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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...
Several contenders have announced their intention to run for the seat, and others are considering a campaign...
Timothy R. Flaherty—who competed against Galluccio for the Senate seat in 2007—has announced that he will run again...
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, Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Saugus, and Somerville. The Boston Globe endorsed Flaherty...