BOSTON (AP) — A relatively light voter turnout is expected in Boston, where Marty Walsh is seeking re-election to a second four-year term as the city’s mayor.
City Councilor Tito Jackson and a pair of lesser known candidates, retired police officer Robert Cappucci and Joseph Wiley, a health care worker, are also on Tuesday’s nonpartisan preliminary election. The top two vote-getters advance to the Nov. 7 final election.
“I brought them down here because I think it’s important, especially with everything that’s going on in the world today and in our community, for them to see that we have the right to vote and it’s our civic duty,” said Jennifer Serafyn who brought her children to the polls.
Walsh emerged from a crowded field of contenders in 2013 to succeed Thomas Menino, the city’s longest serving mayor.
Jackson has served on the Boston City Council since 2011. He represents District 7, which includes all of Roxbury and parts of the South End, Dorchester, and Fenway neighborhoods.
Cappucci is a life-long resident of East Boston. The retired Boston Police Officer is also a former elected member of the Boston School Committee.
Wiley grew up in Roxbury and graduated from Boston English High School. For 20 years, he’s volunteered as an English tutor.
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Elsewhere in Massachusetts, voters in Framingham go to the polls for the first time since residents of New England’s largest town opted to become a city. Voters will narrow from seven down to two the field of candidates seeking to become Framingham’s first mayor.
In Lawrence, five candidates – including former Mayor William Lantigua – are challenging incumbent Mayor Daniel Rivera, with two advancing to November.
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