Edward M. Kennedy Jr. is giving serious consideration to running for the US Senate seat that John F. Kerry will vacate if he is confirmed as secretary of state, according to his brother, former US representative Patrick Kennedy.
The former Rhode Island congressman said that leading Democrats, including Senator Charles Schumer of New York, have asked his brother to look at launching a campaign to replace Kerry and hold the seat for Democrats.
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Rhode Island ? Connecticut ? Residents south of us have enough smarts not to elect a Kennedy . So the carpetbaggers move north! God help the USA.
Heads up, moose. Patrick Kennedy was a Congressman from Rhode Island from 1994 to 2010, when he declined to seek re-election. Who's lacking in smarts now?
As a democrat and a Warren supporter, I will not be voting for a Kennedy. It is time for this family to stop believing that the name alone gives them special powers and an ability to govern. Stay in Conn.
Keep an open mind and vote based on policy.
I don't mean to be insulting, but voting for or against someone because of their last name is pretty silly. I think it would be best to vote based on the candidate's policies and how much they can be trusted to represent this state well.
It seems that many Massachusetts voters have come to trust members of the Kennedy family to do a decent job. That trust may last until a Kennedy turns out to be a disappointment.
There's a difference, by the way, in believing that your name gives special powers and abilities, or in believing it's a family duty to serve your fellow citizens. You assumption of evil intent is unlikely to be true. There have been many families in American history who felt that responsibility. I'm not a Republican, but it's apparent to me that the Bush family is one of those.
This article and the one yesterday on the scramble for the senate seat illustrate how the Globe and other media, perhaps unconsciously, tilt the election's playing field unfairly. One leaves reading these pieces with the impression that the three congressional candidates are unqualified because they lack charisma. Not a word about experience. Meanwhile, Ted Jr looks and sounds like his father. Wow. Come on, Globe. You can do better.
Unconsciously? I have to disagree. The Globe blindly worships the Kennedy name and will put any Kennedy announcement on the front page - generating millions in unpaid positive publicity.
Now, now... Numeral is giving his age away, forgetting that the Glob has not always been a Kennedy family flack sheet. There was a time when a Pulitzer Prize came to Boston on the strength of the treatment by the Boston Globe of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Senior and his treatment of a judge named Troy. Something or other about a beach in Dorchester involved too.
governor Patrick should just give him the seat, think of the money the state could save. He will either move here or claim a family residence as his own, no problem. He will win by 90%.
That's what I was going to say. Why bother with an election? He may or may not be qualififed, I don't know, and it doesn't matter so why pretend?
Respect the voters. Why do you think you're so superior to everyone else. Mass has the best educated electorate in the nation. Try not to be so arrogant.
If he's anything like his father in terms of political philosophy I'd vote for him. Although I'd vote for Krusty the Clown before I'd vote for Scotty the Brown.
Public Office is not something to take lightly, I admire him for willing to do it if he chooses. We need more like him, I hope he runs and I am sure that he would win.
We don't need a senator who lives in Connecticut. Also I think we have to move on from the Kennedys there are plenty of other people in this state qualified to do the job.
So the hackdon known as the Democratic Party - or at least some of its hacks like that Schumer guy from New York - have decided to annoint the Kennedy clan as the equivalent of the Hupsburgers, with the Shiekdom of Taxawhoshetts as the Vienna of North America and an auslander named Teddy Kennedy, Jr. as the crown-wearer-in-waiting. Well I am fit to be drawn up on the beach like a holed dinghy!!! What about the faithful local hacks deemed sufficient by the Shiekdom voter majority to be sent off - nist expenses paid to the U.S. Congress for on the job training as solonitics, learning to stave off Republicans and vote enmasse for what one former ranking congresser known as O'Neill 'politics is localized'. Now we have a Marky and a Capuaet, and a female maybe named Tsongas, all rumored as dithering over whether any one of them believes him/herself to be electable to defeat a Kennedy Junior and the House of Hupsburger in a marathon for the Upscale Palace on the Annacostia, known colloquially as the United States Senate. After all, the Shiekdom voter majority just gave a used to e Harvud College Law School professor affectionally known as Granny Warren a deduction in her take-home pay so she could go raise havoc in the U.S. Senate, at least in the parts that deal with bankruptcies. Granny was one of that unpopular class of Americans known as millionaires and billionaires, yet she was a peddler good enough to sell the idea of herself defending the lower dogs of society enough to garner sufficient votes for yet a second lifetime career. Now, along may be coming another never before elected to anything hack from another state, who may pay real estate taxes to the Town of Barnstable, Taxawhoshetts for the house he owns. And this Teddy Kennedy Junior is apparently thinking that his name is enough reason for 50% or more of the gullible Taxawhoshetts electorate to take pity on him and send him off to that Upscale Palace on the Annacostia for the rest of his life. There's a report that he runs some sort of financial firm in New York, but lives in the great state of Connecticut. But don't forget, he had an uncle that got elected to the Upscale Palace on the Annicostia from New York, even though he lived in Virginia. So in keeping with such precedent, this foregoer of a Hahvud education (he went to Yale, of all places), may be being shoved into assuming that Taxawhoshetts has no suitable persons to seek election to that Upscale Palace, and that his family's Hupsburger-like heritage is more than enough for him to pledge himself as a candidate and then not do as much work as his cousin, Joe Kennedy, III just did to leap from Boston's western and southwestern burbes into Barney Frank's seat in the U.S. Congress, since Barney has recently married and may still be enjoying his honeymoon. So there you have it, an out-of-state rug merchant fearful of seeking a seat in the Upscale Palace on the Annicostia in Connecticut perhaps being persuaded that Taxawhoshetts has enough suckers on the Democratic Party lemming line to pretty much assure he will get more than enough votes to give up his financial company to take over the second sea in the Upscale Palace after a (how did it ever happen??) Republican occupied the Kennedy seat for nearly two years. And don't those serfs there in Taxawhoshetts dare forget - it is a KENNEDY SEAT and not a People's seat, as the Republican labelled it.
You must be from the backwoods someplace. I sincerely hope nobody from Massachusetts could make such stupid and ignorant statements.
You think you're a genius, of course, which proves exactly the opposite.
Ahhh . . . it is in the Laddie's blood_is it? The so-called political gene for 'power.'
Like the 'womanizing' and excessive lure to over_indulging?
Ted Kennedy did a great job distorting the recently deceased Robert Bork's record beyond recognition, with no proof whatsoever on the Senate floor so thast he would not be confirmed for the Supreme Court. Even the Globe has admitted this.
How come the Blob is still pandering this idea, days after Ted Jr. did the right thing and admited he is a Connecticut resident and would not be right to run for the U.S. Senate from Taxashoosetts, whose voter smight send him back south to Hartford.