Election on September 8

While the Big One — the election of our next President of the United States is in November — there is an important election next Thursday (note the different day for an election than the usual Tuesday), Sept. 8, with some interesting local contests for Suffolk County Sheriff and Suffolk County Register of Deeds.

Speaker of the House Robert A. DeLeo and State Sen. Joseph Boncore are on the ballot without opposition in the Democratic Primary. While the Sun-Transcript doesn’t endorse candidates, we can say without reservation that Bob DeLeo has done a tremendous job as our state representative. If you look around Winthrop, you can see how beautiful our town looks thanks to a large extent to Bob’s impact on that, not to mention his work in coordinating the tremendous $2.5 million in funding from Massport for the schools.

We also feel strongly that Joe Boncore was able to hit the ground running as our new state senator and he’s been an accessible official who will continue to work hard for Winthrop residents on Beacon Hill. Joseph won a tremendously exciting election earlier this year and it’s great to see Joe at all of the local events in his capacity as our state senator.