June is recognized as Pride Month in the United State – a celebration of LGBTQ+ history, perseverance, and culture. The Quincy Democratic City Committee is proud to support and honor Quincy’s LGBTQ community.
Quincy Democrats are re-organizing! No, we’re not neatening our socks or straightening the canned goods. We're electing new officers! The election will be held at Quincy High School on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. The guest speaker is Secretary of State William Galvin. He will start the evening with a speech promptly at 6:30 p.m.
Thanks to donations, we have ordered special “Quincy Dems/Harris-Walz 2024” signs for you to display on your lawns - at no charge to you!
We also have plenty of free Warren for Senate lawn signs.
If you would like a lawn sign please email Mike Berry at Ward1QuincyDems@gmail.com or call 617-592-5897.
To see how you can get involved in the November election, bookmark our continually updated list of resources here.
The Quincy Dems will not hold a regular monthly meeting on Tuesday 9/10 in light of the presidential debate. There's still lots you can do to help for the November election. Check this link for all the ways you can get involved!
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Former U.S. Representative William Delahunt, a Democrat and lifelong Quincy resident, passed away this past Saturday, March 30th. He was a longtime member of our Ward 6 Democratic Committee and was our 2010 Dennis F. Ryan Community Award recipient. Rep. Delahunt started his 4 decades in elected office as a Quincy city councilor in 1972 and then as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1973 for a term. Starting in 1975 he served as Norfolk County District Attorney for 21 years and subsequently in the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts for 14 years
A statement from his family reads:
"While we mourn the loss of such a tremendous person, we also celebrate his remarkable life and his legacy of dedication, service, and inspiration. We could always turn to him for wisdom, solace and a laugh, and his absence leaves a gaping hole in our family and our hearts."
The QDCC citywide chair Alicia Gardner remembers decades of friendship with Rep. Delahunt. “Bill was a personal friend of mine and my family since I was a kid we lived on the same street for many years. I will miss him.”
Rep. Delahunt dedicated his life to community service. The city of Quincy, Norfolk County, and the Massachusetts commonwealth are richer for his work. Of his many accomplishments, as Norfolk County District Attorney he created the country's first ever domestic violence prevention unit. As his longtime colleague Senator Ed Markey stated, “[i]t is a fitting honor that the door of the William D. Delahunt Norfolk County Courthouse opens every day so that the people inside can do the hard work of making lives better, as Bill Delahunt did.”
Funeral services will take place in on Friday and Saturday, with his wake in Quincy on Friday, April 5, from 2 to 7 p.m at United First Parish Church on Hancock Street. His funeral will follow on Saturday, April 6, at 11 a.m. at Saint Gregory Parish on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester.
The Democratic City Committee is sharing our thoughts and prays to the Cotter Family.
Kevin and Betty have been part of the Ward 6 Democratic Committee and the Quincy City Committee for many years. On January 13, 2024, Betty died peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, We wish to share the visiting hours and arrangements for Betty. You may also leave a tribute on her online memorial.
COTTER, Elizabeth A. "Betty" (Lothrop) Of Quincy, died peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, on January 13, 2024. Betty was 75 years old. Born on September 1, 1948 in Boston, she was the daughter of the late Elizabeth (Jango) and Edward Lothrop. Betty loved to travel and host parties with family and friends. She had a huge smile, was the life of the party and will long be remembered as a devout Boston sports fan. Beloved wife of Kevin L. Cotter of 51 years. They were married August 5, 1972, in Quincy. Loving mother of Lisa Amado and her husband, Gerard of Whitman, Colleen Walsh and her husband, David of Weymouth and Kevin Cotter of Somerville. Betty leaves behind six grandchildren, Isabelle Amado, Gianna Amado, Gabrielle Amado, Cecilia Walsh, Callahan Walsh and Siobhan Walsh. Betty was the oldest of nine children. She was predeceased in death by her brothers, Geoffrey Lothrop, William Lothrop, Stephen Lothrop; and sister, Maureen Kroll. She leaves behind several brothers and sisters, Edward Lothrop, Susan Flynn, John Lothrop and Mary O'Connell. She is also survived by many cousins, nieces, nephews and in-laws. Family and friends will honor and remember Betty's life by gathering for Visiting Hours in the Murphy Funeral Home, 1020 Dorchester Ave., DORCHESTER, on Sunday, January 21, 2024, from 2:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. Her Funeral Mass will be celebrated in Sacred Heart Church, 386 Hancock St., Quincy, on Monday morning, January 22, at 10:00 A.M. Burial will follow in Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree. For directions and guestbook, please visit www.jmurphyfh.com Funeral home handicapped accessible with ample parking.
