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john kerry's replacement has been named interim replacement
uh... divall patrick is named mo cal and his former chief of staff to be interim
senator replacing john kerry until the special election is held on june
twenty-fifth of course john kerry becoming secretary of state replacing
hillary clinton in that position the primary for the special elections set
for late eight role
i'll be honest i don't care that much about this choice of mcallen it's a
little interesting that it didn't go to barney frank who indicated he was
interested in fc was barney frank
very well respected and and a very popular guy
in the house of representatives retiring said i would do the interim senate thing
not chosen
i am really a lot more interested in the special elections coming up in which
democratic congressman ed markey has said i'm going to be a democratic
candidate we will see what the primary shapes out to be there and the big
question has been
looking back at former senator scott brown who initially got into the senate
on a summer special election
and uh... then in the first actual regular election was booted back out
speculation that he will run again and and now we have evidence there's a new
poll for mass inc saying that
if the election were held today hypothetical election today between
scott brown and marquee at scott brown is leading by about twenty two
a lot of people saying listen is as it so early
scott brown hasn't even said he's a candidate
nobody has started campaigning against scott brown because he's not a candidate
it is really a name recognition thing at this point it's got brad of course as
well more name recognition in massachusetts mendez ed markey
this is not a big deal now we have to talk about another aspect here which is
that a lot of people are saying
present obama is somehow to blame here in other words president obama should
have known that by selecting john kerry instead of susan rice who removed her
name from consideration
or anybody else
he was specifically opening up a situation where again
scott brown republican gets back in the senate
in one of these special elections i actually reject this argument
i actually reject the are number one
i would like i know everything is political and everything is eh... above
planned and and scripted
i actually like the idea of the president obama said
i don't care about the political implications iva leave john kerry if
this is what he believes i believe john kerry is the the man for this job
and i'm going to select john kerry regardless of the political implications
i'm agreeing as he has to come to massachusetts and campaign for
the democratic candidate to replace john kerry
the reality is
democrats have to be able to win
a senate election in massachusetts
particularly
after the disaster of having lost one so embarrassing lee
just a few years ago when scott brown initially got in
to the seat previously held by ted kennedy i don't fall president obama
offer this if if massachusetts democrats can't figure out a way
to get the democrat back in that seat
they don't deserve to have it that's the reality when i was the wake-up call i
mean i think if that special election had never happened
scar brown would probably win this one
uh... if the if he runs but then we hopefully that's the wake-up call that
the people needed to actually get up and go vote here particularly with that
having happened
there is no excuse for democrats to lose another election to a republican
particularly scott brown who we already have evidence that
he had no staying power he got in on a special election were almost nobody
voted
and he was out at the first opportunity to vote him out this is not a guy who
are back in and then back out
ladies and gentlemen
you should not blame president obama for this