November 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Not too much has changed in Boston after Tuesday’s election. Mayor Michelle Wu was re-elected for a second term as she ran unopposed. Boston City Council’s four at-large incumbents sailed to victory as did the Council’s other incumbents. Dan shared an analysis on Boston’s political landscape moving forward.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on w b Z, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, well, thank you very much, Cole, as we
head to our second hour here on Nightside, and I we're.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Going to talk tonight about what happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yesterday was a bad day for Republicans nationwide. It was
a good day for Democrats. It was a good day
for Democratic socialists in New York City with Zorhan mum
Donnie winning the mayor Gracie's mansion. As they say in
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New York. I want to talk about New York and
Virginia and New Jersey beginning at ten o'clock. I want
to focus on Boston right now and also Massachusetts. So
if you have had an interesting race in your community
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that you worked on, and it doesn't have to be
a person running from mayor or city council or board
of aldermen or school committee. There was an interesting race
ballot question in Newton overnight Parking and as I understand,
that ballot question was decided there were there were a
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lot of a lot of votes, but that was decided
by how many How many was the votel here? Yeah,
the yes votes came in at forty seven point seven percent.
The no votes were just a little bit more. Uh,
it was I think double digits. It was eighty four
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votes or something, which I think was really really interesting
that it would be that close. So I want to
talk I want to talk about a race that you
might have been interested in, maybe a race that you
were involved with. I also want to talk about a
Boston which was the biggest election here in Massachusetts. It
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was a foregone result that once Josh Kraft withdrew that
the decision as to who would be the next mayor
of Boston was decided, was done. But here's a number
that really is discouraging to me and maybe it is
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to you. Boston's a big city. We have now about
eight hundred thousand people in Boston. Now obviously not all
of them are registered to vote, but there were only
ninety five thousand, six hundred and ninety people who went
to the polls yesterday. Now, there was no doubt about
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Mayor Wu would win reelection. She got a little over
ninety three percent of the vote. There was no other
name than the ballot, even which I think was unfair.
I think Josh Kraft's name should have been left in
the ballot. There were five thousand and six ninety six
write ins, and I know some people were writing Mickey
Mouse and some people write in their brother in law
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Henry or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
But that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Amongst the city councilors in Boston, the four at large
city councilors were returned to office. There actually was one
former city council of Frank Baker, who many people thought
might have snuck in, but he fared very badly. He
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finished fifteen thousand votes. He was in fifth place, but
it wasn't even close. He had twenty eight thousand votes
and the fourth place finisher best at him by forty
three thousand votes. So best at him by fifteen thousand votes,
he had over forty three thousand votes. It was actually
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about fifteen thousand, four hundred and fifty give or take.
We'll leave that. But all the incumbents of the at
large incumbents one of the seven the nine districts, excuse me,
in Boston, the seven of the districts the incumbents won.
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A couple of the districts were really uncontested. There was
the council was uncontested. The only district that was open
was the district that Tanya Anderson. Fernandez or Fernandez Anderson,
excuse me, represented until she was indicted for taking some
sort of bride money in a woman's bathroom at the
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at City Hall. She's currently incarcerated, and she's I guess,
going to to be succeeded by Minnear Culpepper, who I
believe is a reverend if I'm not mistaken. Very small
voter turnout in that district. It was only about seven
thousand voters in that district, not a huge turnout at all.
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So I'd love to talk to people tonight who chose
not to vote yesterday, because in Boston there's a lot
of controversies. I'm sure that you know that you still
have the mass and cass crisis that has not been solved.
We have in Boston. There was some high profile terminations
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in the Mayor's office, also in the Governor's office, but
primarily in the Mayor's office. Last spring, there were all
controversies about bike lanes in Boston. This controversies about mope
heads and some of these vehicles, these electric vehicles that
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are just in some cases literally running people over.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
But in many cases running wild.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Some of the people who do food deliveries in Boston.
There was a controversy. The mayor got into a big
controversy dealing with a Franklin Park, which is always has
been a great location for members of the Dorchester Roxbury
communities to get into a place in the summertime where
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there's actually shade in trees. A lot of those trees
were cut down, but none of those controversies seemed to
hurt mayor WHOA. So I guess it is status quo
in Boston. One different city councilor twelve of the thirteen
remain exactly the same. It is status quo in Boston,
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and maybe everybody in Boston is just really happy with
how things are going in Boston. That's the only interpretation
I can put on it. So if if you're happy
about Boston and want to just point out that the
fact that everyone who's in office, no one was turned out,
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everyone in office was returned to office. The only city
councilor that is no longer there is serving time in
federal prison, not a long sentence, but a short sentence.
But who wants to be a federal prison.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So I'd like to find out from you if you
went to the polls, how disappointed are you or how
exhilarated are you with the results. Certainly, if you're a mayor,
WU supporter, if you're a supporter of any of the
incumbents city councilors, your people must have won. But I'd
also like to talk to people who didn't vote. I'd
like to talk to people who yesterday there wasn't much
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to me to vote for. I tend to vote out
of obligate because I feel that it's an important right
to exercise every opportunity, and I voted. There were some
candidates whore running unopposed in my community. I chose not to.
I don't vote for people who are running unopposed unless
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I know the person. I know they've really done a
good job. So I'd love to hear from you if
you live anywhere and you didn't vote yesterday in Massachusetts,
I'd really be interested and would love to know why
there was no high profile race except what uncontested a
mayor's race in Boston. So I'm sure that depressed the
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number of people. A lot of people probably said why
why do I want to vote? If you voted in
a different community. I just want to open up the
phone lines, give everybody a chance to brag a little
bit about how they voted for winners, or how they
chose not to vote, or they went to vote even
though they knew their candidate wasn't going to win, but
they wanted to show support. So I want to celebrate
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the voting process tonight. I also want to acknowledge that
the Democrats had a great night last night, not only
in Massachusetts, as they seem to always have great nights
in Massachusetts, but also they had a great night in
New Jersey and Virginia. But let's hold New Jersey, Virginia, California.
Prop fifty out in California, which will allow for the
redistricting of California. We'll hold that until the ten o'clock hours.
