Massachusetts Special Election: Best Candidate for Massachusetts Citizens’ Senate Seat Now
Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
by Jean Purcell
OpineBooks.com
Senator Edward M. Kennedy was unique in many ways: the youngest son of a prominent American political family, a mentor to many of his nieces and nephews hit by family tragedies that were also felt by the nation, a brother of a President and of a U. S. Attorney General. Later, he became another elected son of the U.S. Senate.
After his death last August, many more Americans learned of Senator Kennedy's faithfulness to reach across the aisle to Republican senators and colleagues. The Congress knew Senator Kennedy as one who immediately sought bipartisan consideration and input for legislation being considered by his office and political party. Some said his first action on new legislation work was to seek out Republican dialog.
Kennedy and Simpson shared a popular radio program, Face-Off, building on differences between friends and colleagues. Their program ran five days a week for eight years. Senator Ted Kennedy proposed Senator Al Simpson, by then retired from the Senate, as a director Harvard's Kennedy Institute for Government and Politics. Senator Simpson served as director from 1997 to 2000.
Where do we see such cooperation and respect today without either party feeling disrespected, attacked, or rejected while each argues and debates facts and issues without apology, personal attacks, or innuendo?
January 19, 2010, the state of Massachusetts must hold a special election to fill the now-vacant Massachusetts seat in the U. S. Senate seat-vacant since Senator Ted Kennedy's death on August 25, 2009. The state's Attorney General Martha Coakley faces State Senator Scott Brown in the special election.
Many people have referred to Massachusetts' open U. S. Senate seat as "Senator Kennedy's seat," due to his more than 40 years as a senator. They also call the seat "the people of Massachusetts' seat," seeing that the representation and privilege choice belongs to the people of that great state through every generation and century.
It is now to the people of Massachusetts to decide who will be their new senator in Washington, DC. The close race, as I write a week before the vote, is becoming even closer. Deirdre Reilly, writer and long-time resident of Massachusetts, is a citizen volunteer assisting Scott Brown's candidacy. She gives reasons for her upcoming vote .
Bravo!, Massachusetts's voters who turn out on Tuesday January 19, 2010 to vote for the state's next U. S. senator in a special election.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)This will be a very interesting and closely watched race. Good article Jean.
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