Do you think Deville Deval will use a thoughtful state wide search to fill this important post, or will he as always pick some HACK Friend or Neighbor ??????

"Together We Can"

It better not be Victoria Kennedy and it rankles me that she is even in the conversation.  She spent most of her life somewhere else and happened to be married to Senator Kennedy and she is supposed to be qualified to be our senator?  Oh, wait a minute - Deval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren are from somewhere else so maybe carpetbagging is becoming the norm in Massachusetts politics.   

I thought we sent Scooter Brown a strong message in November.   Apperently he isn't bright enough to understand.   That makes him just too plain stupid to be senator.

Deval will do what's in the best interest of......Deval.

I hope Mr. Lynch runs and that he and Mr. Markey have a spirited but civil debate. Campaign muscles need toning.  I also hope that the Governor appoints Mr. Frank because his muscles are well toned...his political ones, at least...and he would bring vast and important knowledge to Senate debates.  But my hopes have been frustrated before.

From the article, "Patrick has suggested he will choose a woman or a person of color to reflect the changing face of politics in Massachusetts."

How about selecting a person who's best qualified for the job?  

And speaking of qualifications, anyone who's spent 36 years in the House should be returning to the private sector, not moving to the Senate.  I'm talking about you, Ed.  

Let's pick a Dem to support harry:

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Via WSJ,

   

The New Year's Day legislation that averted tax increases for millions of Americans brought an unwelcome surprise for Elekta AB, a Swedish maker of radiation tools designed to battle brain tumors.

 

A provision, inserted at the last minute, sharply cut Medicare payments for the company's product while leaving unchanged those of its direct competitor, Varian Medical Systems Inc., VAR -0.18% of Palo Alto, Calif.

 

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The insert looks like the kind of provision helping a specific company or industry that lawmakers have repeatedly vowed to halt. Nonetheless, even in the budget bill tackling the so-called fiscal cliff, lawmakers found time to craft such provisions.

 

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Mr. Reid has a deep relationship with Varian. About nine years ago, he secured federal funding for Varian to work with the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to Oliver Hemmers, the center's director. The project looked at technologies that could X-ray cargo shipments as part of antiterror efforts.

 

The U.S. Department of Energy later transferred Varian's equipment to UNLV, and Varian has donated further equipment worth at least $1 million, said Dr. Hemmers. Varian and UNLV are now partnering on a multimillion-dollar Accelerator Center for research in the national-security, health and energy sectors that could create thousands of jobs in Nevada and has commercial potential for the company, Dr. Hemmers said.

 

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Varian's political contributions are bipartisan, and overall it isn't a big donor. Elekta, as a non-U.S. company, can't participate financially in American elections.

 

Elekta's technology, known as Gamma Knife, and Varian's linear accelerator, or Linac, procedure are both used to target radiation on cancerous tumors. In 2006, after reviewing overall hospital costs for both systems, CMS said Gamma Knife users would be reimbursed about $7,000, while Linac use would get about half that. One reason for the discrepancy is that the Linac therapy, especially for brain tumors, sometimes required multiple treatments, according to CMS data and several neurosurgeons.

 

Varian began lobbying for the higher reimbursement, but it couldn't convince CMS. In November, the agency reaffirmed the separate rate structure.

 

Varian beefed up its 10 outside lobbyists by a further eight, according to Senate records. Taking advantage of Congress's budget-cutting state of mind, it instead sought to equalize rates. The provision doing so wasn't put in the bill until the last day of 2012, aides say.