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So I'm just going to open up the phone lines.
You don't have to live in Boston, if you live
somewhere else and you want to talk about having gone
to the polls, and did you feel good about it?
Did you feel good about staying home? I hope no
one's going to tell me they say they felt good
about staying home. And if you have been somebody who
complains a lot in whatever community you're in, and for
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some reason you chose not to go to the polls
and vote, even if it's the cast a blank ballot.
Casting a blank ballot has a purpose as well. It
says to the incumbents, well, maybe you don't have someone
running against you now, but you might have someone running
against you next time. One seven, two four ten thirty,
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six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty. I rush
those numbers, so let me do them slowly. Six one, seven, two,
five four ten thirty. That's six one seven, two five
four one zero three zero or six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty again one zero three zero. It's
kind of a cute number. Because we are ten thirty
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on your AM dial. My name's Dan Ray. Let's talk
politics tonight, and let's let's honor those who chose to vote,
and let's let's have let's have a good conversation that
maybe might inspire people to vote in future elections. We'll
be back on nightside right after this very quick break.
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My name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Pard.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now, if you're ashamed that you didn't vote yesterday, confession
is good for the soul, so call and tell me
why okay. I mean, they have made voting so easy
with mail in ballots, vote like two weeks or whatever
in advance. It's not like the old days where you
had to vote either by absentee ballot, which I did
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when I was working in television, because oftentimes on election
election day would be covering a Massachusetts candidate and a
national election in Texas or Iowa or somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So that's the first thing that I'd like you to do.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Fess up if you didn't vote, tell me why. If
you think it doesn't make a difference, that's a legitimate thought.
But if you don't vote, you can't make a difference.
So I'm not going to elect you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I just want to find out why you voted. Oh,
why you didn't vote?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Uh six one seven, two, five four ten thirty six
one seven nine three one ten thirty Linda in Weymouth.
I will bet you that Linda voted yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I did, and two of but three people that I
was really pushing for got in. The others you know,
I didn't really know them that well. But we re
elected Rick coffin Counselor at large, and we got an
excellent lady into the school Committee.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, that should make you feel better.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I don't know how many people live in Weymouth, but
your vote in Weymouth, I'm sure was an important ballot, Linda,
and I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I'm glad you got I'm calling.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'm calling because I heard that Maine did not pass
the issue you had with needing an idea for voting.
So that's partially why I called into you today. And
I'll get off the line. I'll let you call it over.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, my understanding is that that balant question failed in Maine.
I don't understand that why that issue would fail, because
it seems to me. I know when I went to
vote yesterday. I think I mentioned this last night. I
always have my driver's license in my hand because my
driver's license has my picture, it has my name, and
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it has my address. And the gentleman who I was
checking in with, he asked me what street do I
live on, because that's how they find your name on
the voter voter roll. And I told him and he said,
I'm a little hard of hearing what street is that? Well,
it was perfect. I put the driver's license down. I said,
you can read right there. It's easier and he was
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the first person who appreciated that. I've had other times
when I've gone to show my license to vote that
some of the people who are sitting there and checking
your names off, they'll look at you and say.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I don't want to say that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't have to see that. So there is a
group of people who don't want to have you identify yourself.
And there have been friends of mine who have gone
to the polls and have told me that they have
gone in the afternoon and people have said, oh, no,
you must have voted before because your name is checked off.
Why would people in Maine vote against, you know, having
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a piece of identification to vote. That's one, Linda, I
cannot understand for the life of me. But I will
find out how close it was for you during this break.
That's a great question. I think I did see that
Maine voters rejected the idea of a voter identification.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I put it out there because I know people, you know,
help the people persuade be persuaded to show their license
outside out now.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Okay, thanks, Linda, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, today, good night, take it easy. So let me
let me see if I can find out this real quickly. Yeah, this,
I'll have to do this during the break here because
this is yeah, this is too much stuff there to
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go through. But I do believe that Maine and will
be I think Linda is corrected that they did decide
that they were not going to make people show a
reference their identification to.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Vote, which to me is is crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Why would you not Maybe someone can tell me why
you would not want to have your voter your identification
shown to vote. I don't get it. I just don't
get it. Maybe some of you, someone up in Maine
will listen. But it looks as if and I don't
know how up to date this one is what time
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it was, but it sounded to me and.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No, let me do this. I don't want to be
incorrect here. I will do this during the break.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So what I'm looking for is did you vote yesterday?
If you didn't vote, why didn't you vote? And if
you're a Boston resident, are you really so happy with
the result? Else, every city councilor who was an incumbent
standing for reelection was returned to office. Has the city council.
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There are some city councilors who I admire greatly. There
Ed Flynn does a great job. He's been on this
program on many occasions, and I think that he is
very much concerned with issues affecting Boston.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
But boy, you got you have.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
To be discouraged when the when, the when the voter
turnout is that low. And obviously the people who are
going to the polls to vote are people who either
work for the city or are related to people who
work for the city. When you think about it, I
will tell you this, those of you in Boston who
are property owners, residential property owners, homeowners, brace yourself. Brace
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yourself because Boston is in trouble financially, whether you know
it or not. And I predict that you will have
some really uh interesting tax bills coming your way, real
estate property tax bills coming your way, and there will
be people who will be howling. And I think I'm
going to ask each and every one of them, uh,
did you vote?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And if you haven't voted, you really have nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
To complain about, to be honest with you, because if
you haven't voted, you've decided I put no skin in
the game. If you voted, whether you voted for someone
who wanted, someone who lost, you're an active voter. I
have no problem. But I don't want to hear from
people who never voted and are saying, well, you know,
I never voted because my candidate doesn't win. Well, that's
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pretty good reason why your candidate doesn't win. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty six seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. We're
doing a little Civics lesson. You have the right to vote.
There's a lot of places around the world where that
right doesn't exist. A lot of people over the years
have given their lives to keep us free. Exercise that privilege,
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Exercise that right. It's not it's a privilege, but it's
more than that. It's right. Exercise your right to vote.
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. You have
to speak up back on nightside right after the news.
