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Berkshire District Attorney Paul Caccaviello Launches Write-In Campaign

Berkshire District Attorney Paul Caccaviello.
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Berkshire District Attorney Paul Caccaviello.

Berkshire District Attorney Paul Caccaviello has announced he's running as a write-in candidate in the November election.

Caccaviello lost the Democratic primary this month by three percentage points to attorney Andrea Harrington.

Caccaviello said many constituents asked him to get back into the race.

“They, for whatever reason, did not vote,” Cacacviello said. “Whether they were not eligible because it was a Democratic primary; because they are Republicans; didn’t realize that it was voting day because the holiday was there -- just really urging me to please continue the campaign, so they have an opportunity to weigh in.”

As a write-in candidate, Caccaviello said his campaign will work to educate voters about what to write in -- and how to spell his five-syllable last name.

“Listen, I learned how to spell my name when I was eight or ten,” he quipped. “Hopefully, I can convey some of that to the voters electorate. I understand it is a challenge.”

Andrea Harrington could not be reached for comment.

There is no Republican candidate on the ballot.

Nancy Eve Cohen is a former NEPM senior reporter whose investigative reporting has been recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for Hard News, along with awards for features and spot news from the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA), American Women in Radio & Television and the Society of Professional Journalists.

She has reported on repatriation to Native nations, criminal justice for survivors of child sexual abuse, linguistic and digital barriers to employment, fatal police shootings and efforts to address climate change and protect the environment. She has done extensive reporting on the EPA's Superfund cleanup of the Housatonic River.

Previously, she served as an editor at NPR in Washington D.C., as well as the managing editor of the Northeast Environmental Hub, a collaboration of public radio stations in New York and New England.

Before working in radio, she produced environmental public television documentaries. As part of a camera crew, she also recorded sound for network television news with assignments in Russia, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba and in Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia.
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