THE PLANK SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
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Good news: Joe Kennedy has decided not to run for Senate. Even if you put aside all the Chavez stuff, there was something profoundly undemocratic about the Kennedys treating that Senate seat as a family heirloom. As the Globe reports in its subhead, with Kennedy out of the picture, the "race is on." I'm still putting my money on Martha Coakley, especially if Lynch, Markey, and Capuano all run--thus making the women's vote that much more powerful in a Democratic primary. One interesting sidenote: A friend of mine went to a big health care reform rally yesterday on Boston Common and told me that Stephen Lynch (who, along with Coakley and Capuano and Markey, addressed the gathering) was essentially booed off the stage, owing to his refusal to embrace to the public option. Tough crowd.
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Jason, I don't get Plank's fixation on Joe Kennedy and Venezuela. After all, Venezuela is our country's number four oil supplier (and the even less democratic Saudia Arabia is number three). Kennedy has really nothing to do with the big picture. Why don't you urge an oil import boycott against Venezuela and Saudi Arabia? Think that will fly? Dan
- dbuck
September 8, 2009 at 12:18pm