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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
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Wednesday, March 03, 2004 :::
I was supporting two candidates for State Committee. One was in my district, and the other was in an other district with a part of Cambridge. Both seem to have won the Cambridge portions of their districts, but lost their races.
There was a special election for State Senate. The last results I saw had Republican Scott Brown behind by 100 votes with two precincts left. This is for a seat previously held by a very liberal Democrat, on an election day which clearly favors the Democrats. Even if Brown ends up losing after Plainville reports -- though I believe is in the district he's been representing in the lower house of the legislature, so there's hope -- this could be a boost for Massachusetts Republicans, who have not had much to cheer about in the last dozen years.
As I mentioned earlier, Massachusetts also elected ward and town committees today. The city committees are conglomerations of ward committees. I'm not planning to run for reelection as chairman of the Cambridge Republican City Committee. I decided this in December, and it hasn't been a secret since early February, but I haven't exactly been telling random people on the street ("I lowered my cholesterol!"). I'm increasingly busy, and decreasingly enthusiastic about the City Committee. I'm relatively optimistic about politics in general -- our new governor seems much more interested in getting a bipartisan legislature than the last few Republican governors have -- and I'm going to stay in the game (as I mentioned, I did run for ward committee). But I don't want to play much of an organizational role right now, and I don't want to feel obligated to give priority to things in Cambridge.
::: posted by Steven at 12:41 AM
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