Crazy Nancy Pelosi is being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are closed, and for not wearing a Mask - despite constantly lecturing everyone else. We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!
That cat has some squirrel in him.
Crazy Nancy Pelosi is being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are closed, and for not wearing a Mask - despite constantly lecturing everyone else. We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!
BOSTON (CN) — Senator Ed Markey defeated rival Joe Kennedy III in the Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Senate primary.
Kennedy, a grandson of Senator Robert Kennedy, has been a Massachusetts congressman since 2012. His loss is a defining moment in the state, which launched his grand-uncle John on his way to the presidency. No Kennedy has ever been defeated in a Massachusetts election before.
Markey’s win will help cement the ascendancy of the progressive wing of the Democratic party. Markey is best known as the lead sponsor of the Green New Deal along with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The race split national Democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has had disagreements with Ocasio-Cortez, endorsed Kennedy, whom she selected in 2018 to deliver the Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union address. Kennedy was also endorsed by his former House colleague Beto O’Rourke. But former Vice President Al Gore publicly backed Markey, as did the Boston Globe.
Turnout was heavy. A week before the election some 650,000 people had already voted, surpassing the total for all presidential-year primaries since 1992, according to Debra O’Malley at the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s office.
“There’s not much point in bringing in a less experienced person just because his name is Kennedy,” said Paul Stansifer, who voted just steps from the Harvard campus where Joe Kennedy and seven of his famous relatives graduated.
Kennedy, a redheaded 39-year-old, billed himself early on as representing a generational change from the 74-year-old Markey, in a move reminiscent of President Kennedy’s promise in his nomination speech of “a new generation of leadership.”
Although a MassINC poll from October 2019 showed that 70% of voters under age 30 had no opinion or had never heard of Markey, a recent UMass Amherst poll showed Markey leading among young people by an astonishing 51 points.
Ironically, the argument for generational change seemed to work best with an older generation. Anne Quirk, who is on the Democratic Committee in Belmont, a Boston suburb, said she voted for Kennedy because Markey would be 80 at the end of his term and she’s concerned about the “gerontocracy” in Congress.
In the Democratic primary to replace Kennedy in the 4th District — which consists mostly of exurban areas near Rhode Island and hasn’t voted for a Republican since World War II — there was a very close race between Jesse Mermell, a former aide to Governor Deval Patrick, and Newton city council member Jake Auchincloss.
The Boston Globe endorsed Auchincloss, but the endorsement of a former Republican was internally unpopular and at least one Globe columnist published a rebuttal.
Auchincloss, a distant relative of Jackie Kennedy, has been criticized for suggesting that flying a Confederate flag is a free speech issue and for a 2010 Facebook post in which he said of burning the Quran, “So we can’t burn their book, but they can burn our flag?”
In another key congressional race in western Massachusetts, Richard Neal, the chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, handily defeated a primary challenge on the left from Alex Morse, the 31-year-old openly gay mayor of Holyoke.
In an unusual development, the state’s Republican governor, Charlie Baker, endorsed Neal. No Republicans are running for Neal’s seat....
NIKK..this is a VERY BIAS ARTICLE..I edited it.