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A leading Massachusetts Democrat attacked the Bush administration while positioning himself as a candidate to replace John F. Kerry in the Senate at the Harvard College Democrats’ convention on Sunday.
Markey’s speech came at the end of the College Dems’ second annual convention. Over 100 participants spent the day in Sever Hall refining party messages in small focus groups.
ON HOMELAND SECURITY: "The President hasn't put one nickel ... into the effort to fix some of our tunnels and bridges and most exposed subway systems. That's why they had to close down the subway in New York when the Republican Convention was there."
In fact, Bush has spent 2.3 billion nickels ($115 million) on transit security in the past two years, even if that is chump change compared with the aviation-security budget: 106 billion nickels ($5.3 billion this year alone). As for New York City subway trains, they ran normally during the...
Democrats are still seething over the very public defection of Zell Miller, the Democratic Senator from Georgia who endorsed George W. Bush and trashed John Kerry at the G.O.P. Convention. Now Republicans have a defector of their own to worry about: Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island's moderate G.O.P. Senator, who...