Agenda

Candidate Bios





			1 st Worcester Nate Kaplan Hubbardston Democratic Town Committee Chairman 2005 & 2006 Massachusetts Democratic State Convention Elected Delegate for Representation of the Town of Hubbardston * Massachusetts Trial Courts* Serving the Commonwealth as an Officer of Probation at both Worcester County , and Boston Juvenile Court * Massachusetts State Senate* Served Worcester , Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin Counties as Full-time Legislative Aide and Constituent Services Representative to State Senator Stephen Brewer * University of Colorado ( Boulder )* Graduated in the Class of 2003 with a B.A. in Political Science * Quabbin Regional High School * Graduated Class of 1999

			3rd Worcester John DiNatale • United States Navy Veteran, having serving from 1970 to 1974 • Graduate of Fitchburg State College 1979, major in Sociology • Nine years as Senior Human Resources Representative for Wang Laboratories, Lowell, MA • Twelve years as a Correctional Program Officer for the Mass Department of Corrections • Former Director of Training & Community Services for the Mass Sex Offender Registry Board • Currently employed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health as a Forensic Mental Health Supervisor • Former PTO President of Memorial Middle School 1994 to 1997 • Fitchburg School Committee member 1999 to 2003 • Currently serving as the city council vice president, chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee and member of the Public Safety and Public Works committees • Former President of the Fitchburg Sons of Italy • Member of the St. Joseph’s Club and the Knights of Columbus • Adjutant and member of VFW Post 79

			6 th Worcester Geraldo Alicea

			8 th Worcester Paul Kujawski



			10th Worcester John Fernandes Academic History • Milford High School, 1970 • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1974, Cum Laude • Suffolk Law School, 1982, Cum Laude Professional History • Local attorney in private practice for 24 years Public Service – Community Involvement • Milford Board of Selectmen, 3 years • School Committee for the Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, 7 years • Milford School Committee, 9 years • Milford School Building Committee, 2 years • Milford Long Range Educational Planning Committee • Milford Ad Hoc Duplex By-law Committee • Youth baseball and basketball coach, 12 years • Mayor of the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Association, 2002 • Milford Rotary Club (Paul Harris Fellow), 10 years • Chamber of Commerce, 24 years Family • Son of Serafin and Eva (Pomponio) Fernandes (deceased) • Brother of Anthony Fernandes (deceased) • Married to Jennifer A. DiMola • Father of Michael (16) and Elizabeth (14) Fernandes

			16 th Worcester John Fresolo Representative John P. Fresolo is a lifelong resident of the 16th Worcester District and an active member of his church and many civic organizations. He was born and raised in the Vernon Hill section of Worcester and currently resides within the Grafton Hill neighborhood. John P. Fresolo is the State Representative for the 16th Worcester District. John has two daughters, Francesca who is 13 years old, and Maria who is 12 years old. John is 41 years old and has lived in Worcester his entire life. John is currently serving his fourth term in the House of Representatives. Fresolo serves as a member of the Worcester Democratic City Committee (Ward 5), and has been active in numerous local and state elections. In his fourth term, State Representative Fresolo currently serves on the Joint Committee on Housing, the Joint Committe on Public Service, and the House Committee on Personnel and Administration. As the father of two children in the Worcester public school system, Representative Fresolo has fought for education funding reform and affordable childcare. Rep. Fresolo and his colleagues in the House were able to secure an additional $6.5 million for a total of $167.5 million in Chapter 70 funding for Worcester Public Schools in the FY07 Budget and continues to fight for reform in underperforming schools. Fresolo has also been active in addressing the public safety needs of the citizens of the 16th Worcester District. Fresolo successfully secured nearly $800,000 over the last eight years in additional community police funds for the Union Hill, Vernon Hill, Grafton Hill, Quinsigamond Village and Green Island neighborhoods of Worcester . This continued funding has and will continue to address the growing problem of illegal drug use, violent crime, and gang formation. Realizing that much of his district is made up of hard working, mostly blue collar families, Rep. Fresolo has been instrumental in acquiring state and grant funding to allow for low and moderate income housing. Within Rep. Fresolo's last term, he secured funding for the Hadley Building Project, which will bring 40 affordable housing units to the former David Burwick Furniture Building . The sources of funding included $630,000.00 from the Federal Low Income Tax Housing Credit, and $550,000.00 from the Department of Housing and Community Development's Housing Stabilization Fund. A 35 unit affordable senior housing complex being constructed by The Church of Ascension due to the $4.23 million, Rep. Fresolo secured. He has also worked with the South Worcester Neighborhood Improvement Corporation to renovate and rehab abandoned and blighted buildings in the South Worcester area including affordable housing at the corner of Cambridge and Hacker Streets. Rep. Fresolo was instrumental in securing state funds of $100,000 for the construction of the Central Massachusetts ? Korean War Memorial in Worcester . Rep. Fresolo has also passed legislation to name the new Rt. 146/Massachusetts Turnpike Interchange as the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Memorial Highway . Rep. Fresolo is a former co-chair of the Central Massachusetts Legislative Caucus. He is also serving as the co-chair of the Route 146 Citizen Advisory Committee. This Committee is in charge of monitoring the Route 146/ Massachusetts Turnpike project, which is the 3rd largest construction project in the state. Rep. Fresolo has worked diligently to make the $300 million Rt. 146 Massachusetts Turnpike Project a reality for Central MA commuters. The project includes over $160 million dedicated solely to Worcester ; with the development and renovation of Hurley and Brosnihan Squares in Worcester , and that securing land takings and funding to widen the intersection of Cambridge and Southbridge Streets for dedicated right and left turn lanes. Recently, Fresolo has secured the $1.6 million state contribution to the new Blackstone Gateway Visitors' Center. Fresolo is also an active member of many civic organizations, including the Grafton Hill Neighborhood Association, Grafton Hill Business Association, Canal District CDC (formerly Green Island/Vernon Hill C.D.C.), Oak Hill CDC, College Hill Civic Association, Sons of Italy Lodge #168, East Side Improvement Club, Emerald Club, Worcester Elks Lodge #243, Vernon Hill American Legion Post 435, Polish Naturalization Independent (PNI) Club - Associate Member , Friends of Hope Cemetery, and the Brown Square Civic Club. Fresolo is also active in his parish of Ascension Church , where he serves as Cantor and Finance Committee Chairman.

