Posted on 10/04/2004 3:06:29 AM PDT by SeaBiscuit
If I'm not mistaken, W's hometown paper did the same to him.
This is a great endorsement! I'd like to see the RNC use the "Wrong Man, Wrong Place, Wrong time" in a ad slogan about Lurch.
Reported here about a week or so ago was that a Crawford TX paper (circulation 425) endorsed Lurch.
Anyone know if the Lowell Sun has a larger distribution than that?
Thanks for posting this. I wonder if this will get as much play in the media as the Crawford, Texas paper endorsement of Kerry. There was a good post on FR the other day about the Crawford paper endorsement and what was really behind it.
I've been to Crawford. A small Texas town with about 900 people who mostly support Bush. Hot is the summer and cold in the winter.
What is Kerry's connection to Lowell?
It's been a long, long time since working-class Lowell was his home town.
Quite a bit larger.
This was a much better article than the one in the crawford paper about Bush.
I don't know what Kerry's connection in that town is. Maybe he pushed someone out of a line there at one time.
it says Hometown, so maybe that's where he was hatched, and developed his snotty attitude.
Lowell's Sun has a larger circulation than Crawford's 450, I'm quite sure. And since most of those 450 have dropped their subscriptions, I think Crawford may be in the market for a new weekly soon.
So maybe that's why they don't like him, he is just snotty,
"His ambition tempered only by political naivete, Kerry tried on congressional districts like suits off the rack."
That is why sKerry is the most unlikely democrat candidate in history. He represents everything the loony left who are supporting him hate!
Interesting story. "oppertunist" is an understatement.
" early February, Kerry's wife, Julia, bought a house in Worcester, where Kerry intended to take on Harold D. Donohue, a longtime Democratic incumbent, in a central Massachusetts district. They never moved in. Instead, the couple rented an apartment in Lowell late in March after learning that Representative F. Bradford Morse would be named undersecretary general of the United Nations. His departure would open up the Fifth District seat held by Republicans for generations.
Kerry had tenuous ties to the Fifth District that proved to be a flimsy shield against the withering assaults of critics. Leading the attack was The Sun, the conservative daily in Lowell, the old, parochial mill city that anchored the district.
Resentment poured from many of the other nine candidates, whom Kerry would leave in the dust of a freewheeling Democratic primary.
In the wait-your-turn political culture of Lowell and nearby Lawrence, Kerry was a carpetbagger trying to cherrypick a seat in Congress.
In the general election campaign, Kerry was lashed relentlessly by The Sun, which questioned his patriotism, his loyalty to the district, and his financial backers. He blew a huge lead and lost to the Republican nominee, Paul W. Cronin, a former state representative who had served on Morse's staff.
Suddenly, the fast track to political glory vanished beneath the feet of the war hero turned war protester. There would be no official soapbox in the nation's capital, not any time soon at least. Kerry's first campaign for elected office had failed. And he was unemployed.
In defeat, he retreated to the outskirts of politics. ``The years in exile'' is how Cameron F. Kerry describes the next decade of his older brother's life."
Well, what he does stand for I do find quite sKerry.
"without safe cities and towns, America will lose its greatness. "
That says it all.
"To win the primary, the newcomer overcame the election eve arrest of his brother, Cameron, and campaign field director Thomas J. Vallely, both then 22, in the basement of a Lowell building that housed the headquarters of Kerry and another Democratic contender, state Representative Anthony R. DiFruscia of Lawrence. It was almost 2 a.m. - 30 hours before the polls opened - when the two were arrested on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny. That day's Sun blared a memorable, double-deck headline: "Kerry brother arrested in Lowell `Watergate."' DiFruscia, getting some extra ink in the campaign's waning hours, had drawn the parallel to the break-in at Democratic headquarters in Washington three months earlier. The Kerry camp declared it a setup, saying that the two responded to an anonymous phone call, minutes earlier, threatening to cut the campaign's 36 phone lines on the day before its get-out-the-vote effort. Lowell Police arrested the pair in an area near the trunk line for all of the building's phones. To this day Kerry becomes animated talking about the episode, convinced it was part of a conspiracy against his insurgency. He said he does not know who was involved. He dismissed as ridiculous the charge that DiFruscia was a target. "He didn't figure in the race," said Kerry. But some of Kerry's claims in the Lowell break-in are wildly at odds with the facts...."
"To win the primary, the newcomer overcame the election eve arrest of his brother, Cameron, and campaign field director Thomas J. Vallely, both then 22, in the basement of a Lowell building that housed the headquarters of Kerry and another Democratic contender, state Representative Anthony R. DiFruscia of Lawrence. It was almost 2 a.m. - 30 hours before the polls opened - when the two were arrested on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny."
That day's Sun blared a memorable, double-deck headline: "Kerry brother arrested in Lowell `Watergate."' DiFruscia, getting some extra ink in the campaign's waning hours, had drawn the parallel to the break-in at Democratic headquarters in Washington three months earlier.
The Kerry camp declared it a setup, saying that the two responded to an anonymous phone call, minutes earlier, threatening to cut the campaign's 36 phone lines on the day before its get-out-the-vote effort. Lowell Police arrested the pair in an area near the trunk line for all of the building's phones."
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