Posted on 08/30/2009 2:06:31 PM PDT by Libloather
Bipartisan support for Kennedy's widow to assume seat
By: Susan Ferrechio
Chief Congressional Correspondent
08/30/09 2:12 PM EDT
While Ted Kennedy's widow, Vicki Kennedy, has indicated she is not interested in assuming her husband's Senate seat, there is bipartisan support for her to take the job, if only temporarily.
The Massachusetts state legislature is getting ready to debate a bill that would give Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick the authority to appoint an interim senator to fill the seat until a special election is held and some are suggesting the 55-year-old lawyer would be perfect for the job.
"I think Vicki ought to be considered," said Orrin Hatch on CNN's "State of the Union."
Hatch called Vicki Kennedy " a very brilliant lawyer" and "solid individual."
Vicki Kennedy is credited with helping her husband end his self-destructive behavior years ago and she also helped run his Senate office in the final months of his life.
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., a longtime friend of Ted Kennedy, said he would let Vicki Kennedy decide whether she is interested in the job, but he would back her if she wants it.
"Whatever Vicki wants to do, I'm in her corner," Dodd said.
Isn’t there a formality to go through first?
It’s called an “election” where various candidates “campaign”.
It’s an American thing — something our would-be rulers can’t understand.
Might be bi-partisan support, but isn’t the law. Period.
Now we get to see how utterly corrupt and stupid Massachusetts legislators and voters can be.
My guess is Vicki will be a place holder for Edward Kennedy, Jr.
Just a hunch.
Its PATHETIC.
Hotter than Kkakdugi?
She will warm a seat “and” have voting rights. That’s what the Democrats want.....her vote. We already elected a person to the most powerful seat in the country that didn’t know what he was doing. We don’t need another one.
“Bipartisan”?
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Time to open a third front. Actually, a second front.
Past time....
Every promotion given to a Massachusetts senator replacement by Hatch is a promotion overlooked for the people of Utah which is who he was elected to represent.
I don’t believe it! NEVER trust a Kennedy - just ask Rosemary Kennedy or Mary Jo Kopechne...
The turds think they own the seat; they operate with a Roman-like attitude, apologies to the Romans of course.
Significantly hotter.
In honor of Ted, they should give it to an illegal alien.
No wonder 57% want to REPLACE THE ENTIRE CONGRESS!!!
I'm sick of this insider's club where they think their 'friend's' family member DESERVES the position!
Wake up Republican party! We don't like this! Remember us? The people you are SUPPOSED to REPRESENT?! I don't think you have consulted with us!
i don’t give a flying (fill in your own obscenity)how long she will be there. Its been building now for awhile, the move from a republic to elected monarchy.
Gates?
Give me a break. How about change we can believe in?
Teddy's immediate predecessor in that seat, Benjamin A. Smith, II, is dead. Maybe he has a widow or a son or daughter who'd be willing to hold the seat in the interim until the Kennedys decide which family member has the best claim to the seat.
She comes from another Dem crime family:
Vicki Kennedy’s father, Edmund Reggie, a judge and banker from the small rice-growing town of Crowley, La., swung the Louisiana delegation to support John Kennedy for vice president.
Judge Reggie, who would later become a kingmaker in Louisiana Democratic politics, managed the presidential campaigns in Louisiana for John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and, in 1980, Ted Kennedy. His purchase of a summer house on Nantucket in 1982 further cemented ties between the two families.
He became the confidante of former Louisiana Gov. Edwin W. Edwards, and availed himself of legislative scholarships targeted at needy students that allowed all six of his children, including Vicki, to attend Tulane University tuition free, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported in 1995.
Reggie told the paper he had done nothing wrong.
“It was a perfectly legal thing to do, so I availed myself of it,” he said then.
(The scholarships’ other beneficiaries have included the children of former Senators John B. Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston, both Democrats, as well as Representatives Jimmy Hayes, a Democrat, Robert L. Livingston and Richard H. Baker, Republicans.)
In 1992, Judge Reggie was also convicted of defrauding a failed savings and loan in federal district court in Louisiana, and sentenced to 120 days of home detention and fined $30,000.
Her brother, Raymond Reggie, a New Orleans fund-raiser, pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud charges in New Orleans. Raymond Reggie served six months of a one-year jail sentence on the bank fraud charges and was ordered to pay $3.1 million in restitution for the swindle, which was aimed at keeping solvent his advertising placement firm, Media Direct LLC.
agreed.. I nominate Bob Parks.
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