State Senate Election 2012

Just Missing Out: Hegarty Celebrates Fight for Rep Seat

Arlington voter turns race away from Belmont attorney to Cambridge lawyer.

Just 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 winners hold. Hegarty – who along with Dave Rogers and Bobby Reardon was running to succeed Will Brownsberger on Beacon Hill – was greeting her supporters …

• Photos (2)

Paulsen Encourage Women to Run ... for Office

First female selectman tells League for Women Voters the need for female candidates.

Don't make the mistake that longtime Belmont politician Anne Paulsen doesn't like men in political office. Paulsen said that she's happy to see Dan Schrafman – currently on the Belmont School Committee and running for Selectmen – and newly-elected state Senator Will Brownsberger attending the Belmont League of Women Voters' yearly winter luncheon held at the Belmont Hill School's athletic center Friday, Jan. 20.  "Men are good for somethings," she said to the laughter of the 60 in attendance, saying her husband, Fred, who helped her in her campaigns. But Belmont's first female selectman and a state representative said she would rather see women head to the Town Clerk's Office and take out nomination papers for elected office this year. "We…

•  1 Comment
• Photos (8)