Left In Lowell

The Boston Globe has an article on the communities with preliminaries they (successfully or otherwise) requested to eliminate. Our mayor and challenger Patrick Murphy are quoted.

I find this interesting…in Gloucester, there’s a third person in the race for mayor, and this triggers a preliminary. The third candidate is a perennial curmudgeon largely considered a “sideshow.” In Lowell, we have 21 pretty serious candidates of various stripes. Yet Gloucester (and Methuen) Home Rule bills were not approved, because they were about mayoral races. Lowell (and Revere) were.

I sometimes wonder how these legislators sleep at night. Seriously. WTF?? Apparently, Plan E forms of government or city council races are less important than mayoral races. Yeesh.