Senate candidate Moulton makes campaign stops in Moody Street bar crawl 

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton swung by Moody Street bars Tempo and Joco’s Bar & Kitchen on Friday as part of a campaign bar crawl.

Moulton, who represents the Massachusetts 6th Congressional District, used the stops to promote his campaign to unseat longtime Senator Ed Markey in the Sept. 1 Democratic primary.

While bar crawls are not his most common outreach tactic,this was not the first one Moulton’s done on the campaign trail. Moulton said it’s important for him to be accessible and visible to constituents, although he admitted he doesn’t get many tough policy questions during a bar crawl. He said the most common question he gets is “Are you Seth Moulton?”

“Sometimes people come up with a lot of policy questions, but tonight… there were a couple of guys who said, ‘Tell me why I should care?’,” Moulton said. “And that’s a question that I think a lot of people are privately asking. Because people are so frustrated with politics.”

Moulton emphasized his record of holding community town halls, which he committed to continuing. “If I win this race for the Senate, I will hold more town halls than any other Democrat in the House or the Senate … in my first year,” he said.

Most bargoers approached by the Waltham Times declined to comment on the event because they said they didn’t feel strongly about the race or weren’t familiar enough with Moulton’s candidacy. 

After speaking with Moulton’s supporters, one bar patron, Newton resident John Walker, said he was convinced to support his senate bid. Walker said he supported Moulton because he was also a veteran and was convinced Moulton would avoid sending troops into conflict without cause.