Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Debate to air on WCVB Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Another U.S. Senate election for Massachusetts is drawing to a close, with the two candidates set to square off one final time before voters head to the polls June 25. Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Malden and Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez will hold the last of three debates Tuesday evening in the race to fill the seat formerly held by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The debate will air live from 7 to 8 p.m. on WCVB (Channel 5). The debate will be moderated by R.D. Sahl of Boston University. The two previous debates for the candidates were held in Boston and Springfield. Recent polling has suggested an edge for Markey in the race. Both candidates have received visits from high-profile …
Saturday, June 15, 2013
If the special election was today, who would you choose as our new U.S. senator?
A week from Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will decide who to elect in the special election to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. We want to know - if the election was today - who would you vote for? Candidates Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have been pullling out all the stops in the last two weeks as the latest polls show the gap is narrowing between the two. After weeks of relative quiet, the negative ads have started to clog the airways and both candidates have had high-profile folks stumping for them. Rudy Guiliani was in town last week putting his support behind Gomez and President Obama came to Boston this week showing his support for Markey. So tell us, if you had to vote today who would …
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 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% of those polled said they'd heard …
Saturday, May 4, 2013
There is a lot of campaigning to do before the Democrat and Republican 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: if the special election was held today - who would you vote for right now? Markey or Gomez? Tell us in our comments section below.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Town voters chose between six selectmen candidates and four school committee candidates Monday night, as well as the Democratic and Republican primary candidates.
Evan Kenney, who graduated from Wakefield High School only a year ago, was elected to the Wakefield School Committee Tuesday night. Kenney is currently a freshman at Fitchburg State University who has lived in Wakefield his entire life. A total of four candidates were vying for three school committee seats. Chairman Tom Markham narrowly led the field with 2,808 votes, followed by Kenney with 2,796 and Greg Liakos at 2,780. Lisa Butler, an incumbent, was fourth with 2,244 votes. "I was just excited because I had so many people come out for me, " Kenney told Wakefield Patch after his election. "Win or lose, it would have been a blast...I'm just so grateful." Now that he's elected, Kenney said that his top priorities include helping the …
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
Separate ballots and check-in/out tables for town election and Senate primaries. Voters can participate in either or both.
Wakefield voters will choose candidates for town offices and for the U.S. Senate race in two separate elections Tuesday. Town Clerk Mary Galvin explained in an announcement last week that residents can vote in either or both elections on Tuesday – and that polling places will have two check-in and check-out voting lists, separate tables, and separate ballots. PDF copies of the town ballot and the Senate Republican and Democratic primary ballots can be viewed at this link. For this year’s contested races, six candidates are running for three selectmen’s seats, and four candidates are running for three school committee seats. The Senate primaries have Democratic Congressmen Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch running against each other, while the …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Still undecided? The election is Tuesday. Here are interviews we did with all the candidates.
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
Republican-leaning town has just above the state average for hybrid vehicles.
Wakefield voters split between supporting President Obama and Republican candidates for House and Senate during the 2012 election – although both GOP candidates, Richard Tisei and Scott Brown, had strong connections to the town. With that local data in mind, the chart above offers a look at hybrid ownership rates in Massachusetts compared to a town's political leanings. In Wakefield, 16.1 of every 1,000 vehicles is a hybrid, compared to the state average of 18. 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. Patch’s research suggests the state has a good number of what might be called “green Republican” …
Tyler Jozefowicz
4:14 pm on Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Gomez has no public sector experience. We know that. Looks like he has a dismal private sector performance as well , no management positions or skills. Gomez participated in relatively few deals and never earned a promotion to partner. He shifted to a lower marketing role at his firm. Translation , a demotion. A Globe review of Gomez’s nine years at Advent Int’l found that Gomez was directly … more ›