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Does MA have a white supremacy problem? Depends which Brockton state rep hopeful you ask. Chris Helms The Enterprise  Published Aug 28, 2022  Brockton NAACP presents MA State Representative 11th Plymouth District Debate Night 8-25-22 BROCKTON – Candidates for the city's new majority-minority State House district took questions on race, rent and revitalization in a debate hosted by the Brockton Area Branch NAACP. Three people hope to represent the 11th Plymouth District: Democrats Shirley Asack and Rita Mendes, plus Fred Fontaine, who is running as an independent on a sticker campaign after missing an election filing deadline. Asack and Mendes both serve on the City Council, with Asack the longtime representative of Ward 7 and Mendes the top vote-getter among at-large candidates. Questions from panelists Patricia Jackson and Courtney Henderson laid bare some differences among the candidates at the forum on Thu...

Three Democrats trade barbs, aiming to unseat Hodgson as Bristol County sheriff Frank Mulligan Standard-Times Published Aug 25, 2022 NEW BEDFORD — Three Democrats are vying for the opportunity to unseat Republican  Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson  — who has held the post since 1997 — in the Nov. 8 general election. Facing off in the Sept. 6 primary are Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux, 45;  former Somerset Police Chief George McNeil , 58; and  Fall River-based attorney Nick Bernier,  37. While the three candidates agreed not to go negative against each other during the primary campaign while at a WBSM debate on Aug. 17, Bernier and McNeil say a Heroux mailer sent to Bristol County residents Aug. 18 broke that agreement.  They issued a joint statement Aug. 18: "On Wednesday night something unusual happened. Three Democrats running for the same position seemed united with a common goal which was to have one of them replace 25-year incumbent Tom Hodgson as Sheriff of Bri...