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Barrios to end Galluccio senate bid?

So Jarrett Barrios will run for re-election instead of for Middlesex DA. Some calculation: Run against an actual prosecutor who has the endorsement (more or less) of the current DA or run against some guy who's suddenly facing possible drunk-driving charges? What does Mr. Galluccio say? Neither of the morning papers showed any indication of trying to talk to him.

Ed. note: In this post, I questioned whether Boston police, EMTs and residents involved in the Galluccio accident could be politically motivated in not reporting the incident earlier because that would require them to care about a Cambridge state-senate candidate. This is because I am an idiot. As Harry Mattison notes, Barrios's district actually includes 15,000 Allston and Brighton residents. I still doubt anybody standing on that downtown street in December had ever heard of Galluccio, but still ...

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anyone who thinks a cop or emt was thinking about the political repercussions of a cambridge politician's accident in a frozen december night is an idiot. it doesn't matter if the race involves a small section of allston/brighton. by the time the cops get there, he is probably already in the ambulance, and it is impossible at that point to conduct a field sobriety test. the hospital does have his blood work, though.

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