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...Larry Bird. But the Kennedys remain the state's most potent living legacy to the nation, with three of the clan now in Congress, helping to make politics one of the state's favorite spectator sports. This year, with John Kerry and Bill Weld battling for a Senate seat, Massachusetts is host to the Super Bowl of congressional races...
Neal pounced on the chance to fill this seat when 36-year incumbent Edward Boland retired in 1988. Eight years later, with a Capitol Hill reputation for working effectively behind the scenes, he sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He voted for medical leave and the line-item veto but, to protect his district's medical-service industries, balked at the President's 1993 health-care plan...
McGovern is a former congressional aide seeking his own seat in Congress. His No. 1 priority is to ensure safe neighborhoods by extending President Clinton's six-year plan to put 100,000 cops on U.S. streets and giving communities four extra years of government funding before they must pay the new salaries on their own. McGovern's plan also includes funding for full-time truant officers and a ban on "cop-killer" bullets. To help the children of the Third, he vows to make all schools computer-friendly...
...point lead in the polls, he lost the primary by 266 votes, lost a recount by 175 votes, then, according to a judge, citing errors made in faulty ballot scanners, won by 108 votes. Supporting abortion rights, Head Start and the assault-weapons ban, Delahunt hopes to win the seat of 24-year incumbent Gerry Studds--preferably, in a more conventional...
JOSEPH BRENNAN (D) SENATE (OPEN SEAT...