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by Gintautas Dumcius

POLITICAL INTEL

….It’s looking like a busy primary season for Senate President Karen Spilka’s political operation. A Spilka campaign adviser sent a fundraising email in November calling the reelection of West Roxbury Sen. Mike Rush her highest electoral priority. Rush is facing a challenger from his left, Persis Yu. That email was dated around Thanksgiving, and things have significantly escalated since then: Both Sens. William Brownsberger (Belmont with part of Boston) and Nick Collins (South Boston and Dorchester) are facing challengers Daniel Lander and Latoya Gayle, who have slammed the pair for blocking Mayor Michelle Wu’s property tax shift. Milton Sen. Bill Driscoll has also drawn a challenger: Mike Zullas, the town’s former select board chair who battled Driscoll in a 2016 race for state rep….