Results

State rep winners (Democratic)
4th Suffolk (South Boston, Dorchester): Nick Collins
5th Suffolk (Roxbury, Dorchester): Carlos Henriquez
6th Suffolk (Mattapan, Roslindale): Russell Holmes
10th Suffolk (West Roxbury, Brookline): Ed Coppinger
15th Sufffolk (Jamaica Plain): Jeffrey Sanchez

State senate (Democratic)
2nd Suffolk (Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway, South End): Sonia Chang Diaz.
Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex: Sal DiDomenico.

9th Congressional District (Democratic)
Lynch wins, easily defeats D'Alessandro in Boston.

Results from City of Boston site.

Steve Murphy retains seat as city councilor.

State Auditor
Glodis Bumped off the November ballot.

Treasurer, State senate races, Congress, Auditor.

Wicked Local Politics - Results from all over.

Comments

Rachel Brown

I can't believe someone like her even gets to have her name on a ballot. What does that say about our current political landscape?

Political landscape...

...doesn't lack for dining room furniture?

Cute sweet-16 photo on her

Cute sweet-16 photo on her campaign site.

Maybe she'll grow out of some of the crazy in a few years.

Run Pete, Run

It says that people who step up and take a shot aren't always all there. That's what it says.

The more the merrier. If you think you can do the job, go for it yourself.

I'd have no chance of beating Barney Frank

and neither does she. But Frank had to waste his and our time talking to this nutjob. I dunno, I guess in some way it's interesting that someone that has no chance can get into the national spotlight just because they can get x amount of people to sign their name.

So some people shouldn't be

So some people shouldn't be allowed to run for office? The vast majority of citizens didn't even bother to vote - she's more than one up on them. And at least she didn't campaign against Marshmallow Fluff.

Yeah, and have you looked at

Yeah, and have you looked at some of the people who not only ran for offices for which they're ill-suited, but were ELECTED.

Vote percentage

20%! I can't believe it! How did she get that much!

Basics of government

I hadn't been following that campaign (don't live in the district) but out of curiosity I just checked out her site. Whoa. First off, the "LaRouche Remarks..." update is full of awesomeness in its level of crazy. But more interesting is her statement on her "About" page that she would impeach Dick Cheney. Methinks she is a few years late for that, but why would we expect a candidate for the US House of Representatives to understand Constitutional law?

Watching BNN on Comcast.

Watching BNN on Comcast. Baby Flats is starting to look like Menino...........and what is St. Fluer's new title now?

Menino's coattails

Obviously don't reach past Fort Point Channel.

surprised by Nick

Yeah, I was pretty surprised to see that Nick Collins won. Just from the number of signs around, I expected McGonagle to pull it out. It is nice to know that Hizzoner doesn't control everything in this town, I guess.

This is too funny. Nick

This is too funny. Nick Collins wins and tonights Mass Lottery Number 0718...Paris and Kelly musta hit the lotto......

http://www.bostonfirelocal718.org/

coattails.....

....tell us how you really feel about the Mayor. Looks like southie hates him enough to vote for someone who hasn't bothered to vote but a few times in over a decade. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Still can't wrap my brain around voting for someone who has missed 70% of all elections.

"Coattails" was probably the wrong word

Since it sort of implies Menino won in the district the last time he ran, which he didn't. In some ways, the race was a proxy replay of the mayoral election - you had Menino sending in Kineavy to work for the son of one of his political appointees vs. Local 718.

Kiss of Death

I'm a life long resident of South Boston. I've seen many a Campaign. However, in Southie, it's become apparent that not only does Southie dislike the Mayor, but they are not willing to support any Candidate that the Mayor or Kineavy back. I say GREAT! The last thing this Community, or, Boston in general needs is yet another Coat Holder for Menino. I've walked past the McGonagle Campaingn Office only to see the likes of Michael Kineavy and Anthony Gerlardi ducking in there. I'm hoping this is the last term for Mumbles so that these scoundrals can go back and climb under the rock they came from!

