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Citizens of Cambridge and several neighboring towns will vote in a special election this spring to fill imprisoned ex-senator Anthony D. Galluccio’s vacant seat in the Massachusetts state legislature, Senate President Therese Murray announced Wednesday.
Galluccio was sentenced to a year in jail after violating his probation for a hit-and-run accident by failing a series of breathalyzer tests. After Galluccio resigned his seat last Tuesday, Senate rules gave Murray 14 days to determine whether to hold a special election.
A primary election will be held on April 13, and a general election on May 11.
Winters said he thought that the decision to fill the seat by special election rather than leaving it vacant until the fall would benefit Flaherty, who has run for the seat before and garnered name recognition throughout the Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex district—which includes parts of Cambridge...
President Arroyo has formed a commission headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to recommend measures for breaking up these private armed groups over the election period - a move criticized in some circles as unnecessary. "The issue of dismantling them doesn't require further study. The police and armed forces...