2007 Election Results - Unofficial
We have unofficial election results for the 2007 Medford Municipal election, for the offices of City Council, Mayor, and School Committee. All incumbents were re-elected.
We have unofficial election results for the 2007 Medford Municipal election, for the offices of City Council, Mayor, and School Committee. All incumbents were re-elected.
We have video!
Candidates answer selected questions from the questionnaire. Note: we tried to vary the order of presentation - please view all the way through each video to hear each candidate out.
We're Live at 2007.votemedford.org.
Who are the candidates and what are their opinions?
Thanks to 43 advisory groups for helping us turn hundreds of questions from the community into three written questionnaires for the website, and to the candidates for their participation.
// The Vote Medford team.
At 7pm on Wednesday, October 10, Medford's Citywide PTO Alliance will sponsor a public forum in the McGlynn School auditorium, located on Freedom Way in Medford.
The purpose of the forum is to enable the parents and guardians of Medford’s public school students to educate themselves about the candidates running for office this November.
Questions posed of the candidates will be drawn primarily from questions submitted to the Citywide PTO Alliance by members of the general public. You're invited to e-mail your questions to dalebryan@comcast.net or denipark@comcast.net.
UPDATE: read a report on this event at InsideMedford.com.
This morning, the Vote Medford team finished three candidate questionnaires - School Committee, City Council, and Mayoral - and transmitted them to the candidates.
These questionnaires were formed from hundreds of questions submitted by citizens and members of nearly forty different community groups. Twenty local organizations served as formal advisors and consulted on question development.
Like 2005, the responses to the questionnaire will be posted verbatim on www.votemedford.org. Candidate responses are due no later than Tuesday, October 1, 2007 by 5pm.
We will contact the candidates shortly to schedule a time for a TV interview, which will air on TV3 and for the first time this year, will also appear on our website.
Water bills, school cuts, Green Line, parking, senior services, sidewalks, traffic, revitalization... There are a lot of concerns facing Medford, and a lot of candidates for city offices this year. Through Vote Medford 2007 you'll be able to hear directly from every candidate about what they want to do for the city.
Vote Medford 2007 is asking all Medford residents to submit questions for the candidates.
Together with an advisory group of community organizations, we will create a questionnaire that will go to every candidate for city office. We'll post their answers here, unedited, so you can make up your own mind about who you want to lead the city. We'll also air video interviews through the website and TV3, and hold public forums so everyone in Medford has a chance to learn where candidates stand on the issues.
Whether you are an old timer or newcomer, whether you want big change or no change, now's your chance. What do you want to ask the candidates? Submit your questions here, or at a drop box at the Danish Pastry House on Boston Avenue or the Thursday Farmer's Market in Medford Square. Ask as many questions as you'd like, as long as it's before the August 25 deadline.
Vote Medford is a citizen-driven, non-partisan, unaffiliated voter-education project. In 2005, thousands of Medford residents got information on the candidates through our questionnaire and videos. This election season we've invited over 70 organizations to join our advisory group to ensure each questionnaire represents a broad range of concerns from across the city. We're also expanding our website, and adding two new candidate forums this fall.
100% of the people in Medford want a great city.
99.9% of us complain about what's wrong with the city.
So why do only 25% of us bother to vote?
Don't let lack of information keep you in the silent 75%! Submit your questions, read the candidates' responses, and make up your own mind!
Here's the information. Go vote.
For Immediate Release
Vote Medford, a voter education project organized by citizens and not affiliated with any politicians, candidates, causes, or political parties, is back by popular demand! We’re gearing up for the 2007 election season to help you make up your mind about who you want to lead our city.
You remember 2005 - we took over 100 questions from voters and created questionnaires for each candidate. Their answers to your questions were posted verbatim on our website and you could watch them in video interviews on TV3. Thousands of Medford voters learned about the candidates through Vote Medford’s efforts. Go ahead and check out the Vote Medford 2005 archives.
This year we’re back for more, and this time we’ve invited over 70 Medford organizations - from the police to the Medford Historical Society to everything in between - to submit questions and help edit the questionnaire. The video interviews will be available on our website as well as TV3. We’re also planning live candidate forums- stay tuned for more details.
Water bills, school cuts, Green Line, parking, senior services, sidewalks. There are a lot of concerns facing Medford, and a whole bunch of candidates for city office who want to take charge.
100% of the people in Medford know some way to improve our city, but only 25% bother to vote for its leadership. If you are part of the silent 75% and lack of information about candidates has been holding you back, we've got good news. Through Vote Medford 2007 you'll be able to read or hear from every candidate about what they want to do for the city. Even better, you get to ask the questions!
Just drop your question in a Vote Medford 2007 box at the Danish Pastry House or the Farmers’ Market in Medford Square, or submit them through our website. We are collecting questions from now through the end of August.
Whether you are an old timer or newcomer, whether you want big change or think things are just fine the way they are, you want someone in city government to represent your point of view. Vote Medford 2007 wants to make sure you have the information you need to vote wisely. So submit your questions and check out our website today!
VoteMedford.org. Here’s the information. Go Vote!
Friday night, June 29, Jimk sent out 70+ letters to organizations inviting them to be advisors to VM2007. Each envelope contained a letter with a swanky VM2007 graphic on top and a second page with a list of all the organizations we are contacting.
On the back side, a copy of the Boston Globe article written in 2005 on VM that year. It all looks great. Thanks for the team effort. One task off the list.
Here's the list of 70+ organizations we'll invite to join VM2007 as advisors. These groups will receive an outreach letter in early July.
Vote Medford is an independent, citizen-led initiative whose goal is to help voters learn how the candidates for Medford municipal offices view our city and issues important to it. We see our role as helping to encourage public discourse on local issues. Our membership is collaborative, composed of Medford citizens outside of political party machinery.
In 2005, we put together citizen-driven candidate questionnaire and access TV show that was well-received. The website had thousands of unique visitors and the accompanying TV show aired repeatedly on TV3, seen by thousands of Medfordites in October and November 2005. We're trying to decide how to do it again in 2007 for the Medford Mass municipal election.
2005 was good: 19 of 21 candidates for Medford City Council, School Committee, and Mayor responded to our citizen's questionnaire about their candidacies. Interestingly, neither of the two non-responding candidates were elected. Our project filled a real vacuum in local politics.
While we figure out next steps, check out the archive from 2005: 2005.votemedford.org
