Connaughton, for the roughly 99% of you who have never heard of her, is the Republican candidate for auditor this year. She normally doesn't spell out her middle name, but makes an exception in the North End.
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Mike Ball reports on a forum yesterday involving state auditor candidates Suzanne Bump and Mike Lake, sponsored by the Young Democrats of Massachusetts. Glodis had originally said he'd appear, then backed out at the last minute claiming trouble at the Worcester County jail he runs, only there wasn't any trouble, just a chance to appear at a union rally he felt would get him more bang for his buck, Ball writes.
Blue Mass. Group dials the Wayback Machine to 2003 when Guy Glodis was a state senator and felt compelled to forward a story about how the US dealt with insurgents in the Philippines in the early 1900s - or rather, an online legend about something that never happened.
Scratch Earle Stroll from your list of candidates for auditor; Globe says the state is investigating why signatures on his nomination petitions look so much like his own John Hancock. His departure leaves former turnpike board member Mary Connaughton and former Libertarian Kamal Jain on the Republican side.