If you actually knew what you

If you actually knew what you were talking about, you would know that the elections for which Collins did not vote, absentee ballots were requested because he was out of state in school or working in another state and was not given the ballots to cast. And if that's all you got to go against him...good luck... people who worked on his campaign did so on their own free time, not on the city's dime or should I say dollar...

Turnout is really low again.

Turnout is really low again. It's about 12% Whats the point of even having primaries if no one is going to vote.

I'm amazed Coppinger won. His

I'm amazed Coppinger won.

His website was only one page that talked about his education, job and family. Nothing on where he stood on the issues or what he'd like to do. He was the only candidate that didn't respond to a local paper (Transcript?) a few weeks ago about what his stance was on the issues.

A couple friends and neighbors supported him because "he's a family man with kids".

If he doesn't have enough time to have a website more than one page or to respond to the media, how is he going to have enough time to be a rep?

I just don't get it.

Didomenico wins by 178,

Didomenico wins by 178, Flaherty loses for 3rd time. Last time
Didomenico beat him by 135.

You're right, you don't get it.

anon (not verified, what a surprise),

Perhaps the reason Ed Coppinger won is because he understood that the voting block wasn't necessarily glued to their computer screen like you apparently are. He knocked on almost every door in the district and introduced himself and explained to voters eye-to-eye why he was running. There was no shortage of media coverage on his stance since Labor Day.

Oh and for the record, it wasn't a few friends and neighbors, it was 39.58% of the vote. Get it now?

The only candidates I met

The only candidates I met because they knocked on my door were Paul Sullivan and Kelly Tynan. I asked the neighbors a couple weeks ago if anyone else had knocked on their doors. They said no, but that it was understandable Coppinger didn't since "he's a family man so he's busy".

Someone did leave a Coppinger flyer in my door which did not say anything about his stance on the issues.

John Hillard wrote in the Brookline TAB on 8/6/10 about Coppinger not providing info on his position on the issues:

http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/brookline/2010/08/06/ed-coppinger-where-are-you/

Hillard updated that Coppinger called and said he'd provide it. I searched the TAB and it's not there.

Towards the end of August I gave up on researching Coppinger's stances on issues. He had announced his candidacy the beginning of March. 6 months for him to decide his stand on the issues and write them down and he hadn't. If he's too busy to write up a page of his position, he's too busy to be a decent rep.

Just to be clear, I vote prochildren. I firmly believe that they are the future of the human race. But I will not vote for someone just becuase he/she has children.

kstier, anon might not get it, but...

Anon might not get something, ksteir, but that might be because, as I have said elsewhere, Brookline gets ignored in this district and it sounds like anon might live there. I do live there and I can tell you that I got a couple of mailings from Mr. Coppinger, and my reaction was the same - they were short on the issues (nice family pics, though).

Coppinger got 139 of 1162 votes cast in Brookline in the 10th Suffolk race. He came a distant third with 12% of the vote. I think anon can be forgiven for not being able to understand how he won (although I must say that I expected it after the Globe article).

5th Suffolk the one to watch

Oy! My man Carlos Henriquez is 12 votes ahead of Barry Lawton. Will Althea Garrison play spoiler?

If you don't remember him by name, Carlos ran for Boston City Councilor At Large, last year but didn't make it all the way.

Or, you may know him for his other claim to fame: Reigning champion of dodgeball and “four square” in his beloved neighborhood of Dorchester, according to his website.

Governor's Council

I don't see it reported anywhere... Will Marilyn "Do you know who I am?" Devaney stay or will she go? I want my petty drama, and I want it now!

Hair-curling results

People are stupid

Collectively, this city is as dumb as a box of rocks sometimes.

Coakley will have a Republican opponent

Jim McKenna is claiming victory in his write-in campaign for the Republican nomination over Guy Carbone, who also ran a write-in campaign.

Honestly, I even I might vote

Honestly, I even I might vote for him over Coakley. Going to be interesting to see if he run a good campaign.

And I (grudgingly)gave Coakley a vote over Brown.

Celebrity Endorsement

I wonder if Perry is going to have Palin come stump for him vs. Keating?

