In which we go over the ballot from top to bottom.
Find your polling location and sample ballot by using this antagonistic form on the state website.
Official picks…
Senate: Markey
Governor: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Attorney General: Blank
Secretary of State: Very Blank
Treasurer: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Auditor: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Congressman: The Congressman
Governor’s Council: DePalo
State Senate: Kennedy, Teabo, or, if neither available where you live, blank.
Note, as we didn’t talk about this during the episode: a sliver of Worcester along the western border is in the state senate district currently held by Republican Peter Durant, who is awful, and thusly endorsed by Sheriff Lew Evangelidis and Howie Carr and other villains. Shannon Teabo is challenging. She has a good platform. Vote Teabo.
Question 1: Yes, but don’t get too excited.
Question 2: Yes, excitedly. (We had a whole episode on this one, with one of the public defenders organizing the campaign.)
Question 3: Hard no. Good rule of thumb: if Bane Capital wants something about our system changed, the change will not be good for regular people. Bane Capital is essentially financing this whole ordeal.
Question 4: Yes.
Question 5: No.
Question 6: Who Care
Question 7: Insulting.
Question 8: Say Yes To Drugs and Vote No.
Question 9: No.
And that about does it. Be sure to check the site tonight. We’ll have city result numbers up as they come in.
Other stuff related to the episode:
Billy Strings Plays He-Man-Themed Set Dressed As He-Man
WGBH story about Minogue’s James mailer initiative
My latest written post, which Chris read from: “Dreaming of the golden door”
Thank you for supporting the ongoing experiment that is this outlet. I feel we treated this election with the appropriate amount of levity—speaking of, a little bit of bonus footage from the recording session…
…levity we wouldn’t be allowed to introduce if we were anything but a reader-funded enterprise.
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