			County Offices Berkshire District Attorney David Capeless

			Bristol County Commissioner Maria Lopes

			Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter http://www.tellsamsutter.com/about.htm Sam Sutter is a former Bristol County prosecutor and a past recipient of the Prosecutor of the Year award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Originally from Connecticut, Sam went to college at nearby Brown University, graduating in 1976. After college, he spent several years coaching and playing tennis professionally in different parts of the world. He returned to the United States to go to law school at Vanderbilt University where he graduated in 1983. He then practiced law for seven years on Cape Cod before joining the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office in 1991. The following year, he was recognized by the local chapter of MADD as Prosecutor of the Year for his outstanding work prosecuting drunk driving cases. He was also featured that same year in MADDVOCATE, the national magazine of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, as one of America’s outstanding prosecutors. In 1994, he was named supervisor of the prosecutors at Attleboro District Court and, in 1995, was promoted to Superior Court. There he successfully prosecuted approximately one hundred major felony cases. He also won guilty verdicts in eighty-five (85) percent of his trials. And, during his four years in Superior Court, he regularly represented the District Attorney’s Office at local school programs, senior citizen centers, police training sessions and continuing legal education seminars. In 1999, he left the District Attorney’s Office and reentered private practice. Over the past seven years, he has directed his own law practice and was recently described in the Fall River Herald as one of this area’s prominent attorneys. From 2000 to 2002, he hosted the popular radio program “Let’s Talk Law” on WBSM in New Bedford. His office is located at 203 Plymouth Avenue in Fall River, in the same building as the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Sam is the former Chairman of the Board of Project COACH, an organization which provided community service and treatment opportunities for individuals placed on probation by the Juvenile and District Courts. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Bristol County chapter of MADD, and the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, a division of the New Bedford chapter of the United Way. He is presently on the Planning Committee for “Journey Through Our Village”, an annual event which raises money to send local inner city children to summer camp. He has been a volunteer for both literacy training and reading to school children. He has also volunteered as a coach and referee for youth basketball. For the past seven summers, he has spent his Saturday mornings giving free tennis clinics to Fall River youths between the ages of six and sixteen. Last year, the Durfee High School tennis team enjoyed one of its best seasons ever and two of the top three players learned how to play in Sam’s free clinics. At Bishop Connolly High School, in Fall River, three of the top four tennis players also learned how to play in Sam’s free clinics. In recognition of his efforts, the Fall River Herald named him one of its “Coaches who Make a Difference” for 2005. Sam is married and has three children: Cliff, 15; Alex, 15; and, Ava 2 ½. His wife is the former Dorothy Feliz, who was born in St. Michael, Portugal and grew up in Fall River and Westport. The Sutters reside in Fall River.

			State Sen. - 1 st Worcester Harriette Chandler http://www.chandlerforsenate.com/bio.shtml Senator Harriette L. Chandler (D-Worcester) was first elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in November of 2000 and was sworn into office on January 3, 2001 . She was re-elected to the State Senate in November of 2002. She serves as Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Housing and Urban Development. The Joint Committee on Housing and Urban Development is responsible for all matters concerning housing and urban renewal, subdivision control, condominium laws, the Metropolitan District Commission and other matters as may be referred. Senator Chandler also serves as Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee Transportation, and as a member of the Senate Ways & Means Committee, the Senate Committee on Long Term Debt, the Joint Committee on Health Care, the Joint Committee on Public Safety, and the Joint Committee on Energy. The first woman from Worcester ever to be elected to the Massachusetts State Senate, she served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995-2001. In her last two terms in the House she served as House Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care. She also served on the Worcester School Committee from 1991-1994. Senator Chandler earned degrees from Wellesley College (B.A.), Clark University (Ph.D.) and the Simmons College Graduate School of Management (M.B.A.). She is married to Worcester attorney Burton Chandler and has three grown children. Senator Chandler is a member of the Central Massachusetts Caucus, the Massachusetts Legislature.s Tobacco Control Caucus, the Worcester Economic Development Council, the City Task Force on Crisis Management, the Mayor.s Advisory Committee on At-Risk Youth, the United Way of Central Massachusetts , the Worcester Women.s History Project, the Worcester Democratic City Committee and the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee.

			Essex Northern Register of Deeds Robert Kelly Franklin Clerk of Courts Eve Blakeslee Hampden Clerk of Courts James Goodhines Hampden Register of Deeds Donald Ashe Middlesex Clerk of Courts Michael Sullivan Plymouth Clerk of Courts Francis Powers Plymouth Country Commissioner Timothy McMullen Suffolk Clerk of Supreme Judicial Clerk Maura Doyle Suffolk Criminal Clerk of Courts Maura Hennigan Suffolk Register of Deeds Mickey Roache Worcester (Middle) District Attorney Joseph Early Worcester Northern Register of Deeds Kathleen Daigneault