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The race for State Senate in the Second Suffolk and Middlesex Senate districtJust after 8 p.m., family, supporters and a few stragglers were inside the Belmont Lions Club at the MBTA commuter rail station to join state representative candidate Margaret Hegarty to undergo the agonizing act that all candidate's must suffer through: counting votes. As the campaign team was in a backroom – actually the kitchen – were calculating the votes from poll watchers at 15 precincts in Belmont, Arlington and Cambridge, the handful of early arrivals were treated to boxes of pizza, beers and the king of all election-night food, Chinese. It was all set for a blow-out party that …
It was around 9:30 p.m. Monday night, Aug. 28, in the Chenery Middle School auditorium when the main event at the Belmont League of Women Voters Candidates' Night Forum which most residents came to see finally got underway. While the sparks flew on the under card – the three Democrats seeking the Governor's Council position let questions of ethics and competence fly about – the most interest was reserved for the three candidates seeking to replace Belmont's current state senator Will Brownsberger as state representative for for the 24th Middlesex District that includes Belmont and precincts …
It's a surprise that Watertown's Steve Aylward has time to run for one more political office. The former chairman of the Watertown School Committee was elected this month to the Republican State Committee from Watertown and will seek the vice chairmanship of that group next month.On top of all that, Aylward just announced that he has taken out nomination papers for the state senate in the Second Suffolk and Middlesex district that Belmont's Will Brownsberger won in a special election in January. Charlie Breitrose, editor of Watertown Patch emailed Aylward who confirmed that he had pulled …
In what could be a rematch of sorts this September, Watertown's Robert McCarthy announced today, March 13, that he has taken out nomination papers to challenge incumbent Will Brownsberger as state senator representing the newly-redistricted Second Suffolk and Middlesex Senate district. If both candidates are certified to run by the Secretary of State, McCarthy and Brownsberger will meet in the state Democrat primary on Thursday, Sept. 6. While Belmont-resident Brownsberger beat McCarthy by more than 1,500 votes – 4,958 to 3,436 – as well as two other candidates in a special primary election …
