I other day I commented that I believe we’d be better off doing away with the Governor’s Council and transferring their responsibilities to the MA House or Senate.  (Their primary responsibility is to approve/disapprove judicial nominations.)  That stated, the Council isn’t going away anytime soon.   The two candidates on the Democratic primary ballot are Charlie Shapiro and the incumbent, Marilyn Devaney.  I’ve had two face-to-face interactions with Ms. Devaney, one at a Democratic Town Committee meeting in 2012 and the other at the polls in 2012.   She didn’t make a favorable impression at the DTC meeting.  Her opponent (Shapiro again) was there and in her interactions with him she came across as pissed off to the point of being a bit paranoid.   Compared to my face-to-face interaction with her at the Bedford polling station a few months later though, that was nothing.  I was standing in the parking lot in front of the polling station holding a sign in support of a local candidate.  She came up to me (she was apparently making the rounds of polling stations in her district) and asked me who I voted for.  (?!?)  I demurred.   “You didn’t vote me, did you?”  Again, I demurred.  At which point she gave me what-for.   An elected official chewing out a constituent for not voting for them?   The most charitable thing I can call that is “unprofessional.”  An she’s not just any old elected official.  The Governor’s Council has veto power over judicial nominations.   Do I want someone with that temperament as my representative on the council?  Not just “No.” but “Hell, no!”  Vote Shapiro!

See Shapiro debating Devaney here.

(And then there’s this.)