Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The U.S. Senate candidates have one week to go before voters head to the polls.
Gabriel Gomez and Edward Markey spent their final debate before next week's U.S. Senate special election clashing over their records and who has the better vision for both the commonwealth and their country. The debate, taped in Boston, broadcast on several local networks and moderated by veteran city newsman and Boston University professor R.D. Sahl, was the last of three contests before voters head to the polls to fill U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's former seat. No matter the issue, be it taxes, gun control, abortion, national security and their own personal and professional histories, the two men found disagreements at every turn. Each candidate could agree on one thing: they believe the other candidate's ideas are "old and stale…
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Debate to air on WCVB Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Another U.S. Senate election for Massachusetts is drawing to a close, with the two combatants set to square off one final time before voters head to the polls June 25. Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Malden and Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez will hold the last of three debates Tuesday evening in the race to fill the seat formerly held by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The debate will air live from 7 to 8 p.m. on WCVB (Channel 5). The debate will be moderated by R.D. Sahl of Boston University. The two previous debates for the candidates were held in Boston and Springfield. Recent polling has suggested an edge for Markey in the race. Both candidates have received visits from high-profile …
Saturday, June 15, 2013
If the special election was today, who would you choose as our new U.S. senator?
A week from Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will decide who to elect in the special election to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. What we at Patch want to know is - if the election was today - who would you vote for? Candidates Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have been pullling out all the stops in the last two weeks as the latest polls show the gap is narrowing between the two. After weeks of relative quiet, the negative ads have started to clog the airways and both candidates have had high-profile folks stumping for them. Rudy Guiliani was in town last week putting his support behind Gomez and President Obama came to Boston this week showing his support for Markey. So tell us, if you had to …
Thursday, June 13, 2013
President appears at Markey campaign event at Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Roxbury.
President Barack Obama made a trip to Boston Wednesday to stump for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Edward Markey as the special election to fill John Kerry's former seat nears. According to White House press pool reports, Obama appeared at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Roxbury in an attempt to get a crowd of Markey supporters fired up and ready to go. Obama said "too many folks in Washington who are putting the next election ahead of the next generation" but that Markey, a Malden Democratic congressman since 1976, would be part of the process to change that. "I need folks in the Unites States Senate who wake up every day thinking about the folks who sent them there ... I need Ed Markey in the United States Senate," Obama said…
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Gun control, health care, economy, foreign policy among major topics in first meeting of candidates.
Gabriel Gomez and Edward Markey engaged Wednesday in their first debate before the U.S. Senate special election this month, and the tone was markedly similar to the tone of the overall campaign thus far. Gomez, the Republican Cohasset businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL, and Markey, the Democratic Malden congressman since his election in 1976, jabbed at each other during the hour-long debate at WBZ-TV's studios and sponsored by the news station and the Boston Globe. Topics for the evening included gun control, health care, the economy, foreign policy, recent national political scandals, immigration and abortion. Time and again, Gomez pounded Markey for his years in Washington, painting the congressman as out of touch with Bay State …
Monday, June 3, 2013
The Senate candidates will face each other in a live, televised debate Wednesday.
The Republican and Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate special election later this month are set to conduct their first of three scheduled debates Wednesday night. According to an Associated Press article printed in the Boston Herald Monday, Republican businessman Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset and Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Malden will debate at the WBZ-TV studios Wednesday in a debate sponsored by the TV station and the Boston Globe. WBZ previously reported the debate will take place and air live from 7 to 8 p.m. WBZ political analyst Jon Keller will moderate. According to the Herald, subsequent debates will take place on June 11 in western Massachusetts and June 18 back in Boston. The campaigns reportedly spent weeks "…
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Congressman leads Gabriel Gomez by 17 points.
A new Suffolk University/7NEWS (WHDH) poll shows a strong lead for Democratic U.S. Congressman Edward Markey over Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez in the race for the U.S. Senate special election. The poll of 500 likely voters has Markey at 52 percent and Gomez at 35 percent. Eleven percent of voters in the poll were undecided. A third-party candidate, Richard Heos of the Twelve Visions Party, got 1 percent and another 1 percent refused to respond. David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, said along with the announcement of the poll that Markey has "a large lead over his Republican opponent who voters are unsure about." Indeed, 32 percent of those polled said …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A message from the Town of Norton
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From the Town of Norton: The Last day to register to vote for the upcoming Special State Election is Wednesday, June 5th 2013. The Norton Town Clerks Office, located on the first floor of Town Hall, 70 East Main Street will be open from 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM on this day. Town Hall is open for regular hours Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM and Thursdays 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM. For questions please contact the Town Clerks Office at 508-285-0230. The Special State Election is scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Polls will be open from 6:00 AM – 8:00 PM with all Voting Precincts (1,2,3,4,5) at Norton High School. Due to the renovation project at Norton High School voting on election day, for this election only, will …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Sitting committee and board members will take their seats again for another term.
The incumbents prevailed this year at the Norton town election. Selectmen Bob Kimball and Robert Salvo held their positions in the board. Kimball received 1,386 votes and Salvo received 1,141. Challenger George Gillis received 474 votes. School committee incumbent Andrew Mackie received 943 votes, and Valerie Desmond received 1,141 votes, taking Beth McManus’ seat after she resigned. Mark Powers received 523 votes and Daniel Sheedy received 345 votes. “First I certainly want to get a good handle on what’s going on currently,” she said. “I want to work in a real collaborative way. That would be top on my list right now. I’m excited, it was my first time running for public office." Desmond added she is very grateful to the town for the large…
The former Navy SEAL and the longtime Congressman will face off June 25 to fill John Kerry's former U.S. Senate seat.
A political newcomer will face a long-time Massachusetts politician in the race to be the Bay State's next U.S. senator. The Associated Press has declared Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset and Democratic U.S. Congressman Edward Markey of Malden the winners of their U.S. Senate special primary elections, according to tweets from Fox 25. The call for Gomez came approximately one hour after the polls closed in the statewide primary while a call for Markey came moments later. Gomez defeats his more seasoned opponents, former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan of Abington and state Rep. Dan Winslow of Norfolk. Markey beat fellow U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch of South Boston. Brett Rhyne of Needham ran an …
Tyler Jozefowicz
3:48 pm on Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Markey. Gomez has no public sector experience. We know that. Looks like he has a dismal private sector performance as well , no management positions or skills. Gomez participated in relatively few deals and never earned a promotion to partner. He shifted to a lower marketing role at his firm. Translation , a demotion. A Globe review of Gomez’s nine years at Advent Int’l found that Gomez was … more ›