A more up to date Candidate in needed for Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The current Secretary has been late with detailed Annual Reports… no Annual Report available yet for 2012-2013. Difficult to navigate, the Secretary’s website at http://mass.gov/sec for Offices, Divisions needs an update, needs to be easy to use. There’s a lack of access to reasonable staff at the Public Records Division and a lack of access to reasonable staff of the Records Management Unit.
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On June 8, Californians will vote on several referendums, in addition to primary races. One of those referendums, Proposition 14 (aka the Top Two Primaries Act), could hugely change how those primary races are conducted, and it would definitely not be for the better. As if to add insult to injury, but it could take down a public campaign financing measure along with it.
Prop 14 was put on the ballot through the backroom dealings of State Senator (not Lt. Gov.) Abel Moldonado, the very last holdout on the budget this year. He used the budget crisis for his own profit and one of his demands was to put this measure on the ballot. Now, his reckless action is being opposed by every political party in California and numerous electoral reform groups, groups ranging from the NAACP to the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition.
But big business wants this to pass because of the control it could give them over elections (explanation below the fold). So your help is needed – $5, $10, $100 – whatever you can chip in to prevent California from descending further into a mess of broken government.
Continue reading Help urgently needed: Stop anti-democratic Prop 14 in California!This was written originally for a national audience, so please excuse me if I treat the reader like they know nothing about Massachusetts politics.
Grace Ross, who ran in 2006 as the Green Party’s candidate for governor of Massachusetts, is now running in the Democratic primary for the same office, against incumbent governor Deval Patrick. “I wasn’t planning to run again,” stated Ross, “but things got worse. Things got worse for regular people.”
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