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Counting the votes

Posted in 5th District race, Ken Johnson on Aug 30th, 2007 Comments

State Sen. Steven Baddour met with members of The Eagle-Tribune editorial board today to talk about a number of matters, mostly related to our crumbling transportation infrastructure.
But we are just four days out from the primary for the 5th District congressional seat, so naturally, talk turned to politics.
Baddour supports Lowell City Councilor Eileen Donoghue – [...]

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Breach of trust? Come on.

Posted in 5th District race, Taylor Armerding on Aug 23rd, 2007 Comments

Oh, please.
The Niki Tsongas truth squad is overreaching a bit with its attempt to take a bite of of prime primary rival Eileen Donoghue in the waning days of the campaign to see which Democrat makes the ballot in the final election to replace Marty Meehan in the Fifth Congressional District.
Donoghue reported to the Federal [...]

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And the beat goes on

Posted in 5th District race, Nelson Benton on Aug 21st, 2007 Comments

State Treasurer Tim Cahill is expected to endorse Niki Tsongas’ candidacy for Congress at a press conference in Lowell today.
Cahill’s nod adds to the air of inevitability the brains behind the Tsongas campaign have sought to give her bid almost since the day she entered the race for Marty Meehan’s seat. And the strategy appears [...]

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Meanwhile, over in the GOP race

Posted in 5th District race, Nelson Benton on Aug 8th, 2007 Comments

The Democratic candidates in the race for Marty Meehan’s seat in Congress have shared the stage so often, any one of them could probably recite another’s stock lines.
That’s not the case over on the Republican side where Tom Tierney has appeared a half-dozen times with the Democrats but, according to him, has yet to meet [...]

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Bold? Try “vapid”

Posted in 5th District race, Ken Johnson on Aug 7th, 2007 Comments

Barry Finegold, Democratic candidate for the 5th District congressional seat, supposedly has some top party operatives working on his campaign.
You wouldn’t know it from his latest press release, which was inane even by the lax standards of the genre.
In his statement titled “Eight Bold Steps to Move Our Country Forward” Finegold says,
“I’m not running to [...]

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Tsongas the target

Posted in 5th District race, Nelson Benton on Aug 2nd, 2007 Comments

Nothing better confirms a candidate’s front-runner status than when he or she becomes the target of everyone else in the race.
Various polls have shown Niki Tsongas, who has the best name given there are no Kennedys running for the 5th District congressional seat, leading the Democratic field. And her opponents seemed to confirm that fact [...]

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