Murray campaign event at Mass Hole Donuts
Candidate for city councilor in Ward 7 Michael Murray plans a campaign event at Mass Hole Donuts, 1157 Broadway, Teele Square, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
“Let’s talk! I’ll buy the doughnut holes,” Murray said on Instagram on Aug. 15. “You let me know what’s on your mind in the neighborhood and we’ll talk about how we will move past the Pit era together,” he said, referring to a long-vacant lot in Teele Square. A 75-room hotel is proposed for the site.
Istvan comedy campaign fundraiser at Union Comedy
Candidate for councilor at large Scott Istvan plans a 6 p.m. Saturday comedy campaign fundraiser. “Comedy at Large” is to feature improv and stand-up performances at Union Comedy, 593 Somerville Ave., in Spring Hill between Porter and Union squares. Tickets are $20 via Eventbrite. Additional campaign contributions can be made at checkout.
Massachusetts Peace Action endorses Burnley
Current councilor at-large and candidate for mayor Willie Burnley Jr. was endorsed last week by Massachusetts Peace Action, a nonprofit with offices in Cambridge.
“Mass Peace Action knows that budgets are moral documents and that our governments should invest in community care rather than incarceration, war or collective harm. Our campaign has long been about bringing movements together to create a better world, starting at home,” Burnley said on Thursday about the endorsement.
Massachusetts Peace Action is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to “develop the sustained political power to foster a more just and peaceful U.S. foreign policy,” according to the group’s website. The group is an arm of Peace Action, an internationally focused group.
General mayoral race forum
An online mayoral candidate forum “on important issues facing our city” is set for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 2, according to the group Somerville Stands Together.
“The forum will reveal what the candidates plan to do to ensure worker rights, protect immigrants, address the needs of students and seniors and advance the city’s Climate Forward plan,” said event co-moderator Colette Berard in a Thursday email. Mayor Katjana Ballantine and her challengers – city councilors Willie Burnley Jr. and Jake Wilson – have agreed to invitations from the group, which unites organizations fighting for labor, racial, housing, climate and environmental justice and will not be endorsing candidates: Somerville Stands Together, 350MA Cambridge/Somerville, Community Action Agency of Somerville, Friends of the Community Growing Center, Greater Boston Labor Council, Groundwork Somerville, Mothers Out Front – Somerville, Padres Latinos, Racial Justice Collaborative, Somerville Educators Union and The Welcome Project.
A link to register is here. There will be simultaneous interpretation into Spanish.
Forum for library, school issues
A town hall about library and school issues is planned for 7 to 8 p.m. Sept. 5 with Somerville’s three mayoral candidates, organized by the Somerville Public Library Foundation, Friends of the Somerville Public Library and the Somerville Council of PTAs. Pizza, drinks and books will be available to attendees beforehand, said Cole Rosengren, a member of the FSPL board and moderator of the discussion. The event is set for the East Somerville Community School, 50 Cross St. Questions can be submitted here; event organizers will review and “distill them down to common themes to ask the candidates about,” Rosengren said. There will be no live audience questions. The event will be recorded and a video posted afterward.
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