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Lynch vs. D'Alessandro
By adamg on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 3:37pm
The Mac D'Alessandro campaign says it's submitted 4,000 signatures to the secretary of state's office, which should be more than enough to get him on the Democratic primary ballot this fall against Ninth District incumbent Steve Lynch.
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Lynch - certainly not the working class hero he pretended to be
Steve Lynch is dead to me. He's certainly not the working class hero he pretended to be.
How much in campaign contributions did he take from health insurance companies?
Who are you - the freakin'
Who are you - the freakin' Godfather? He's dead to you? As if you ever voted for him.
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
....Leading up to the House vote health care activists across the 9th Congressional District lobbied Congressman Lynch relentlessly to support the public option with no success. This is why, as politico.com reported on September 8, 2009:
A longtime advocate of labor interests, Lynch wasn't even invited to the state's leading labor breakfast this weekend because of his skepticism towards the proposed public option component of health insurance legislation.
Notably, Reps. Michael Capuano, Ed Markey and state Attorney General Martha Coakley all loudly expressed support for the public option at these same events. Lynch's hesitation - combined with his past record - means that he'll face a tough challenge to win the nomination.
The activists who lobbied Mr. Lynch on the public option to no avail are absolutely flabbergasted that the Congressman is suddenly the only one of the 435 members of the House of Representatives who voted to kill the bill over the public option. I find it hard to believe that Congressman Lynch went from being one of the Massachusetts delegation's most reluctant public option supporters to the most hardened advocate in the entire nation. A more plausible theory is that Mr. Lynch is, like so many politicians, trying to have it both ways.
http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/19865/stephen-l...
"dead to me" How dramatic!
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Jury still out on health care
I haven't read the whole bill myself. I hope it provides more benefits than costs to the middle and working classes, but who really knows? A nasty sausage-making process indeed.