Wednesday, May 1, 2013
As was the case across the commonwealth, Congressman Ed Markey and former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez were their parties' top vote-getters in Lexington during the special US Senate primary election held April 30.
Lexington voters, like their colleagues across Massachusetts, tabbed US Rep. Ed Markey and political newcomer Gabriel Gomez as the chosen ones to face off in the general election to fill US Senate seat John Kerry vacated earlier this year when he was appointed Secretary of State. Here's a by-the-numbers look at how Lexington voted: Total Turnout According to preliminary results provided Tuesday night by the Town Clerk's Office, nearly 6,000 of the town's 21,691 registered voters cast ballots in the April 30 primary, nearly tripling the turnout for last month's town election. Democratic Party More than 5,100 of the town's registered Democrats voted on Tuesday, the overwhelming majority of them supporting Congressman Ed Markey, Lexington's …
Monday, April 8, 2013
The Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate meet in their second debate.
The combatants for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate special election will square off Monday night in Lowell for their second debate leading up to the April 30 primary. Congressmen Edward Markey (D-Malden) and Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) will participate in the debate being held at 7:30 p.m. at Durgin Hall on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The debate is sponsored by UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion and the Boston Herald. Questions for the debate will be posed by UMass Lowell students while the moderator will be reporter Jaclyn Cashman, according to the university. Markey and Lynch previously met for their first debate March 27 at the Channel 5 studios in Needham. The two candidates agreed to six…
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The domino effect following former US Sen. John Kerry’s appointment as Secretary of State conceivably could trickle all the way down to the local level, according to Town Clerk Donna Hooper.
Lexington’s annual Town Elections are less than three weeks away, but planning for the polls won’t stop there. No, Town Clerk Donna Hooper and her team will be preparing for at least one special election (plus primary) as Massachusetts looks to replace longtime U.S. Sen. John Kerry, following his appointment as Secretary of State. “These specials do pop up, and we saw this one coming to some degree,” said Hooper. “However, they clearly do throw us a curveball.” First up will be the town election, scheduled for Monday, March 4. With only on contested race for an elected seat—on the Planning Board—Hooper says there has not been a lot of interested the local election – yet. But that could change following after tonight, what with the League …
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Scott Brown has questioned Ed Markey's Massachusetts residency, according to reports, firing an early salvo in what could be the Senate special election showdown.
Updated at 7:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2: In response to this story, Giselle Barry, a spokesperson for US Rep. Ed Markey, sent Patch this statement: "Scott Brown has not yet announced that he is running for Senate, but he is already launching false, personal attacks from the sidelines. Ed Markey lives in Malden, and has lived there his entire life. He and his wife own their home in Malden. He is proud to come from and represent the values of the people of Malden. This campaign should be about what matters most to the people of Massachusetts: jobs, education, health care and the environment." Originally posted at 3 p.m. In a radio interview Wednesday morning, U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) jabbed at Democratic Congressman Edward Markey …
The bill eases portions of the so-called "fiscal cliff."
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a deal late Tuesday to ease portions of the so-called "fiscal cliff," according to the Huffington Post. How did our local representatives in Congress vote? Rep. Ed Markey, D-Malden, Rep. John Tierney, D-Salem, and Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Somerville, each supported the measure. Markey represents Lexington. The compromise was approved by the Senate at 2 a.m. Tuesday, and despite talk of rejecting it, the House ultimately passed the bill by a vote of 257 to 167. Sens. John Kerry, D-MA, and Scott Brown, R-MA, both supported the measure in the Senate. "Just voted for the fiscal cliff bill," Brown said on his Facebook Page at 1:55 a.m on New Year's Day. "Not the full answer but a small step forward. A lot …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
President, Congress have just a few days to avert automatic tax increases and spending cuts. A number of Massachusetts Congressman suggest cutting nuclear programs instead.
Starbucks baristas are writing "come together" on all cups in the Washington, DC, area to encourage Congress and the President to come together to fix the fiscal cliff issue. For more information about this initiative, go to www.patch.com/fixthedebt. Congress and President Obama are racing against the clock this week as they make one last attempt to hammer out a deal to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” the US government is set to go over on New Year’s Day. Without a compromise deal to lower the deficit, the government will face a self-imposed deadline that triggers both spending cuts and higher taxes. Congress itself set the Jan. 1 deadline after failing to come to a budget compromise earlier this year. On Jan. 1, the George W. Bush-era …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Senator vs. Congressman -- Who ya got?
Politics and Saturday Night Live go together like battleships and bayonets. And this time of year, it seems these strange yet familiar bedfellows cannot escape one another. That much was true last week in Lexington. In town while campaigning for Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Rep Ed Markey, D-MA, and U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-WI, traded one-liners about Rachel Dratch, the Lexington native who, like Franken, is an SNL alum. For those unfamiliar with Dratch, here's the 1984 Lexington High grad doing the Blue and Gold varsity jacket proud as the Zazu to Jimmy Fallon's "Sully" in an old Boston Teens skit. Markey's joke riffed on Lexington's label as "The Birthplace of American Liberty," while Franken went with a reference to Michelle Bachmann's …
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Friday, October 19, 2012
The SNL alum turned U.S. Senator riled up a highly partisan crowd Friday, Oct. 18 in Lexington, where he and local politicians hit on economic and environmental concerns in support of Elizabeth Warren.
Politics are no laughing matter, but with little more than two weeks remaining before the Nov. 6 elections, Massachusetts Democrats looked for a shot in the arm from the man once called the “clown” of the Democratic Party, Al Franken, the former SNL cast member turned US Senator from Minnesota. Franken was in Massachusetts Oct. 19 to support Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate candidate looking to unseat the Scott Brown, the Republican incumbent, in a tight race many politicos expect will have ramifications far beyond the Commonwealth’s borders. And the stumping stopped here in Lexington Friday afternoon, as Franken and U.S. Rep Ed Markey joined a few more familiar faces to address an overflowing Depot building. There were jokes aplenty, for…
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Aron Levy
9:35 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
'Richard H' when one constantly creates sock puppet accounts based in Malden in order to comment on every post on which I'm active, it makes a guy suspicious. As I said before, the Malden moderator knows who you are. And he knows you're stalking me. more ›