Let's get out of coming back on nightside.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's News.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now, Okay, I have an answer.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I'm going to go to phones, I promise, But I
haven't answer for Linda's question main ballot measures. Okay, there
were two questions up there. The one that Linda asked
about is a question that, in my opinion, it was
called voter ID. However, here's the problem. In the body
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of the question. In Maine, they had about eight different aspects.
Let me explain. The question was, do you want to
change Maine's main election laws to eliminate two days of
absentee voting, prohibit requests for absentee ballots by phone or
family members, and ongoing absentee voter status for seniors and
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people with disabilities, man prepaid postage on absentee ballot return envelopes,
limit the number of drop boxes, require voters to show
certain photo ID before voting, and make other changes to
our election laws. In order to vote yes on that
ballot question, you have to agree with all seven points.
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Well that you know, that ballot question got about thirty
six percent of the vote. They lost thirty six to
sixty four. It wasn't a straight up do you want
to require voter identification in order to vote?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
They was the people who put the ballot question together
weren't thinking. They put too many elements. They could have
had eight different ballot questions and broken them out into
each area. But most people it's like, you know, vote
yes if you love chocolate ice cream, if you love
strawberry ice cream, vanilla ice cream, coffee ice cream, and
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pistachio ice cream. Well, if you love all five, you'll
vote yes. But if you only love four out of
the five or three out of the five, you're going
to vote no. They presented that ballot question, in my opinion,
in an inadequate method. Let's go to the phones. I'm
going to go first off to Kimberly in Dover, New Hampshire. Hi, Kimberly, Welcome,
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How are you tonight?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Good?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Does your vote yesterday?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I did, and I was calling in because I agree
with you that if you don't vote, you can't complain.
I've always been told that absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Also, I think that our schools have not have failed
by making young people aware of the importance of voting.
And how that you know, we've there have been wars fought.
I mean, our freedom in this country was under attack
literally in World War Two. And I guarantee you that
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if we had not prevailed in World War Two, when
if the Greatest Generation had not defeated Japan, the Access Powers, Japan,
Germany and Italy, we'd probably be speaking German today. And
I mean that seriously, we would have become an occupied nation.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
And they thought, yeah, they fought for that right, so
we should exercise it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know, you have so many It's so much easier
to vote now. They have extended voting days, not just hours.
I mean when I was first coming of age, you
had to vote on that Tuesday, the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, and you had to be there.
There's sometime between seven in the morning. And I grew
up in Boston and ate at night. And if you
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didn't make it, you didn't make it. We did have
absence you know, you did have absentee ballots, but they
were fairly strict.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You had to prove that you know, you were going
in for surgery or you're on a business trip to Europe.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They have loosened all of those requirements and it's pretty
easy now. They have extended voting for days. They have
early voting that they give out, you know, ballots. You
can they'll send you a ballot. You can fill the
ballot out and just send it in no reason not
to vote. Did you, By the way, I don't think
you guys had an.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Election out there yesterday. Did you you had a.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
We have a city.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
I've my mayor for mayor and city counselors. And I
think sometimes people feel like, oh, it's not for governor
or presidential, so why do it? But it does affect
your everyday living.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, let me tell you my opinion. The local races
have more impact on me and you because they deal
with you know, property tax, is they deal with sid
you know what? Who's on the school committee? How are
the schools run? Once taught in the schools, that sort
of thing, and that you're critically important. I would argue
that the value of your vote at a local election
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is substantially greater than your value of a vote in
a presidential election.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
And that's where the margins can be can be tight.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
So your vote counts absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
How are the results in your community? Dover is a
pretty good size. It is it a city or a
town in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
It's a city.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
It's a city. So you have a mayor, yes, do
you have a new mayor?
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Or?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Did we have a new mayor?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay, what's the new mayor's name? If you know, I'd
love to give them a shout out.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I honestly I can't remember. That's when I'm off the
top of my head.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
That's not a problems a gentleman. I did vote for
him as a gentleman out of used to work for
the shipyard and Portsmouth and stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Okay, and he'll be of the mayor of Dover, New Hampshire.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
He wants to fight for diver diverse housing and for education.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well I hope, I hope he's successful on both. That
he has you know, housing that that that is just
not you know for the uber wealthy.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
But you've got to have some housing and do what
you can to to uh uh you know, build your
base of uh your tax base, which is which involves housing.
And if your tax base grows, you can have better
schools and better teachers. And it's all interrelated. So congratulations
to him, and congratulations for you to get for having
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gotten out and vote. And I appreciate you calling the
show if you called before or.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Is this your first time?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
On my first time, but I look.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Uh well, we got to give you a round of
applause for my digital studio audience.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Thank you very much. Call again, Kimberly.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I always am fascinated by what topic induces someone to
make the first one.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, let me get one more in here before the break,
I'm going to go to gym down in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
In Maryland next to Virginia, but Virginia took the spotlight
last night.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Jim, how are you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I'm good. I vote every election and for the most part,
I live in a red county in Maryland, which is rare.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I didn't think there are any red counties in Maryland.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
There is, there's very few. But I live up in
Cecil County, and and the deal is with Cecil County
is you know, they're very you know, there's like in
states like New Jersey. There's Sussex County where I lived,
and they're all, you know, basically red. But I still vote.
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And you know, in some of these smaller elections, it's
good to vote because sometimes you get a different you
get a change in what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Great to have to have changes at all levels of government.
Here in Massachusetts, we have a very weak Republican Party.
You folks occasionally elect a Republican governor, but you like
Massachusetts we have two Democratic senators, nine Democrats in the
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House of Representatives, and all of our statewide constitutional offices
right now, Governor, Lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer, auditor, secretary
of state. They're all Democrats the Republicans as.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Long as they keep my taxes reasonable and I can
survive down here. But it's crazy to see Mandani and
all those guys get elected because I lived in New
York for a long time. But it's not my problem.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So I think, in my opinion, mem Donnie maybe a
big problem for the Democrats. He either maybe the savior
and he will become the Bernie Sanders of the twenty
first century and he will lead the Democrats to socialism
and victory U in the end of America.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Or well, he's got a rap, he's got a ramp
it down. If he doesn't ramp it down, I'm not
gonna give him the funds he needs. And I didn't
mean to say.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, please clip that rob.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Okay, yeah, let me just give it, give you a
little Well, we're gonna get to Mindami next hour, okay,
and but but let me get you something here from
min Domi. So uh, just for the fun of it,
here's here is min Domie cut seven a rob little
min Doami from last night.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
We will fight for you because we are you, or
as we say on steinway an aminkum waileakum. Thank you
to those so often forgotten by the politics of our
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city who.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Made this movement their own. I speak of.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers, and
who's beck nurses, Trinidadian line cooks, and Ethiopian aunties. Yes, aunties.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, that was a little reference. He referred to his aunt.
