2019 Medford MA candidates

Excerpts of transcribed videos from the 2019 Medford MA candidates for Mayor, City Council, and School Committee.

City Council Candidates (map)
Excerpts	2018 Words	2019 Words	Campaign Socials	ORM endorsed?	Medford Happenings	Medford Bytes	GKM	Patch	MCM
Zac Bears	0	0
Natalie Breen	0	0						Link
Richard Caraviello*	9,414	0
Steven Collicelli	0	0
Anthony D'Antonio	0	0
Erin DiBenedetto	44,477	27,722
John Falco*	5,697	0						2011 Link
Adam Knight*	8,258	0
Ann Marie Cugno	493	0
Michael Marks*	23,129	0
Nicole Morell	0	0
Jean Nuzzo	1,538	0
George Scarpelli*	6,922	19
Curtis Tuden	259	534

City Council Prelim Candidates (map)
Excerpts	2018 Words	2019 Words	Campaign Socials	ORM endorsed?	Medford Happenings	Medford Bytes	GKM	Patch	MCM
Zac Bears	0	0
Natalie Breen	0	0						Link
Richard Caraviello*	9,414	0
Andrew Castagnetti	1,488	0
Steven Collicelli	0	0
Anthony D'Antonio	0	0
Erin DiBenedetto	44,477	27,722
John Falco*	5,697	0						2011 Link
Adam Knight*	8,258	0
Ann Marie Cugno	493	0
Michael Marks*	23,129	0
Nicole Morell	0	0
Jean Nuzzo	1,538	0
George Scarpelli*	6,922	19
Curtis Tuden	259	534

School Committee Candidates (map)
Excerpts	2018 Words	2019 Words	Campaign Socials	ORM endorsed?	Medford Happenings	Medford Bytes	GKM	Patch	MCM
Jenny Graham*	5,093	1,722
John Intoppa	0	169
Kathy Kreatz*	14,894	9,640
Melanie McLaughlin*	6,139	6,391				Transcript
Mea Quinn Mustone*	11,123	3,888
Cheryl Rodriguez	8,423	1,550
Michael Ruggiero*	21,897	13,685
Paul Ruseau*	21,024	14,969		Yes
Robert Skerry	302	0
Paulette Van der Kloot*	24,364	16,477

Mayoral Candidates (map)
Excerpts	2018 Words	2019 Words	Campaign Socials	ORM endorsed?	Medford Happenings	Medford Bytes	GKM	Patch	MCM
Breanna Lungo-Koehn	10,330	0
Stephanie Muccini Burke*	41,982	33,607

*=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).