Overview
- Tuesday’s election will fill the Roxbury-centered seat vacated after Tania Fernandes Anderson’s conviction as voters weigh concerns over Mass. and Cass and the White Stadium project.
- A recount set the final matchup between Rev. Miniard Culpepper and Said “Coach” Ahmed after a razor-thin preliminary in which Ahmed led by 58 votes.
- Culpepper has backing from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, Representative Ayanna Pressley, Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden, the Boston Teachers Union, and The Boston Globe, and on Saturday the Boston Herald editorial board also endorsed him.
- State campaign filings show Culpepper with $33,000 in cash on hand versus nearly $16,000 for Ahmed.
- Both candidates support rent control elements, tenant-to-ownership efforts and an elected school committee, though they diverge on safe injection sites, and many former rivals report low enthusiasm as residents call for restored integrity in the office.