Wednesday, March 7, 2012
In the town's only contested race for elected office, Weidong Wang edged out Dan McCabe to claim a seat on the Lexington Housing Authority. Former Gov. Mitt Romney easily outpaced his competition in the Republican primary.
There was just one contested race for elected office yesterday in Lexington, but it was a close one. According to unofficial preliminary results released last night by the Town Clerk's Office, Weidong Wang, a political newcomer in town who positioned himself as a voice for Lexington's Asian community, narrowly defeated Dan McCabe to win a five-year term on the Lexington Housing Authority. Just 24 percent of Lexington's 21,520 registered voters turned out for the annual Town Elections, which coincided with Super Tuesday and the Massachusetts presidential primary. Housing Authority was the only contested race for elected office and Wang earned 2,295, edging out McCabe's tally of 2,033. The difference between the two fell well short of the …
Stein's Super Tuesday at home in Lexington included friends, supporters, folk music and exactly one reporter.
A little more than an hour after the polls closed in her home state of Massachusetts, Jill Stein sat down at her kitchen table and opened a laptop. Nothing. It’s not easy being Green. But spirits were high inside Stein’s Lexington home, where the Green Party presidential hopeful awaited Super Tuesday results with a small group of friends and supporters. Homemade vegan chop suey and an applesauce cake with “Jill” written in light chocolate frosting sat on the kitchen table. Conversation around the room touched on superficial differences between major parties and lamented their lack of media coverage. And Stein joined activist folk singers Tom Neilson and Lynn Waldron in an acoustic number about business as usual in Washington. They …
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
A car accident, a LHS senior launches a sorta serious last-minute bid for the Board of Selectmen and a few other observations from the polls around Lexington at the outset of Super Tuesday and annual Town Elections.
Updated at 12 p.m. Here are a few quick hits and observations from this morning. -- Though the voters only trickled in at some locations around town in the first few hours after the polls opened, election day started out with a bang. Literally. A head-on collision outside the Estabrook School, the Precinct 7 polling place in Lexington, shut down a portion of Grove Street. However, there were no injuries sustained in the accident and police and fire personnel directed traffic so as to allow residents to carry out their civic duty, an officer on scene said. -- Around 8 a.m. this morning, the publicity team for Jill Stein, the hometown Green Party presidential hopeful, said she would be arriving in Lexington sometime today, but they weren't …
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential hopeful from Lexington, is on a winning streak heading into the presidential primary in her home state this Tuesday.
Heading in to Lexington’s annual Town Elections, which are synced up with the “Super Tuesday” presidential primaries this year, one local candidate has been building some real momentum. But it’s probably not who you’d think. Lexington resident Jill Stein, a Green Party presidential hopeful, has picked up five straight primary wins—in Ohio, Maine, Minnesota, Illinois and, most recently, Arizona—en route to the March 6 Super Tuesday, when she’ll be on the ballot in her home state. "After big wins in Ohio, Minnesota, Maine, Illinois, and now Arizona, it’s clear that Greens across the country are uniting behind our campaign,” said Stein in a statement posted to her website last week. “Together we are calling for a Green New Deal to put 25 …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Today's the last day to register to vote in the Town Elections and Presidential Primaries scheduled for Tuesday, March 6. Also, some specimen ballots.
The Lexington Town Clerk's office is open until 8 p.m. tonight for last-minute registration for the annual Town Elections and the Presidential Primaries, both scheduled for Tuesday, March 6. As of 4 p.m. today, Feb. 15, the final day to register for the vote, the Town Clerk's Office had received 13 voter registration requests, according to Assistant Town Clerk Dianne Snell, who said that's probably no more than usual this close to an election. The Town Clerk's Office has posted specimen ballots online. According to those, there are several contested races for Town Meeting, but the only contest for elected office is for Housing Authority, which pits Greeley Village resident Daniel L. McCabe against Weidong Wong, a Reed Street resident. …
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
This Friday, Jan. 13, is the final day residents can pull papers to run for elected office or Town Meeting and 5 p.m. next Tuesday, Jan. 17, is the deadline to submit signed nomination papers.
Only a few days remain for potential candidates to pull papers to run for an elected office or Town Meeting membership and, while a few contested races are shaping up, there are still more Town Meeting seats than suitors. According to Town Clerk Donna Hooper, as of Jan. 10, the final day for an incumbent Town Meeting member to declare intentions to seek re-election, there were still at least Town Meeting seats without candidates across the town’s nine precincts. Hooper was particularly concerned about Precinct 3, which lost four members due to reprecincting and, as of Tuesday, had only six candidates for nine openings. On the flip side, precincts 4 and 8 both had more candidates than openings. Reprecincting, occurring this year as a …
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Town Clerk Donna Hooper offers suggestions for dealing with "challenging" election year.
They say all politics is local, and that could be the case for Lexington voters in March 2012 if officials act on Town Clerk Donna Hooper's recommendation to hold annual Town Elections and the presidential primaries on the same day. Deciding who to vote for may not be the only challenge for Lexington in 2012, according to Hooper, who said school renovation work, newly drawn precinct boundaries and holidays are other potential factors affecting presidential and state primaries, the annual town election and the big one next November. Due to some of those elements, along with potential for cost savings, Hooper is recommending the town hold its annual election the same day as the presidential primary in March, provided that the latter is not …
Tom Neilson
9:59 pm on Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Jill Stein is who Massachusetts needed as governor. Now we need her as president. Two years ago, the corporate media kept her out of the debates and the news because they were afraid of her message. Please insist to the media that they cover her campaign and get her message at the podium with other contenders. more ›