I'm sure he can oversee a thorough inspection of her teen daughters in exchange.

swrrly

I'm trying to get the facts in the case of Officer Jeff Perry, and the police officer under his supervision who conducted an illegal strip search(s) of two teanage girls.

I don't understand if Perry was present during the search or learned about it after the fact. I do know he said the illegal strip search of two teenage girls didn't happen. I do know some of the story played out in a civil suit with testimony under oath and there should be some news coverage of the testimony and the case. What do you know about it?

There were two seperate incidents.

The first one he was present and should have or could have been able to intervene. I'm not sure if he was right there for the search or somewhere close. Either way he was there close by and could have brought something to the attention of his supervisors in my opinion.

The second one he was not present (with the same officer) but did go to the girls house after and basically attempt to cover up for the first officer (again my opinion)

The worst thing in my book was him resigning a few weeks after the first officer was fired.

No real proof either way that the guy did or didn't do anything, but enough to tell me (and voters) that this guy shouldn't be a politician or babysitter.

MA-10 meet your candidate for US Congress Jeff Perry

Based on

"Sgt Jeffrey Perry, Wareham, P.D. - The Rest Of The Story"
CapeCodToday. read the whole thing

Jeff Perry was present and had a duty to protect the 14-year-old girl who Officer Scott Flanagan illegally strip searched and subsequently went to jail for so doing. Perry failed to protect her from a violation of her civil rights. (Lesson: Jeff Perry was a police officer with whom you could not trust your 14 year-old girl's safety and civil rights to.)

Jeff Perry had a duty to report Officer Scott Flanagan for illegally strip searching the 14-year-old girl. His failure to do so enabled Office Flanagan to do it again December 31, 1992 "behind the Tedeschi mini-mart" while "alone on patrol." Perry was not a witness to this second violation by officer of the law Scott Flanagan.

Jeff Perry lied to the second girl's parents in order to keep her quiet about what had happened "behind the Tedeschi mini-mart" and to protect the perpetrator, Officer Scott Flanagan. Not only did Jeff Perry not report Officer Flanagan, he helped him cover it up. Perry chose to protect his fellow officer from consequences of an egregious violation against a minor rather than perform his duty to protect the public and hold his fellow officer accountable for his actions.

In a civil suit against the Wareham Police Department by the parents of the girls who were illegally stripped searched, the parents proved the Wareham PD was "deliberately indifferent" and won their suit. This law suit was a direct result of Jeff Perry's failure to protect the first victim and failure to hold Officer Flanagan accountable for either illegal strip search, in fact, going so far as to intimidate the victims and their parents so that they would not seek redress.

MA-10 meet your candidate for US Congress Jeff Perry, Tea Party.

-On May 22, 1991, as the superior officer at a purported crime scene in Wareham, Sgt. Perry was present when Officer Scott Flanagan indecently strip searched and assaulted a 14-year-old girl

-At said time and place, Sgt. Perry was in a position to both see Flanagan's conduct and to hear the girl's loud protestations.

-There is no evidence that Perry ever reported Flanagan for his conduct with the 14-year-old girl, reprimanded him, disciplined him or took any other steps to correct him for that conduct.

-On December 31, 1992, Officer Flanagan again indecently strip searched a teenage girl, behind the Tedeschi mini-mart, while he was alone on patrol in Wareham.

-This incident was interrupted by a disinterested adult witness who lived in a nearby house and came out to ask what Flanagan was doing there with the teenage girl.

-After speaking with the witness, Flanagan returned to the still half-naked girl and threatened to make things very hard on her if she reported his conduct. He then told the girl to leave.

-Sgt. Jeffrey Perry was not present or anywhere near the Tedeschi mini-mart when Flanagan violated the 16-year-old girl's civil rights.

-Later that evening, Sgt. Perry accompanied Officer Flanagan to the girl's house where he, Perry, told the girl's parents that both he and Flanagan had caught the girl in possession of an oregano like substance they suspected of being marijuana.

-Sgt. Perry threatened the girl's parents that she could lose her driver's license and possibly be sent to jail for five years if the substance turned out to be marijuana.

