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Pluto defender considers bid for Barney Frank's seat
By adamg - 2/8/12 - 3:29 pmMichael Burstein, a Brookline library trustee, science fiction writer and ardent supporter of Pluto's role as the ninth planet in our solar system, is setting up an exploratory committee to consider becoming an obstacle to the Kennedy Inevitability in the Fourth District, Brookline Patch reports.
Meanwhile, His Inevitableness, who knocked Boston City Councilor and Newton native Mike Ross out of the race, has moved to Brookline as he contemplates his own run.
It just wouldn't be a Massachusetts election without a Kennedy
By adamg - 1/5/12 - 12:29 pmThe Herald reports that, yes, Joe Kennedy III is running for Barney Frank's 4th District seat.
Mike Ross gets closer to moving out of Boston
By adamg - 12/13/11 - 7:53 pmSets up exploratory committee for possible run for Congress in the 4th District. Legally, he doesn't have to move to Newton, or wherever, but in practical terms, if he runs, he's outta here.
Barney Frank is retiring
By adamg - 11/28/11 - 10:46 amThe Globe reports Frank won't be seeking re-election next year.
A Lynchless congressional map
By adamg - 8/22/11 - 7:43 amBlue Mass. Group takes a look at the contortions that would eliminate the current 9th Congressional District.
Lynch makes plea to protect put-upon ethnic group in congressional redistricting
By adamg - 7/14/11 - 7:54 pmWon't anybody think of the Irish? According to the Dorchester Reporter, Steve Lynch urged a legislative redistricting committee not to break up his 9th District because that would mean breaking up the most Irish congressional district in the country.
The 2010 federal census means Massachusetts is losing one of its ten congressional districts.
State rep in charge of congressional redistricting decides DC fundraiser might be a bit unseemly
By adamg - 2/13/11 - 11:46 amChannel 5 reports on state Rep. Michael Moran's change of heart.
So which congressman do we lose?
By adamg - 12/19/10 - 11:36 amRichard Howe analyzes the jockeying now that it looks like we'll probably lose one of our ten congressional seats.
Campaign roundup: The epilogue
By adamg - 11/3/10 - 6:22 amBarney Frank spent much of his victory speech last night complaining about Republicans, added: "Massachusetts has reaffirmed the complete political irrelevance of the Boston Herald." A Republican operative who writes a column for the Herald retorts: I'm irrelevant? You're irrelevant!
WBUR sums up the blue wave that swept Massachusetts. At Blue Mass. Group, David sees in the Massachusetts vote an answer to the Tea Party wave:
Campaign roundup: How do you ignore the biggest political story of the day?
By adamg - 10/21/10 - 6:22 amYou're an editor for a metropolitan daily. Which story do you put on the front page: Jeff Perry and the strip search or Barney Frank lending his campaign some money? If you're the Herald, you go with the latter (don't forget to throw in some stuff about how Frank is "panic stricken") and ignore the former (save for a Margery Egan column declaring Perry is a cretin).