Wasn't his aunt to us? A cousin who was Muslim
and was looked at disparagingly by some New Yorkers in
the days after nine to eleven, and I was more
on uh the the disparagy look directed to his cousin.
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Uh as opposed to the murders of three thousand Americans,
we have that you gotta be your priorities.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Right, yeah, right, well let's see how that works for everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
We will seize the next pas the may relact, no doubt,
no doubt.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Yeah he's there, He's the man.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Keep the faith, my friend. Okay, all right, talk to
you later.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
As for calling nights, yeah, well too often will Yeah,
I've got a bunch of callers in Maryland. But but
we love to hear folks different.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I do, I do, and I like. I listened to
your like four topics at the start of the show
and stuff, but a lot of them are not related
to me. But that's fine. But I call when I
see something that I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So you're always welcome, always welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Thank you, good night. Six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Uh. If you're on the line, stay there.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
We will We're going to segue into the national elections.
We're going to talk a little locally here in Massachusetts
for the battance of this hour, and then we will
segue more into the national election, which will include the
New York election and of course Virginia uh in.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
New Jersey as well. It was a tough night for
the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
The Republicans I think have been put on notice that
they better get off their butt uh and that they
have to change their ways a little bit. I think
it was a message for Donald Trump. I'm not sure
that President Trump either will hear or understand the message.
But there's some interesting statistics I will share with you
as well as we move into the next hour. If
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you'd like to jump on board here and talk about Massachusetts,
and I would love to hear from someone in Boston.
You people in Boston just must feel that everything in
Boston is perfect, because not only was the mayor returned
to office, but every one of the city council incumbents
returned to office. And the only city council incumbent who
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was not returned to office is because she's serving time
in federal prison for Fernandez Anderson.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So six.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Sixty jump on board back after.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
This night side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
By the way, I was remiss earlier time. I want
to congratulate Frank in Boston. He is the winner his
choice of a knight Side mug or a Knightside tote bag.
Frank of all the callers on Monday night, called the
results of the three races, the Democratic gubernatorial wins in
Virginia and New Jersey and the win of ma'am Donnie
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Mim Donnie uh in New York City. So Frank, you
got to call in. We got to get an address,
so we can send either your choice a mug or
a nightside coat bag. As a result of your political acumen,
which you displayed fully on Monday night in the eleven
o'clock hour. Let me go to David and Revere and
next on nightside, David.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Welcome, Yes, hi, thanks for having me on. I have
a story about why I vote faithfully.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
So. I was born in nineteen fifty two and it
was a presidential election year, and it was already known
aat of time that I would be born by sea section.
And my mother goes to see the doctor. She says.
The doctor says, Mary, we're all set. We'll do the
delivery on Tuesday. And my mother said, oh, no, we won't.
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And the doctor said why not? And she said, I'm
busy on Tuesday, And he said, what are you talking about.
She said, it's election day. I have to vote. So
you're so, yeah, And I was so. But I was
born then three days after election day, when I should
have been born on election day because my mother would
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not go in for the C section because she had
to vote. Wow, I have and I learned a lesson
early on in life. I have. I don't think I
have ever missed voting in any election because of what
my mother did.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I bet you that I will bet you that your
mother would be very proud of you.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Well, I hope.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So I'm serious that that is quite a uh, you know,
quite a record to hold.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So your birthday, Your birthday is November.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Seventh, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Wow, okay, so that needs we're gonna nail this down.
Your birthday's Friday, that's right. Okay, and you were going
to turn on Friday, if I'm if I'm correct, seventy.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Three years old, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Well, happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Well, thank you, David.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I love Please keep listening, and please keep calling this program.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
You would do, your mom, you'd love that story.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Okay, it's a great story.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
H And I was able to double check the date
and your three days November seventh, happy preview.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Fortunately her unfortunately her candidate lost.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
So she voted for Adlai Stevenson.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
She got a pretty good president. Dwight Eisenhower was a
pretty good president.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
That's often happens. You vote for somebody and the other
guy turns out to be pretty good. David, Thank you much.
I appreciate it. All Right, good night, let me go
to Bob and Rolle Island. We'll see how long Bob
last tonight.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
Go ahead, Bob, I'm ready for the point.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Dan all right, get your swim suit on.
Speaker 11 (34:52):
I hope, okay, go ahead that something. Oh, go ahead, yut.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
You know, get you don't get you say something dumb?
Go ahead. I got to give you a chance to
say something dumb.
Speaker 11 (35:07):
Okay. How did do Trump boys and all the Republicans
do last night? I don't think very well.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, if you've listened to me, which of course you
never really listen to me because you're always trying to
talk over me. I've said that last night was a
great night for the Democrats and it was a really
bad night for the Republicans.
Speaker 11 (35:26):
I agree, and also Trump said it because I wasn't
on the ballot, that's why the Republicans didn't do well.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Well.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
There's true to that, if you if you are going
to analyze the numbers for you in both in Virginia
and in New Jersey last night, uh, the Republican candidates
from for governor both received anywhere between three hundred and
four hundred thousand fewer voters than Trump received a year ago.
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So there's a little bit of truth that there is
a there are a lot of people who will vote
for Trump and that it's all they vote for, and
that is not good for.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
The Republican Party. Okay, look you ready for the plank.
