Newton is holding a special election on Tuesday March 16 for two City Council seats. Election day is next week but Election Week begins now.
You can vote any day this week from 8:30Am – 5:30 PM at City Hall or wait to election day and vote at your normal neighborhood voting place.
The deadline to apply to vote-by-mail is Wednesday. At this point, given the problems with the USPS, the best course would be to fill out the application which can be found at the link below and put it in the drop box at City Hall. I also plan to submit my ballot through the drop box rather than by mail so I can be sure it gets there on time.
Info on voting is available at
https://www.newtonma.gov/government/elections
I will vote for the candidates that will put Newton first and not their own personal ambitions by kowtowing to the teachers union and developers.
The candidates say they are not taking money from developers but I challenge them to forgo any such contributions for the rest of their careers.
Note this challenge is not valid for Barash. I won’t believe him. He just says one thing (“Ward Councilors are bad”) and changes his mind and does the opposite (“I want to be Ward Councilor”).