Posted on 02/20/2009 3:28:21 PM PST by Steelfish
Report: Kennedy Might Not Return to Senate, Speculation Grows That Wife Vicki May Succeed Him
Ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy may not return to the Senate, and speculation is brewing that the veteran Democratic lawmaker is setting up his wife, Vicki, to succeed him, according to a report Friday in the Boston Herald.
The article quoted friends of the family who said the Massachusetts senator's brain cancer has worsened and that he is resting at an undisclosed location in Florida.
Anthony Coley, a Kennedy family spokesman, disputed the Herald's report, telling FOX News that Sen. Kennedy is not on his death bed and continues to recover in warmer climates when not traveling back to Washington for Senate business.
Coley added that the report that Vicki Kennedy is in line to succeed her husband couldn't be farther from the truth.
Kennedy, 76, returned to Capitol Hill recently to vote on President Obama's stimulus bill. On Inauguration Day, he was taken by ambulance to the hospital when he suffered a seizure at a reception for the new president.
The Herald said people close to Kennedy expect he may have only a few months to live.
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I lost track of who’s on the top of the succession pile in the Kennedys long ago.
Don’t cry for me, Argentina...
Not another Kennedy. The IQ keeps getting lower and lower (and it was darned low to start with).
Please, Massachusetts, get real.
What about the girl he left to die in the lake can she sub in for him instead?
Lake? Was there another one beside the one he killed in the ocean?
or the first Mrs. Ted Kennedy ?
I guess he’ll have to cross that bridge when he comes to it...
Socks the Cat was euthanized today.
I didn’t know that thing was married.
Teddy is about to experience some real climate change.
Watch your back Vicki...
Stay away from bridges and waterways and maintain personal focus.
If Gov. Deval Patrick gets to appoint any successor, I doubt he will pick Ted’s wife. It would be better for Mass. Democrats for him to pick someone who can serve for 30 years, perhaps even himself (he’s about 53).
Incestuous Bastards! Does she also inherit the keys to his liquor cabinets...
There’s a special place in Hell for Ted Kennedy.
I’m thinking Ted’s wife is actually quite a bit younger than he is, perhaps in the mid 50s herself.
Right next to his brothers!!
But the Kennedys are entitled to a seat in the senate.
The current wife is younger. He dumped Wife #1 some time ago.
Mrs. Kennedy will turn 55 this month.
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