Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Comings and Goings

--First off, State House News Service reports that Jarrett Barrios will leave his state senate seat to head the grant-giving Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation. Congrats to Jarrett, etc. etc.... START YOUR ENGINES, CAMBRIDGE!

--Today is deadline day for submitting signatures to run for Boston city council, and Susan Passoni announced that she will not run again for district 2, after losing to Bill Linehan in the recent special-election runoff. But Ed Flynn will; the city elections office confirms that Flynn submitted enough signatures to qualify. Veeeeery interesting!!! I think Flynn, who finished a close third in the special, would have beaten Linehan in a one-on-one final -- but I'm not sure if he can beat Linehan as an incumbent.

--Nine potential candidates have submitted signatures for at-large, including the four incumbents. The elections office has not gotten to all of them yet, so we don't know yet if they'll all qualify, but the challengers to incumbents Felix Arroyo, Michael Flaherty, Steve Murphy, and Sam Yoon are John Connolly of West Roxbury (repeat candidate); William Estrada of East Boston; Matthew Geary of Dorchester; Martin Hogan of Dorchester (by way of Southie); and David James Wyatt of Roxbury.

--Nine candidates took out papers for the District 9 (Allston/Brighton) seat to replace Jerry McDermott, who is not seeking re-election. Eight had submitted signatures as of late this afternoon.

5/22/2007 5:22:47 PM by David S. Bernstein | Comments [3] |

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:21:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Hey David, since when did they change the signature filing date? It used to be July. Now it's May? Jeesh.

Tony Schinella

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:37:08 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

You know what would have been nice? If you'd bother to have written a single story on the District 2 council race. As if it might be important.

amy bird

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:52:05 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

check out www.votemartyhogan.info, I think this guy might actually be able to win this year after a beating in 2005. incumbents might be tough to beat and john connolly sure is giving him a run for his money, but the rest seem to be m.i.a. in this race. hogan seems to be viable representative for the people of boston, a real person when you talk to him, not full of the usual polital b.s.. he has already beat out his signatures getting challenged and he is actually out on the trail hanging signs and handing out flyers not putting other people up to it. looks like he's not spending much but i think that shows he can be fiscally repsonsible in office for us and do a lot with little money. best of luck to him!

anonymous

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