this would be proof that getting into the senate, requires nothing but a name...
Posted on 05/22/2008 1:40:24 PM PDT by wsjreader
Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki. Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion say his wife of 16 years has long been his choice to continue carrying the family flame in the Senate. Kennedy won the seat in 1962; his brother John held it from 1953 to 1960. “There’s no question that he’d like Vicki to continue in his seat,” said one Massachusetts Democrat with ties to the Camelot clan who spoke to Kennedy recently, before his health crisis. “She’s smart, and smart politically.”
Carnahan’s wife inherited his Missouri Senate seat.
It has also puzzled me how the sheeple accept that Senate seats (and maybe even the US Presidency) should be considered spousal property.
Shouldn’t there be an election?
Absolute Royalty by wealth and corruption.
And I would like to leave my senate seat to my dog creampuff
Has no one told him the seats are not inherited that one must run for election?
“Shouldn’t there be an election?”
Yes, there will be a special election should he die or resign. No interim appointment.
"Does wife Vicky have any skills?"
Here's a bio.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy Biography
Victoria Anne Reggie was born on February 26, 1954 in Crowley, Louisiana. She is the daughter of Crowley, Louisiana City Judge Edmund Reggie. Reggie married Ted Kennedy in a small, private ceremony in Kennedy’s home in McLean, Virginia on July 3, 1992. At the time she was the divorced mother of two children.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy received her undergraduate degree from Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans. She graduated with a B.A. degree, magna cum laude. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and other honor societies and served on the student government. She graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School in 1979. While in law school she was the editor of the Tulane Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She received an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Suffolk University of Law School in Boston for her service to the community in May 1998.
Mrs. Kennedy is the President and co-founder of Common Sense about Kids and Guns which is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on raising awareness of and addressing issues related to gun deaths and injuries to children in the United States. Their primary focus is gun safety and the dangers of children having unsupervised access to guns. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, has served on the Board of Stop Handgun Violence in Boston and has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Annual Day of National Concern about Young People and Gun Violence. She is a regular lecturer at the American University Washington Semester Program. She speaks on public policy issues related to gun violence prevention and encouraging college students to engage in their communities.
Other issues that she is interested in include issues related to women, children, families, homelessness, economic opportunity, health care, education, domestic violence and involvement in the political process.
Both Senator and Mrs. Kennedy had been previous married. Their blended family includes five children and four grandchildren.
Bull Squat!
Those bastards really do think they OWN the positions in their political seats..
The ONLY term limits we have - is DEATH!
If that crooked bozo of an affirmative action governor names Kennedy’s wife—the state should throw ALL of them out office...
Let’s face it. We ceased to be a Republic a long time ago. We’re an Oligarchy.
That's because John Ashcroft was too much of a gentleman to question the eligibility of a dead man, or the legality of counts votes for a dead man as a placeholder for a choice to be determined later, so soon after Carnahan's death.
-PJ
Massachusetts politics is dominated by the population within 25 or 30 mles of Boston. The rest of the state (with some notable local exceptions) isn't as uniformly nuts, but doesn't have the votes to do anything about it. Someone at a rod and gun club located on Cape Cod told me that the locals on Martha's Vineyard refer to the bridge at Chappaquiddick as "the Kennedy carwash."
Just a thought, there were those rumors of MJK being pregnant...could be why Ted was so pro abort. I know some pro aborts who got shotgun married and divorced or gave babies up for adoption who favor abortion because they think it would have made things 'easier' on them. It wouldn't; just would have made the pain different. Not rumor mongering; the Mary Jo question is an old one.
Actually, I now recall the younger Reggie was cut some slack because of his Katrina-related good works. A LA friend (to the right of me) testified about Reggie risking his life to save an elderly, disabled neighbor.
this would be proof that getting into the senate, requires nothing but a name...
I don’t know the details of why but here is one article stating he was working for the FBI as an informant regarding democratic fund raising..... Maximun could have been 35 years. He had ties to many of the elite, Clinton etc.
“The Senate isn’t the House of Lords.”
Sure bears a resemblance to it though.
>>Do the Massachusetts voters simply nod their heads when told by their political betters what to acquiesce in?<<
Please tell me that question is rhetorical.
Is it a Senate seat or a royal fiefdom?
>>I do feel a bit sorry for a man who has shouldered so much sorrow, like the untimely deaths of 4 siblings, including 2 who were assassinated. God only knows how any of us might react.<<
I’d like to think I wouldn’t kill a girl, but that’s just me.
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