160 democrats in attendance, four paper separate paper ballots for delegates & alternates and all done in less than four hours. Menotomy just "Gets It" and when the democrats caucus there is sound reason for numerous name politicians to be in the room observing, Everyone from Treasurer Deb Goldberg to Congressperson Clarke and including Gubernatorial Candidate Bob Massie himself (a bantam rooster of a man with an almighty pompadour suggestive of the Late Fiorello LaGuardia at his chestiest).
All that is thanks to the hard work of the town chair Aimee Coolidge and her caucus crew a blooded and experienced cadre of political organizers...they are impressive to watch believe me.
It ended up being a delegation mostly beholden to Jay Gonzalez which isn't surprising as his local supporters started organizing for the caucus around Christmas, that kind of work pays off believe me.
For a while I thought Massie's supporters might've closed the gap a little tighter but in the end they managed to elect about six delegates all told and two alternates. I suspect that was their plan all along, their main goal is to collect credibility, raise some money and most importantly get on the primary come convention time. So his progressive base seem to be playing the usual "long game" what Setti Warren's plans are I cannot say, he had almost no discernable support in the caucus not a single delegate was elected on his behalf, Menotomy is a huge liberal/progressive enclave with a well earned reputation for a high turn out, not contesting this caucus indicates that Warren has organizational issues or else isn't attracting much support in the party base.
Frankly, I think Setti Warren is in the wrong contest, he'd be the logical front runner if he'd contested the Lt Governorship's democratic primary, he's young, an experienced mayor...camera ready he'd be a serious player come primary day.
What can I say, it was a good caucus...legit and free of controvery...its what the local democrats do best quite frankly.
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