Speaker 11 (36:07):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Okay, here you go anyway, good night, we'll be back
right after the ten o'clock news. He's swimming home to
Rhode Island. Watch out for those sharks, bob uh. We're
gonna we're gonna segue to the national election six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten th
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on w b Z, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, well, thank you very much, Cole, as we
head to our second hour here on Nightside, and I we're.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Going to talk tonight about what happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yesterday was a bad day for Republicans nationwide. It was
a good day for Democrats. It was a good day
for Democratic socialists in New York City with Zorhan mum
Donnie winning the mayor Gracie's mansion. As they say in
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New York. I want to talk about New York and
Virginia and New Jersey beginning at ten o'clock. I want
to focus on Boston right now and also Massachusetts. So
if you have had an interesting race in your community
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that you worked on, and it doesn't have to be
a person running from mayor or city council or board
of aldermen or school committee. There was an interesting race
ballot question in Newton overnight Parking and as I understand,
that ballot question was decided there were there were a
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lot of a lot of votes, but that was decided
by how many How many was the votel here? Yeah,
the yes votes came in at forty seven point seven percent.
The no votes were just a little bit more. Uh,
it was I think double digits. It was eighty four
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votes or something, which I think was really really interesting
that it would be that close. So I want to
talk I want to talk about a race that you
might have been interested in, maybe a race that you
were involved with. I also want to talk about a
Boston which was the biggest election here in Massachusetts. It
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was a foregone result that once Josh Kraft withdrew that
the decision as to who would be the next mayor
of Boston was decided, was done. But here's a number
that really is discouraging to me and maybe it is
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to you. Boston's a big city. We have now about
eight hundred thousand people in Boston. Now obviously not all
of them are registered to vote, but there were only
ninety five thousand, six hundred and ninety people who went
to the polls yesterday. Now, there was no doubt about
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Mayor Wu would win reelection. She got a little over
ninety three percent of the vote. There was no other
name than the ballot, even which I think was unfair.
I think Josh Kraft's name should have been left in
the ballot. There were five thousand and six ninety six
write ins, and I know some people were writing Mickey
Mouse and some people write in their brother in law
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Henry or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
But that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Amongst the city councilors in Boston, the four at large
city councilors were returned to office. There actually was one
former city council of Frank Baker, who many people thought
might have snuck in, but he fared very badly. He
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finished fifteen thousand votes. He was in fifth place, but
it wasn't even close. He had twenty eight thousand votes
and the fourth place finisher best at him by forty
three thousand votes. So best at him by fifteen thousand votes,
he had over forty three thousand votes. It was actually
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about fifteen thousand, four hundred and fifty give or take.
We'll leave that. But all the incumbents of the at
large incumbents one of the seven the nine districts, excuse me,
in Boston, the seven of the districts the incumbents won.
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A couple of the districts were really uncontested. There was
the council was uncontested. The only district that was open
was the district that Tanya Anderson. Fernandez or Fernandez Anderson,
excuse me, represented until she was indicted for taking some
sort of bride money in a woman's bathroom at the
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at City Hall. She's currently incarcerated, and she's I guess,
going to to be succeeded by Minnear Culpepper, who I
believe is a reverend if I'm not mistaken. Very small
voter turnout in that district. It was only about seven
thousand voters in that district, not a huge turnout at all.
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So I'd love to talk to people tonight who chose
not to vote yesterday, because in Boston there's a lot
of controversies. I'm sure that you know that you still
have the mass and cass crisis that has not been solved.
We have in Boston. There was some high profile terminations
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in the Mayor's office, also in the Governor's office, but
primarily in the Mayor's office. Last spring, there were all
controversies about bike lanes in Boston. This controversies about mope
heads and some of these vehicles, these electric vehicles that
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are just in some cases literally running people over.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
But in many cases running wild.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Some of the people who do food deliveries in Boston.
There was a controversy. The mayor got into a big
controversy dealing with a Franklin Park, which is always has
been a great location for members of the Dorchester Roxbury
communities to get into a place in the summertime where
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there's actually shade in trees. A lot of those trees
were cut down, but none of those controversies seemed to
hurt mayor WHOA. So I guess it is status quo
in Boston. One different city councilor twelve of the thirteen
remain exactly the same. It is status quo in Boston,
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and maybe everybody in Boston is just really happy with
how things are going in Boston. That's the only interpretation
I can put on it. So if if you're happy
about Boston and want to just point out that the
fact that everyone who's in office, no one was turned out,
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everyone in office was returned to office. The only city
councilor that is no longer there is serving time in
federal prison, not a long sentence, but a short sentence.
But who wants to be a federal prison.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So I'd like to find out from you if you
went to the polls, how disappointed are you or how
exhilarated are you with the results. Certainly, if you're a mayor,
WU supporter, if you're a supporter of any of the
incumbents city councilors, your people must have won. But I'd
also like to talk to people who didn't vote. I'd
like to talk to people who yesterday there wasn't much
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to me to vote for. I tend to vote out
of obligate because I feel that it's an important right
to exercise every opportunity, and I voted. There were some
candidates whore running unopposed in my community. I chose not to.
I don't vote for people who are running unopposed unless
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I know the person. I know they've really done a
good job. So I'd love to hear from you if
you live anywhere and you didn't vote yesterday in Massachusetts,
I'd really be interested and would love to know why
there was no high profile race except what uncontested a
mayor's race in Boston. So I'm sure that depressed the
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number of people. A lot of people probably said why
why do I want to vote? If you voted in
a different community. I just want to open up the
phone lines, give everybody a chance to brag a little
bit about how they voted for winners, or how they
chose not to vote, or they went to vote even
though they knew their candidate wasn't going to win, but
they wanted to show support. So I want to celebrate
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the voting process tonight. I also want to acknowledge that
the Democrats had a great night last night, not only
in Massachusetts, as they seem to always have great nights
in Massachusetts, but also they had a great night in
New Jersey and Virginia. But let's hold New Jersey, Virginia, California.
Prop fifty out in California, which will allow for the
redistricting of California. We'll hold that until the ten o'clock hours.
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So I'm just going to open up the phone lines.
You don't have to live in Boston, if you live
somewhere else and you want to talk about having gone
to the polls, and did you feel good about it?
