Jim Cote’s tweets

Jim Cote’s tweets

Not everyone is on Twitter and all the tweet references are screenshots without links, so it’s tough a) to know if the six tweets attributed to former City Councilor Jim Cote in an anonymous flyer distributed by Councilor Emily Norton and in an email of still...
Mayor Fuller condemns Ward 3 tactics

Mayor Fuller condemns Ward 3 tactics

Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller is the second elected official (after City Councilor Julia Malakie) to condemn the Ward 3 GOP email attacking former Councilor Jim Cote and the first to condemn Councilor Emily Norton’s anonymous flyer attacking Councilor Cote. Says...
Norton: Here’s what I did

Norton: Here’s what I did

City Councilor Emily Norton has sent an email about the leafletting she did last weekend in support of Councilor Julia Malakie in the contested Ward 2 Ward Councilor race, in which she called Councilor Malakie’s opponent, former Councilor Jim Cote, “an...
Norton: That’s me

Norton: That’s me

City Councilor Emily Norton admitted to Boston Globe columnist Marcela García that she (Councilor Norton) is the person seen in doorbell-cam footage leaving an anonymous anti-Jim Cote flyer. Councilor Norton says she had nothing to do with the Ward 3 GOP e-mail....

What did it all mean?

What broad message can we take away from our closer-than-expected mayoral race, our all-incumbent City Council election results, and our two challenged seat School Committee results? Click through and share your analysis.

Incumbent sweep!

This is the first Newton election since at least 2001 in which there were no council/alderfolk upsets; incumbents who ran won. (I can’t find the 1999 results, so can’t tell who was an incumbent in 2001.) And, slightly less rare, all 24 incumbents ran. (Two...