Now This is a Race!

The open Rep. seat in the 2nd Worcester district is turning into quite a contest.

Gardner City Assistant Solicitor Robert L. Rice makes it an even 2 Democratic candidates, along with Michael F. Ellis, also of Gardner and 2 Republican candidates, Mark Hawke of Gardner and Jonathan Dennehy of Ashburnham in the running for the state representitive seat vacated by Brian Knuuttila in October.

Rice is not sharing any information on his views just yet:

Rice did not want to go into further details about his views on public safety, education, or other possible campaign issues until the debates. Debates have not yet been scheduled for the race.

"I think those are issues that require a full airing at a debate," he said. "I'm sure there will be differences."

Even with such a short campaign schedule, I hope there will be a debate. It will be interesting to see where the democratic candidates stand on issues. This area is not known for it's progresssive candidates, but I hope 2nd Worcester ends up with a state rep that is more in line with mainstream Massachusetts voters than Knuuttila was.