Pamela Julian

Why I Am Asking For Your Vote On Tuesday, Sept. 14

By pamela julian - 9/10/10 - 12:00 pm

As one of the six candidates for State Representative in the 10th Suffolk District, I have the most experience, both politically and professionally.

My political experience includes being elected a library trustee chair, the only candidate to have been elected to public office. I authored pending legislation to establish a student voter registration system, which will allow students to register to vote on-campus. I helped win the Bellevue Hill area of West Roxbury in the 1983 mayoral campaign of Dave Finnegan.

I owned a business, developed an 88-acre site on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire, and worked in both radio and television. These are some of my professional credentials but I also raised two children, both college graduates. Being a single parent, I know the challenges single mothers face.

Thank you to Boston Globe for reporting news not commentary

By pamela julian - 6/1/10 - 11:36 am

Hello Michael Levensen,

Thank you for your excellent work. I challenged Michael Rush in 2008. He refused to participate in a debate, made false claims regarding why he did not agree to a political debate. It is my understanding, Rush continues to avoid candidate forums.

I am running again this year for the state representative seat in the 10th Suffolk District. I am in the process of organizing a candidate forum. Proposed the league of women voters co-host a forum with City of
Boston student leaders and other issue oriented non profits such as MassCare.

Three of the reasons why I am running:

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Dianne Wilkerson on the way to the private sector

By adamg - 9/16/08 - 10:03 pm

Unless she wages a write-in campaign in November against Sonia Chang-Diaz - who unofficial results show is the winner in their rematch for the 2nd Suffolk state senate seat.

Click on the link for other Boston results in today's Democratic primaries, including: In the 5th Suffolk (Dorchester and Roxbury) state rep's race, Marie St. Fleur easily beat back longtime politico Roy Owens, while in the 6th Suffolk (Roxbury, JP and Roslindale), incumbent Willie Mae Allen showed Faustina Gabriel what's what. Over in the 10th Suffolk (West Roxbury and South Brookline), it was incumbent Mike Rush in a cakewalk over Pamela Julian.

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Mike Rush defends record in heated debate with challenger Pamela Julian

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.

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Candidate running because state rep wouldn't talk to her won't talk to a reporter

By adamg - 6/17/08 - 1:20 pm

Only known
photo of Julian?

David Ertischek at the Transcript reports on the strange saga of Pamela Julian, who told a certain blogger she was running against incumbent state Rep. Mike Rush because he wouldn't return her call on a particular issue but who now is apparently avoiding Ertischek:

Can you think of a politician who doesn't want press about their candidacy? I have politicians calling me when they want to have a hearing. They drop story ideas in my lap, send me press releases, and have their staff call me about attending senior citizen events, a baseball game, greeting an injured child at the hospital or singing the national anthem.

Politicians want press, and most like to use the press to their advantage. I know I would do the same if I were a politician. Pamela Julian is not politically savvy in this way. ...

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State Rep. Mike Rush to face just one Democratic challenger this fall

By adamg - 5/28/08 - 11:33 am

ParkwayBoston.com reports the West Roxbury incumbent will face off against Pamela Julian of Brookline in the Democratic primary. A second potential candidate, Matthew Benedetti of West Roxbury, failed to file enough signatures, the site reports.

That'll teach him to not return a constituent's phone call

By adamg - 4/5/08 - 7:31 pm

Julian State Rep. Mike Rush could face opposition this fall because he never returned a constituent's phone call.

Pamela Julian of Brookline says she called Rush to try to enlist his support for a bill that would let high-school and college students register to vote right at their schools; she's director of Associated Students of Massachusetts, which is pushing the bill. Rush never called her back and she says she started getting upset and looking at Rush's voting record and so she was down in front of the Starbucks on Centre Street in West Roxbury on Saturday collecting signatures to get on the September Democratic primary ballot.

Julian says her main issue is that she'd pledge to be a full-time state rep; she says Rush has the second-worst record in the House for missing roll call votes. However, she would also be a more liberal rep than Rush. Rush opposes single-sex marriage; Julian supports it.

Although she lives in Brookline now, Julian says she's familiar with the West Roxbury end of the district - she used to live there (and even helped run David Finnegan's local effort in a mayoral run against Kevin White).

Rush has represented the 10th Suffolk district in the House of Representatives since 2003.

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