Seeking local election pointers

[beowabbit]

For the past year or so, I’ve been eating, breathing, and living national politics, but I’m ashamed to say I know nothing about any of the local races, not even who’s running. (And if there are any local ballot questions, I don’t know about them.)

So I’d love to have any information anybody has to offer about Quincy-specific stuff on the ballot, so I have a little more to go on than party affiliation. If anybody has links to election cheatsheets on news sites (or even just a list of the names on the ballot in Quincy), that would be great. If anybody wants to explain how they plan to vote in any particular race and why, that would also be great.

Thanks!

PS — It’s likely that we’re not going to agree about all this, so if you see somebody arguing against your candidate (who supports fluffy kittens and all that is virtuous) and for your candidate’s opponent (who as everyone knows is running on a platform of enslaving all of humanity to hideous tentacled demons from beneath the waves), please remember the immortal words of Bill and Ted and “be excellent to each other”. :-)

[EDIT: Oops! I meant to post this to quincy_ma, not my personal journal. I was puzzled why people who don’t live in Quincy were replying. But thanks! Your responses were very useful!]

Comments

[eisa.livejournal.com]

The League of Women Voters writes some useful summaries on their website. You type in your zip code, and they give you a list. The list for my area was missing info on local candidates, but a lot of other chapters are better about that and they covered the ballot initiatives well.

Plus they're just generally awesome.

[beowabbit]

(As I replied to another commenter above:) Thanks. I mean to post this to quincy_ma rather than my personal journal. I was wondering why I was getting so many answers from people who don’t live in Quincy! But I have to say, they are very helpful answers all the same.