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AP source: (Patrick) Kennedy won't run for re-election in RI
AP on Yahoo ^
| 2/11/10
| Andrew Miga - ap
Posted on 02/11/2010 7:13:34 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress.
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The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a month after a stunning Republican upset in the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat his late father, Edward Kennedy, held for almost half a century.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010midterms; chappaquiddick; democrat; democrats; dynasty; kennedy; kennedyfamily; learningcurve; ma; patches; patrickkennedy; reelection; rhodeisland; ri2010; runpattyrun
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To: RightWingConspirator
Oh, I doubt he nurses further political ambitions if he thinks he can no longer get re-elected to his current seat. By 2012 he will be forgotten by all (unless he keeps making headlines for being drunk-and-disorderly).
The Kennedys are so over.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:21:46 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: kempster
Must be nice to play a game and make the rules.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:22:10 PM PST
by
luv2ndamend
(They call themselves greens because they're too yellow to admit they're reds.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:22:22 PM PST
by
BAW
(I'm right.)
To: Clintonfatigued
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:22:32 PM PST
by
luv2ndamend
(They call themselves greens because they're too yellow to admit they're reds.)
To: onyx; STARWISE; Liz; Bahbah; maggief; SE Mom
Another one bites the dust....
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:22:45 PM PST
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: Sparky1776; SE Mom; STARWISE; maggief; Liz; NormsRevenge
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:23:07 PM PST
by
onyx
(BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
To: Slyfox
Very nice. From the 1928 version of The Missing Chums, a classic written by the late Canadian author Leslie McFarlane under the Stratemayer house name of Franklin W. Dixon.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:23:39 PM PST
by
Publius
To: NormsRevenge
all these guys are set for life as far as pensions and bennies....this dufus can kick back and get intoxicated to his hearts content. He has been in rehab a few times
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:23:52 PM PST
by
dennisw
(It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
To: luv2ndamend
I think most of the pubs are advancing their careers and running for senate or governor.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:24:38 PM PST
by
rabidralph
("Precedenting" is a lot tougher than community organizing.)
To: NormsRevenge
Soros is going to be writing checks like mad this year!
Too many seats to defend. Of course, I doubt this seat would ever be seriously contested.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:24:59 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: sinanju
Got a feeling he never wanted to be in politics, but couldn’t tell daddy NO!
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:25:02 PM PST
by
hoosiermama
(ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
To: festusbanjo
Probably moving back to MA to win back his Dad’s seat in 2012. He was facing a tough re-election for his current seat so I doubt he has his eye on the Senate.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:25:05 PM PST
by
StarFan
To: NormsRevenge
May Anthony Kennedy be the only Kennedy in DC
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:25:20 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Chris Wallace: I can tell you, Ronald Reagan would never have quit.)
To: Marty62
Time to party.I strongly suspect Patrick is back on the booze, pills, cocaine, whatever. He's a junkie. With Ted dead, there's nobody left for Patrick to worry about disappointing again. I'm sure it's been pilled-up party time for Patrick since the funeral.
No doubt Patrick is sick and tired of yo-yo-ing back and forth to faux "rehab" so he can once more proclaim his "sobriety" and give the hopeless, ignorant suckers in his district the lame excuse they need to vote for him again. Buh-bye, Patrick. Try not to OD.
To: NormsRevenge
That’s the best political news I’ve heard all day!
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:26:04 PM PST
by
Darren McCarty
(I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
To: NormsRevenge
LOL! Guess who the jokes on.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:26:17 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: votemout
I was assigning to PK the same assessment he gave of Scott Brown’s taking the MA Senate seat.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:26:48 PM PST
by
G Larry
(DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
To: mia
He won’t run because the polls must be telling him he would lose “big time.”
From February 5th (WRNI): Thirty-five percent of respondents view Congressman Patrick Kennedy positively, while 62 percent see him negatively.
So rather than try to ahem...REHABilitate his image, Patches runs home to the Compound to live on his trust fund. No more playing Congressman!
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:27:14 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(2010 - The Second American Revolution. The first shot was fired 1/19/2010 -- here in Massachusetts!)
To: hoosiermama
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:27:33 PM PST
by
onyx
(BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
To: NYer; Salvation
Winner by KO, Bishop Tobin.
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posted on
02/11/2010 7:29:24 PM PST
by
cmj328
(Filibuster FOCA--a/k/a ObamaCare--or lose reelection)
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