Our House picks . . .
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Monday, October 25, 2010
The wave of voter discontent that will likely turn the U.S. House red won’t have quite the same impact on the state House of Representatives, not with a still-lopsided one-party majority. But there are 26 open seats in the House, leaving plenty of room in the chamber for more reformers, more reliable fiscal conservatives.natutal viagra has no side effect of viagra And sometimes it’s just about fresh blood, about challenging the old State House way of doing business.
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While there are regrettably few contested races in Boston, one candidate with a clear path – community activist Carlos Tony Henriquez of Dorchester, who challenged Chuck Turner twice for City Council and is running in the 5th Suffolk – actually deserves it.
That’s a tiny cross-section, but every new candidate has a Web site, every incumbent should be made to answer for his record, and voters should educate themselves about their choices.
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By Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist | August 7, 2010
As a kid growing up near Dudley Square in Roxbury, Carlos Henriquez was a bit unusual.
Hanging around the offices of the Dudley Square Neighborhood Initiative, a nonprofit his father helped found, his pet project, at age 14, was to try to design a community center for the neighborhood. Continue reading →
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My candidacy can be summed up in the life of a 16-year old named Leroy that I met many years ago.
Leroy was raised in the heart of our district in Dorchester’s Bowdoin/Geneva neighborhood – Boston’s ground zero of violence. Like many growing up, Leroy was raised by loving parents. But in tough neighborhoods like Bowdoin/Geneva, where drugs and gun violence are a daily occurrence, love is not enough.
At only 16, Leroy lost two of his older brothers to gun violence because of drugs and gangs. With the lack of jobs, under-performing schools, drugs and gang violence around every corner, Leroy was destined to follow in their footsteps. Continue reading →
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Henriquez wins state rep race; Lawton concedes
By Reporter Staff
Dorchester Reporter – Nov. 2, 2010
Former City Hall aide Carlos Henriquez Tuesday night won the Fifth Suffolk seat held by Marie St. Fleur.
Barry Lawton, who came in 41 votes behind Henriquez in September’s Democratic primary and waged a write-in campaign in the general election, conceded shortly after the polls closed. Lawton, an East Boston High School teacher, appeared at Henriquez’s victory part at Restaurante Cesaria. Continue reading →
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Henriquez squeezes by Lawton to win Fifth Suffolk nomination; possible recount looms
By Pat Tarantino, Special to the Reporter and Gintautas Dumcius, News Editor
Dorchester Reporter – Sep. 15, 2010
When we last looked at the Fifth Suffolk state representative race, community activist Carlos Henriquez had won the unofficial ballot count by 41 votes and high school teacher and former Beacon Hill aide Barry Lawton sent a text message to editors saying, “It’s not over.” Continue reading →
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Since 1994, residents of the Fifth Suffolk district covering much of Roxbury and Dorchester have grown accustomed to first-rate representation. Former state Representative Charlotte Golar Richie and retiring state Representative Marie St. Fleur always put the day-to-day needs of the district before politicking. They Continue reading →
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By Cara Bayles, Town Correspondent
September 9, 2010
With less than a week to go before the primary that will decide the race, three of the four candidates competing for the Fifth Suffolk District’s open House seat vied to distinguish themselves during a forum at the Vine Street Community Center last night.
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By Gintautas Dumcius
Created 08/05/2010 – 8:14pm
Former state Rep. Nelson Merced is endorsing Carlos Henriquez in the Fifth Suffolk District race, Henriquez told Lit Drop on Thursday night.
Henriquez is a community activist and former City Hall aide who has run twice against City Councillor Chuck Turner.
Merced was the first Latino elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving for two terms. Continue reading →
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By Gintautas Dumcius
Created 07/22/2010 – 8:00am
Fifth Suffolk candidate adds former City Council candidates to campaign Carlos Henriquez, one of the four candidates running to replace former state Rep. Marie St. Fleur, is bringing on a pair of veterans from last year’s City Council At-Large race.
Tomas Gonzalez and Andrew Kenneally, who both unsuccessfully ran for City Council last year, have joined the campaign to handle field operations and messaging, respectively. Continue reading →
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By Gintautas Dumcius
Created 05/27/2010 – 9:00am
The Fifth Suffolk District is set for a race for its first open state House seat in over a decade, with a four-way Democratic primary that will decide who will replace retiring Rep. Marie St. Fleur. The campaign isn’t expected to heat up until this summer but the candidates are already trading barbs over personal finances and charges of opportunism.
The roster includes a Boston schoolteacher who’s campaigned for the seat twice before, a youth worker who has in the past run against City Councillor Chuck Turner and a pair of candidates who frequently run for elected offices within the area. Continue reading →
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