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Sleepy race for rep may well perk up
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| Contributor | Ferriswheel |
| Last Edited | Ferriswheel Sep 22, 2004 10:56am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Friday, August 13, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Kristine Glynn and Marty Walz have a hard time finding an issue on which they disagree, making for a sleepy race for state rep. Things change after the Sept. 14 Democratic primary, however, when one of them will face Republican Richard Babson. The openly gay, socially liberal Babson isn't cut from the same ideological cloth as Gov. Mitt Romney [related, bio]. But at least he'll be making good on Romney's promise that Republicans will no longer passively cede legislative seats to Democrats.
The seat in question is the reliably progressive Eighth Suffolk. (When the national media talks about ``liberal Massachusetts,'' this is the place they mean.) Almost evenly divided between portions of Cambridge and some of Boston's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Eighth has a storied history. Barney Frank [related, bio], now a U.S. congressman, represented it from 1973 to 1980. In eight years as its rep, Mark Roosevelt spearheaded passage of the Education Reform Act and ended up the 1994 Democratic nominee for governor. He was followed by Paul Demakis, who earned a reputation as nemesis to House Speaker Thomas Finneran.
...Yet Romney won in Boston in 2002, and lost by just a small margin in Cambridge. The right Republican could well have appeal."
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