Quincy Democratic City Committee to host Seventh Annual “Day Of Service” on Martin Luther King’s Day
This Martin Luther King’s Day, the Quincy Democratic City Committee and volunteers from all across the South Shore will gather together at the Richard J. Koch Park & Rec Complex at 1 Merrymount Parkway to prepare bagged lunches for delivery to Father Bill’s & Mainspring, an area shelter for the homeless. “We think the best way to honor Dr. King’s legacy is to provide for our neighbors in need,” said QDCC Chair Alicia Gardner. Last year's event had over 30 volunteers of all ages coming together to make over 300 bagged lunches for the shelter, along with children taking part in MLK Day artwork.
The event will take place from 10 am - 1 pm on January 15, 2024. In addition to volunteering to make lunches on the day, volunteers are also needed to deliver the lunches to Yawkey Housing Resource Center and MainSpring House during the week. All locations are ADA accessible, and anyone who wishes to attend can RSVP at https://bit.ly/QDCCMLK2024. For further information, visit the Quincy Democratic City Committee website at QuincyDems.com.
If you have any questions please email us at quincydems@gmail.com .
Or visit our website at http://www.quincydems.com/
Announcement from our citywide chair: We will not meeting again till January. We apologize for the short notice. We sincerely hope that you and your families have a wonderful Holiday Season. See you in the New Year!
We are rescheduling our September meeting for next week Tuesday 9/19. This is to allow for our members to the community meeting with city and state officials and leaders at Eastern Nazarene College this coming Tuesday, Sept. 12 (6:30 pm @ Central Middle School) ENC. We encourage all our members to attend in support. Our Democratic governor's office is asking for support, as well as being part of our state Democratic platform in supporting refugees and displaced peoples.
We will not be holding a full committee meeting for July (7/11). Join us for our next full committee meeting on August 8 2023! Watch your emails for the Zoom details. If you do not receive emails, sign up for our mailing list.
Thank you to all who attended our caucuses last week. We will not be holding a June 2023 monthly meeting tomorrow. Please check your email for more information about upcoming events!
Hello all,
Due to some personal issues, tonight's October 7 event is being postponed. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this late cancellation causes. We look forward to holding this event as soon as it is possible to do so. Please check back soon as we will hopefully have the new date and time online shortly. Thank you for your understanding.
The 2022 MassDems Convention has officially come to a close. Whether you attended in person or virtually, we want to thank you for being a part of this incredibly important process. This convention was historic in many ways. Not only was this our first hybrid convention, making it more accessible for all to attend. We also nominated one of the most diverse slates of candidates in our Party's history.
The endorsed candidates of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and results are as follows:
Candidate for Governor: Maura Healey
Candidate for Lt. Governor: Kim Driscoll
Candidate for Secretary of the Commonwealth: Tanisha Sullivan
Candidate for Attorney General: Quentin Palfrey
Candidate for Treasurer: Deborah Goldberg
Candidate for Auditor: Chris Dempsey
Governor Results
Maura Healey: 2858 votes, 71.2%
Sonia Chang-Díaz: 1155 votes, 28.8%
Lieutenant Governor Results:
Kim Driscoll: 1641 votes, 41.4%
Tami Gouveia: 911 votes, 23%
Eric P. Lesser: 839 votes, 21.2%
Adam Hinds: 493 votes, 12.4%
Bret H. Bero: 81 votes, 2%
In the race for the Lieutenant Governor nomination, no candidate received a majority of Delegate support on the first ballot. Tami Gouveia chose not to proceed to a second ballot, so Kim Driscoll is the endorsed candidate of the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
Secretary of the Commonwealth Results
Tanisha M Sullivan: 2578 votes, 62.4%
William Francis Galvin: 1553 votes, 37.5%
Auditor Results
Chris Dempsey: 2148 votes, 52.6%
Diana DiZiglio: 1931 votes, 47.3%
In the race for the Attorney General nomination, no candidate received a majority of Delegate support on the first ballot. Candidates Andrea Campbell and Quentin Palfrey chose to proceed to a second ballot.
