THIS is how you challenge your party constructively

[flyingfysh]

1. I wanted Capuano to stay in the job, but we should have been able to have both

It would have been better if she had been able to oust Lynch in the primary instead. But the gerrymandered Boston-area districts made that impossible; it seems that the district lines probably protected Lynch. After all, Massachusetts is the home of the original Gerrymander (I believe it was named after Eldridge Gerry). A cartoon of the time showed a map of a district which resembled a long salamander or lizard, with eyes and claws added.

Capuano always impressed me as a tireless worker for our interests. There was nothing flashy about him, but he got things done. I just hope she keeps up his record of accomplishment. I can't recall any votes of positions of his that I disagreed with, and I read all of his email newsletters very closely.

One of those accomplishments is occurring behind my house right now. The state is extending the Boston subway system (the "T&quot , and it runs right behind my house. A new station will be a very short distance from my house. Sometimes work continues through the night, but we don't mind. We know what we will be getting.