Keith St. John has no experience and just wants pot to be legal.
Leonard Golden doesn’t know about party politics and is gonna get destroyed.
Rufus Gifford quoted The Statue of Liberty when our discussion created an opening for him to do so. He wants to bring a lot of what he saw as Ambassador to Denmark back to the USA, but recognizes that our country doesn’t have enough trust in government to do it all. He is one of my top 3.
Dan Koh left early, and I arrived late, so we didn’t get to talk, but I talked to one of his staff. He has been chief of staff for Marty Walsh, and is responsible for a lot of good things that Walsh has done for Boston. One of the other candidates said that she thinks he's very moderate, not very progressive.
Barbara L’Italien has gotten stuff done in the state senate. She has a child with autism, and her child inspired her to pass some of the laws which allow my school1 to exist. She is one of my top 3.
Alexander Chandler was a naval intelligence officer for 14 years, from Bush 2 through the early days of Trump. Because she is trans*, she left shortly after Trump’s announcement about trans* people in the military. She stands too close to people when she talks, which didn't seem to bother the army of old women who think she's awesome. She is one of my top 3.
Lori Trahan basically just talked about being working class. She didn’t seem to be very well educated on the issues that she talked about. She has apparently been a bureaucrat for a long time, like Dan Koh, but she contrasted herself with him by pointing out that she went to public schools and only made it into Suffolk because of the scholarships she earned.
It is my intention for this blog to cover as many of the candidates as possible in this race, and discuss their positions, issue by issue, as specifically and directly as I can. Many of them have websites which will make my life easier, but some do not, and I will need to directly call or email them to ask for clarification on their positions. As I did in 2016 with the presidential race between Clinton, Stein, and Johnson, I intend to look at one issue per week, and analyze each candidate on their own merits.
I have a little under six months between now and September 4th, and I will not be able to publish every week, so I hope that I can get to eighteen issues in that time. For a preview of my values and what issues I will cover, look at my previous blog threepartyrace.blogspot.com/. Please be aware, my sanity was damaged by the election of a man who used a KKK slogan, talked about his genitals on stage during a primary debate, and laughed about sexual assault, so the last several months of my previous blog were me pretending to live in a fantasy world where the electoral college did its job and did not allow a monster to be elected.
1. For those of you who don't know where I work, I work at a school for kids with above average IQs and with emotional challenges, such as autism and bipolar disorder. ↩
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