Marjorie Decker, our #CambridgeMA state representative, is finally getting a primary challenger, Evan MacKay: https://www.evanforcambridge.com/
Evan is great! If you're still bitter about Memorial Drive Saturdays, which Decker helped kill (and lied about!), or just about how dysfunctional our legislature is, please donate to Evan's campaign: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mackay
Quick Cambridge election outcome thoughts:
On housing, this is a great Council. Jivan is a big step up, and I look forward to what we can do this term.
On bike safety: This is a soft-but-not-worst-case result. Pickett is a big step down over Mallon/Carlone, and protecting the CSO will require constant vigilance and pressure, especially on Wilson (to be good)/Nolan (to stay good). Significant expansion this term seems unlikely (but so does major rollback, imo).
With the #CambMA elections coming up, I have updated my voting guide with this year's candidates and endorsements (that I've found so far).
https://2023cambridgevoting.streamlit.app/
If there are any endorsements/pledges/questionnaires I'm missing, let me know. Or any other suggestions. This is very much a work in progress.
For those interested in the Cambridge election cycle endorsements, Tim put together a reasonable venn diagram capturing the endorsement overlap.
The 6 candidates who fall into "Both ABC endorsed and signed the Cambridge Bike Safety pledge", that is:
@DemonHusky @crschmidt @Etherealcolburn @bikepedantic @Ofsevit I'm definitely not trying to say your vote doesn't matter! Popular incumbents win because lots of voters like them (for whatever reason), so if it's one of your votes that helps them win in the first round, I don't see a problem with that.
And interestingly, incumbents actually lose much more frequently in Cambridge than places with different electoral systems, as far as I know.
Itamar Turner-Trauring
Christopher Schmidt
Michael.Kinkema
Scott Kilcoyne