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Interim MA senator William ‘Mo’ Cowan
Today, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D) named William ‘Mo’ Cowan as the interim Senator for the state. Cowan previously worked as Deval’s chief of staff and will be one of the few African Americans to have ever served in the United States Senate.
Cowan was named to temporarily replace John Kerry who recently left the Senate to become Secretary of State. Cowan will act simply as a temporary placeholder for the next few months until the special election, but that will still potentially give him a chance to weigh in on gun control, immigration reform and the sequestration cuts.
The special election to fill the remainder of the term will take place on June 25th with the primary on April 30th. So far Rep. Edward Markey (D) is the only major candidate to announce his intention to run, but with special election date now officially set other potential candidates will need to move very quickly.
The biggest unknown at this point is if former Sen. Scott Brown (R) is willing to make another ran after having lost just a few months ago. Polling shows he would stand a good chance of winning if he did.
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Seems very strange that AA can only make it to the Senate by being appointed…..
What does this reflect,how segregated the DNC is & have used AA to support the elitist neo-librul agenda, or is this the fault of the GOP(usual suspect),or is this a reflection of poor leadership coming from AA ?
Someone,tell me what is going on here cuz I sure can’t figure this out
wiki
Edward William Brooke III (born October 26, 1919) is an American politician and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, former Massachusetts governor, Endicott Peabody in a landslide. He served for two terms, and was defeated by Paul Tsongas in the 1978 senate election.
Brooke was the first African American popularly elected to the Senate and would remain the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate in the 20th century until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1993. Brooke was the last Republican Senator elected from Massachusetts until Scott Brown was elected in 2010,
This guy is a staffer-for-life who’ll call the governor to ask what elevator to use in the Capitol. Massachusetts, and America, would have been much better served at this critical time by having Barney in the seat. But Patrick is an Obama ally, and I expect he acted as his principal wanted him to act: in a way that would make the Grand Bargain, cutting SSMM, go down more easily.
“EXTRA FLAIR”
Dogwhistle or foghorn, you be the judge.
I think it’s just that stuff, what do they call it, “affrimative action”?
OTOH, black governor, had to see that one coming.
Yeah, all you who think badly of me. That didn’t occur to you???? :-)
One word: Obama
A governor used his office to appoint someone from his own political circle?
AGHAST!!!!! IT’S SURELY NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!!!!