Doug Bennett reports he's knocked on his 100,000th Boston door. The next Bennett challenge: Removing the 100,000 stickers he and his supporters have put on light poles and utility boxes.

District 7 Councilor Chuck Turner and challenger Carlos Henriquez debate Wednesday, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Vine Street Community Center in Roxbury. The main topic: "Does Roxbury matter?" Details.

Because I didn't feel like traipsing upstairs to answer the phone, I picked up the receiver on our old wall-mounted rotary phone in the kitchen, so when your robo-lady told me to press 1 or 2 depending on whether I planned to vote for at-large City Council Candidate Doug Bennett, I couldn't, ha ha.

Not sure why that makes me feel so good, but there you are. Sometimes there's value in being a Luddite.

My call-waiting beeps and my caller id says it is

617-227-2081
K Galligan

who I do not know. I let it go to voice mail. The message left on my answering machine reveals it is political robo call by Doug Bennett who, by the way, is 100% certain that he will be the next city councilor-at-large.

I'm not opposed to Doug's candidacy, heck I don't even know him, I'm just against robo calls made under someone else's name.

So Doug Bennett is at it again and this time instead of stickers on street lights it's holding up signs at city council meetings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFl1etwox4s

Doug really needs to get a steady cameraman or at least invest in a tripod.

The candidate for an at-large Boston City Council seat says he submitted 4,013 signatures to the elections department this morning. Candidates for the one of the four open seats need 1,500 valid signatures.

Dear Doug Bennett,

It's cute and all that you've moved up here from Nantucket so you could run for an at-large city council seat. And, gosh, we appreciate the advance robo-call to let us know you'd be in our neighborhood today and I surely did miss meeting you, even though I was home all day and never heard anybody knocking at my door, because I can certainly appreciate a candidate who is for less crime, better paying jobs, lower property taxes and clean streets (unlike all those other candidates).

But, Doug, look: I don't know how they do things down on the Islands, but up here in the big city, people don't really appreciate having campaign palm cards taped to their doors. So if you promise not to do that again, I promise not to try to make up an entire limerick about you (or rather, another one, since the first one was pretty bad). Deal?