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By Anonymous - 9/14/08 - 5:50 pm

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It takes two parties to hold a debate. Rush’s spokesman Matt Fitzgerald’s explanation for why there was no debate is an excuse that blames the opposition.

By adamg - 4/15/08 - 6:45 pm

First Brookline activist Pamela Julian started collecting signatures. Now state Rep. Mike Rush, D-Mainly West Roxbury, faces opposition from Matt Benedetti, a West Roxbury Air National Guardsman, the Transcript reports:

Benedetti said he understands Rush is "a nice guy," but he said "there are a lot of issues facing the district, and we need someone who is more responsive and better ways to come up with solutions to problems."

Benedetti tells the paper he originally planned to run for the 10th Suffolk seat when it looked like state Sen. Marian Walsh would become a judge and Rush would run for her seat. That didn't happen and Benedetti, like Rush a Catholic Memorial grad, decided to stay in the race.

By adamg - 9/26/07 - 9:35 am

David Bernstein tries to decipher what happened in Allston/Brighton (Russian bloc still has power?), East Boston (Yo, Menino: Up yours!) and Roxbury (only one woman in the entire city will be on the ballot for city council this year). Oh, and Blue Mass. Group? Whoever they endorse loses (BMG responds).

Jon Keller: Eastie To State Dems: Drop Dead.

By adamg - 9/24/07 - 7:56 pm

If you live in East Boston, Allston, Brighton, Roxbury, you can vote tomorrow. Chris Lovett has links to the Web sites of district city-council candidates in Allston/Brighton and Roxbury (shocker: perennial candidate Althea Garrison, who's running this time against Chuck Turner doesn't have a Web site) and state-rep candidates in East Boston.

By adamg - 11/6/06 - 4:40 pm

Hedgehog says that honor goes to Dara Pourghasemi's Waltham state-rep site. She writes:

A brain damaged monkey could have cobbled together a better campaign website ...

By adamg - 10/30/06 - 1:00 pm

H2Otown has the details on an endorsement letter for a state-rep candidate in the local paper that one signer denies signing.

By adamg - 10/22/06 - 10:26 pm

Sharon Gartenberg has the details on a meeting of the Framingham Democratic Town Committee to chose a replacement candidate for state Rep. Deborah Blumer, who died of a heart attack earlier this month.

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