First ballot results:
Attorney General Results
Andrea Campbell: 1622 votes, 39.2%
Quentin Palfrey: 1605 votes, 38.8%
Shannon Liss-Riordan: 906 votes, 21.9%
Second ballot results:
Attorney General Results
Quentin Palfrey: 1920, 54%
Andrea Campbell: 1631 46%
Congratulations to all of our candidates who participated. The senate district results and individual votes will be made available mid-week. We look forward to an exciting primary election - be sure to vote in the September 6 primary!!
One week ago, we lost a hero of the Quincy Democrats., Joseph H. Mulligan.
Obituary for Joseph H. Mahoney in the Quincy Sun
In 2020, Joe Mahoney introduced his daughter, At-Large City Councilor Anne Mulligan Mahoney, as she received the Quincy Democratic City Committee's Dennis F. Ryan Community Service Award. Below is an edited clip from the 2020 Quincy Dems Virtual Breakfast of his introduction and appreciation.
Be sure to vote today for school committee and city council!
Need a ride to the polls? To schedule a ride in a wheelchair accessible van, please contact State Representative, Bruce Ayers at 617-328-0102 or Brucej-ayers@yahoo.com.
Want to watch our candidate forums on TV instead of YouTube? QATV have scheduled to play on them Channel 8 at these times:
Councilor At-Large Candidates: Tuesday 10/26 at 8:30pm, Wednesday 10/27 at 12:30pm, Saturday 10/30 at 12pm
Ward Councilor Candidates: Wednesday 10/27 at 8:15pm, Thursday 10/28 at 12pm, Saturday 10/30 at 12:50pm
School Committee Candidates: Thursday 10/28 at 8pm, Friday 10/29 at 1pm, Saturday 10/30 at 2:40pm
If you would like to watch over Youtube, you can see the entire playlist of Candidate Recordings on our QDCC 2021 Meet the Candidates Virtual Forums playlist.
We’re very excited to have our breakfast at 10 am! Go to the 2021 Quincy Dems Breakfast page to watch, using the password provided by email to those who purchased tickets.
COMMENTS ON THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION NOTICE OF INQUIRY RELATIVE TO THE COMMISSION SEEKING NEW INFORMATION AND ADDITIONAL STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES TO HELP THE COMMISION EXPLORE WHETHER IT SHOULD REVISE ITS APPROACH UNDER THE CURRENTLY EFFECTIVE POLICY STATEMENT ON THE CERTIFICATION OF NEW NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PROPOSED NATURAL GAS PROJECT IS OR WILL BE REQUIRED BY THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY, AS THAT STANDARD IS ESTABLISHED IN SECTION 7 OF THE NATURAL GAS ACT.
DOCKET No. PL 18-1-000
COMMENTS PROVIDED BY:
ALICIA GARDENER, CHAIRPERSON
QUINCY DEMOCRATIC CITY COMMITTEE
58 SOUTH STREET, #202
QUINCY, MA 02169 MAY 26, 2021
The comments provided in response to this NOI are specific to Section A. Potential Adjustments to the Commission’s Determination of Need (DON) and Section E. The Commission’s Consideration of Effects on Environmental Justice Communities.
Comments on Section A, A1 Should the Commission consider changes in how it determines whether there is a public need for a proposed project?
