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July 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Typical Lowell Sun approach. Rather than editorializing on the subject BEFORE the CC votes on it (when presumably it might have some effect), they wait until the vote and then get themselves on the record as being against the motion.
They did exactly the same thing on Millinazzo’s motion to investigate the Sheehan firing.
With the Lowell Sun, nothing is on the level.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Let’s make sure that every candidate that wants the primary to call and email the Governor.
Imagine the position it would put him in to be asked to sign it after every challenger voiced their position.
Better yet, in addition to the above some candidate to should take it upon themselves to write a single letter and get all the sympathetic candidates to sign it. Then that should be sent to the governor, the Sun and the Globe.
That might do the trick.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:51 am
[quote]… there were a number of unserious campaigns, including one candidate who had pulled papers but was in jail.[/quote]
I’m not sure that being in jail necessarily precludes a “serious” campaign for public office; James Michael Curley says “hi”.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:59 am
LOL Tim point taken, but in this case, it did.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:00 am
And Papa Smurf, is it that the blogs are leading the Sun around by the nose nowadays?
(Watch Campanini’s head explode reading that line!)
July 24th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
The Sun makes a great point about the differences between 2007 and 2009: in effect there were only 18 candidates and we had just gone through 2 special elections.
July 24th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Smurf, you would’ve knocked the Sun’s jock off if they came out before the vote. People would accuse them of using their influence over the CC. You can’t have it both ways. Two elections benefit the paper. They sell more ads that way.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
pc has it right: it’s great that the media is all together on this one pushing the council into a corner, but don’t forget that the sun likes a primary because a longer campaign season means more political ads to sell.
July 25th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I’d never given much thought to what Papa Smurf said prior to this but he’s right. It appears the paper waited to see how much public outcry there would be over this before taking a “stand”.
As far as the Sun wanting a primary for additional revenue, no doubt but sometimes greed happens to line up with the public good.