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...going to find two more liberal pols than John Kerry and Jim Shannon, even in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, and the temptation is to assume they are identical. Resist it. Scrape away the often stale liberal rhetoric and the image mongering, and you will find that Jim Shannon deserves and is more qualified to replace Paul E. Tsongas as this state's junior senator...
...only does the 32-year-old Shannon have more Washington experience than Kerry, whose lieutenant governor post serves as little more than a political stepping-stone, but he has managed to reach an influential post on the House Ways and Means Committee without compromising his liberal voting record. Shannon, only 32 years old and finishing only his third term representing the Fifth District north of Boston, has already mastered the art of getting things done. He is a liberal with clout, and should continue to be effective in stopping and reversing the arms race and pushing for meaningful negotiations with...
...Shannon has been among the strongest opponents to Reaganomics in the House, resisting the flow of Democrats votes to the Republican side in the passage of Reagan's 1981 budget and massive three-year tax cut. Voting in Congress, of course, is more than the pulling of a lever, and we think Shannon, an instant protegee of Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill (D-Cambridge), will prove that he is more than a litmus-test liberal...
...this, Shannon will first have to catch up to front-runner Kerry, who holds a narrow lead in the polls, a lead due largely to the fact that just two years ago he ran a statewide campaign for lieutenant governor. Kerry, whose main political asset at this point is his high recognition, has persistently attempted, often unfairly, to undercut Shannon's record and has continued to reach for the moral high ground, a spot for which he is not well suited...
...biggest story of the summer's campaigning has been sniping over a $14 million tax break this spring put through the House Ways and Means Committee to a Springfield insurance company that had previously donated $6,000 to Shannon's senate campaign. According to local press reports--denied by Kerry--the Kerry campaign actively peddled the story to area media and than volunteered that he was shocked and astounded by the revolutions. It was perhaps poetic justice that an executive of the company revealed that Kerry had approached the same insurance firm for campaign donations, only to be turned down...