Health Care For All, HFCA, organized a Labor Day rally and march in support of health care reform, which started with speeches at the gazebo on the Boston Common and ended after a march and more live music at Copley Square.

To set a festive tone at the gazebo, a funk band followed by a rag time band played as the crowd of thousands gathered. Speakers on the gazebo included Rep. Michael Capuano, AG Martha Coakley, Rep. Stephen Lynch, Mayor Thomas Menino, Rep. Ed Markey, Rep. John Tierney, Betty McGuire from SEIU, a representative from Doctors for America, and a woman who told her story about needing surgery and being uninsured.

Channel 4 reports.

The Dorchester Reporter reports Michael Capuano will be taking out papers on Tuesday - and adds he started talking about that before Kennedy made his announcement.

Kennedy's complete statement, posted at the Citizens Energy site:

The Free Government Party goes public; they're the group using Craigslist to recruit somebody to run against Capuano if they agree to be bound by online polls.

Via MetaFilter.

Alicia notices an interesting Craigslist ad:

Become MA's Next 8th Congressional District US Representative (8th Congressional District)

Yes, we're serious.

We're looking for a candidate to run under a new political party intent on representing people directly through online polling. ...

So watch out, Mike Capuano: Some anonymous political party with no candidate (yet) is gunning for you.

There is a new Cambridge-based website for people upset about Rep. Mike Capuano (Cambridge, Boston, Somerville) not supporting impeachment in the vote brought against Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday, by Rep. Dennis Kucinich. It is CapuanoTraitor.com. The vote was broadcast on CNN. An excerpt from the site reads:

There is no middle ground when you know a crime as great as the overturn of the Bill of Rights is in progress, especially if you are in the branch charged with stopping that crime.

Andy lives in Michael Capuano's district. After reading a John Kerry apologia for Capuano's Brazil trip today, he no longer wants to vote for him:

... I think that if Democrats try in one breath to call for reform and point to Delay as horribly corrupt but in the other breath defend the blatantly stupid decision by Capuano as an aberration we will immediately lose our edge as reformers and look like silly, partisan hacks. Representative Capuano may represent the people of his district well but in this current climate of corruption he has spectacularily failed us and for that we need to think twice about who we send to Washington in November.

On Blue Mass. Group, Charley wishes Michael Capuano wouldn't try to rationalize away that $19,000 trip to Brazil paid for by corporate interests:

... Our system is broken by money, and as far as this goes, it broke Mike Capuano. Just apologize, Mike -- start to heal your reputation. ...

Sissy calls her local congressman and senators to see what they plan to do to cut pork. She writes:

... Not that we would ever vote for one of them in a million years. But Capuano's and Kennedy's staff were friendly and helpful -- professional -- while Kerry's were snotty and dismissive ...