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Kennedy concedes to Markey in heated Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary
Fox News ^ | September 1, 2020 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 09/01/2020 8:01:37 PM PDT by rdl6989

Riding a wave of support from the Democratic party’s progressive wing – including the backing of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren -- Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts on Tuesday survived a heated primary battle against challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: New York
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To: Moonlighter

OK, thanks Moonlighter. I’m no longer in Massachusetts, but I will look up on-line Polito and Levy. Cheers!


41 posted on 09/02/2020 4:57:07 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: Moonlighter

Let’s hope that the GOP challenger can beat Markey. I know, it’s Massachusetts, I can dream, can’t I?


42 posted on 09/02/2020 6:15:48 PM PDT by wjcsux (They are burning buildings and Bibles now, people are next!)
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To: poconopundit

Saw that and meant to congrat on the great escape! lol. Both shows are available via iHeart radio whenever you get the urge to check in on your old stomping grounds though they cover all things national and beyond too.


43 posted on 09/02/2020 6:50:52 PM PDT by Moonlighter
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To: wjcsux

Dream big! You’ll need it in this case. Markey (as is Warren) is a worthless Senator. At least Ted Kennedy did stuff...though not sure that’s a better thing.


44 posted on 09/02/2020 6:53:51 PM PDT by Moonlighter
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To: Moonlighter

All RAT Senators are worthless at best. I cite Chuckie and DiFi to make my case.


45 posted on 09/02/2020 7:20:06 PM PDT by wjcsux (They are burning buildings and Bibles now, people are next!)
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To: Moonlighter; V K Lee; Liz; HarleyLady27; rlmorel

Thanks, Moonlighter.

I had a very good childhood in Mass. Born and raised on Cape Cod. Learned to sail in summer, play hockey on the pond in winter. Oldest of 8, Irish/English, Catholic, altar boy, and loved neighborhood sports with our friends. Dad was a real estate agent. A Reagan Democrat, Navy gunners mate on an LST at Normandy and Okinawa.

Like many families I suppose, we had a beautifully bound set of Great Books on the living room book shelf — that nobody read! But one time I was scanning them and my Dad remarked that if I read Emerson and understood it, “you could get into Harvard.”

Three decades later, I did study Emerson’s essays and made a little HTML program that categorized his essays into sections. And if anyone reading this wants to get a copy of this I will send it to you. I’ve since used the quotations in his Essays many times in my writing.

Dad was the one who instilled a love of the English poets. Usually in a darkened dining room at a time when everybody else was sleep — and after sipping a Seagram’s Seven glass for a few hours — I would sit a social distance way as he’d recite some of the epic poets. He only knew a few stanzas from Coleridge, Shakespeare, Invictus, Gunga Din, and Tennyson but that was enough for him to teach me the rhythm of the English tongue. Which many years later got me hooked.

After my peacetime Navy stint (9 years in San Diego, Hawaii, Japan) the Boston tech economy got me onto my career, and I’m still making my living (at 68) as a tech journalist/ industry analyst.

Now I live in Athens, GA, home of the 40,000 student strong University of Georgia. They have a big journalist school, but almost nobody there has a feel for the tech market style of journalism that is big in Mass and New England.

In sum, I owe my career to Massachusetts and now I can afford to live in a far more affordable place with a warm climate, and quite a beautiful small city — largely because of the influence of the University.

Yet the culture and arts of the Boston area has much you cannot find here. You can knock MIT and Harvard, but they did much to bring brainpower, innovation, and jobs to the Greater Boston area.

The guy who mentored me in tech journalism had a computer graphics newsletter in the 1980s and he was an MIT grad. And every day I wander over to actor James Woods’s Twitter page, another brilliant guy born in Rhode Island and who is an MIT undergrad.

Fortunately my wife is a good cook and fun person to live with, so I’m sufficiently fed, entertained and work keeps me busy - which I guess is the point :- )

So while I don’t like the politics of Massachusetts at all, I wanted to give credit where it’s due. While pursing many dead ends and making some big mistakes, I was in many ways “made in Massachusetts”.


46 posted on 09/02/2020 8:04:34 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: poconopundit

One thing for certain. Georgia’s weather is much easier on the old bones than Massachusetts. :-)

Theory: Persons living in the north need liberals
in their lives. If, for nothing else, just to keep them hot
under their collars (to counter that frigid weather).


47 posted on 09/02/2020 8:35:34 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: poconopundit

I love it here, for all those reasons you state, but the politics nauseates and disgusts me so much that, if my wife were ever inclined to leave (which she isn’t) I would go.

But she isn’t...so here I stay, with her where I belong.

I can live with that.


48 posted on 09/02/2020 9:24:56 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Massachusetts is lost...lost...lost. One can only hope that it continues to lose Congressional seats,as it has for the last 100 years,so it has less and less influence in national politics.

Ugh, sounds exactly like The People's Republik of Connecticut. I hope we also continue to lose Congressional seats. We have some of the worst Congress critters in Washington.

49 posted on 09/02/2020 9:25:48 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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