The QDCC believes that in the determination of public need the determination of local need should be prioritized. In many cases concerning projects of this scale, the determination of public need is based on national or regionally distant needs rather than how the risks/benefits will be realized locally. DONs of a distant area within the United States as a whole or beyond the US borders should not outweigh the needs of or benefits to a local area most likely to be impacted by a given project. Failure to prioritize local needs and/or benefits will undoubtedly continue to place the greatest burden of a proposed project on individuals and communities least likely to substantially benefit. Our community is wrestling with such an imbalance as a result of the Algonquin Gas Transmission facility in our adjacent community of Weymouth, MA.
Comments on Section E, E1 Should the Commission change how it identifies potentially affected environmental justice communities? Why and if so how? Specifically, what criteria should the Commission consider?
In addition to the Commission’s use of the USEPA EJSCREEN tool which includes a variety of environmental indicators and demographic data, the QDCC believes the Commission should explore the use of data and tools on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program and the CDC/Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) tool. In addition to a host of health and environmental data contained in the EPHT portal, the ATSDR social vulnerability index provides other indicators that can influence health. The EPHT portal houses data at varying levels of geography (e.g., county) and some of the EPHT state grantee partners have health data available at the census tract level (e.g., MA). The ATSDR SVI uses U.S. Census data to determine the relative social vulnerability of every census tract in the U.S. and then ranks each based on 14 social indicators. These tools used in concert with one another highlight residential areas that may be particularly vulnerable to impacts of projects proposed for FERC consideration and thus would be of great value in providing objective data.
Comments on Section E, E4 When evaluating disproportionally high and adverse effects on environmental justice communities, should the Commission change how it considers population specific factors that can amplify the experienced effect, such as ecological, visual, historical, cultural, economic social of health factors? If so, how? Should the Commission change how it considers multiple or cumulative adverse exposures and historical patterns of exposure to pollution or other environmental hazards? If so, how? How can the Commission obtain high quality information about cumulative impacts (e.g., data on cancer clusters and asthma rates)?
The Commission should change how it considers population-specific factors to best determine the potential impacts on a given population versus reliance on risk assessment estimates that consider risks based on a formula that suggests populations that are vulnerable (e.g., the very old, the very young) are taken into account. Having health and environmental data specific to a potentially impacted community such as data available from the CDC/ATSDR environmental public health tracking portal and their social vulnerability index tool would allow for more accurate assessments of current health status and anticipated future environmental health risks, notably in environmental justice communities. Without taking into consideration the current health status of a population it is impossible to predict how existing disease might be exacerbated.
The QDCC also believes that the Commission should take into account historical patterns of exposure and cumulative risks on a given population. In fact, if this approach had been taken in evaluating the potential impacts of the then proposed Algonquin Gas Transmission facility in the Fore River area of
Weymouth, MA it would not likely have approved this project. Many health and environmental studies had historically been done in that area by public health officials demonstrating significant elevations in chronic disease (e.g., lung cancer and other respiratory diseases) as well as the presence of other industrial facilities. It is worthwhile to note that many years ago the Fore River area was proposed for the siting of a rotary kiln incinerator. At that time the state of MA Executive Office of Human Services and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs denied a permit for the facility after concluding that higher rates of disease among residents of the area coupled with the enormous risks the population would suffer in the event of an accident did not support the siting of the proposed facility in that area.
Consideration of this type of historical environmental and health information should have played an important role in FERC’s decision making relative to the Algonquin facility. Our Quincy Point and Germantown neighborhoods (both designated by the state as environmental justice areas) lie in the area of most likely impact in terms of suboptimal air quality and in the event of an accident. The QDCC believes this facility poses an unacceptable risk for our neighbors that should have been considered more carefully in FERC’s decision making.
This is a friendly reminder of the Citywide Quincy Democratic Caucus, which will being held virtually on Thursday, June 24th starting at 6:00 pm. We’ve made a video to help you learn all about our caucuses and how they work!
If you plan to attend, please pre-register prior to the meeting here. Pre-registering will really help the Caucus run smoothly. Please also share this link with anyone that you think might be interested in attending that is either a registered Democrat or is a pre-registered Democrat (16 year old's cn pre-register to vote).
If you plan to run as a Delegate, please also complete the Delegate Consent Form by clicking on the following link. You can always choose to not run as a Delegate, but again, pre-registering will really help the Caucus run smoothly.
