Word: welds
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...first race; he never lost again, but the mid-campaign scare was somewhat institutionalized. Kerry has a reputation in Massachusetts for stumbling through the middle of the campaign and then emerging victoriously from the trainwreck unscathed, like a political Mr. Magoo (see his Senate campaign against Governor William Weld ’66). For those of us in his corner, I suppose that counts as consolation...
...patrolling officer observed a small boat near the dock of Weld Boathouse. The boat fled at a high rate of speed as the officer approached. A search of the area by several officers failed to locate the boat...
...officer was dispatched to Weld Hall on a report of an individual suspiciously and repeatedly attempting to gain access to the building. The individual was gone upon the officer’s arrival...
...last minute, he gets his act together and wins." That was true in his race for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1982 and for the U.S. Senate in '84, and it was certainly true in Kerry's toughest campaign before 2004, his Senate race against Governor William Weld in '96. It is an enigma that cuts close to the essence of an intensely private man: Why does John Kerry require a near death experience to be an effective politician? I have a theory...
Kerry's toughest political battle, at least until now, was his 1996 fight for re-election against Massachusetts' popular Republican Governor William Weld. That election drew into Kerry's world the storied, sharp-elbowed media consultant Bob Shrum, who toughened Kerry's ads and message. Shrum made his name as a speechwriter for Edward Kennedy's failed 1980 presidential campaign, and no Democrat who was there will ever forget how Kennedy brought down the house at the Democratic Convention that year with the Shrum-crafted line that "the dream shall never die." It's that kind of magic candidates...