An MA Woman in the Senate!!!
Yowza! FINALLY, Massachusetts will send a woman to the US Senate! Today was the special primary -- 4 Dems and 2 Pubs ran for the two ballot slots in a special election in January to fill Senator Ted's seat, but in MA, getting the Dem. nomination is tantamount to winning the election.
All the "good old boys" already in Congress (all but maybe one) endorsed their bud, Rep. Mike Capuano, who ran on a platform of "I'm a Ted Kennedy clone."
Martha Coakley is our Attorney General, and she declared her candidacy only about 10 days after the Senator's death, and without waiting to see if any of the next Kennedy generation was going to run -- something which reportedly irritated the Kennedy clan, but in the end, none of the Kennedys endorsed anyone.
Looks like Martha won with about 47-48% of the vote, Capuano trailing at 27%, and AP declared the race for Coakley less than an hour after the polls closed.
Hallelujah! I could've lived with Capuano, he's as liberal as it gets in Congress, but so is Martha Coakley that liberal, and we NEED more women in the Senate!
All the "good old boys" already in Congress (all but maybe one) endorsed their bud, Rep. Mike Capuano, who ran on a platform of "I'm a Ted Kennedy clone."
Martha Coakley is our Attorney General, and she declared her candidacy only about 10 days after the Senator's death, and without waiting to see if any of the next Kennedy generation was going to run -- something which reportedly irritated the Kennedy clan, but in the end, none of the Kennedys endorsed anyone.
Looks like Martha won with about 47-48% of the vote, Capuano trailing at 27%, and AP declared the race for Coakley less than an hour after the polls closed.
Hallelujah! I could've lived with Capuano, he's as liberal as it gets in Congress, but so is Martha Coakley that liberal, and we NEED more women in the Senate!
