2nd Worcester Special Election

Cos at Blue Mass. Group has a great round up of the special elections coming up in February and the candidates running for those seats. I've written about the 2nd Worcester race before. There are 2 democrats running, which is great news, and I am happy to see that Michael Ellis is more receptive to equal rights than Knuuttila ever was which is also great news.

Having said that, I do think that progressives out here in No. Central Massachusetts have a lot of work to do in terms of organizing a farm team of candidates from local towns that make up the various senate and state rep districts so that when these openings occur we have a list of potential candidates ready to go. Right now all we can hope for in 2nd Worcester is for a democrat to hold the seat and that is a good thing, but the idea that we have democrats running on the positions of being "very conservative" and concerned with "the plight of the small business owner." without any mention of health care, education and affordable housing is disappointing.

It sounds more to me like "Republican-lite."