-Sgt. Perry also told the girl's parents that she had voluntarily pulled down her underpants in front of both Flanagan and himself.

-Perry's visit to the girl's parents, in an obvious attempt to cover up for Flanagan's misconduct, was not reported to any superior officer and was not authorized by his superiors.

-The next day, January 1, 1993, Wareham Police Captain Paul Cardalino received a call from a Bourne police officer who knew the girl's parents, complaining about Flanagan and Perry's visit to their home.

-Cardalino questioned Flanagan and Perry who both confirmed what Perry had told the girl's parents. Cardalino told both of them to file written reports confirming what they said, and they both did so.

-Shortly thereafter, the disinterested witness who had interrupted Flanagan's strip search of the teenage girl on New Year's Eve spoke with Cardalino about the incident, and Cardalino then put Flanagan on administrative leave, and initiated an internal investigation.

-The girl's parents filed a criminal complaint against Flanagan in Wareham District Court based on his strip search of their teenage daughter.

-Five day's later, the incident came to the attention of Police Chief Thomas Joyce for the first time, when he learned about the criminal complaint filed in the District Court against Flanagan.

-Chief Joyce spoke with Captain Cardalino and two Lieutenants in the Department and they then contacted the Town Administrator recommending that Flanagan be terminated.

-About a week later, after a closed hearing in which both Flanagan and the civilian witness testified, the Town Administrator fired Officer Flanagan based on the incident of December 31, 1992.

-Shortly thereafter, the Massachusetts State Police, CPAC, began a comprehensive investigation into Flanagan's misconduct, which resulted in several indictments being handed up in Plymouth Superior Court on May 17, 1993, pertaining to both the May 22, 1991, incident and the December 31, 1992, incident.

-Less than three weeks later, on June 3, 1993, Sgt. Jeffrey Perry submitted his resignation from the Wareham Police Department, effective June 27, 1993, at the end of the Town's fiscal year.

-In November 1993, Scott Flanagan pled guilty to all counts involving the two girls, and was sentenced to four years in the Plymouth County House of Correction.

-The two girls both filed separate civil rights lawsuits in the United States District Court in Boston, naming both Flanagan and Perry as defendants, along with the Town of Wareham and others, based on the Town's policy of "deliberate indifference" toward Flanagan's conduct, as carried out by Perry and others in the Department.

-In November 1995, the 16-year-old girl's lawsuit went to trial, resulting in a verdict in her favor in the amount of $50,000, in which the jury expressly found that the Wareham Police Department had a policy of "deliberate indifference" that allowed Flanagan to engage in indecent misconduct with teenage girls. Her lawyer also claimed attorneys fees totaling $85,000.

-In February 1996, the 14-year-old girl's lawsuit was settled out of court, and the case was dismissed in March 1996.

Which explains ...

... why even Pete Nice isn't giving this guy a pass.

to his credit, he does not give Perry a pass

but many MA voters do, which is a shame. Clearly, they do not make the time to do their homework. This guy have been legislating in the Commonwealth's House of Representatives for a few terms now.

"Deliberate Indifference" will be the phrase that pays for Bill Keating's campaign. Perry cannot run from that. Deliberate indifference and the fact disgraced Officer Scott Flanagan went to jail while Jeff Perry remained firmly planted on the far side of the thin blue line ... with Flanagan's 14yo female victims on the other.

Ballsy disinterested witness.

Ballsy disinterested witness. I would've been scared shitless about confronting a cop in that situation, and then later about whether to report it. It could be ambiguous/uncertain about a very serious accusation, and then there's always the chance that some bad apple in some department will hear about the accusation and have a grudge against you.

I agree he shouldn't be a

I agree he shouldn't be a politician. I can't imagine why anyone would vote for him.

Inspect Palin Instead

I would rather that Perry conduct the thorough inspection of Palin instead.

Beacon Hill and Back Bay are Sonia's District, too

Hey! To stand up for those of us downtown who vote-- granted, not many of us, I wanted to point out that the 2nd Suffolk State Senate District also includes Back Bay and about 2/3 of Beacon Hill.

Thanks!

Ross Levanto

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