Get out the vote, Suffolk Co.
Today's primary will select the Suffolk sherrif, since there's no Republican running. Your options are 1) the incumbent Andrea Cabral, who seems to be doing a reasonable job, and 2) current Councilman Stephen Murphy.

As a recent transplant, I can't claim to be an authority on Mr. Murphy's character, but I did witness him scurry out of Doyle's a few months ago. He was trying to avoid eye contact with a perfectly innocuous young woman who had been involved in the dioxin resolution that had recently been debated in the city council. Murphy stood out in those debates as one of the few councillors who took the dioxin industry's lobbyists more seriously than Boston's public health community. I can only guess that his unpopular move was weighing heavily on his conscience that evening.

Of course, there are also the publisher's clearinghouse style giant fake checks that Murphy has been handing out to local communities in the name of homeland security funding, even though those communities don't actually get the money (Boston does) and though Murphy has almost nothing to do with how the funds are spent. And, to top it off, Murphy's no-shows to debates scheduled with Cabral.
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