{"id":183528,"date":"2013-01-31T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/31\/there-will-be-a-primary-in-the-democratic-senate-race-in-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T01:50:00","slug":"there-will-be-a-primary-in-the-democratic-senate-race-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/31\/there-will-be-a-primary-in-the-democratic-senate-race-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be a Primary in the Democratic Senate Race in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew that Ed Markey was in the race, but now <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.firedoglake.com\/2013\/01\/31\/ma-sen-stephen-lynch-will-challenge-ed-markey-in-democratic-primary\/\">Stephen Lynch has announced that he will run as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch is a right wing ratf%$# who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Lynch_%28politician%29#Domestic_policy\">voted to intervene in the Terri Sciavo<\/a> affair, where the Republicans in Congress decided to intervene in the medical affairs of a brain dead woman, one of only 30 Democrats who did this, and the only Dem from New England to do so.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s an opponent of abortion rights, and was a big booster of the war as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that Lynch gets destroyed in the primary, and that it leads to him being unseated in the 2014 9<sup>th<\/sup> district elections as a result.<\/p>\n<p>As to how the primary will effect the special election, where Scott Brown is almost certain to be the&nbsp; Republican candidate, I generally favor primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew that Ed Markey was in the race, but now Stephen Lynch has announced that he will run as well. Lynch is a right wing ratf%$# who voted to intervene in the Terri Sciavo affair, where the Republicans in Congress decided to intervene in the medical affairs of a brain dead woman, one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}