Since Saturday, I have received two mailers from the Ryan campaign. The first one states three positive reasons why she should be the next Middlesex County DA and 3 reasons why Michael Sullivan should not. yesterday I received another … [Read more...]
What About Mental Health Care?
Last night the gubernatorial candidates had a forum on Mental Health. Over the last few months, there have been articles in the paper regarding the maltreatment at Bridgewater State Hospital and this past Sunday an article in the Globe on … [Read more...]
Does anyone care about our mental health system?
Over the past month, Michael Rezendes of the Boston Globe has written several articles about the death of a man at Bridgewater State Hospital 4-5 year ago and the alleged mistreatment of a current patient there. One of the major points of … [Read more...]
BOOTS ON THE GROUND
I wanted to write about the work of campaigning and how an election gets won with door knocking and calling to id voters and then to get them out on election day. That kind of direct voter contact is interesting to say the least. I have … [Read more...]
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK
Please take note that October 6th-October 13th is Mental Health Awareness Week. In 2013 I think it is especially important to stop and think about people living with severe mental illness, the lack of concern and services, the vilification … [Read more...]
Clark loaned her campaign a quarter of a million dollars
When I first reviewed the campaign finance report for the 5CD, I was a bit disappointed because it indicated that Katherine Clark had slightly out raised my candidate, Peter Koutoujian. But looking closer, I saw that Clark had loaned her … [Read more...]
Peter Koutoujian
I can see that I am going to have to be more attentive to this blog lest my candidate for the seat in the 5th Congressional be totally misrepresented and marginalized. Peter Koutoujian was a state rep from Waltham for 14 years. in those … [Read more...]