Channel 7 is reporting the suicide of Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola, who recently said he would resign in January after coming under investigation for possible ethics and campaign-finance issues. The station says he was found dead around 12:30 p.m. today in Maine, where he had a summer home.
Lynne reports from the Democratic caucus to pick a replacement candidate for change agent John Buonomo.
John Buonomo, the indicted and disgraced Middlesex County Register of Probate, still managed to win Tuesday's Democratic primary against a slew of lesser-known opponents running sticker and write-in campaigns.
The Globe reports that John Buonomo, Middlesex County registrar of probate, was arrested for stealing money from county copiers and change machines at the Registry of Deeds.
Bruce Desmond, one of two Democratic candidates for the Middlesex County Clerk of Courts, mailed out a campaign leaflet disguised as a jury summons. I scanned in the leaflet and posted more about it at Blue Mass. Group.
Until today, I was undecided about this race, but now I know that I can't vote for someone who publicly demonstrates such poor judgment.
If AG Tom Reilly runs for governor, then there's a good chance that Middlesex County DA Martha Coakley will run for DA (just as Reilly did when AG Scott Harshbarger ran for governor). If so, who would run for Coakley's seat? SCO rounds up the early contenders on the Democratic side. Many are state legislators, so there'd be a whole cascading effect.
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