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massdee
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Posted - 01/09/2010 : 6:52:46 PM
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What do you think his chances are?
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Fran
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massdee
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Posted - 01/10/2010 : 5:00:40 PM
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Senate Hopefuls Eye Galluccio's Vacant Seat
By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, January 07, 2010
Following the resignation of recently imprisoned Massachusetts State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio on Tuesday, a slew of hopefuls are eyeing his now-vacant Senate seat.
In interviews with The Crimson yesterday, Timothy R. Flaherty, who ran against Galluccio for the Senate in 2007, and Daniel C. Hill, a Charlestown lawyer, both stated their intention to run. Galluccio’s chief of staff Sal DiDomenico and Cambridge City Councillors Marjorie C. Decker and E. Denise Simmons have been named as possible contenders in the race. In addition, the Boston Globe named real estate broker Michael Albano as a potential candidate.
Senate President Therese Murray has not yet announced whether a special election will be held to fill Galluccio’s seat, or if the seat will instead remain vacant until the scheduled election this fall. Murray has until Jan. 20 to set a date for a special election for the post, which represents the Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex district.
“I am a candidate for the Senate seat because I care about education, human services, healthcare, and other progressive values that are threatened in these difficult economic times,” Flaherty said. “That’s why I ran before, and that’s why I’m running now."
In November, Hill had declared his intention to run against Galluccio for the seat in the fall of 2010. Hill had already formed a campaign committee, created a Web site, and begun soliciting donations. In light of recent events, Hill said he is “definitely running” for the now-open seat.
“I think people are sick of these distractions, these scandals that have been plaguing the State House for the past few years,” Hill said, naming several other state legislators who have resigned in recent years due to legal troubles. “It’s sad for Mr. Galluccio, but I think it’s time to move on and get someone in this seat who’s a professional—not a career politician.”
Decker, who is currently serving her sixth term on the Cambridge City Council, said in an interview with the State House News Service, “I’m certainly going to explore the seat. I think at this point it’s still a little premature.”
According to Robert Winters—creator of the Cambridge Civic Journal, a website that comments on local politics—an early special election, which he said probably could not take place until late February or March, would be most beneficial to Flaherty, who has run for this seat before and garnered regional name recognition.
“If there were, let’s say, a City Councillor running, nobody outside Cambridge knows who they are,” Winters said. “Over a longer time scale, someone relatively unknown in the rest of the district would have a little more time to buddy-buddy up to all the people you need to network with. In the short term, they have no time to do that. They’re invisible in the short term.”
Galluccio, who was elected in 2007 after Jarret T. Barrios stepped down to run a healthcare company, was sentenced Monday to a year in prison for violating the terms of his probation, which stemmed from an October hit-and-run accident in Cambridge that injured two people. Just three days after he was sentenced to home confinement in December, Galluccio broke his probation by failing a series of breathalyzer tests. Galluccio, who maintains that he did not consume alcohol after receiving the sentence, attributed the test results to his toothpaste and stated Tuesday in his letter of resignation that he intends to appeal the sentence.
Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree told the Boston Herald yesterday that he was looking into helping Galluccio with his appeal, describing the senator as “a friend for a couple of decades." Ogletree represented Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the professor's dispute with the Cambridge police earlier this year.
Several of the people who may run for Galluccio’s seat expressed their sympathy for the convicted senator.
“Frankly, the sentence imposed seems a little bit harsh,” Hill said.
“He did the right thing with regard to resigning,” said Paul R. Nowicki, who came in second to Galluccio in the 2007 race but told the Crimson he would not run for the seat again.
—Staff writer Julie M. Zauzmer can be reached at jzauzmer@college.harvard.edu.
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massdee
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Posted - 01/12/2010 : 10:28:06 AM
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I was just reading the Boston Herald and came across this:
Galluccio in denial
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Maybe Anthony Galluccio at times felt he was bigger than he really was and acted arrogantly, but sometimes that comes from an alcohol disease (“Galluccio e-mail: Booze charge was completely false,” Jan. 11). I wish him no ill will, but he has to admit he has a problem, and that will be the beginning of his healing process. I wasn’t a fan of his, but there but for the grace of God go any one of us.
- David A. Ravanesi, Everett
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Tails
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Posted - 01/12/2010 : 7:35:47 PM
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Originally posted by massdee
I was just reading the Boston Herald and came across this:
Galluccio in denial
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Maybe Anthony Galluccio at times felt he was bigger than he really was and acted arrogantly, but sometimes that comes from an alcohol disease (“Galluccio e-mail: Booze charge was completely false,” Jan. 11). I wish him no ill will, but he has to admit he has a problem, and that will be the beginning of his healing process. I wasn’t a fan of his, but there but for the grace of God go any one of us.
- David A. Ravanesi, Everett
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I'm not defending Galluccio or his actions, but why is "Dave Rav" writing to the Herald...and it gets published???
