View from the ‘Bridge

From Lesley Phillips, Chair of the Progressive Democrats of Cambridge:

Dear friends,

I wanted to remind you that there will be a Candidates Forum tonight (Thursday, August 16) for the upcoming (September 11) special election in the Middlesex, Suffolk & Essex state senate district to fill the vacancy left by the recent resignation of Jarrett Barrios. (The general election, in which the Democratic nominee will likely be unopposed — there will be no other party candidates or independents on the ballot — is October 9.) The Forum, which will be the first one taking place in Cambridge for this race, starts at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30) at the Cambridge Masonic Hall, 1950 Massachusetts Avenue (about half a block north of Porter Sq), and is being co-sponsored by Progressive Democrats of Cambridge and Somerville, the Cambridge Chronicle and The Alewife. All are welcome, and questions from audience members will be invited.

The MS&E district includes most of mid-Cambridge, including all of wards 6 & 7, and parts of wards 3, 8, 9 &10 (as well as Charlestown, Chelsea, Everett, and parts of Allston/Brighton, Somerville, Revere and Saugus), and is the only one of the three senate districts into which Cambridge is currently divided to have been represented in recent years by a Cantabrigian. This election is of particular interest in that three of the four candidates who qualified for the Democratic primary ballot are from Cambridge: Councillor Anthony Galluccio, Tim Flaherty, and Jeff Ross, all of whom will be participating in tonight’s Forum. (The fourth Democratic candidate is Chelsea Councillor Paul Nowicki.)

Democratically yours,
Lesley