The Brunch Table

I will most likely be out of town on election day (Tuesday Nov. 4) here in Somerville, but I couldn’t find any information on absentee ballots on the city’s site. Fortunately, Paula Stuart answered a question I posted to PSDL:

…you can vote absentee by either calling the Elections Department and having them mail you a ballot, which you must send back in time for it to be received by election day, or by going in person to the Elections Department (in the basement of City Hall) and filling out a ballot in person anytime between now and the election.  City Hall is open 8:30-4:30 Monday through Wednesday, 8:30 – 7:30 on Thursday and 8:30 to 12:30 on Fridays.

As election day nears here in Somerville, MA, the mayoral race is heating up. With current mayor Kelly Gay having been voted out in the primaries, it’s down to Tony Lafuente and Joe Curtatone. I have to say that Curtatone’s campaign has been doing a better job of getting his message out to me personally—his flyers, with their excessively large type and relentless pimping of his cute kid, have become a weekly staple in my mailbox. By contrast, I think I may have gotten one piece of mail from Lafuente a while back, and the link to his platform on his website was broken until I emailed him. Also, this Weekly Dig article might’ve been more even-handed if they could’ve reached Lafuente for comment. Incidentally, that article noted that Curtatone was “challenging his opponent to run a clean campaign, free of negative personal attacks”; I guess he changed his mind, since today’s Curtatone mail was an attack ad (PDF, 370k) trying to pin Lafuente to the Mystic View Task Force’s efforts regarding the Assembly Square development. (more…)