Opinion— If a Political Party has a Convention and Nobody Hears About it, Did it really happen?

You can be forgiven if you never heard about the Democratic Party state convention in Springfield on September 13.

After all, the major media, including the Boston Globe, did not deem it newsworthy when the party representing all Massachusetts members of Congress, the governor and the majority of our state legislature met to discuss the party platform.

But nevertheless, that convention did happen, and Massachusetts voters should have been informed.

Of course, the Democratic Party platform has rarely been publicized and few aspirants for public office are held accountable to it. That should change. If we are to have a meaningful “small-d” democracy, then the voters and the Democratic Party members should discuss and have a say in what the party stands for.

That wasn’t the intent of the