Carolyn Dykema to Begin Re-Election Campaign Tomorrow
State Rep. Carolyn Dykema will kick her campaign off with an event at Pejamajo Cafe.
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Courtesy Carolyn Dykema
State Representative Carolyn Dykema will kick off her campaign for re-election on Tuesday, May 15 with an open house and fundraiser from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Pejamajo Cafe in Holliston.
Joining her during the evening will be current and former officials, as well as supporters from the four towns in her district. The public is invited to attend.
“I’m very excited to kick off this campaign,” Dykema said. “There is nothing more gratifying to me than being a full-time advocate for our communities.” I hope the voters of this district will give me the opportunity to continue to serve. There’s still much work to be done.”
Representative Dykema serves the 8th Middlesex District which includes Holliston, Hopkinton, Southborough and Westborough.
MReed
11:47 am on Monday, May 14, 2012
This state is #1 in underemployment and #1 in health care costs. Dykema has done nothing to help. We don't have the job creation, and the costs and fees keep going up and up. Health care costs are out of control. Our insurance premiums keep rising. She represents a miserable economic climate.
Kelly Roney
8:05 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
The first claim is simply a falsehood. Massachusetts is doing relatively well, though no one is satisfied with the current economy.
Health care costs are high - though everyone has access to insurance, which leads the nation. Carolyn has actually been working on cost containment for a year and has some notable successes that have helped our towns reduce their cost burdens.
HollistonGuy
11:56 am on Monday, May 14, 2012
If Dykema ever needs a ride to the state house, she can call Obama's Uncle. He is the proud owener of a driver's license. Still waiting for Dykema to convey her thoughts on this travesty.
Doreen
12:03 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
Are you kidding me? http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2012/04/massachusetts_unemployment_falls_to_65_p.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/massachusetts-digs-in-on-health-care-cost-control/2012/03/19/gIQA1K65MS_blog.html
MReed
12:26 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
Get real....Deval Patrick is fudging the job numbers.
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2012/03/governor-patrick-oft-cited-job-numbers-incorrect-state-ranks-not/miAr5B9E0aRxmSKwbTbOkO/story.html
MReed
12:20 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
The word is UNDEREMPLOYMENT. Let me educate you.
There are 600,000 people who are under employed in this state who want a full time job and can't find one. Instead, they are doing part time at best and can't support their families.
That unemployment rate your link sites is fiction on the street. It does not account for the people who have given up looking for work and new people seeking jobs after graduation. There are many government barriers to creating jobs and we need to work together to take action.
Dykema does nothing to help job creation.
Ann Green
4:51 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
Forbes Magazine has rated Mass. as the most anti-business state in the US. Hi taxes and fees, Beacon Hill corruption and runaway entitlements don't help. I wonder if the restaurant where she's holding the kick-off knows that she voted against the meal tax holiday.
Concerned Holliston Deomcrat
10:03 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
On a very local level, and where she should have advocated for the residents of her own town, is with the soalr power plant (7,500 solar panels and a transfer station right in the middle of a residential street)! She was so worried about the possibility of not looking "green", she woudn't investigate the issue fully in order to make intelligent comments. Instead she was heard to say,"it's only seven trees" the developer want to remove from a scenic road in a residential neighborhood - that's seven 100+ year old trees by the way, each absorbing 6,300 gallons of water a year. She was also quoted to say that the farmers need other ways to subsidize their farms....but Bullard Farm isn't a working farm! Oh, and by the way, I suppose it helps that her campaign finance person is married to a Bullard Farm heir and who proposed the project in the first place! So think twice about who you think will represent you...and I'm a democrat!
Iron Mike
2:54 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Ms. Dykema is such an arrogant elitist liberal, - it’s really a wonder that she isn’t already working in the Obama White House crafting the follow-on to ObummerCare!
JKelley
4:19 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
65% in this state are saying we going in the wrong direction, and that's for sure. It's the bad job climate. Forbes rates this state as #1 anti-business climate--we are not an entrepreneurial culture. Fidelity moved 1500 jobs to New Hampshire.
