Governor Deval Patrick went a long way toward keeping Democrat Marisa DeFranco off last year’s US Senate ballot, but the Middleton immigration attorney is hoping he’ll take a different view of her if and when it comes time to appoint a temporary replacement to Senator John Kerry.
DeFranco told the Globe today that she supports a petition effort aimed at lobbying Patrick to make her the interim senator if Kerry resigns, as expected, to become secretary of state.
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This article states," When the roll was ultimately called, the delegates denied DeFranco the 15-percent minimum she needed to get on the fall ballot."
Better reporting would say, "DeFranco failed to garner the 15% needed to trigger a primary."
No matter what she accuses the party or the delegates of doing, the plain truth is that she wasn't chosen by a fair and square process. No one I know got anything from her campaign and I hope the press stops keeping alive this failed candidacy just so it can have a "horse race" to write about.
Sorry, demeter, it was not a fair and square process. There were political heavies "persuading" delegates. I spoke with one who said he was outright threatened (politically, not physically). Marisa DeFranco was a terrific candidate and deserved better treatment. Plus, we deserved democracy, and that's not what we got in this instance.