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  • Democrats to Nominate Kennedy for Re-Election (... and the Saga of "Patches" Continues...!)

    05/08/2006 2:07:07 PM PDT · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 81 replies · 1,826+ views
    ABC6.News ^ | 05/08/2006 | AP
    Rhode Island Democrats are expected to endorse Representative Patrick Kennedy for re-election when they meet tonight in West Warwick. Party members will endorse candidates for Congress and the state's top jobs -- governor, secretary of state, general treasurer and attorney general. Kennedy has checked himself into the Mayo Clinic for treatment for addiction to prescription drugs following a Thursday car accident in Washington. He says he can't remember driving to Capitol Hill or crashing his car. Kennedy's doctors say he was taking Phenergan for stomach and intestinal problems and Ambien, a commonly prescribed sleeping medication. Police say he appeared intoxicated.
  • What's in a Name? Plenty If It's Kennedy (Patches "Generally Dumber Than Two Rocks")

    05/08/2006 3:08:01 AM PDT · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 100 replies · 4,540+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 05/08/2006 | Howard Kurtz
    It's hard to imagine that Patrick Kennedy would have gotten elected to Congress a dozen years ago without his last name. It's equally hard to imagine that the media would be going wild about his late-night car crash and prescription drug addiction if he weren't a Kennedy. The only lingering mystery is why national news organizations didn't pounce earlier on the Rhode Island Democrat's long history of alcohol and drug abuse, depression and a series of downright embarrassing incidents.
  • In R.I. City, Longstanding Confidence is Shaken (Shameless Pro-Patrick Kennedy Puff Piece by MSM)

    05/06/2006 6:25:38 AM PDT · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 38 replies · 1,564+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | 05/06/2006 | Michael Levenson and Andrea Estes
    PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Among the patrons at the News Café, an airy bar downtown, the debate erupted almost as soon as Representative Patrick J. Kennedy finished making his emotional appearance on a television above the liquor bottles and colored lights. Kennedy, the six-term congressman who represents this old factory city, said he would enter a rehabilitation clinic for his addiction to pain medication, a day after crashing his car into a barrier outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Bobby LaBonte was not impressed. ''He lost my vote, I'll tell you that," said the 58-year-old former Marine, who called himself a...