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Hammar challenges Lewis City & USTA serve Malden youths for state Senate seat By Barbara Taormina alden residents who make it to the polls to vote in the state primary on Sept. 4 will help shape race for the state senate seat in the Fifth Middlesex District. Melrose resident Samantha (Sam) Hammar, a tech professional and former chair of her hometown’s Democratic City Committee, is running against
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two-term incumbent Jason Lewis of Winchester for a spot on the November ballot. The winner will face Reading Republican Erin Calvo-Bacci who is running unopposed in the Republican primary.
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PLAY BIG: Jonathan Yilkal and Miykai Sampson posed with a giant tennis racket at Devir Park on Tuesday as they waited to compete in a friendly match during the City of Malden and United States Tennis Association of New England’s Free Day of Tennis. See more photo highlights on pages 11-13. (Advocate photo by Katy Rogers)
Upcoming state primary offers voters some big choices By Barbara Taormina ext Wednesday, August 15, is the last day to register to vote in the upcoming state primary which will be held this year on Sept. 4. Voters can cast absentee ballots in person at the City Clerk’s office at 110 Pleasant St. throughout the month of August. The City Clerk’s office is open Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Tuesdays from 8 a.m.
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to 7 p.m. and on Fridays from 8 a.m. to noon. City Hall will be closed on Friday, Aug. 31, and absentee voting will be done only by appointment. This year’s primary includes some big races among both major parties. Republicans Geoff Diehl, a state rep from Plymouth, attorney and businessman John Kingston and Beth Joyce Lindstrom, former director of the Massachusetts State Lottery, are vying for the opportunity to run against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in November. Warren is running unopposed in the primary. Republican Gov. Charlie Bak-
er is facing a primary challenge from pastor and attorney Scott Lively, known for his anti-gay rhetoric and his unreserved support of President Donald Trump. Baker, who was recently named the most popular governor in the United States and who has had a 30-point lead in several polls, has come under fire from the more conservative wing of the Republican Party for his moderate positions and his criticism of Trump. Democrats Jay Gonzalez, a former state secretary of administration and finance under former Governor Deval Patrick, and author and political activ-
ist Bob Massie are competing for the chance to face Baker in the general election. Quentin Palfrey, a former economic development advisor for Barack Obama, and Jimmy Tingle, a political commentator and social activist who is probably better known for his career as a comic, are candidates in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. Incumbent Karyn Polito is the only candidate in the Republican primary race. Attorney General Maura Healey is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. However, in November she will face either James McMahon or Daniel Shores. Both candidates in the Republican primary are attorneys based on the south shore and both have been critical of Healey’s political activism as AG. Democrat William Francis Galvin, who has been the Commonwealth’s secretary of state for as long as most people can remember, is heading into primary battle with Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim, the son of former Boston civil rights leader, Lenny Zakim.
The winner of that race will face Republican candidate Anthony Amore, the head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston. Although Congresswoman Katherine Clark is unopposed in the Democratic primary, in November, she will be running against either Louis Kuchnir, a Southborough-based dermatologist, or Woburn businessman John Hugo. Closer to home, Samantha (Sam) Hammar is challenging incumbent Jason Lewis in the Democratic primary for the state Senate seat in the Fifth Middlesex district. Either Hammar or Lewis will run against Republican opponent Erin Calvo-Bacci, a Reading businesswoman who is unopposed in the GOP primary. Just over half of the members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives are running unopposed this year’s primary, and Malden state reps Paul Donato, Steven Ultrino and Paul Brodeur are among that crowd. Donato, Ultrino and Brodeur will also be running unopposed in the general election.