnamed source, is saying that 47 of the 74 GOP state committee candidates endorsed by the Gov. have won. Still awaiting results in 10 of those races. Not all the 74 seats were contested, so his batting average is not quite as high as it looks. But probably high enough to make Howie Carr unhappy.
Once again from the opponent’s facebook page, it looks like Jim Blatchford. Very gracious post from Jay Rivera.
…that Jay Rivera will apply for a youth add-on seat, and incidently he would qualify for affirmative action as well.
I had to revise my numbers downward a bit — I only got 62.4% of the vote throughout the district. I’m very happy with the result and I’m so grateful for all the support I’ve gotten throughout the district & beyond.
We’ve come a long way since David first called me an insider 🙂