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Progressive group launches petition urging appointment of Barney Frank as interim senator

The liberal advocacy group that helped draft Elizabeth Warren into the US Senate campaign in 2011 is now trying to make Barney Frank her junior senator.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee sent an email to 25,000 Massachusetts members Wednesday afternoon asking them to sign an online petition urging Governor Deval Patrick to appoint Frank as the state’s interim senator. The group also launched a website, AppointBarneyFrank.com.

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Good lawd... a southpawed bunch of political junkers trying to assert their 'power' to dictate who shall be acting Taxashoosetts delegate to the U.S. Senate... How nice... When will this bunch of left-listed yahoos get Deevalued Patrick's clunkety machine to unite with them behind Barney the Yap? After all, we, meaning the United States of America, need two bumpkins from the Hub of the Universe to dictate how the majority of the nation's economy is run. Good old Granny Warren cn tell the country how to go bankrupt with as little falderall as possible... and Barney, well he can lecture Bill O'Reilly how to stop criticizing thesouthpaw way of doing stuff. And that means, of course, that Barney and Granny will be blocking while QB Barry the O picks up the ball and dogtrots behind those Taxashoosetts interferers with anything else but what Barry and his Chicago mob of regressive poobahs - of whom our Governor is surely one - wish to dictate. Please note that Barry the O is beginning to read a biography of a guy named Samoza in hopes of learning real fast how to become a banana republic dictator.