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Democrats strike early in [MA] Senate race
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| Contributor | Miro |
| Last Edited | Miro Mar 06, 2013 07:25am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Frank Phillips |
| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Massachusetts Democrats, still humbled by their defeat in the 2010 US Senate special election, are launching unusually early campaign attacks on the Republican Party, particularly targeting Senate candidate Michael J. Sullivan for his conservative social positions.
Democratic Party leaders and gay rights activists have planned a press conference for Wednesday where they will highlight Sullivan’s opposition to same-sex marriage. The party will hold another event later in the week to attack the former US attorney, who is considered the early front-runner in a three-way GOP primary, for his opposition to banning assault weapons.
The preprimary election engagement with the GOP is atypical in Massachusetts politics, where Democrats tend to pay little attention to Republican primary candidates, their fights often overshadowed by the higher-profile battles on the Democratic side.
But Republican Scott Brown’s stunning defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley in the January 2010 special election to fill the seat left empty by the death of Edward M. Kennedy is seared in the party’s memory, a lingering political trauma that is prompting its leaders to develop an aggressive strategy in the second US Senate special election ever held in Massachusetts. |
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