25 January 2011

The Boston City Council, Chuck Turner & The Race for District 7

taliawhyte WGBH chuck turner, cornell mills, haywood fennell, natalie carithers, Tito Jackson

By Talia Whyte

The first debate among the qualifying candidates to take over the seat left by ousted city councilor Chuck Turner took place Jan. 20 at the Roxbury YMCA. This is possibly the most watched city council race in recent history, where there were originally 16 candidates, but only six candidates who actually received the minimum number of signatures to be on the ballot were invited to the debate. Also in the debate were pro-life advocate Roy Owens and city employee Danielle Renee Williams. Perennial candidate Althea Garrison was also invited, but was a no-show.

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