The full round-by-round breakdown is on the City website now:

www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/...

My condolences

Yeah, I think it is. Also might be Union Square Main Streets but I don’t know.

Central Square has advertisements for a lot of their businesses on public infrastructure in Cambridge.

Councilor McLaughlin says that Somerville's new charter passed the Massachusetts Senate today, is before the governor for signature, and could well be on the ballot in five weeks.

He would like to not put that at risk with a last minute change to the rules.

16/?

Like I said initially, still not a scandal and still something I think Democrats should do more (take credit).

But it's a tad obvious to ramp up the press releases and insert yourself into LITERALLY EVERYTHING like a month before your super-contested Mayoral primary.

🤷

It's plain to see when looking back at prior years. Where the City used to announce things, "Mayor Ballantyne" now does.

The Ballantyne team is obviously trying to present activity and 'happenings' on their behalf.

I doubt we'll be hearing many updates from individual departments anytime soon.

Unrelated but am I to believe that Berlin is really the nominee for Connecticut

I'm not rooting for more corruption, per se, but perhaps less 'slothfulness' or incompetence in my politicians? This is such a bad look that I'd rather they not get caught altogether.

I don't even know. Gotta cut it here, this is going nowhere.

👋

22/22

But I don't think it's an unfairly high bar to suggest that the staffers and politicians running Somerville would know how to submit the right forms, put in the 6? 7? minutes of effort to substantively change language, and not get caught doing this.

21/?

I guess whatever hypothetical situation could describe this occurrence, I wish that there were people in place looking after my city's interests who could get away with doing this without getting caught.

Weird to say, I know.

20/?

Dah, perhaps I'm reading too much into things.

This *obviously* isn't Watergate - let alone any scandal whatsoever.

But it's nothing short of disheartening to have this peculiar glimpse into the machine that runs my city. That machine is run by people who appear... kinda slow?

19/?

I searched pretty damn hard to find public examples of language like this floating around on the internet. Perhaps from a committee or Somerville department?

Nope. At least not that I found. If I'm wrong about that, chalk it up to social media disinformation and don't tell me.

(Kidding)

18/?