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Affiliations?
Adam:
Do you know the party affiliations (if any) of the other 3 candidates?
Suldog
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One of them, anyway
Constitution Party. Another one was an independent and the third, dunno.
I think there were two
I think there were two independents in addition to the constitution party candidate.
To my surprise, Ogonowski carried my hometown of Chelmsford by only about 500 votes. Considering how conservative Chelmsford is overall I thought the margin would be much wider.
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Then again this was an off-year and Tsongas will have to re-run for the district, what, next year? The year after? And no doubt Ogonowski will be running against her again, and it will probably have even more support this time around.
Did Ogonowski have any platform other than "I hate immigrants" ?
That's all I ever seemed to hear from him when I read articles about this election. (Admittedly, I'm in Somerville so I didn't pay especially close attention.)
Haha!
I wasn't following this election as closely as I might either. I think the big-picture idea with Ogonowski was that he'd be a Republican counter-balance to the otherwise-Democrat crowd. With politics on such a local level, personalities came in to play a lot here as well -- there are a lot of retired vets living in my home district, and Ogonowski (being a retired Air Force vet) carried a lot of the towns that have a lot of military presence (like Chelmsford and Ayer). Tsongas has her husband's legacy helping her out as well as you know.
Since this district will be open for elections very soon anyway, if Tsongas doesn't prove effective in the brief time she's in office I can easily see the district voting in Ogonowski.
This is just one person's opinion, of course :)
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Consider The Sources Carefully, Ron
I think "hate" is vastly too strong a word. I also think the Boston media's sloppy and slanted coverage doesn't help things much - so I'll take your disclaimer as the reason for the extreme stereotyping here.
There is a lot of ground between "hating immigrants" and saying "people should be documented in order to benefit from society". For the record, the Oganowski family long ago opened its farmland to immigrant populations from Lowell so they could learn to grow crops nearby and fresh. This way, they didn't have to continue importing familiar food from Laos and Cambodia and Cape Verde at great cost. They also worked with community development programs at UMass Lowell, and had arranged to take cafeteria waste for compost back in 2001.
Hardly "I hate immigrants".
Although I'm not a resident/constituent of the 5th district,
I'm glad Nikki Tsongas won that district. It's a good omen, imo.