2010 Campaigns
This is the home page for Matthew J. Fraser's
run for the Massachusetts State Senate. For those
interested in progress, you can check out the
ideas here. The campaign site, is at
www.massstatesenate.wordpress.com The district is
Massachusetts Second Essex, which includes the
communities of Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers and
Topsfield where I'm running as an Independent.
Language
Abilities Apart from extensive knowledge of
politics and policy, especially in education, the
most valuable skills I bring to the table are my
language abilities. In descending order,
from languages I'm completely fluent in to those that I
can hold a simple conversation in are; German, Swedish,
Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish,
Czech, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Icelandic, Chinese and
Japanese. I was an
immigrant in Germany for three years, dealing
with poverty, poor language skills and inconsistent work
permit policies. I managed to build a great life, but I can
identify with some aspects of the immigrant experience
here.
Second
Essex Races Every political race is an opportunity
for the people to win, whether through new ideas or
better uses of old ones. And, the more candidates get
outside themselves and do so, the more the people win.
Some candidates on the ballot for our district are
below. Please Excuse Missing Candidates;
we'll get the complete list here soon.
Bill Hudak vs. John Tierney
Ted
Speliotis vs. Dan Bennett
Brett Schetzsle vs.
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