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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:30 AM
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Senator Kennedy wants his wife to serve out his term.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/women_senators.htm

Actually there have been a few women who have done so. There are 16 women Senators only yet they are half the population (or more in the senior age group).
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:35 AM
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1. has he really said this?
?

thanks-
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:47 AM
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6. Front-page of DU.
The link to the article is there.

And another discussion of this is LBN.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:49 AM
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10. thanks Kristi-
I missed that entirely-:blush:

:hi:

blu
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 10:00 AM
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13. .
I'm embarrassed to admit that I usually enter DU almost exclusively via GD-P. I'm here so much it's what my history remembers.

It's an interesting article, but I found this older one more interesting.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3DD1F3BF932A35753C1A964958260
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VeraAgnes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:43 AM
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2. I don't know anything about her.........
but, I guess he knows best since he has daughters and sons who also are qualified.
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:44 AM
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3. When has he said this?
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PoliticalAmazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:08 PM
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28. Not good news. Might mean that Kennedy believes the end is near. n/t
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:46 AM
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4. Well. An understandable emotion. I wonder if he might just let
Governor Patrick make this call, though.

Not that either one has asked me for my input.

Joe Kennedy is still a Massachusetts resident, isn't he? How would that work?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:48 AM
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7. No, the Governor no longer has a say in this
The legislature changed the law when Kerry was running, so that Romney wouldn't be able to install a 'puke. It goes to a 145-160 day special election.
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:15 PM
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25. Thanks for the information
An election five months from now...November?
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 08:35 PM
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30. You're right. I've had a chance this afternoon to check it out and
that's the deal indeed.

Thanks for the heads up & correction.
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mohc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:46 AM
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5. A link for those asking if/when he said this
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/05/22/2008-05-22_ted_kennedy_id_like_wife_to_take_seat.html">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/05/22/2008-05-22_ted_kennedy_id_like_wife_to_take_seat.html
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:48 AM
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8. Though women in Kennedys age group are a bit more than half the population..most are from a time
when women took care of their husbands and children, and that was their mainstay. Most weren't interested in running for office, it was a different time and frame of mind then.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 10:26 AM
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16. His wife is 54. She's hardly in his age group and she's a lawyer
and activist.
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 10:43 AM
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17. I wasn't referring to his wife, I don't consider her a senior. Re-read the OP's post..he/she was
inferring "senior" women are under represented in the senate even though they are more than half the population. I consider women Kennedy's age to be senior, not his wife. To me 54 is young...shoo I'm only 11 years from it and I certainly don't consider myself close to being a senior citizen..lmao!

Hope that claries my post.
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:11 PM
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23. Seniors today aren't the seniors of years ago.
They don't sit home in their rocking chairs and wear black. That was the turn of the century for god sake.
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:06 PM
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27. I didn't say they sit home in their rocking chairs. But many women that are Kennedy's age believed
that their mainstay and purpose in life was to take care of their husbands, raise their kids and nurture their families. Research the vast difference between seniors Kennedy's age, and say just 10 t0 20 years younger. Huge difference in actions and perception, and goals in life, especially amongst women.
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:18 PM
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26. No I said women were under represented in the Senate.
Edited on Thu May-22-08 01:21 PM by mac2
There are only 16 of them today.

This is important...I said, women are half the population. But in the senior group of the population there are more percentage wise. I did not mention a thing about senior women running for public office.
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:08 PM
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29. You needed to clarify your post because it seems to all run together..sorry if you don't like it
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:09 PM
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22. That's just not true.
That age group was liberated. She's a lawyer. Time and frame? What history book did you read? Her age women were part of the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s.
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bunnies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:49 AM
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9. interesting.
Not sure how to feel about it though.
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:58 AM
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12. The good people of my former State will decide.
I am certain that Ted is not quite finished in the Senate.....
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bunnies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 10:53 AM
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18. I cant even imagine the senate without Ted Kennedy.
Maybe Im just not ready to entertain thoughts of him not being there.
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 11:52 AM
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20. Duplicate post
Edited on Thu May-22-08 11:54 AM by NotThisTime
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NotThisTime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 11:53 AM
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21. I can't imagine it either, I have voted for him since I was 18 :(
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 09:50 AM
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11. Oh and let's not even talk about under representation of other groups in the senate!
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 10:11 AM
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14. I don't know anything about her background.
Is she qualified to hold his seat? If she is, then fine.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 10:21 AM
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15. Nepotism in politics is a terrible thing.
I could never support handing a seat to someone just because of who their husband, father, mother ....are.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 10:56 AM
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19. Oh, The Irony
...
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:11 PM
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24. MA requires that there is a special election. I am no doubt that anybody with
Edited on Thu May-22-08 01:15 PM by Mass
Kennedy's support would be favorite, but it is not yet done.

In addition, this seems more like a media rumor than anything else. (She is very bright, but not the only woman in the Democratic Party in MA who may be looking for this seat, in addition to many men, when the time comes, the latest possible, I hope).
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Bad Thoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 08:38 PM
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31. Robert Reich
... is the highest profile resident not currently holding a post. I think he would be the leading candidate.
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