Word: penney
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...Andrea Penney has never thought of herself as a political type. Until a few weeks ago, the 59-year-old registered nurse and lifelong resident of Salisbury, Mass., had never so much as put a bumper sticker on her car or a sign in her yard, she says. But in the past few weeks, she has done both. And Monday afternoon found her at her first political rally, braving the cold and a light snow with several hundred others along Main Street...
...Health care - that's what motivated me," Penney said. "The health care thing pushed me over the edge." President Barack Obama's effort to transform the nation's health care system was indeed cited by many of the Brown voters I talked to on Main Street. And therein lies a bitter irony: universal health care was the cause that meant more than any other to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, whose seat will be filled by this special election. Further, Massachusetts is the state that has come closer to achieving it than any other, with a 2006 law that...