Singer/songwriter James Taylor considering primary for Kerry's seat???

[No Elephants]

Gotta love wiki. It has an article on the Massachusetts special election of 2013 for Kerry's seat.

As you all know, U.S. Congressman Ed Markey seems to have been anointed. Kerry, who rarely, if ever, endorses in a Mass. primary, endorsed Markey weeks before Markey even announced that he was running.

At first, I was annoyed. However, I have decided to look at Markey very seriously because he seems liberal and anointing a liberal should be rewarded. However, I would love to know if I can do anything to encourage Taylor. (I am assuming that he is even more liberal than Markey, but I could be wrong.)

Also announced is Stephen Lynch, whose district newly includes Boston. Lynch is perhaps the most conservative Democrat in the all- Democratic (again, thanks to Warren) Massachusetts delegation.

He is pro-labor, which I love, but anti-choice, which may or may not be a problem for him in Massachusetts, which is both liberal and heavily Catholic. He may even lure back some of the old school Catholics who started as working class Democrats, but switched to Republican because of the Church. Maybe. They've been Republican a long time and have probably watched Fox for years, so I don't know.

Just declared yesterday, and not even reflected in the wiki article yet, is Gerard Leone, a prosecutor, who said that Brown's not running changed everything in terms of his own thinking. I never heard of him before.

Because I was not sure of his name, I googled before posting, whereupon I came on this list in wiki:

Candidates
Declared

Stephen Lynch, U.S. Representative<5>
Ed Markey, U.S. Representative<6><7>

Potential

Gerard Leone, Middlesex County District Attorney<8>
James Taylor, singer<9>


Declined

Ben Affleck, actor<10><11>
Michael Capuano, U.S. Representative, 2010 Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate<12>
Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts, 2010 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate<13>
William "Mo" Cowan, incumbent U.S. Senator<14>
Benjamin Downing, State Senator<6><15>
Kimberly Driscoll, Mayor of Salem<16>
Barney Frank, former U.S. Representative<17>
Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., entrepreneur, investment banker, lawyer, son of Senator Ted Kennedy<18>
Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of Senator Ted Kennedy<19>
Jim McGovern, U.S. Representative<20>
Marty Meehan, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, former U.S. Representative<6>
Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts<21>
Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts<21>
Jonah Pesner, Rabbi<22>
Niki Tsongas, U.S. Representative<23>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Massachusetts,_2013



Brown's announcement may change things for some of the above Democrats who previously indicated no interest in running when asked by the media, but I don't think so.. (Kennedy foreclosed himself by saying he did not consider Massachusetts his home any longer. Vicki probably is not a Mass. resident, either.) Still, watching Taylor and Affleck fight for a nomination would be fun.


The article contains similar info about Republicans. Among the more familiar names listed as potential are Ann Romney, Tagg Romney, Keith Ablow (of Fox News), former Governor William Weld, about whom I posted several hours ago, and Kerry Healey, Romney's Lieutenant Governor, who, I assume, was chosen from the binders full of women he got. (She lost to now Governor Patrick in 2006, but makes a strong candidate.)

(I don't mean to be too nasty about the binders of women. Romney did hire people to help help him choose minorities and women, which I think was a good thing, especially for someone of his age and elite Old Boy background.)

So, now you are as up to date as can be.

[Enthusiast]

1. I wonder about the effects of

James Taylor's past drug use on public perception. He was a heroin addict at one time.

[No Elephants]

2. We just re-elected a President who smoked marijuana at one time.

I don't know about heroin, though.

Then again, cigarettes are supposed to be more addictive than heroin and plenty of people stopped smoking and did not return to it.

Thing to do these days seems to be to write a book so you can reveal your past with your framing before anyone else does and then do a book tour so you can both start to get yourself known and answer questions. And after that, when all the scandal seems as dull as yesterday's newspaper, run for office. Obama did it. McCain did it. Romney did it.

That might be overkill for Taylor because he is not running for national office, only statewide. And he certainly can't do all that in time for the special election.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Wu0246ASGw/T-oV1RLuveI/AAAAAAAAST8/qXTFQHlUeGU/s1600/Gilda+emily.jpg


never mind

[Enthusiast]

3. Cute post.

The thing about cigarettes being more addictive than heroin is nonsense. I'm just saying. I know it is widely heard, but it's entirely untrue. Besides, cigarettes are available everywhere. You might be abused for smoking cigarettes but you won't often have to steal to support your habit or overdose either.

[No Elephants]

4. Taylor probably didn't have to steal though.

I think Massachusetts would forgive him, if he has been clean long enough. Whether Massachusetts would find him as knowledgeable as Markey is another issue.

[No Elephants]

5. Gilda's face is the cute thing. Watched a show last night about the first 5 years of SNL.

A Litella skit was included.

[Enthusiast]

6. That would be a good show.

After that it continued to be "good" for some years but declined steadily. But that is just my personal take.