So I was trying to think of other ways to analyze the races for Governor and LG and came up with this: let's see which candidates have multiple languages on their websites.
I was sorely disappointed.
Only Deval Patrick and Andrea Silbert have a link to click on to read about them in other languages. Deval has pages in Spanish, French and Portugese. Andrea has an intro page in Spanish and a Spanish bio page as well. I've heard that she knows Portugese too, so I don't know why she doesn't have a page for that community as well.
Kudos to Deval and Andrea and I hope that the others get hopping. You'd think they'd want to be able to appeal to that diverse crowd of voters whose first language may not be English.
Shame also on the MassDem party. Its website does not contain any Spanish, nor does the new Victory06 website. Come on folks, let's truly be the party of ALL people. The MassGOP website has no Spanish, nor does Healey's. This is an opportunity for us, and given the fluff that the press has been writing about, this seems to be perfect fodder for those reporters who are too lazy to delve into actual substantive issues. (Yes, I'm also too lazy for substance, but hey, my job isn't to write for a newspaper; it's to post blog comments all day.)
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Oh, please. Every other candidate "gets it." Not everything has to be translated for people. If they can't read the other candidate's websites,they can learn English.
That's ridiculous the language of America is English and for a website to be anything else would be bias. If it was only in Spanish what would Italians and Africans do, and how would they feel, my guess a little left out.
Maybe it is not about just getting it but doing something about it... at least we know these two candidates can think outside the rather small box that some in our state prefer to live in.
I can tell you that Tim Murray's campaign is currently busy translating his website in both Spanish and several others languages. the translations should be up in the next few weeks. It has become clear that not all voters are fluent in english and it's important they can read about the candidates before they vote.
If they want to learn about the candidates and vote, they should learn English.
maybe you are voting with the wrong party....
It's always interesting to see which topics result in a flurry of "anonymous" comments.
it's called entertainment...
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