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February 10th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The cynic in me says that come 2009 AK and the Cox 5 will have pandered to enough of the “right” voters to continue in power. Taking care of friends over actually moving the city forward is, after all, the Lowell way!
February 10th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
ER you could be right - but if this happens, by 2009 the city will be in the middle of a budget meltdown that will make everyone’s head spin. Such murky local politics ‘helped’ Springfield along the road to financial meltdown status - will the naysayers take credit when this happens or will they have found someone or something else to blame it all on by then? I always though the purpose of the Council was to lead, not to act like a badly behaved child, one who refuses to eat his or her vegetables.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Guys,
What can you or I do about it. Not enough people feel the same way most of you/us feel on this board. However, the very vocal minority don’t seem to have the juice to get Rita etc. ousted. That includes this blog. Why can’t people who back Lynch and are of like minds as those on here get “their” candidates elected?
February 11th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
GOP as I saw this past election there was a slate of candidates, then there were a bunch of individuals.
The slate AK, Lenzi, McMahon, Bud and Rita had a spokesdog…John Cox.
How many times was Cox on the radio pushing his agenda prior to the election, he certainly used it to endorse those 5 candidates.
Who on the other side, that for lack of another word I’ll call the progressive candidates, was there to speak on their behalf? No one.
What Cox was able to do, as a non-candidate, is push is agenda to the voters virtually unopposed. There was no respected non-candidate standing up against him or his agenda…until that happens this will continue.
February 11th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Opps, I forgot Armand as part of the Cox slate of candidates!
February 12th, 2008 at 12:22 am
GOP: I can give you a little more insight from my point of view, too. This blog doesn’t reach enough of the sort of person who can make a difference if they knew the score. I get roughly 1300-1500 (unique) hits a day. I have no idea how much that translates to in-city readers once you count RSS aggregators and non residents checking us out, but it’s probably somewhat less.
By contrast, the Sun has a circulation of how much? We can’t compete with that, and I never pretended we could…information dissemination by internet, for now, has a limited scope. Much as I love seniors (and I do!) and my biggest experience with seniors and technology is with my 94-year-old Pepere who’s got what, three computers running 24/7 and is constantly on them (my grandmother has to kick him off to get him to help her with the dishes!), it’s highly unlikely that the biggest voting demographic in local elections reads this blog. (Maybe we should have a marketing program for seniors? That would be fun!)
I also can’t compete with a silent Lowell Sun and $70,000, either. How much spending does that translate per vote for Kazanjian? I shudder to do the math there…
February 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Couple of things:
Lynne, what is an RSS aggregator?
ER and Lynne,
I hear where you are coming from so my question is HOW do YOU get YOUR candidate(s) elected? WCAP? WUML? How?
February 12th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Programs that allow people to link into the blog without visiting the website. It’s a universal information sharing format, really. This is what my RSS 2.0 feed looks like just via the web (it can take whatever form the RSS reader wants it to take, though).
February 12th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
GOP, that is the 64-thousand dollar question. I would say it would take a change in attitude in “progressives” on the way they run. Band together and make an issue out of things that they believe have and/or are going wrong and harp on them.
Unfotunately Lowell as a media market is barely a blip. The Sun has a circulation including all the communities they claim to “serve” of under 50k and it remains to be seen how WCAP will deal with the local election next cycle. WUML is even less of a factor.
So getting a message out through media gatekeepers that don’t share a viewpoint, aren’t interested in the ‘controversy’ or on a station that most Lowellians don’t even know exists is nearly impossible.
It would take a high profile non-candidate speaking up time and time again, along with a unified effort by “progressive” candidates, in order to reach voters that wouldn’t otherwise hear “the other side”.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
It would take knocking on doors in a massive campaign. In regards to the next local election, I think a slate working together of “progressive” sorts plus a group working to inform voters one at a time about the others, especially Kazanjian and his type, might have a shot. But the amount of money these people spend, and the connections they have to the community, for better or worse, will get them results for a while yet.
It’s changing, but slowly.