Dykema has done absolutely nothing to help the job climate here. It's miserable and stagnant.
Kelly Roney
3:01 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
I see Marty's carping Tea Party extremists are here making up "facts" to suit their need for constant outrage. It's because they have nothing positive to offer.
You want to know the truth about Massachusetts? We're the number one state in the union - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/05/massachusetts_is_the_best_state_in_the_union_.html
MReed
11:58 pm on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Massachusetts is a mess, and left wing sites like Slate can't spin it.
Dykema voted against Secure Communities. It crosses party lines. It's common sense. Dykema protects illegal aliens committing crimes against citizens here.
Our health care costs are through the roof. Every year my monthly premiums go up double digit percentages.
The job climate is awful. I was told my job was outsourced the India. There are so many out of work.
Democrats are just so upset because they can't defend the indefensible, so they want to call people names which is childish and petty.
Name calling goes nowhere. It just highlights your weak position even more. Keep it up.
Kelly Roney
7:48 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Massachusetts is a tremendous success story, no spin.
Rep. Dykema investigated the Federal program by actually talking with ICE. Did Marty? In fact, the police departments in this district were all already doing everything included in Secure Communities, and the deportation of felons was proceeding in larger numbers under President Obama than under President Bush.
Carolyn does not protect illegal aliens. That's simply a slander that proves my earlier point.
Unemployment in Massachusetts is well below the national rate and steadily improving. Outsourcing to India didn't start recently. Still, there's more to be done. Marty's plan? To give more tax cuts to the people who already have record profits that they're sitting on. That's like beating your head against the wall. It feels so good when you stop.
Carolyn is working on health care costs and has been for some time. That's another national problem, although the Washington Republicans simply don't have any ideas to deal with it, other than ending Medicare as we've known it.
There are still many reasonable Republicans, but their candidate here is not one of them.
Steve Kirstein
11:34 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Perhaps this would be an opportune moment to remember that both of these candidates are our neighbors and friends, and that they both deserve credit for putting themselves out there to represent us. A modicum of civility would be appropriate for all concerned - we can advocate our positions, and for our chosen candidates, without being nasty.
Jack
4:52 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Steve Kirstein --
Unfortunately, though your request is reasonable, past experience suggests you're asking for a lot from the Lamb camp.
For the record, I'm hot from Holliston, I'm from Hopkinton. I'm a business owner, president of my local Chamber of Commerce, and an independent thinker who votes the person and not the party (and I tend to lean more towards candidate Lamb's R's than Rep. Dykema's D's).
Though I'm not in the same boat as Rep. Dykema on many things, the commitment and character she has brought to Boston, plus her ability to collaborate with people of all political leanings, is vastly superior to so many of her "peers" in the State House.
Should candidate Lamb ever care to illuminate the voters with substance, I'll be ready to listen. Until then, it's needless noise to these ears.
I'm Jack Speranza, I vote issues and character, and I sure wish more people did too (especially here, in the People's Republic of Massachusetts).
MReed
5:31 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Mr. Jack Speranza. You said you lean towards Republican candidates, yet the public record of your donations shows you donating to Democrats. Please,.....
Also, for the record, the Dykema camp is running nothing but a negative campaign with nothing but name calling, lies, and deception. Dykema has no substantive leg to stand on. So, the alternative is to take photos with people, and have her camp confuse, obfuscate, and deflect in order to hide the truth.
She has failed to do anything to help the poor job climate.
She has voted to raise taxes in a recession.
Health care costs are through the roof. My monthly premiums are sky high and keep going up.
She aligned herself with Deval Patrick to oppose Secure Communities which was just activated this week DESPITE all the Democrat efforts to stop it. Thanks to Sheriff's like Lew Evangelidis and others who pushed this. Dykema is on the side of illegal aliens who commit crimes.
