Thanks, Massachusetts, for defeating that jerk in the primary! Several people asked me if I'd post again with my preferences for the November election, so here it is, just barely in time.

In brief:

• Re-elect Deval Patrick, Barney Frank, James McGovern, John Tierney.
• Defeat all three questions. No on 1, 2, 3.
• Steve Grossman for Treasurer, Suzanne ( Read more... )

There's a state in the US where, since the 1960s, only one US Senator has been re-elected. He got re-elected several times, and was quite notorious in his day, so you might've heard of him, but he's been gone for a while now*. Do you know which state (and which Senator they did re-elect ( Read more... )

Last week I posted about the statewide races in the Democratic primary. Summary:

• Guy Glodis, running for Auditor, is a bigot and a sleaze.
• Of the other two, I like Suzanne Bump more than Mike Lake, though I think both are good. Bump also seems to have a much better chance of winning, so vote for her to beat Glodis.
• For Treasurer, Steve Grossman ( Read more... )

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Mac D'Alessandro is friendly, engaging, well-informed, hardworking, smart, personable, bold, and effective. He's the sort of candidate anyone who meets will want to vote for, and he'll be a Representative everyone will want to work with, yet he won't be shy about his values, and he'll fight for them ( Read more... )

I'm planning to drop by Representative Capuano's office near the Galleria tomorrow at lunch, bringing a copy of MoveOn's new pledge to ask him to sign on. The pledge has three points:

• Support a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the Citizens' United ruling that corporations have the same rights as people*.
• Public financing for political ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, Tuesday April 13th, is the primary election to select a Democrat for the state senate district formerly held by former Cambridge City Councilor Anthony Gallucio. It starts in Allston/Brighton, goes through the middle of Cambridge, a bit of east Somerville, then all of Charlestown and Chelsea and parts of Everett, Saugust, and Revere ( Read more... )

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After the State of the Union, Obama accepted an invitation to go to the House Republicans' retreat in Baltimore, where he gave a short speech and then answered questions for more than an hour (transcript). Watch it, it's very good.

Audio on the Q&A is not good for the first ~2minutes, then they fix it.

[ Recap for people not in Massachusetts: Today is the general election to fill the US Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy last year ( Read more... )

In case you haven't made up your mind yet, or are just curious, I made another post in baystate about what I think the major issues contrast between Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano is.