Much of the piece is devoted to the “spoiler” issue. Read the full thing here. H/T to Third Party and Independent Daily.
… Read more ...If they were sincerely concerned about preventing any “spoiling’’ of elections, the Massachusetts Democrats could simply pass Ranked Choice Voting. But that’s been sitting in the Legislature untouched for 10 years.
Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
The Boston Globe has an article entitled “The Battle for State Auditor” profiling this year’s candidates for Massachusetts State Auditor, including Nat Fortune of the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party:
… Read more ...An especially interesting political profile in the auditor’s race belongs to Green-Rainbow Party candidate Nathanael Fortune.
Hat/tip to: Wicked Local
From a press release at the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party web-site. The press release was dated December 17, 2009. It appears from this article, that as of December 18, 2009, the candidates have agreed on including Joe Kennedy in the debates.
Voters Deserve Open Senate Debates Says Green-Rainbow Party
December 17, 2009
… Read more ...Including independent candidate Joseph L.
h/t http://www.kennedyseat.com/
Joe Kennedy’s website: http://joekennedyforsenate.com/
Previous IPR coverage: Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Joseph Kennedy agree to series of debates in race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat
Rich Rubino at Politics DMZ: ‘Yes, Joe Kennedy can win the Massachusetts U.S. Senate Race’
Matt Viser has a two page article about Joe Kennedy in the Boston Globe..… Read more ...
from Ballot Access News
Boston Globe Doesn’t Like 3-Candidate Debates
December 15th, 2009
… Read more ...The Boston Globe of December 16 has this editorial, telling the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in next month’s special election that she is wrong to refuse to debate, unless all three ballot-qualified candidates are invited. [Ie: Democrat Martha Coakley is demanding a three-way, all-candidate debate]
The person who wrote this editorial probably doesn’t know that in Minnesota in 1998, every gubernatorial debate included Jesse Ventura, and there were dozens of such debates, all year long, in the primary season as well as the general election season.