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Report: Joseph Kennedy III Likely To Announce Run For House Seat (B Frank)
Weasel Zippers/Fox 25 Boston ^ | 1/3/12 | Weasel Zippers

Posted on 01/03/2012 7:25:57 AM PST by raccoonradio

Just what Congress needs, a new Kennedy. Don’t underestimate the sheeple mentality here in Mass, especially in Fwank’s ultra-liberal district. They have no problem voting for someone based solely on his last name.


(FOX 25/MyFoxBoston.com) — There is new speculation that Joseph P. Kennedy III is ready to run for Congress.

Sources close to Kennedy have told Rhode Island Public Radio that the 31-year-old son of former Congressman Joe Kennedy is setting up fundraisers and taking a serous look at running for the seat left open by the retirement of Barney Frank.

The younger Kennedy is a Harvard Law School graduate and is currently a Middlesex County prosecutor. He could announce his plans within a week.


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To: raccoonradio

Currently his dad,

Cousin. But I got your point.


21 posted on 01/03/2012 8:02:31 AM PST by napscoordinator (A miracle is happening before our eyes! The ONLY MORAL CONSERVATIVE!!! Rick Santorum 2012!!!!!)
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To: raccoonradio

Actually the dad’s annulment was never finalized - and in fact was overturned - and his new marriage ceremony was civil. The dad cannot receive the sacraments due to his persistent public sin (living in sin when he is still in a sacramental marriage to Sheila Rauch).


22 posted on 01/03/2012 8:04:31 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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To: crosshairs

Howie already talked about this.

There is always a Kennedy around here threatening to run for office. Always has been always will. It usually never happens.

FWIW his father was a one term congressman. The Kennedy thing in Massachusetts is way overblown.


23 posted on 01/03/2012 8:06:28 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: Moonman62

But it’s their duty to go into “public service”. God, how I hate that term.


24 posted on 01/03/2012 8:08:04 AM PST by surrey
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To: raccoonradio; All

Some video and audio of him from 2010. That year he was considered a poss. candidate for the seats of Mike Capuano (the 8th, formerly held by JFK, Tip O’Neill, and Joe II)
or William Delahunt (10th), “should he retire”. (He did, and Bill Keating got the seat. This piece of video says that while Joe III was ruling out the run at that time (May 2010)
he wouldn’t rule it out for the future...

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?b=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701&fr2=tab-web&tnr=20&p=joseph+kennedy+iii&vid=1364195673012&dt=1267493760&l=0&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1364195673012%26id%3D0ffee4915a1baaae3ba0c1dde6f78a58%26bid%3D8WupQRvdtd5pTw%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.necn.com%252f03%252f01%252f10%252fJoseph-Kennedy-III-will-not-run-for-Cong%252flanding.html%253fblockID%253d189053%2526fe&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.necn.com%2F03%2F01%2F10%2FJoseph-Kennedy-III-will-not-run-for-Cong%2Flanding.html%3FblockID%3D189053%26feedID%3D4215&tit=Joseph++Kennedy++III+will++not+run++for++Congress++th...&sigr=13dbt11p3&newfp=1


25 posted on 01/03/2012 8:08:12 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: surrey

Kennedy Klan Public Service, Inc.
“Fleecing while you wait”


26 posted on 01/03/2012 8:13:49 AM PST by Notwithstanding (1998 ACU ratings: Newt=100%, Paul=88%, Santorum=84% [the last year all were in Congress])
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To: raccoonradio
But Joe II is not the son of “Joe Jr”, he’s the son of RFK. Maybe that is why this is?

Maybe that's why, but also, since Joe Jr died in 1944 in the war, and Joe II was born in 1952 when Joe Sr was still alive, that made him Joe II.

If Joe Jr had survived the war, would Joe II have then been Joe III in 1952? I know it's a silly question for most FReepers, but it is intriguing to me.