Did you feel good about staying home? I hope no
one's going to tell me they say they felt good
about staying home. And if you have been somebody who
complains a lot in whatever community you're in, and for
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some reason you chose not to go to the polls
and vote, even if it's the cast a blank ballot.
Casting a blank ballot has a purpose as well. It
says to the incumbents, well, maybe you don't have someone
running against you now, but you might have someone running
against you next time. One seven, two four ten thirty,
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six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty. I rush
those numbers, so let me do them slowly. Six one, seven, two,
five four ten thirty. That's six one seven, two five
four one zero three zero or six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty again one zero three zero. It's
kind of a cute number. Because we are ten thirty
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on your AM dial. My name's Dan Ray. Let's talk
politics tonight, and let's let's honor those who chose to vote,
and let's let's have let's have a good conversation that
maybe might inspire people to vote in future elections. We'll
be back on nightside right after this very quick break.
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My name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Pard.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now, if you're ashamed that you didn't vote yesterday, confession
is good for the soul, so call and tell me
why okay. I mean, they have made voting so easy
with mail in ballots, vote like two weeks or whatever
in advance. It's not like the old days where you
had to vote either by absentee ballot, which I did
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when I was working in television, because oftentimes on election
election day would be covering a Massachusetts candidate and a
national election in Texas or Iowa or somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So that's the first thing that I'd like you to do.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Fess up if you didn't vote, tell me why. If
you think it doesn't make a difference, that's a legitimate thought.
But if you don't vote, you can't make a difference.
So I'm not going to elect you.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I just want to find out why you voted. Oh,
why you didn't vote?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Uh six one seven, two, five four ten thirty six
one seven nine three one ten thirty Linda in Weymouth.
I will bet you that Linda voted yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I did, and two of but three people that I
was really pushing for got in. The others you know,
I didn't really know them that well. But we re
elected Rick coffin Counselor at large, and we got an
excellent lady into the school Committee.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, that should make you feel better.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I don't know how many people live in Weymouth, but
your vote in Weymouth, I'm sure was an important ballot, Linda,
and I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I'm glad you got I'm calling.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I'm calling because I heard that Maine did not pass
the issue you had with needing an idea for voting.
So that's partially why I called into you today. And
I'll get off the line. I'll let you call it over.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, my understanding is that that balant question failed in Maine.
I don't understand that why that issue would fail, because
it seems to me. I know when I went to
vote yesterday. I think I mentioned this last night. I
always have my driver's license in my hand because my
driver's license has my picture, it has my name, and
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it has my address. And the gentleman who I was
checking in with, he asked me what street do I
live on, because that's how they find your name on
the voter voter roll. And I told him and he said,
I'm a little hard of hearing what street is that? Well,
it was perfect. I put the driver's license down. I said,
you can read right there. It's easier and he was
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the first person who appreciated that. I've had other times
when I've gone to show my license to vote that
some of the people who are sitting there and checking
your names off, they'll look at you and say.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I don't want to say that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't have to see that. So there is a
group of people who don't want to have you identify yourself.
And there have been friends of mine who have gone
to the polls and have told me that they have
gone in the afternoon and people have said, oh, no,
you must have voted before because your name is checked off.
Why would people in Maine vote against, you know, having
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a piece of identification to vote. That's one, Linda, I
cannot understand for the life of me. But I will
find out how close it was for you during this break.
That's a great question. I think I did see that
Maine voters rejected the idea of a voter identification.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I put it out there because I know people, you know,
help the people persuade be persuaded to show their license
outside out now.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Okay, thanks, Linda, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, today, good night, take it easy. So let me
let me see if I can find out this real quickly. Yeah, this,
I'll have to do this during the break here because
this is yeah, this is too much stuff there to
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go through. But I do believe that Maine and will
be I think Linda is corrected that they did decide
that they were not going to make people show a
reference their identification to.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Vote, which to me is is crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Why would you not Maybe someone can tell me why
you would not want to have your voter your identification
shown to vote. I don't get it. I just don't
get it. Maybe some of you, someone up in Maine
will listen. But it looks as if and I don't
know how up to date this one is what time
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it was, but it sounded to me and.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No, let me do this. I don't want to be
incorrect here. I will do this during the break.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
So what I'm looking for is did you vote yesterday?
If you didn't vote, why didn't you vote? And if
you're a Boston resident, are you really so happy with
the result? Else, every city councilor who was an incumbent
standing for reelection was returned to office. Has the city council.
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There are some city councilors who I admire greatly. There
Ed Flynn does a great job. He's been on this
program on many occasions, and I think that he is
very much concerned with issues affecting Boston.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
But boy, you got you have.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
To be discouraged when the when, the when the voter
turnout is that low. And obviously the people who are
going to the polls to vote are people who either
work for the city or are related to people who
work for the city. When you think about it, I
will tell you this, those of you in Boston who
are property owners, residential property owners, homeowners, brace yourself. Brace
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yourself because Boston is in trouble financially, whether you know
it or not. And I predict that you will have
some really uh interesting tax bills coming your way, real
estate property tax bills coming your way, and there will
be people who will be howling. And I think I'm
going to ask each and every one of them, uh,
did you vote?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And if you haven't voted, you really have nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
To complain about, to be honest with you, because if
you haven't voted, you've decided I put no skin in
the game. If you voted, whether you voted for someone
who wanted, someone who lost, you're an active voter. I
have no problem. But I don't want to hear from
people who never voted and are saying, well, you know,
I never voted because my candidate doesn't win. Well, that's
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pretty good reason why your candidate doesn't win. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty six seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. We're
doing a little Civics lesson. You have the right to vote.
There's a lot of places around the world where that
right doesn't exist. A lot of people over the years
have given their lives to keep us free. Exercise that privilege,
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Exercise that right. It's not it's a privilege, but it's
more than that. It's right. Exercise your right to vote.
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. You have
to speak up back on nightside right after the news.
Let's get out of coming back on nightside.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's News.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now, Okay, I have an answer.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I'm going to go to phones, I promise, But I
haven't answer for Linda's question main ballot measures. Okay, there
were two questions up there. The one that Linda asked
about is a question that, in my opinion, it was
called voter ID. However, here's the problem. In the body
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of the question. In Maine, they had about eight different aspects.
