Posted on 10/09/2010 6:20:55 PM PDT by Dayvester
James Taranto profiles Sean Bielat, the congressional candidate in Massachusetts who is seeking to defeat Barney Frank in November's election:
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Mr. Bielat caught the "political bug" as a teenager, when he did a stint as a House page. After earning a master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he went to work as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. and an executive for iRobot Corp., a defense contractor based in Bedford, Mass. He's also a new father; his wife gave birth to their son, Theodore, over the summer...
Can he win? In a district that gave 63% of its vote to Barack Obama, Mr. Frank has to be reckoned the heavy favorite. But Mr. Bielat's quest does not look quite as quixotic as it did last October, when he quit his job at iRobot to pursue it....
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Not if you are referring to the House of Representatives in Washington at present. Right now, it's a sad fact that there are no Republicans in the House from all six New England states combined - zero! That should change a bit with the outcome of the elections next month.
Tomorrow (Monday) Sean and Barney are having a debate. Will it be on C-span?
I won’t excuse him without any proof but he does have that creepy look. And someone like him could find the words to justify anything....
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