2015 Medford MA candidates

Excerpts of transcribed videos from the 2015 Medford MA candidates for Mayor, City Council, and School Committee.

City Council Candidates (map)
Excerpts
 2014 Words 2015 Words
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Richard Caraviello*
9,822
38,412
Mark Crowley
0
0
Link
Christopher D'Aveta
0
413
Fred Dello Russo*
4,293
99,046
Leonore Eforo
0
0
John Falco
0
4,839
2011 Link
Adam Knight*
17,243
79,906
Breanna Lungo-Koehn*
12,070
56,525
Michael Marks*
28,929
91,563
Neal McSweeney
0
0
William O'Keefe
0
0
Neil Osborne
0
0
Michael Ruggiero
0
9,307
George Scarpelli
0
4,204

City Council Prelim Candidates (map)
Excerpts
 2014 Words 2015 Words
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Richard Caraviello*
9,822
38,412
Brian Chamberlain
0
0
Mark Crowley
0
0
Link
Christopher D'Aveta
0
413
Fred Dello Russo*
4,293
99,046
Leonore Eforo
0
0
John Falco
0
4,839
2011 Link
Adam Knight*
17,243
79,906
Breanna Lungo-Koehn*
12,070
56,525
Michael Marks*
28,929
91,563
Mario Martin
0
1,881
Neal McSweeney
0
0
William O'Keefe
0
0
Neil Osborne
0
0
Michael Ruggiero
0
9,307
George Scarpelli
0
4,204

School Committee Candidates (map)
Excerpts
 2014 Words 2015 Words
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John Amirault
0
0
Erin DiBenedetto*
0
11,212
Kathy Kreatz
0
0
Ann Marie Cugno*
0
9,070
David McKillop
0
371
Chris Murphy
0
299
Mea Quinn Mustone
0
87
Robert Skerry*
0
2,390
Paulette Van der Kloot*
0
4,349
Jane Wright
0
0

Mayoral Candidates (map)
Excerpts
 2014 Words 2015 Words
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Stephanie Muccini Burke
3,835
1,246
Robert Penta
57,372
197,729

*=Incumbent

These links go to a dedicated page for each candidate containing a compilation of all their excerpts extracted from the transcribed videos and include timestamped links to the original source video. Similar pages exist for candidates and a handful of important public employees here. Word counts for each candidate are also included, intended as a very rough proxy for who's active. A challenger having few appearances/words in these excerpts doesn't necessarily say much about them. Many successful candidates in the past did not appear in any videos prior to their election.

A great use of these pages is to use your browser's search function to find where candidates mention topics that are important to you, then you can watch the corresponding video in its full context.

One may also wish to upload these pages to ChatGPT then ask for help synthesizing the results more globally. However, be warned it heavily weights the beginning of the file (the most recent excerpts), and will happily fill in missing information with convincing -- but totally ficticious -- misinformation. It's significantly better when asked to compare two things ("rank the candidates on XX"), but in general, treat the results from ChatGPT as a you would something written by a mid-level high school student.

The videos are transcriptions of (nearly) all videos at the YouTube channels listed here, which are predominantly city council and school committee meetings, but also include campaign channels, news sources, and other channels dedicated to local politics, including partisans on both sides (I can only include YouTube channels, but if I'm missing any, please let me know).