Let me explain. The question was, do you want to
change Maine's main election laws to eliminate two days of
absentee voting, prohibit requests for absentee ballots by phone or
family members, and ongoing absentee voter status for seniors and
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people with disabilities, man prepaid postage on absentee ballot return envelopes,
limit the number of drop boxes, require voters to show
certain photo ID before voting, and make other changes to
our election laws. In order to vote yes on that
ballot question, you have to agree with all seven points.
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Well that you know, that ballot question got about thirty
six percent of the vote. They lost thirty six to
sixty four. It wasn't a straight up do you want
to require voter identification in order to vote?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
They was the people who put the ballot question together
weren't thinking. They put too many elements. They could have
had eight different ballot questions and broken them out into
each area. But most people it's like, you know, vote
yes if you love chocolate ice cream, if you love
strawberry ice cream, vanilla ice cream, coffee ice cream, and
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pistachio ice cream. Well, if you love all five, you'll
vote yes. But if you only love four out of
the five or three out of the five, you're going
to vote no. They presented that ballot question, in my opinion,
in an inadequate method. Let's go to the phones. I'm
going to go first off to Kimberly in Dover, New Hampshire. Hi, Kimberly, Welcome,
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How are you tonight?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Good?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Does your vote yesterday?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
I did, and I was calling in because I agree
with you that if you don't vote, you can't complain.
I've always been told that absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Also, I think that our schools have not have failed
by making young people aware of the importance of voting.
And how that you know, we've there have been wars fought.
I mean, our freedom in this country was under attack
literally in World War Two. And I guarantee you that
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if we had not prevailed in World War Two, when
if the Greatest Generation had not defeated Japan, the Access Powers, Japan,
Germany and Italy, we'd probably be speaking German today. And
I mean that seriously, we would have become an occupied nation.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
And they thought, yeah, they fought for that right, so
we should exercise it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know, you have so many It's so much easier
to vote now. They have extended voting days, not just hours.
I mean when I was first coming of age, you
had to vote on that Tuesday, the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, and you had to be there.
There's sometime between seven in the morning. And I grew
up in Boston and ate at night. And if you
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didn't make it, you didn't make it. We did have
absence you know, you did have absentee ballots, but they
were fairly strict.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You had to prove that you know, you were going
in for surgery or you're on a business trip to Europe.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
They have loosened all of those requirements and it's pretty
easy now. They have extended voting for days. They have
early voting that they give out, you know, ballots. You
can they'll send you a ballot. You can fill the
ballot out and just send it in no reason not
to vote. Did you, By the way, I don't think
you guys had an.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Election out there yesterday. Did you you had a.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
We have a city.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
I've my mayor for mayor and city counselors. And I
think sometimes people feel like, oh, it's not for governor
or presidential, so why do it? But it does affect
your everyday living.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, let me tell you my opinion. The local races
have more impact on me and you because they deal
with you know, property tax, is they deal with sid
you know what? Who's on the school committee? How are
the schools run? Once taught in the schools, that sort
of thing, and that you're critically important. I would argue
that the value of your vote at a local election
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is substantially greater than your value of a vote in
a presidential election.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
And that's where the margins can be can be tight.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
So your vote counts absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
How are the results in your community? Dover is a
pretty good size. It is it a city or a
town in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
It's a city.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
It's a city. So you have a mayor, yes, do
you have a new mayor?
Speaker 9 (23:36):
Or?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Did we have a new mayor?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay, what's the new mayor's name? If you know, I'd
love to give them a shout out.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
I honestly I can't remember. That's when I'm off the
top of my head.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
That's not a problems a gentleman. I did vote for
him as a gentleman out of used to work for
the shipyard and Portsmouth and stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Okay, and he'll be of the mayor of Dover, New Hampshire.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
He wants to fight for diver diverse housing and for education.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well I hope, I hope he's successful on both. That
he has you know, housing that that that is just
not you know for the uber wealthy.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
But you've got to have some housing and do what
you can to to uh uh you know, build your
base of uh your tax base, which is which involves housing.
And if your tax base grows, you can have better
schools and better teachers. And it's all interrelated. So congratulations
to him, and congratulations for you to get for having
(24:41):
gotten out and vote. And I appreciate you calling the
show if you called before or.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Is this your first time?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
On my first time, but I look.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Uh well, we got to give you a round of
applause for my digital studio audience.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Thank you very much. Call again, Kimberly.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I always am fascinated by what topic induces someone to
make the first one.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, let me get one more in here before the break,
I'm going to go to gym down in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
In Maryland next to Virginia, but Virginia took the spotlight
last night.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Jim, how are you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I'm good. I vote every election and for the most part,
I live in a red county in Maryland, which is rare.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I didn't think there are any red counties in Maryland.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
There is, there's very few. But I live up in
Cecil County, and and the deal is with Cecil County
is you know, they're very you know, there's like in
states like New Jersey. There's Sussex County where I lived,
and they're all, you know, basically red. But I still vote.
(25:54):
And you know, in some of these smaller elections, it's
good to vote because sometimes you get a different you
get a change in what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Great to have to have changes at all levels of government.
Here in Massachusetts, we have a very weak Republican Party.
You folks occasionally elect a Republican governor, but you like
Massachusetts we have two Democratic senators, nine Democrats in the
(26:28):
House of Representatives, and all of our statewide constitutional offices
right now, Governor, Lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer, auditor, secretary
of state. They're all Democrats the Republicans as.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Long as they keep my taxes reasonable and I can
survive down here. But it's crazy to see Mandani and
all those guys get elected because I lived in New
York for a long time. But it's not my problem.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So I think, in my opinion, mem Donnie maybe a
big problem for the Democrats. He either maybe the savior
and he will become the Bernie Sanders of the twenty
first century and he will lead the Democrats to socialism
and victory U in the end of America.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Or well, he's got a rap, he's got a ramp
it down. If he doesn't ramp it down, I'm not
gonna give him the funds he needs. And I didn't
mean to say.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, please clip that rob.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Okay, yeah, let me just give it, give you a
little Well, we're gonna get to Mindami next hour, okay,
and but but let me get you something here from
min Domi. So uh, just for the fun of it,
here's here is min Domie cut seven a rob little
min Doami from last night.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
We will fight for you because we are you, or
as we say on steinway an aminkum waileakum. Thank you
to those so often forgotten by the politics of our
(28:18):
city who.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Made this movement their own. I speak of.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers, and
who's beck nurses, Trinidadian line cooks, and Ethiopian aunties. Yes, aunties.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, that was a little reference. He referred to his aunt.
