| Tara: has worked in middlese probate court. cleared out backlog. Trained on tech update slated for rollout. not many know what the status of this office...do you want alearning curve w/ political appt or someone who won't have one? (Tara well received...)
John Panica: starts with funny joke, creds as dem. Works with student program.
Gail Sullivan: praises waltham. 31 yrs as ma atty, private andpublic rxperience. worked w/ tip o'neil. Worked with impoverished families. Grew up in poverty. Committed to public srvc, impressed by level of candidates standing for offic.
Teresa Walsh: all want one thing: dem nom to brcome next registrar. Rep'ed indigent clients, held elected office, need some with elected experience to hit ground running.
John O'Donovan: am proud resident somerville. strong dem, dem principles. somerville scholl comm and alderman. in practice. know what is needed. transparency, simplfy process. tech upgrades. collect data for accntability. (much applause)
Brian Chamberlain: family work paralegal, .mainconcern violence against women,
(missed several cand's., ran into pda posting limits...) :( missed Leonard Golden, Maria Sheehy, Katherine Triantafillou.
Complements candidates for sticking to 2min limit. Seems they have really planned how to get balloting moving. we'll see in a moment!
Here's sco: 'i think it's going to be a long night.'
a delegate: 'actually this process went much better than I expected.'
The pre-voting lasted less than 40min, and it's 10 of 8 & balloting is now closed & we're about to hear results...
while we wait for the count, a speech about Q#1. A lot of crosstalk, but there was less than @ lowell's 06 caucus when tom reilly spoke. :)
every1 to next ballot (no 1 withdrew):over 15%: Tara D: 101 (20%); Sean O: 117 (24%); Maria S: 91 (18%)
ball#2 closed...Walsh leaving race and endors. Tara D on bal #1 walsh had 6% vote.
ball#2 results over 15%: Tara 31%, Sean 24%, Maria 18%
3rd: Tara 44, Sean 29, Maria 26, it's between Tara & Sean |