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massdee
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Posted - 01/13/2010 : 09:38:39 AM
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Anthony Galluccio tops in his field - bar none
Howie Carr By Howie Carr
Somewhere this morning in Cambridge, there’s an empty barstool. Actually, there’s a lot of them, and not just in Cambridge. In Charlestown, Chelsea, Everett and Revere, too.
Sen. Anthony Galluccio, a man who truly believed that drinking doubles did make a party, has been dethroned as the King of Barstool Mountain. We can now waive the five-year waiting period and vote him directly into the Alcohol of Fame.
Poor Galluch. He forgot what they say on the street. Don’t do the Sensodyne if you can’t do the time.
Since every scandal must have a name that ends in -gate, let’s call this one Colgate.
I’d suggest a fitting tribute to the man, the legend, the hangover. How about the Senate passes a law in his name? We could ban open containers of toothpaste in automobiles.
Call it Anthony’s Law.
Colgate Total Whitening - who knew it was a gateway drug? Are you sure, senator, that you weren’t brushing your teeth with Black and Whitener?
Or maybe Harvey’s Bristol Gleem? Or (my favorite among these joke names that have circulated in recent days) Arm and Hammered.
Remember what Jail-uccio said a week before Christmas after this latest rendezvous with a bad ice cube?
“I have made a firm decision,” he said, “that there will be no alcohol in my life.”
And sure enough he didn’t get caught drinking - for almost 72 whole hours.
Does the hackerama have any clue as to the Scope of the electorate’s anger about what’s been going on around here? I think they started getting it yesterday, when the poll came out showing Scott Brown closing in on Martha Coakley. The Democrats needed this OUI distraction like Jail-uccio needs another Jello shot.
Amazing, though, that he still refuses to admit to drinking during his house arrest.
“I also ask that my colleagues support my effort to appeal the recent violation with respect to alcohol use on the strongest possible terms.”
Senator, the first step is admitting you have a problem. OK?
By the way, Senator, this needn’t be the end of your political career. You live in Billerica now. Their former senator was the perv in the Prius, Jim Marzilli. Now that district is represented by Ken “Double Dip” Donnelly.
Think about running in the primary next September, Jail-uccio. If you run against Donnelly, it’ll be Double Dip vs. Double Shot.
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tetris
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Posted - 01/13/2010 : 3:38:11 PM
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Special Election Set To Fill Galluccio's Seat
State Senator Resigned After Violating Probation
BOSTON -- A special election will be held May 11 in the Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex district to elect a successor to Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio, who resigned last week.
Secretary William F. Galvin on Wednesday issued the calendar for the special state Senate election. The party primary election for the district will be held Tuesday, April 13.
Nominations require a minimum of 300 certified signatures. The deadline for submitting nomination papers to local registrars of voters or election commissioners is March 2. March 9 is the deadline for filing nomination papers with the secretary of the commonwealth.
The Middlesex, Suffolk & Essex Senate District consists of the cities of Everett and Chelsea; Ward 3, precinct 2; Wards 6 and 7; Ward 8 precincts 1 and 2; Ward 9, precinct 1; Ward 10, precinct 2 in the city of Cambridge; Ward 1, precinct 1 and Ward 2, precinct 1 in the city of Somerville; Ward 2; Ward 21, precincts 4, 6 and 7; Ward 22, precincts 1, 2 and 5 in the city of Boston; Ward 6 in the city of Revere; and Precincts 2, 6 and 10 in Saugus.
Galluccio resigned earlier this month, one day after he was sent to jail for violating his probation in a hit-and-run crash.. He blamed failed alcohol tests last week on his toothpaste and was sentenced to one year in jail.
He pleaded guilty last month to leaving the scene of an accident in October that caused minor injuries to a father and his 13-year-old son. He was ordered to abstain from alcohol and submit to random breathalyzer tests.
Copyright 2010 by TheBostonChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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massdee
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Posted - 02/23/2010 : 10:23:44 PM
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Family of jailed ex-Mass. Sen. Anthony Galluccio hold fundraiser
By The Associated Press
February 22, 2010, 12:51PM
BOSTON – Friends and family of Anthony Galluccio are holding a fundraiser to try to help the former state senator who was jailed after failing a sobriety test.
Mother Nancy and sister Lissa have sent an e-mail trying to build a crowd for Wednesday’s event at the Sheraton Commander in Cambridge.
They say Galluccio accepted responsibility for an October hit-and-run accident by pleading guilty and accepting home confinement. They also say he has been undergoing alcohol abuse counseling.
But they also say he’s been wrongly imprisoned since Jan. 4 after he failed tests on a machine designed to make sure he was keeping sober.
Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree is preparing Galluccio’s appeal for free, but Nancy and Lissa Galluccio say they need money to defray other expenses connected to the case.
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