Do the Republicans have a Farm Team in Lowell?
I know we are all still in election-analyzing mode, but I was reading Red Mass Group, the blog for Massachusetts Republicans and they had a post on the Massachusetts Federation of Young Republicans (isn’t that a contradiction? Just Kidding Eabo! 
) and their efforts in this fall’s municipal elections.
“Of the 10 races [they] targeted 8 of those people won their election. [They] spent a weekend day and or held a fundraiser for each of these winners.”
I do not know if such an effort was mounted in Lowell. But if it was, it was certainly under the radar. Part of the problem, as I see it, is that we had Republicans supporting Democrats in the City elections. Granted these races are non-partisan but this is how you build your “farm team.”
I am sure that the local Republicans do not want advice from anyone that has anything to do with LiL but why put all the effort into campaigning for Healey, Ogonowski or Giuliani if you are not going to recruit, train and support “your” candidate in municipal elections?
November 9th, 2007 at 4:02 am
What worries me most is the abbysmal turnout in Boston which resulted in the ouster of Felix Arroyo in Boston City Council Race…We really need to be vigilant about the Message Up thing and start knocking on doors,even in the rough neighborhoods,if we can get the turnout above 30% I think we can win it all, even in Dracut…who are those voters that do not show up and why do they stay home?
November 9th, 2007 at 11:17 am
“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. ” — Star Wars
Dracut will prevail!
November 9th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Heh.
Farm Team.
Ogonowski.
Heh.
November 14th, 2007 at 12:08 am
The problem with the Boston election is the same problem we are facing in Lowell (we being voters, not Republicans) The papers (in Boston’s case Globe and Herald, in our case Sun) give only lip service or worse to ‘coverage’ of city council campaigns. So the bulk of voters didn’t see anything about the campaigns, so voting slipped their minds.
Given the current state of media, I don’t see anything changing any time soon.