27 posted on 01/03/2012 8:14:07 AM PST by IndyTiger
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To: raccoonradio

Is this the one that Chavez has Citgo paying a consulting fee to or is it the older Joe?


28 posted on 01/03/2012 8:14:54 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: raccoonradio

I wonder if there will be hefty campaign contributions from Anheuser-Busch, Segrams, and Jack Daniels?


29 posted on 01/03/2012 8:15:32 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: raccoonradio

Ted will drink to that!


30 posted on 01/03/2012 8:18:14 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: raccoonradio
Can you folks get me the kid's rap sheet? This one snuck up on me. Dish me some dirt. Has a job, anyway, and does not looked crazed or drugged like his old man ... and I actually like the 19th C Irish Poet look. Should go down well with Massholes who affect the fake brogue and support the IRA pubs.

Attention: This is not even close to an anti-Irish sentiment. Every masshole, for reasons quite beyond me, seems to identify with the Ould Sod ... even a Jewish Old Sod like Barney Frank ... aka "The Bugger of Bayonne," (Ah 'tis a fine broth of a sodomite he is!) and John Kerry, Leader of the Faux Hibernian Club.

The local Kennedy Idolators practically had me run outa town when as a selectman during the JFK Naming Frenzy, I tried to have the town's new sewage treatment plant named after him. Reckon there was more massholes infesting Maine even then than I had accounted for!
BTW, the kid at least looks like he has a few more marbles than Patches, but then, that is a pretty dismal standard.

31 posted on 01/03/2012 8:25:39 AM PST by Kenny Bunk ((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
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To: raccoonradio
Yeah! Another winner from the Delta house. They all bring such stellar credentials to the table.


32 posted on 01/03/2012 8:28:11 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: raccoonradio
Hey Joe, enough is enough...CAMELOT is dead... Your uncle is playing 'Waitress Sandwich' with Kim Jong Il, Hitler and Lenin.

You instead of bringing CAMELOT, you will bring CAMEL DUNG.

33 posted on 01/03/2012 8:28:29 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: raccoonradio

Barney’s seat is wide open.


34 posted on 01/03/2012 8:31:25 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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THEY’RE NOT DONATING MONTHLY!


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35 posted on 01/03/2012 8:36:15 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: raccoonradio
Frank faced a tougher race this time, to be sure, bec ause of the redistricting..but that's NOT why he quit. He knows, they all know, that the Dems have NO chance of retaking the House..probably for the rest of the decade...so why bother...it's NO fun being in the minority in the House. That's why so many Dems have retired, and there will eb more to come..

We should start a contest..guess the date that Pelosi first predicts that the Dems retake the HOuse and shee becomes Speaker again..

36 posted on 01/03/2012 8:37:29 AM PST by ken5050 (Support Admin Mods: Doing the tough, hard, dirty jobs that Americans won't do...)
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To: raccoonradio
Another Kennedy messiah!
Just what the country needs now.
We're saved!
37 posted on 01/03/2012 8:40:51 AM PST by StormEye
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To: IndyTiger
If Joe Jr had survived the war, would Joe II have then been Joe III in 1952? I know it's a silly question for most FReepers, but it is intriguing to me.

JoeIII would have been reserved for the spawn of JoeJr.

38 posted on 01/03/2012 8:51:38 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (Whatever happened to that Amy Summerland sailing chick?)
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To: raccoonradio

At least they stopped making Oldsmobiles.


39 posted on 01/03/2012 8:53:42 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: ken5050

>>it’s NO fun being in the minority in the House. That’s why so many Dems have retired

Exactly, very good point. Bill Delahunt (MA-10) retired in 2010 and this time around we see that Barney Frank (MA-4)
and John Olver (MA-1; he’s very old) are not running for
re-election. Redistricting—10 seats into 9—may have lead
Olver into his decision (before Frank made his) but indeed
the “no fun if GOP controls house” is HUGE.


40 posted on 01/03/2012 9:12:13 AM PST by raccoonradio
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