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Report: Kennedy Might Not Return to Senate, Speculation Grows That Wife Vicki May Succeed Him
Boston Herald ^ | February 20, 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; kennedyfamily; tedkennedy; vickikennedy
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1 posted on 02/20/2009 3:28:21 PM PST by Steelfish
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I lost track of who’s on the top of the succession pile in the Kennedys long ago.


2 posted on 02/20/2009 3:29:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Steelfish

Don’t cry for me, Argentina...


3 posted on 02/20/2009 3:29:33 PM PST by livius
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To: Steelfish

Not another Kennedy. The IQ keeps getting lower and lower (and it was darned low to start with).

Please, Massachusetts, get real.


4 posted on 02/20/2009 3:30:42 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Steelfish

What about the girl he left to die in the lake can she sub in for him instead?


5 posted on 02/20/2009 3:30:51 PM PST by exist
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To: exist

Lake? Was there another one beside the one he killed in the ocean?


6 posted on 02/20/2009 3:32:21 PM PST by rjones42
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To: exist

or the first Mrs. Ted Kennedy ?


7 posted on 02/20/2009 3:32:43 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Steelfish

I guess he’ll have to cross that bridge when he comes to it...


8 posted on 02/20/2009 3:32:49 PM PST by bigbob (-)
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To: Steelfish
And now for some real news:

Socks the Cat was euthanized today.

RIP Socks

9 posted on 02/20/2009 3:33:46 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Steelfish

I didn’t know that thing was married.


10 posted on 02/20/2009 3:33:53 PM PST by Califreak (1/20/13-Sunrise in America)
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To: Steelfish

Teddy is about to experience some real climate change.


11 posted on 02/20/2009 3:34:00 PM PST by byteback
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To: Steelfish
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,...

Watch your back Vicki...
Stay away from bridges and waterways and maintain personal focus.

12 posted on 02/20/2009 3:35:03 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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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).


13 posted on 02/20/2009 3:35:17 PM PST by pogo101
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To: NormsRevenge

Incestuous Bastards! Does she also inherit the keys to his liquor cabinets...


14 posted on 02/20/2009 3:36:02 PM PST by tubebender (Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?)
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To: Steelfish

There’s a special place in Hell for Ted Kennedy.


15 posted on 02/20/2009 3:37:04 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: pogo101

I’m thinking Ted’s wife is actually quite a bit younger than he is, perhaps in the mid 50s herself.


16 posted on 02/20/2009 3:37:42 PM PST by Marathoner (The dream: 1-20-2013, hearing "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solemnly swear...")
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To: LdSentinal

Right next to his brothers!!


17 posted on 02/20/2009 3:39:06 PM PST by Lucretia Borgia (I will be happy to show Obama the same respect the Democrats gave Reagan, Bush, and Palin.)
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To: Steelfish

But the Kennedys are entitled to a seat in the senate.


18 posted on 02/20/2009 3:39:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Marathoner

The current wife is younger. He dumped Wife #1 some time ago.


19 posted on 02/20/2009 3:39:42 PM PST by livius
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To: pogo101

Mrs. Kennedy will turn 55 this month.


20 posted on 02/20/2009 3:39:47 PM PST by John W
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