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...BALLOT will provide Massachusetts voters with a series of clear choices on the candidates--on issues, performance and style. But one of the clearest choices of all has nothing to do with candidates. It is on an idea. For all the lies, distortion and complex legalese, the essence of Question One, an amendment to the State Constitution calling for tax classification, is very clear indeed: should Massachusetts corporate interests be able to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes on to homeowners? Or, to phrase the question in a more loaded but equally accurate way: Will Big Business...
Danehy breezed through the commissioner's race in the primary the way most incumbents do--by being first on the ballot. He won handily in a field of four, and thus dispatched any serious opposition for Tuesday. There is a rumor that Joan Needleman of Newton might be trying to run a sticker campaign on the Republican side, which should be good for many laughs but not too many votes...
Robert Campo, currently chairman of the Board of Assessors in Somerville, is running as an independent, but should not be taken too seriously. Cavanaugh has the almighty first position on the ballot, as well as the enthusiastic blessings of those who are aware of his work as clerk of the probate courts over the past year...
Rocco Antonelli is the Democratic candidate. Antonelli scored a big victory in the primary by defeating pre-primary favorite John Twomey and five other aspirants by a scant 4000 votes. The victory was the result of Antonelli's being--you guessed it--first on the ballot due to the departure of aging James Brennan as county treasurer, and also the fact that Antonelli was the only Certified Public Accountant in the entire field of budget watchers...
...that's the country's second largest county in a nutshell, and if you managed to get to the end of this piece, you should have no trouble getting to the small type at the end of the ballot, where the county races have hung out for years...