Wasn't his aunt to us? A cousin who was Muslim
and was looked at disparagingly by some New Yorkers in
the days after nine to eleven, and I was more
on uh the the disparagy look directed to his cousin.
(29:06):
Uh as opposed to the murders of three thousand Americans,
we have that you gotta be your priorities.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Right, yeah, right, well let's see how that works for everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
We will seize the next pas the may relact, no doubt,
no doubt.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Yeah he's there, He's the man.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Keep the faith, my friend. Okay, all right, talk to
you later.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
As for calling nights, yeah, well too often will Yeah,
I've got a bunch of callers in Maryland. But but
we love to hear folks different.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I do, I do, and I like. I listened to
your like four topics at the start of the show
and stuff, but a lot of them are not related
to me. But that's fine. But I call when I
see something that I want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So you're always welcome, always welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Thank you, good night. Six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Uh. If you're on the line, stay there.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
We will We're going to segue into the national elections.
We're going to talk a little locally here in Massachusetts
for the battance of this hour, and then we will
segue more into the national election, which will include the
New York election and of course Virginia uh in.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
New Jersey as well. It was a tough night for
the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
The Republicans I think have been put on notice that
they better get off their butt uh and that they
have to change their ways a little bit. I think
it was a message for Donald Trump. I'm not sure
that President Trump either will hear or understand the message.
But there's some interesting statistics I will share with you
as well as we move into the next hour. If
(30:51):
you'd like to jump on board here and talk about Massachusetts,
and I would love to hear from someone in Boston.
You people in Boston just must feel that everything in
Boston is perfect, because not only was the mayor returned
to office, but every one of the city council incumbents
returned to office. And the only city council incumbent who
(31:13):
was not returned to office is because she's serving time
in federal prison for Fernandez Anderson.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So six.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Sixty jump on board back after.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
This night side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
By the way, I was remiss earlier time. I want
to congratulate Frank in Boston. He is the winner his
choice of a knight Side mug or a Knightside tote bag.
Frank of all the callers on Monday night, called the
results of the three races, the Democratic gubernatorial wins in
Virginia and New Jersey and the win of ma'am Donnie
(31:55):
Mim Donnie uh in New York City. So Frank, you
got to call in. We got to get an address,
so we can send either your choice a mug or
a nightside coat bag. As a result of your political acumen,
which you displayed fully on Monday night in the eleven
o'clock hour. Let me go to David and Revere and
next on nightside, David.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Welcome, Yes, hi, thanks for having me on. I have
a story about why I vote faithfully.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
So. I was born in nineteen fifty two and it
was a presidential election year, and it was already known
aat of time that I would be born by sea section.
And my mother goes to see the doctor. She says.
The doctor says, Mary, we're all set. We'll do the
delivery on Tuesday. And my mother said, oh, no, we won't.
(32:48):
And the doctor said why not? And she said, I'm
busy on Tuesday, And he said, what are you talking about.
She said, it's election day. I have to vote. So
you're so, yeah, And I was so. But I was
born then three days after election day, when I should
have been born on election day because my mother would
(33:09):
not go in for the C section because she had
to vote. Wow, I have and I learned a lesson
early on in life. I have. I don't think I
have ever missed voting in any election because of what
my mother did.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I bet you that I will bet you that your
mother would be very proud of you.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Well, I hope.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
So I'm serious that that is quite a uh, you know,
quite a record to hold.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So your birthday, Your birthday is November.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Seventh, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Wow, okay, so that needs we're gonna nail this down.
Your birthday's Friday, that's right. Okay, and you were going
to turn on Friday, if I'm if I'm correct, seventy.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Three years old, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Well, happy birthday.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Well, thank you, David.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I love Please keep listening, and please keep calling this program.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
You would do, your mom, you'd love that story.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Okay, it's a great story.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
H And I was able to double check the date
and your three days November seventh, happy preview.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Fortunately her unfortunately her candidate lost.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
So she voted for Adlai Stevenson.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
She got a pretty good president. Dwight Eisenhower was a
pretty good president.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
That's often happens. You vote for somebody and the other
guy turns out to be pretty good. David, Thank you much.
I appreciate it. All Right, good night, let me go
to Bob and Rolle Island. We'll see how long Bob
last tonight.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
Go ahead, Bob, I'm ready for the point.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Dan all right, get your swim suit on.
Speaker 11 (34:52):
I hope, okay, go ahead that something. Oh, go ahead, yut.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
You know, get you don't get you say something dumb?
Go ahead. I got to give you a chance to
say something dumb.
Speaker 11 (35:07):
Okay. How did do Trump boys and all the Republicans
do last night? I don't think very well.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, if you've listened to me, which of course you
never really listen to me because you're always trying to
talk over me. I've said that last night was a
great night for the Democrats and it was a really
bad night for the Republicans.
Speaker 11 (35:26):
I agree, and also Trump said it because I wasn't
on the ballot, that's why the Republicans didn't do well.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Well.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
There's true to that, if you if you are going
to analyze the numbers for you in both in Virginia
and in New Jersey last night, uh, the Republican candidates
from for governor both received anywhere between three hundred and
four hundred thousand fewer voters than Trump received a year ago.
(35:55):
So there's a little bit of truth that there is
a there are a lot of people who will vote
for Trump and that it's all they vote for, and
that is not good for.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
The Republican Party. Okay, look you ready for the plank.
Speaker 11 (36:07):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Okay, here you go anyway, good night, we'll be back
right after the ten o'clock news. He's swimming home to
Rhode Island. Watch out for those sharks, bob uh. We're
gonna we're gonna segue to the national election six one, seven, two, five, four,
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