What are Your Expectations for Barrett as the 3rd Middlesex's State Senator?
A Boston Phoenix blog post casts the Lexington Democrat as ‘an unapologetic liberal’ committed to environmental gains. But what are your expectations from the Third Middlesex District's incoming state Senator?
In Lexington and the surrounding suburbs, quite a bit of attention was paid to the race for the Third Middlesex state Senate seat claimed by Mike Barrett. So much so in fact that, in the lead up to Election Day, incumbent state Sen. Ken Donnelly, an Arlington Democrat, joked he was Lexington's other candidate for state Senate, despite the fact that his Fourth Middlesex District includes six Lexington precincts compared to the three in the Third. But for those looking at the bigger picture, it seems the Third Middlesex race—with its densely populated Democratic primary and polar opposites facing off in the general—may have been lost in the shuffle of higher profile races, like former Gov. Mitt Romney’s run for the presidency and the hotly …
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Dinesh
9:42 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
I think mike by virtue of his experience in business and entrepreuer sector after working in state house is a sign of freshness of ideas from bottom up How to create jobs , how to stimulate buisness , and his knoweldge in heslth care -- connected health will help the district and state . Better help him understand the needs and act and make difference rather than label him of any one Every person… more ›