Left In Lowell

Finally it feels like we have an election going on. I swear, this morning, I saw three campaign commercials in a row. At the very least, that’ll serve as a constant reminder for people to get their butts out to vote. I think all this attention (ie excitement over the polls tightening) will backfire for the Republican. For one thing, he’s finally getting scrutinized.

A better turnout means good news for Martha Coakley, and frankly, after all the things I’ve heard about Brown, notwithstanding the fact that this guy will torpedo our best chance for health care reform in several generations right off the bat, I will be doing some work for Coakley on the GOTV campaign myself this weekend, and encourage others to do the same. I got this in my email, on two ways you can make phone calls:

1. From the comfort of your own home, you can use the myBO tool: www.my.barackobama.com/coakleyn2n
2. Join a local phone bank: Listings here www.marthacoakley.com/events

And of course make sure you vote on Tuesday, January 19!!

Update: I am told that there will be a Lowell phone bank at ERA Morrison, 61 Market St, Jan 14th through the 18th from 6:00-9:00pm.

You have to go like three archive pages back to see a post by me. A combination of the holidays, post-election burnout, an exceptionally busy business with employees I must ensure get paid, and another nasty week long cold served as the perfect storm for long-settling feelings of “gawd, I don’t even want to look at the blog right now.”

So, apologies for getting out of the habit, especially since the last couple of weeks have been rife with local political news. Thanks to Mimi for picking up the slack, and of course, the rest of the local blogosphere which, frankly, goes along quite nicely without me. It’s good to know if I disappeared tomorrow, there’d be plenty of people to continue to rattle the local cages.

Anyway, hopefully I can start posting again, if I find something interesting to say.