{"id":9184,"date":"2024-11-05T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:36:52","slug":"today-vote-onoroski-for-state-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/05\/today-vote-onoroski-for-state-representative\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Vote Onoroski for State Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Election Day has arrived! Polls opened at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. As long as you are in line by 8 p.m., today, you can vote. If you have a mail-in ballot, your best choice is to drop it off in your municipality&#8217;s election boxes or at your town clerk\/city election department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For voters in the 17th Middlesex district, vote for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onoroski.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pirate Joseph Onoroski for State Representative<\/a>.&nbsp;Joe will be at the Reilly School, 115 Douglas Road, Lowell for most of the day, but not noon to 3pm. Come by to meet Joe and show your support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to everyone who voted in our ballot question poll. Based on those results,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/October_17th,_2024_Meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we endorsed all five ballot questions<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Question 1 \u2013 Authorize the state auditor to audit the state legislature;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 2 \u2013 Repeal MCAS requirement for graduation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 3 \u2013 Provide for unionizing and collective bargaining for transportation network drivers;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 4 \u2013 Regulate access to psychedelic substances;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 5 \u2013 Eliminate the subminimum wage for tipped employees by 2029.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about the ballot questions at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/divisions\/elections\/publications\/information-for-voters-24\/cover_2024.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Secretary of State&#8217;s Information for Voters Guide<\/a>\u00a0and at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Massachusetts_2024_ballot_measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BallotPedia<\/a>. The Information for Voters Guide was already mailed and is available in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/divisions\/elections\/research-and-statistics\/info-for-voters-2024.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">different formats and languages<\/a>. We went over the ballot questions in a recent Pirate News:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-g1Ohk0_f4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about why Joe is running:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgfr-DSsWu4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Day has arrived! Polls opened at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. As long as you are in line by 8&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":8960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,43,32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-help-needed","category-slider","category-out-and-about"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/JoeOnoroskiOnTheBallot.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2o8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9188,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}