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Primary Election
Offers Local Flavor

Scott MacKeen
Staff Writer
9/2/10
The state’s primary election Sept. 14 will have a local feel, as four of Milton’s own are running for spots in state and federal government.

Verndale Road resident Mac D’Alessandro is challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch for the seat in the 9th Congressional District.

D’Alessandro, a lawyer, has for the last nine years represented the Service Employees International Union, advocating for working families. This is his first time running for political office. He is Lynch’s only challenger for the Democratic Party nomination.

Vying for the Republican nomination are Vernon Harrison, of Braintree, and Keith Lepor, of Boston.

Warren Avenue resident Richard Livingston, a former Town Meeting member who has run unsuccessfully for positions on the Board of Selectmen and the School Committee, is seeking to unseat seven-term incumbent Sen. Brian Joyce.

Livingston is one of two candidates for the Republican Party nomination to challenge Joyce in the general election in November. The other candidate is Canton Selectman Bob Burr.

Michael Chinman, of Eliot Street, an assistant district attorney in the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office for 15 years, is one of three candidates vying for the open Norfolk County District Attorney seat. Chinman, a veteran prosecutor, is one of three Democrats vying for the district attorney seat vacated with William Keating’s candidacy for U.S. representative in the 10th Congressional District. The other candidates are former assistant district attorney Joseph Driscoll, of Braintree, and state Sen. Michael Morrissey, of Quincy.

Robert Jubinville, a lawyer who lives and works on Adams Street, is challenging incumbent Kelly Timilty for the Democratic nomination for her District 2 seat on the Governor’s Council. Jubinville was an active member in the Pipefitters and Sprinkler Fitters Union in Holyoke and was a union representative on the Massachusetts State Police when he was a State Trooper. The Republican candidate is Steven Glovsky, of Wayland.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Town Clerk James Mullen Jr. said things are relatively quiet and he expects a low voter turnout for the primary ballot.

“I’d say about 35 percent right now. But things could change … as people get out of summer-vacation mode,” he said. “There’s not a lot of action right now.”

Meanwhile, Gov. Deval Patrick is running unopposed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

The Republican candidate is Charles Baker, a former state secretary of administration and finance, and secretary of health and human services. He formerly served as chief executive officer of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Other candidates in the gubernatorial race include state Treasurer Tim Cahill, an Independent, and Green-Rainbow Party co-chair Jill Stein.

Two Democrats – Steven Grossman and Stephen Murphy and one Republican – Karyn Polito – are on the ballot to replace Cahill as treasurer.

Lt. Gov. Tim Murray is running unopposed on the Democratic side but will be challenged in the general election by Baker’s running mate, state Sen. Richard Tisei.

State Rep. Walter Timilty, Linda Dorcena Forry and Angelo Scaccia are all running unopposed for the Democratic nominations and have no Republican challengers. Timilty represents the 7th Norfolk district, Forry the 12th Norfolk district and Scaccia the 14th Suffolk district.

Attorney General Martha Coakley and Secretary of State William Francis Galvin, both Democrats, are running unopposed in the primary. The Republican candidate for secretary of state is Woburn City Clerk William Campbell.

In the race for the state auditor’s seat, there are three candidates for the Democratic nomination – former Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Suzanne Bump, of Great Barrington, Worcester County Sheriff and former state Sen. Guy Glodis, of Auburn, and Mike Lake, of Boston – and two for the Republican nomination: Mary Connaughton, of Framingham, and Kamal Jain, of Lowell.

Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Bellotti is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination and will be challenged by Weymouth Republican William Farretta in the general election.