del.icio.usThe south coast's most influential newspaper, the Standard Times of New Bedford, endorsed John Bonifaz this week, as we've already written here. In their endorsement, the Times asked of Galvin, "why not also champion election day registration and work aggressively to see it implemented in Massachusetts?"
In fact, she said she was surprised to read Mr. Galvin state in a newspaper interview that he wants to have this reform implemented by the November election. It would be nearly impossible for this to happen, she said. And it's clear Mr. Galvin is now saying this because Mr. Bonifaz has charged him with dragging his feet.
Surprised, indeed. As we know, Bill Galvin worked to block election day registration legislation last year. Town Clerks are the people who administer elections locally, and they studied election day registration in 2004 and asked the state to implement it. Galvin says he blocked it in 2005 because he thought we needed to study it first. Hmmm?
As the president of the Town Clerks Association said to the New Bedford Standard Times, it's clear that Galvin is only saying this now because John Bonifaz is challenging him on it. Let's take that challenge to the ballot box on Tuesday: a vote for Bonifaz is a vote for getting it done.
