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Menino has doubts about Warren
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 06, 2011 06:27pm |
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| Author | Glen Johnson and Noah Bierman |
| News Date | Saturday, September 3, 2011 12:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "It may not be popular with his fellow Democrats, but count Mayor Thomas M. Menino as a believer in US Senator Scott Brown and - at least for now - a doubter about potential challenger Elizabeth Warren.
“Scott Brown has something about him that people gravitate to,’’ the mayor said yesterday after a federal housing announcement in Dorchester. “It’s just like that Tea Party group. It’s something they can gravitate to, because they believe they’re going to ‘change the world.’ The thing you have to give Scott Brown a lot of credit for: He works hard. He’s out in the neighborhood, he’s out talking. It’s like he’s running for City Council. He’s out shaking hands. At every event that’s possible, Scott shows up.’’
Brown, a Republican, shocked the Democratic establishment last year when he won the special election to replace the late Edward M. Kennedy. Though Warren has not yet declared, she is among eight potential Democratic challengers who have announced their candidacy or said they are weighing a run in their party primary.
Menino, a veteran politician who is the city’s longest-serving mayor, is skeptical about the Harvard Law School professor.
“Let me tell you, all these candidates, you have to sell yourself to the people. You know, the media can’t make you. You have to be saleable.
“Do I know she can be saleable? I don’t know that. But there are some people - who have greater political minds than mine - who believe so. But I think you have to be out there and squeeze the flesh and see how they feel.’’ |
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