RFK's grandson decides against run for US House

AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run (AP)
Boston – A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives . Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, may run this fall if Democratic Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election in his South Shore and Cape Cod district . Kennedy, 29, "has been considering it but he hasn't made a...

RFK's grandson decides against run for US House
Boston (AP) - Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of a former congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said Sunday he had decided against running for the U.S. House from Massachusetts this year. Kennedy told The Associated Press that he wants to remain in his new job as a prosecutor in Cape Cod's Barnstable County. The 29-year-old Stanford University and Harvard Law graduate has held the post only for eight months. "I've got a job I love being an assistant district attorney on the Cape,...

AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run
Boston — A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, may run this fall if Democratic Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election in his South Shore and Cape Cod district. Kennedy, 29, "has been considering it but he hasn't made a...

AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run
Source: AP By GLEN JOHNSON Boston (AP) - A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, may run this fall if Democratic Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election in his South Shore and Cape Cod district. Kennedy, 29, "has been considering it...

AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run
Boston (AP) - A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, may run this fall if Democratic Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election in his South Shore and Cape Cod district. Kennedy, 29, "has been considering it but he hasn't made a...

Congressman Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts: Pompous, Pretentious, Ineffective. Going The Way Of Martha Coakley. Or Worse.
Republican Scott Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley by 5 points in the senatorial contest to succeed Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. But, in William Delahunt’s Congressional District, Brown beat the lady by 20 points. This was not good news for Delahunt, not good news at all. He’s serving his seventh House term in a state delegation that is all Democratic (which, alas, it won’t be come Election Day 2010). The tenth C.D. has been Democratic since Gerry Studds won it in the...

Kennedy Grandson Decides Against Run for Congress
Boston  -- Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of a former congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said Sunday he had decided against running for the U.S. House from Massachusetts this year. Kennedy told The Associated Press that he wants to remain in his new job as a prosecutor in Cape Cod's Barnstable County. The 29-year-old Stanford University and Harvard Law graduate has held the post only for eight months. "I've got a job I love being an assistant district attorney on the Cape,...

AP Source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run
A top Massachusetts Democrat says one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering running for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Joseph P. Kennedy III Running For Congress?
Senior democratic sources say that Joseph P. Kennedy III may be running for Congress in Massachusetts 10th Congressional District. There is speculation that William Delahunt may join the throng of Democrats who have mysteriously picked 2010 as the year they'll retire. Odds are good that if Delahunt does call it quits after 14 years in Congress, Joseph P. Kennedy III, the grandson of RFK may take the opportunity to run for Congress. Delahunt reportedly tried to quit once before, but Edward...

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AP Source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run
Boston (AP) - A top Massachusetts Democrat says one of Robert F. Kennedy’s grandsons is considering running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Joseph P. Kennedy III is one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II. The Democrat, who demanded anonymity to speak about private conversations with the father and son, says the younger Kennedy is considering running if Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election. Delahunt has been criticized for his handling of a...

AP Source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run
Boston— A top Massachusetts Democrat says one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Joseph P. Kennedy III is one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II. The Democrat, who demanded anonymity to speak about private conversations with the father and son, says the younger Kennedy is considering running if Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election. Delahunt has been criticized for his handling of a 1986...

AP: RFK's grandson weighing U.S. House run
Boston (AP) — A top Massachusetts   Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy 's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives . Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II , may run this fall if Democratic Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election in his district. Kennedy, 29, "has been considering it but he hasn't made a decision,"...

Joseph P. Kennedy III, grandson of RFK, mulling run for Congress, Massachusetts pol says
Boston - A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy 's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives . Joseph P. Kennedy III , one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II , may run this fall if Democratic Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election in his district. Kennedy, 29, "has been considering it but he hasn't made a decision," said the Democrat,...

Joe Kennedy III Not Running for Congress
There was some speculation over the weekend that Robert F. Kennedy's grandson could possible run for Congress this year. Well, you can cancel that for now. Joseph P. Kennedy III, the son of a former congressman and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, said Sunday he had decided against running for the U.S. House from Massachusetts this year. Kennedy told The Associated Press that he wants to remain in his new job as a prosecutor in Cape Cod's Barnstable County. The 29-year-old Stanford...

The Promise of Scott Brown Gone Bad? Not Really ... (Guest Voice)
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Half of zero
You have to hand it to the conservative movement. For the utter hypocrisy if nothing else. For months, conservatives have been crowing about the election of Scott Brown in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a sign of an impending conservative re-ascendancy. After all—if a true conservative like Senator Brown could win Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, there was proof that the anti-Obama movement sweeping the country could result in a return to Republican (or perhaps, Tea-party...

'Birther' Conspiracy Roils GOP Campaigns
Still from an advertisement by John McCain's re-election campaign (YouTube) In the wake of Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Ma.) upset victory in Massachusetts, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued a memo to campaign managers suggesting a few ways to prevent their candidates from becoming the next Martha Coakley. “Create sufficient pressure for your moderate opponents to be forced to weigh in on the positions of your far right opponents,” argued the memo writers. The...

Romney has the momentum right now
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Obama's Summit Sideshow
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Reid says Republicans have used reconciliation more than Democrats
Reconciliation is a legislative procedure adopted in 1974 to balance Budget bills. It can be a complex process, but what you really need to know about a Reconciliation bill is that it can be passed with a simple majority, rather than the 60-vote supermajority Democrats lost when Scott Brown of Massachusetts was elected to the Senate. In other words, it's an option some Democrats are mulling if a bipartisan plan cannot be achieved. In the Republicans' opening statement, Sen. Lamar Alexander,...

AP: Unions Stymied Under Obama?
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Give Scott Brown a Break, OK?
After Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., voted in favor of a Jobs Bill endorsed by President Obama and the majority of Senate Democrats, I immediately heard from a number of Republican friends in and around Washington, D.C. who knew I am a conservative from Massachusetts. The questions were rapid fire and the anger was surprising. "How dare he side with Obama?" "Is he just a Kennedy Republican?," and "Where do I go to get my donation back?" My response to all was, "You have got to be...

Is Tom Foley Connecticut's Scott Brown?
It has now been over a month since Scott Brown stunned Martha Coakley to take Ted Kennedy's old seat in a Special Election in Massachusetts.  There was no doubt that Republicans across the country would do their best to duplicate his strategy to win other unlikely seats. It would seem that no other state would provide such a strategy more so than Connecticut, another left-leaning state in close proximity to Massachusetts.  Enter Tom Foley, former Ireland Ambassador, who...