He's the one really amazing candidate in a field that has a couple of other rather good candidates. Very few people in Massachusetts politics today are on his level. Having him in Congress would be one of the better things that has happened to this country in recent years, almost as good as getting Elizabeth Warren into the Senate (if Carl were to become a Senator that would indeed be as good as getting Warren there has been).
Carl Sciortino co-authored the Massachusetts Transgender Equal Rights law, BTW. State Senator Sonia Chang Diaz - one of the few others who I consider as awesome as Carl - was the co-author. We also have Carl to thank for rescuing the Green Line extension project when it almost died for good, back almost a decade ago during Romney's governorship.
Wow. The first page of "questions" presented were all amazing propaganda pieces or took as fact things that are well established as matters of debate. I admit I didn't look further for a needle in the haystack. I'm glad I have managed to avoid that bubble world. Perhaps I had a very skewed set of questions. Really, I was amazed.
Yeah. I'm assuming that they're going to only pay attention to questions that are, you know, actual questions, and select from the better-formed ones. Or use the exercise to say "people actually in MA seem to care about issue X we were going to cut out for time, let's not forget to ask about that".
I would actually like people in debates to call out when a question's premise is bogus, and explain what's bogus about it, and what they think the situation really is. I don't know if that happens much relative to accepting the premise and going on, or noting that the question contained one or two keywords and plowing on with a response on autopilot.
I should do more than just skim things after my finals next week, but this gives me decent pictures. I'll really check Brownsberger again -- one thing I liked about him from a quick skim was that he appeared to support campaign finance reform, but if I got that backwards I am rating him less highly.
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My landlord is a big fan of Kotoujian, which should not influence you in any way. :) I sure as hell couldn't care less.
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Carl Sciortino co-authored the Massachusetts Transgender Equal Rights law, BTW. State Senator Sonia Chang Diaz - one of the few others who I consider as awesome as Carl - was the co-author. We also have Carl to thank for rescuing the Green Line extension project when it almost died for good, back almost a decade ago during Romney's governorship.
This guy on Blue Mass Group wrote a very good post on what sets Carl apart from the rest of the field.
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I would actually like people in debates to call out when a question's premise is bogus, and explain what's bogus about it, and what they think the situation really is. I don't know if that happens much relative to accepting the premise and going on, or noting that the question contained one or two keywords and plowing on with a response on autopilot.
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I should do more than just skim things after my finals next week, but this gives me decent pictures. I'll really check Brownsberger again -- one thing I liked about him from a quick skim was that he appeared to support campaign finance reform, but if I got that backwards I am rating him less highly.
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