Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Michael Kennedy, the sixth child of Robert Kennedy, who once seemed to have his father's quiet passion without the Kennedy sense of entitlement, finds himself at the center of a new scandal--that he allegedly had a five-year affair with a girl who baby-sat his three children at the family home in Cohasset, Mass., beginning when she was 14. At the same time, Joe II, a six-term Congressman planning to run for Governor, is trying to weather a just published book, Shattered Faith, by ex-wife Sheila Rauch Kennedy that depicts him as a narcissistic bully...
...Kennedyland, where everyone is his brother's keeper, the blowback from Michael's scandal and publicity surrounding Shattered Faith have sent Joe's popularity sinking. In Boston Herald polls, 17% of voters said they are less likely to vote for Joe based on Michael's problems alone, and 1 in 4 has a less favorable view of Joe as a result of the book. Suddenly, worthy but dull attorney general Scott Harshbarger looks like a strong Democratic candidate for Governor in 1998. And the heretofore impossible in Massachusetts seems plausible: an office a Kennedy wants could be kept from...
...scandal didn't have to happen. He had got divorced in 1991 with no electoral downdraft. As Irish luck would have it, he had married a woman much like the woman who married dear old Granddad: silent in the face of a raw pursuit of power and pleasure. When the marriage ended, Sheila didn't utter a peep, not even asking for alimony. For the sake of the children, she stayed in the Boston area, moving into a rundown house in Cambridge, which she renovated. When Joe soon took up with an aide in his office, Beth Kelly, Sheila said...
Like a recession, a scandal is best early in an election cycle. A Globe/WBZ-TV poll last week found that Joe Kennedy was viewed negatively by 39% of voters. In the 1994 Senate elections Ted Kennedy's negatives were above 50%, yet he easily won re-election, thanks in part to a second marriage that restored his soul...
...news of Fine's interest in the Goodling conversation comes at a time when the Administration had been hoping to get past the scandal. Gonzales and the White House have been fighting running battles with the Democrats for the better part of three months now and the failed no-confidence vote had been seen by some as a turning point. Republicans argued that it was the last gasp of what they view as a political witch hunt. Democrats said the vote won them new public support from Republicans and that it was simply part of a long, steady stream...