If I were Jarred Barrios, I’d be worried… Steve Grossman hasn’t backed a winner in a while.
In all seriousness, the Globe has an overview of the Middlesex DA race, and Andy, Lynne and sco have their rundowns (from when Mike Festa was still in the running). I’ve refrained til now from saying much about the race because I don’t live in Middlesex county. I will say I can’t shake the feeling that Barrios’s policy-not-enforcement angle represents something I saw in Boston city council races: an impatience among some progressive voters for unsexy issues like trash collection and prosecution and a corresponding tendency to treat everything as a legislative issue. Barrios may well be end up articulating several valid "roots of crime" positions or may convince voters that he’s the best candidate, but I’ve not heard him say convincingly why "smart on crime" public policy doesn’t belong where crime policy usually resides, in the legislature and, secondarily, the executive office.
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