Category — 2 Cents

A friend received the following message this afternoon from an online listserv from a Boston promotional company: [Read more →]

Senator Kerry and Congressman Delahunt testifying at the Massachusetts State Legislature Joint Committee on Election Laws, September 9, 2009

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Announcing that he was “pulling papers” for entering the senate race, Rep. Michael Capuano said:

No other candidate… more closely mirrors Ted Kennedy’s positions on important issues of war and peace.

Running on the no-change platform, eh?   For Capuano to wrap himself in tradition is understandable, since he holds a Congressional seat previously occupied by fabled & fallible men:  Joe Kennedy, Tip O’Neil, and JFK. 

Yet Capuano’s  ”just like Teddy” positioning is risky, given that many Bay State women disagreed with Kennedy at times over the past year.  If “mirroring” someone is a vote-worthy attribute, women  might just vote for a candidate who more closely mirrors them.

Kerry Healey’s announcement last night that she won’t seek the Republican nomination for Senate reminds me of why I’m blogging for Martha Coakley this early, while I’m still getting to know her.  It’s because I want to make sure that I and others give Coakley the kind of fair shot I’m not sure I gave Healey. [Read more →]

After announcing her candidacy at a press conference, Coakley received the following question:

Some of the potential candidates are waiting to make their announcement to see what a member of the Kennedy family does… why are you not showing the deference to the Kennedy family that other candidates are showing?

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