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Bill Clinton Backing Martha Coakley For Kennedy Seat
Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Martha Coakley (D)
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Former President Bill Clinton is wading into the race to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy, backing Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley before Tuesday's Democratic primary.
The Coakley campaign said Clinton recorded a robocall for 500,000 primary voters asking them to choose the Democratic candidate and saying, "You can trust her to get results in the Senate."
"Martha Coakley will go to Washington to fight every day to create good jobs with good benefits and to get health reform with a strong public option," Clinton says on the call, which you can listen to here.
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midnight rambler
December 6, 2009 10:15 PM
Clinton + robocall = vote for Capuano
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acf_ma
December 6, 2009 11:20 PM
I'm voting for Capuano in the primary. I never liked Coakley's public posturing during her high profile criminal cases while in the DA's office, and refused to support her in either of her other primary races. If she should be the primary winner, then I'll swallow hard and vote for her over her likely Republican opponent Romney lite candidate Brown AKA, the only candidate Mitt managed to get elected to the MA legislature during his years as governor.
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Jake
December 6, 2009 11:48 PM
Kiss of death strikes again.
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VexSmith
December 7, 2009 12:46 AM
Coakley has run a rather remarkably uninspired campaign. Is it because she's playing stall-ball with such a big lead, or is she really this dull?
If Pagliuca hadn't been indulging in massive media buys, you probably wouldn't even break 10%--vote-- on Tuesday. He's kept everyone awake.
I knew being a women in the crowded field would be an advantage but I didn't think it would make an average--at best-- candidate a lock.
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DanF
December 7, 2009 9:48 AM
What about Alan Khazei? He just picked-up the endorsement of the Boston Globe:
"With high hopes, the Globe endorses Alan Khazei, the prime mover behind national-service policies, as Massachusetts’ best chance to produce another great senator."
I've read a bit about Khazei, and he sounds like the real-deal for progressives.
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sweet spot
December 7, 2009 10:31 AM
a number of people have suggested that Globe's Khazei endorsement was just a cop out, arguing that the paper didn't want to get on either Coakley's or Capuano's bad side by endorsing their main opponents.
I like to think a bit more positively about this and argue that Khazei is definitely, as the Globe endorsement said, the best successor to Kennedy in terms of his commitment to politics for the social good. Right now I think that my vote is going to Khazei.
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Prairie Sunshine
December 7, 2009 11:41 AM
So, Vicki Strauss Kennedy endorses Khazei, and Clinton comes out for Coakley. The petulant president takes another shot at those who did not endorse Hillary.
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