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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) formally endorsed U.S. Representative Michael E. Capuano in the U.S. Senate race at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston on Friday morning...
Capuano seeks to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of the late Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 in August. This endorsement from the nation’s first female Speaker of the House is an important advantage in the race against opponent Attorney General Martha Coakley who, if elected, would be the eighteenth woman to serve in Congress and the state’s first female U.S. Senator...
...other Democratic candidates in the U.S. Senate race, Alan A. Khazei ’83 and Harvard Business School alumnus Stephen G. Pagliuca, must now determine how to recover from this endorsement...
...That was a very high energy race,” Leddy said. “I could see Catherine out the hole. I couldn’t see the Cornell girl until my teammates were pointing. It was definitely a painful way to see it, but it got the atmosphere going. Honestly just seeing everyone cheering helped because I was in the lane next to the wall...
...That’s a ten-minute and 26-second race, and she was tough enough to put her head down and get it done. It was the first individual event. It set the tone. It speaks to her toughness and versatility,” he added...