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...most notable recent screw-up was Rep Ed Markey's decision to quit the Massachusetts senate race. But it was a poor screw-up, tarnish on a shining tradition...
...Markey isn't as eloquent as Macbeth, but when he ignominiously quit the senate race last week, he screwed up Elizabethan style, with nobody to blame but himself. That's why in the past week and a half the local press has done nothing but rain down moralistic criticism--swatting Markey's hand and swiping his but at every opportunity. "Markey's Retreat," is the title of this week's Phoenix meditation, in which Markey is condemned as a "suitor scorned--actually not even scorned, but merely afraid of being scorned..." The Boston Herald's headline let the survivors speak...
...image seems perfectly suited to this particular Senate race where he may be able to hold the middle ground against the more conservative Shamie and Kennedy-type liberals Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden). Rep. James M. Shannon (D-Lawrence), and Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry...
...Tsongas became one of four Senators (two Democrats and two Republicans) who have announced they will not seek reelection. Seven Democrats are scrambling to succeed him. Congressman James Shannon, an ally of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, is probably closest philosophically to the neo-liberal Tsongas. Congressman Edward Markey has based his reputation on passionate support of a nuclear freeze and little else. When it seemed he was alienating his liberal constituency by opposing abortion rights, Markey shifted his stand on the issue. Supporters of Lieutenant Governor John Kerry say he combines Markey's good looks with Shannon...
...polling operation is done "completely by their people," said Markey press secretary Gillian Gansler, "[Caddell] doesn't say who he's doing a poll for," she added...