John was interviewed by Linda Pinkow on WMBR radio on Sunday, January 29. Here's a link to the interview:

http://headphones.mit.edu/archive/
What's_Left____1_29_06_11:28_AM.mp3

PLEASE NOTE: John's interview begins about 50 minutes into the interview.

Show your support for John by using these badges on your blog or website. We're trying to show Massachusetts that John is "The Gold Standard" for Secretary of State candidates. And that's why we're calling these "Gold Standard" Blogger Badges.

Please consider attending the caucus in your town to distribute Bonifaz campaign materials. It is during these meetings that we will call attention to the unreliable nature of electronic voting machines and the need for public funding of elections. Could there be more important issues challenging the very essence of our vote?

The word about John's campaign is spreading all over the internet. Here are a few great examples:

A blog posting from Liberal Chrystie:
http://liberalchrystie.blogspot.com/
2006/01/support-john-bonifaz-running-for.html

A January 19 podcast from WAMC radio:

Joe Trippi just endorsed John on the DailyKos website:

http://www.dailykos.com/
storyonly/2006/1/25/143446/290

John was featured in Tuesday's Daily Hampshire Gazette (registration required to view article):

http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/
storytmp.cfm?id_no=11700812006

Here's a link to the Progressive Blog's interview with John Bonifaz:

http://theprogressiveblog.blogspot.com/
2006/01/charlie-gallos-conversation-with-john.html

Steven Sussman of Littleton, Massachusetts, raises an important point in his letter to the editor in today's Boston Globe.

Sussman writes that Galvin's purported investigation ignored the 109,068 signatures on the anti-gay marriage ballot measure that "could include an unknown number of victims of the alleged misrepresentation." The central claim of fraud here is that signature-gatherers for this petition used a "bait and switch" tactic, asking people to sign a petition related to the sale of wine and then giving them instead the form for the anti-gay marriage initiative. As Sussman points out, Galvin's investigation -- which, according to Galvin's own admission in his December 23, 2005 letter to the Globe, consisted of comparing signatures on both petitions -- would not have uncovered this fraud.

The Boston Globe today published a letter by the incumbent, William F. Galvin, following up on the publication of my op-ed in yesterday's edition. Mr. Galvin's letter is revealing for what it does not say.

Mr. Galvin claims that he "vigorously investigated" the allegations of fraud in the signature-gathering process with respect to the anti-gay marriage ballot measure. He then goes on to state that, through a "comparison" between the anti-gay marriage measure and the petition relating to the sale of wine, he found that 14,288 signatures appeared on both petitions, "leaving 109,068 signatures..."

Our campaign for Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is in the news today.

Check out this Boston Globe op-ed in which John argues that the incumbent should not have certified the signatures for the anti-gay marriage ballot measure in light of significant documentation of fraud in the signature gathering process.