Channel 4 will carry a debate among the four Democratic candidates for the Second Middlesex Senate seat tomorrow (Sunday) morning, bright and early, at 8:35 a.m.  This according to today's Globe, which also has a brief rundown of the … [Read more...]

Nancy McGillivray had been US Marshal for the District of Massachusetts in charge of security for the Mass. federal courts since 1994, and had been with the Marshals Service for 24 years.  Seems like reappointment would have been in … [Read more...]

Five days until election day.  Time for another open thread on the Second Middlesex Senate race.First, a couple of updates: according to several comments in this thread, the Somerville Journal's print edition today endorsed Joe Mackey, … [Read more...]

The Somerville News, in a rather oddly written post that makes very creative (and possibly unintentional) use of fonts, has endorsed Joe Mackey for the 2nd Middlesex Senate seat.Who is the Somerville News, anyway?  Do they have a print … [Read more...]

This interesting post on the state party's blog announces a "Victory '06" campaign, the goal of which is to have active precinct and block captains in each of Massachusetts' 2156 election precincts.  Good for the Mass. Dems … [Read more...]

Joe Jehlen!  No, wait - it's ... Pat Mackey!  No, wait ... That's right, folks.  We can't make up our minds.  So we're endorsing both Jehlen and Mackey as clearly preferable to Michael Callahan (a charter member of the … [Read more...]

... but what is it saying?A press release from the Pat Jehlen campaign reports that she has raised more money, and has more money in the bank, than any of the other three candidates for the Second Middlesex Senate seat.  According to … [Read more...]

Joe Mackey's Senate campaign received a huge boost today in the form of the Boston Globe's endorsement.  The Globe praised Mackey's "principled and progressive stands on the major social issues facing the state" and his … [Read more...]

Once upon a time, there was a socially liberal Republican.  But that was a long, long time ago....Bill Weld, once believed to be the world's only straight Republican who favored gay marriage, has now apparently backed off his previous … [Read more...]