In case you missed it, Yvonne Abraham yesterday had an interesting piece that raises the question of whose campaign is really for sale: Sonia Chang-Diaz, who took $500 from some woman in Cambridge, or Dianne Wilkerson, who took $7,000 from the management company at the Roxse Homes project (from which Wilkerson rents her campaign office)?
By adamg - Mon, 10/06/2008 - 8:31pm
House Speaker DiMasi to endorse Sonia Chang-Diaz in 2nd Suffolk state-senate race.
By adamg - Wed, 10/01/2008 - 3:21pm
Councilor Turner tells PoltickerMA that he doubts Sonia Chang-Diaz is really Latina and that her support really comes from white women who can't stand the idea that a black man could get into the White House instead of Hillary Clinton. Needless to say, Turner is backing incumbent Dianne Wilkerson in her sticker campaign, calling her "a treasured resource" the 2nd Suffolk District - or rather, real blacks and Latinos in the district - can't afford to give up.
By adamg - Sat, 09/27/2008 - 4:59pm
No word yet if she will continue her "Chang-Diaz is a white devil controlled by Cambridge honkies" strategy, however.
By adamg - Sat, 09/27/2008 - 10:12am
Ross Levanto will be posting Twitter updates from today's recount of those 2nd Suffolk precincts.
By rossoduck - Fri, 09/26/2008 - 11:57pm
I am volunteering for Sonia Chang-Diaz as a monitor during the recount Saturday at City Hall.
I plan to post updates via my Twitter account during the day, updating as much as I can.
By adamg - Tue, 09/23/2008 - 10:54pm
PolitickerMA reports that should the state Senator lose her recount, she'll run a sticker campaign in November:
By Brett - Mon, 09/22/2008 - 2:24pm
Is anyone surprised? Wilkerson and Chang-Diaz have sought paperwork for a re-count.
By adamg - Thu, 09/18/2008 - 11:42am
PolitickerMA has both stories:
- 'No comment' from campaign on possible independent bid against Chang-Diaz.
- Wilkerson violates her agreement with attorney general over those pesky campaign-finance obligations.
Chris Lovett, meanwhile, files an election-night report that would seem to indicate Wilkerson was still in a fighting mood, claiming that Chang-Diaz won't represent the overwhelmingly black precincts in their 2nd Suffolk district:
... "I think what [the primary outcome] proves is that you could be a state senator without representing a good core of this community," said Wilkerson, "and that makes me sick."
By adamg - Tue, 09/16/2008 - 10:03pm
Unless she wages a write-in campaign in November against Sonia Chang-Diaz - who unofficial results show is the winner in their rematch for the 2nd Suffolk state senate seat.
Click on the link for other Boston results in today's Democratic primaries, including: In the 5th Suffolk (Dorchester and Roxbury) state rep's race, Marie St. Fleur easily beat back longtime politico Roy Owens, while in the 6th Suffolk (Roxbury, JP and Roslindale), incumbent Willie Mae Allen showed Faustina Gabriel what's what. Over in the 10th Suffolk (West Roxbury and South Brookline), it was incumbent Mike Rush in a cakewalk over Pamela Julian.
By rossoduck - Sun, 09/14/2008 - 11:02am
State Senate candidate Sonia Chang-Diaz came to Beacon Hill this morning, attending Hill House's annual pancake breakfast at the Firehouse on Mt. Vernon Street. Voters were excited to see her there, and it's pretty clear many across the 2nd Suffolk district are following the race.
By rossoduck - Thu, 09/11/2008 - 8:33am
Today's Boston Globe endorsed Sonia Chang-Diaz in the Mass. 2nd Suffolk State Senate race. The election is Tuesday, September 16. From the endorsement:
Chang-Diaz has demonstrated solid knowledge of the issues facing the district ... she understands the familes in the 2nd Suffolk and elsewhere are starved for better educational opportunities.
By rossoduck - Fri, 08/22/2008 - 12:35pm
A nice review of the 2nd Suffolk Senate race aired on WCVB-TV last night.
By adamg - Mon, 08/18/2008 - 2:42pm
Blue Mass. Group posts numbers from a tracking poll conducted by the Sonia Chang-Diaz campaign in the Second Suffolk senate race.
By rossoduck - Mon, 08/04/2008 - 11:18am
While many of us were following breaking developments regarding Senator Wilkerson's finances this past weekend, the Boston Phoenix published a nice state-of-the 2nd Suffolk Sena
By adamg - Mon, 07/07/2008 - 11:26am
Mike Ball surveys some of the issues in the repeat race between incumbent state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson and challenger Sonia Chang-Diaz.
By adamg - Thu, 06/19/2008 - 2:42pm
The Globe reports on state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson's desire to avoid another embarrassment like two years ago, when she, oops, forgot to file her nomination petitions on time. The paper writes:
This year, Wilkerson qualified for the primary ballot with a whopping 3,000 signatures, 10 times the amount she needed.
Not quite. As Linda Rodriguez at the South End News reports, Wilkerson actually only qualified with 428 signatures, just one more than her opponent, Sonia Chang-Diaz. This doesn't mean the remainder of her 3,000 signatures were bad, necessarily, just that elections officials stopped looking after a certain point.
By rossoduck - Wed, 06/18/2008 - 5:04pm
What one could call the opening round in the race between State Senator Dianne Wilkerson (D- 2nd Suffolk) and her Democratic challenger, Sonia Chang-Diaz, takes place tonight.
Boston Democratic Ward Committees are hosting a forum featuring the two candidates. After the forum, Boston's Ward 5 Democratic Committee is taking an endorsement vote. It might be only June, but this race has begun.
Here's an email I received regarding the event from the Boston Ward 5 Democratic Committee Chairman (NOTE: I am a member of the Boston Ward 5 Democratic Committtee):
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By adamg - Thu, 04/17/2008 - 10:47pm
Left Ahead posts an hour-long interview with Chang-Diaz, making her second run for the 2nd Suffolk Senate seat now held by Dianne Wilkerson.
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