David E. Sullivan

David E. Sullivan

@dsulliva2.bsky.social

Dem voting rights lawyer/organizer; former MA & Cambridge govt, still working for housing, tax, and immigrant justice; striving husband, dad, grandpa, friend, doggy’s human, Catholic social democrat, boomer, slow runner and cyclist, citizen

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David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social

For people who just want to reform politics, those private equity oligarchs are awfully reluctant to talk www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/m...

bostonglobe.comWhy is the investment world financing a Mass. ballot question to eliminate partisan primaries? - The Boston GlobeA wave of wealthy individuals with ties to various investment, private equity, and venture capital firms has put millions of dollars behind a ballot question to scrap the state's party primaries.
David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social

Proportional representation is the best answer now. I'm biased, because a version of it elected me 5 times to the Cambridge City Council. But I can attest that it works!

Ruth Greenwood@ruthgreenwood.bsky.social

I've spent my career fighting gerrymandering through litigation, advocacy, and public education. I even lost huge in the Supreme Court. After Callais, I'm convinced the tools are nearly gone. The problem is structural. My case for proportional representation, in @GlobeOpinion: protdem.org/45XQYuL

protdem.orgGerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules. - The Boston GlobeThe Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.

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Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Senate Republicans failed to pass a truncated version of the SAVE America Act before going into recess early Saturday morning. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comVoters spared as Senate recesses without passing SAVE America Act’s voter ID measureThe failed bill, which required a narrow set of photo IDs for voter eligibility, could have prevented millions of people from voting in November’s midterms.

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No on 3
@voterrightsma.bsky.social

Question 3 wants to turn our primary elections into a contest over who has the biggest bankroll, not the most grassroots support. Voting NO will protect the first-time, working-class, and candidates of color that are more likely to get locked out due to fear of being a spoiler.

David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social

Get excited, but not complacent -- we can do this if we keep working hard!

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

Dems strongly favored to take the House in our new election forecast. Senate just better than a tossup: Iowa: 41% Dem Texas: 48 Alaska: 51 Ohio: 53 Maine: 68 Michigan: 69 North Carolina: 84 Georgia: 94 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

gelliottmorris.comDemocrats strongly favored to take the House, Senate tilts Democratic in our new election forecast (crosspost)Our brand-new election forecast for the 2026 congressional midterms puts Democrats at above even odds to take control of both chambers
David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social

Saying the quiet part out loud!

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "The game tonight's going to be amazing. We're going to have a full team and Belgium is going to have a full team…If they beat us, we'll say it was — I say it was rigged just like the election was rigged in 2020."

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Rep. Jim McGovern
@repmcgovern.bsky.social

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social

This great, important decision today stops (unless an appeal succeeds) Trump's awful inaccurate national database, which many red states use to purge their voter rolls of alleged non-citizens. Good news for voting rights!

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social

#ELB: Federal Court Blocks Trump-Modified “SAVE” Database Being Misused to Purge Voters from State Voter Roles https://electionlawblog.org/?p=156844

David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social

Celebrating #juneteenth by reveling in the (wonderful) winners and (awful) losers from yesterday's great court decision kicking the dangerous and regressive income tax off the #MApoli ballot www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/19/n...

bostonglobe.com‘I’m a loser.’ Who won, who lost, in SJC’s stunning income tax decision. - The Boston GlobeThe Supreme Judicial Court's decision to reject an income tax cut heading for November's ballot will please progressive groups and state lawmakers, frustrate some business groups.
David E. Sullivan
@dsulliva2.bsky.social

Really ugly racism

Matthew Segal@segalmr.bsky.social

So: *Exoneree Calvin Duncan won an election for clerk of criminal court in Orleans Parish. *The state legislature, AFTER seeing the election results, enacted a law eliminating the position. *The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now upheld that law. cases.justia.com/louisiana/su...