Thursday, May 23, 2013
The campaign committee called “Koutoujian for Congress” allows the candidate to raise money for a campaign and hire campaign staff.
Middlesex County Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian announced Thursday that he is opening a Congressional campaign committee account. The move is a serious indication that Koutoujian will run for U.S. Congress if Congressman Edward Markey wins the U.S. Senate special election next month. "I have dedicated my life to working on issues important to the people I have been honored to represent as a legislator and now as Sheriff. If given the opportunity, I intend to fight for the people of the 5th Congressional district as their representative in Washington," said Koutoujian. "Throughout my career, I have focused on guaranteeing access to quality, affordable health care, enacting common sense measures to strengthen our economy, ensuring public …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Congressman leads Gabriel Gomez by 17 points.
A new Suffolk University/7NEWS (WHDH) poll shows a strong lead for Democratic U.S. Congressman Edward Markey over Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez in the race for the U.S. Senate special election. The poll of 500 likely voters has Markey at 52 percent and Gomez at 35 percent. Eleven percent of voters in the poll were undecided. A third-party candidate, Richard Heos of the Twelve Visions Party, got 1 percent and another 1 percent refused to respond. David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, said along with the announcement of the poll that Markey has "a large lead over his Republican opponent who voters are unsure about." Indeed, 32 percent of those polled said …
Saturday, May 4, 2013
The two will face off on June 25 in the U.S. Senate special election.
After months of campaigning we now know who is going head to head in the June 25 special U.S. Senate election. Democratic Congressman Edward Markey (D-Malden) took the Democratic vote in the Tuesday election over fellow Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston). Political newcomer and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset came out on top of a field of Republican candidates - including more seasoned opponents former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and State Rep. Dan Winslow of Norfolk. With a month and a half of campaigning still to come we wanted to stop and ask you this question. If the Special Election were today - who would you vote for right now? Markey or Gomez? Tell us in our comments section below.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Woburn voters chose the same candidates that voters elected state-wide.
The results are in from the Massachusetts Special State Primary to fill the vacant seat left by now Secretary of State John Kerry. The primary consisted of two official Democratic candidates and one write-in candidate and three Republican candidates. On the Democrat side, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-8th), U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-5th) and Brett Rhyne (write-in candidate) faced off in the primary. Former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez, former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and State Rep. Dan Winslow (R-Norfolk) faced off in the Republican primary. Massachusetts party voters elected Markey to run for the Democrats and Gomez to run for the Republicans. How did Woburn vote? Woburn Democrats also went with Markey with 1,833 votes compared to Lynch's 1,…
The former Navy SEAL and the longtime Congressman will face off June 25 to fill John Kerry's former U.S. Senate seat.
A political newcomer will face a long-time Massachusetts politician in the race to be the Bay State's next U.S. senator. The Associated Press has declared Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset and Democratic U.S. Congressman Edward Markey of Malden the winners of their U.S. Senate special primary elections, according to tweets from Fox 25. The call for Gomez came approximately one hour after the polls closed in the statewide primary while a call for Markey came moments later. Gomez defeats his more seasoned opponents, former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan of Abington and state Rep. Dan Winslow of Norfolk. Markey beat fellow U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch of South Boston. Brett Rhyne of Needham ran an …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Find your polling location and catch up on the candidates.
It's time to vote in the Special State Primary to choose party candidates to run in the special election to fill now Secretary of State John Kerry's former seat. In Woburn voting will take place from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the various polling locations listed below. Today's primary election will include a race for both the Democrats and Republicans: To read interviews done with the candidates by Patch, click on the following links: Stephen Lynch Edward Markey Brett Rhyne (write-in candidate) Gabriel Gomez Michael Sullivan Daniel Winslow Polling Places: Woburn has seven wards and two precincts per ward—find out which ward and precinct you live in—and nine polling places. They are listed below:
42.471389
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Clapp Elementary School
Hudson St, Woburn, MA
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761799
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42.476109
-71.139916
Shamrock Elementary School
60 Green St, Woburn, MA
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761801
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42.49248
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Wyman Elementary School
679 Main St, Woburn, MA
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761827
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42.463447
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Reeves Elementary School
240 Lexington St, Woburn, MA
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761829
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42.483836
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Hurld Elementary School
69 Bedford Rd, Woburn, MA
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761838
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42.4773
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Joyce Middle School
55 Locust St, Woburn, MA
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761967
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42.5154
-71.16118
Altavesta Elementary School
990 Main St, Woburn, MA
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762025
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42.484597
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Malcolm White Elementary School
36 Bow St, Woburn, MA
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762380
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42.4498
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Goodyear Elementary School
Montvale Avenue, Woburn, MA
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Read our Patch interviews with the six candidates running in today's Special State Primary before heading out to the polls today.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
We gathered questions from editors across Patch’s coverage area in Massachusetts.
Patch editors interviewed each of the candidates running for U.S. Senate in the April 30 special election. We gathered questions from editors across Patch’s coverage area in Massachusetts. The editors asked both broad questions about policy, as well as opinions on more local, regional issues. Click on the links below to read the questions and answers with each candidate… Stephen Lynch Edward Markey Brett Rhyne (write-in candidate) Gabriel Gomez Michael Sullivan Daniel Winslow
Monday, April 15, 2013
Woburn voted for Scott Brown and owns fewer hybrid cars than the state average.
Woburn is red and brown: That’s what we found when we compared data from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to the vote in the 2012 U.S. Senate race. You can see the results in the map above: Large circles suggest towns with more hybrid ownership per capita, and the red/blue color suggests which way those towns voted last year. In Woburn, 17.4 of every 1,000 vehicles is a hybrid, compared to the state average of 18. Patch’s research suggests the state has a good number of what might be called “green Republican” communities. More than 40 percent of the communities where Republican Scott Brown carried the vote have an above average numbers of hybrids. The data is a nice rebuttal to the national trends of hybrid/GOP separation: …
Sunday, April 14, 2013
A look back at what happened over the past week in the U.S. Senate race.
Just a little more than two weeks until the primary election to see which Democrat and Republican will go head to head to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by John Kerry’s appointment to Secretary of State. Monday night, U.S. Congressmen Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) and Edward Markey (D-Malden) met in their second debate which contained few fireworks. The debate, held at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and sponsored by the college and the Boston Herald, lasted about 45 minutes and touched a wide variety of issues on which the two Democrats mostly agreed. On Wednesday night, it was the Republicans’ turn as they went face to face in the WBZ-TV studios moderated by the station’s Jon Keller. Former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan…
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