There's some of the issues for you. I could go on and on. You can pretend all you want, but we know the truth.
Jack
5:54 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Not sure what records you're accessing, but of the limited number of candidates I've ever donated $$ to, Rep. Dykema would be the ONLY democrat on the list (for the princely sum of maybe $50). As for the remainder of your message, all bald faced assertions without any context or substance -- just like your candidate.
JKelley
9:59 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Too funny.
Here's the link to the roll call vote in the State House showing that Dykema voted AGAINST SECURE COMMUNITIES.
http://massgop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Secure-Comms-Roll-Call-April_25_11.pdf?utm_source=Secure+Communities+Opponent%2C+Rep.+Dykema+Kicks+Off+Campaign+Near+Tragic+Accident&utm_campaign=Dyk%27s+kickoff&utm_medium=email
I'll look up another one too that shows she voted for pensions for felons in jail.
It goes on and on and on.....
Iron Mike
9:59 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Somebody left a foolish comment to the effect that 'Massachusetts is a tremendous success story, no spin.'
Really? 'TREMENDOUS SUCCESS'? We are the MOST in-dept state in the nation - per capita. READ: http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/268.html
Our total state debt today is $101 BILLION! We have over 14 state employees PER SQUARE MILE. While Ms. Dykema was busy with her favorite social issues, companies were moving jobs OUT of our state. Even Curt Schilling left.
Today our #1 'Social Issue' has to be turning the state around - making in industry-friendly.
Ms. Dykema can't do that - it's not in her DNA. She is a regulator - the kind of lawmaker that scares business away. For EVERY problem she sees - she sees a government solution - with her name on it. Create another agency, hire more state employees, and afix another tax to pay for it - or borrow more from China.
See how she feels about bake sales and lemonaide stands.... Ask her how she feels about Agenda 21....
Kelly Roney
12:02 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
Hi Rusty. You've been out in the rain too long, pal, and your iron is corroding.
Agenda 21! Did you think Dr. Strangelove was a documentary? Bringing up Agenda 21, as if it mattered at all, proves that you're extreme.
I guess you also missed the fact that Curt Schilling's company has failed to meet the commitments it made when it relocated to Rhode Island in exchange for sweetheart loans, not to mention failing to meet its payroll. Another win for Massachusetts. We didn't waste $75 million on Schilling's retirement business, even if we loved his work in his first career. I thought you hated picking winners and losers!
Massachusetts has greatly lower unemployment than the nation as a whole. Those red states where Teapublican economics prevails? They are doing worse, often much worse.
We have better schools, better health care, a better economy, better wages, lower crime, fewer social problems. OK, worse weather and roads that suffer from winter - can't have everything.
We here in Massachusetts, home of the TRUE Tea Party, not you johnny come latelies, are doing it right. I know, I grew up in Tennessee, where we were happy to be 47th. It's a lot better to be number 1 at home in the 8th Middlesex.
JKelley
10:01 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Dykema is for protecting illegal aliens who commit crimes. At the statehouse website, look up house no. 3400 roll call for her vote AGAINST Secure Communities.
Kelly Roney
11:05 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
Illegal aliens are already subject to Federal and state law. Check.
State and local police agencies already report arrests for serious crimes to the FBI, including fingerprints. Check.
The FBI already shares those records with ICE. Check.
ICE already prioritizes deportations for criminals. Check.
Deportations have increased dramatically since 2009. Check.
In 2011, nearly 36,000 aliens were deported for DUI. Check.
Your overwrought case against Carolyn? Checkmate.
MReed
11:11 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Dykema voted to allow people in jail to collect their pensions. This vote was 4.14/2009 roll call 72. I can find these, too. That’s her record ! Look it up.
Kelly Roney
2:43 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
You want the state to nullify a contract? Is that right?
Kelly Roney
4:37 pm on Monday, May 21, 2012
By the way, state employees who commit felonies in the course of their duties are prohibited by law from drawing a state pension, and they have been for twenty-plus years.