Massachusetts U.S. Senate election, 1996

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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	John Kerry, Circa 1996
		Those seeking perspective on Kerry from before the frenzy of this year's presidential race, however, may be interested in "A Race Too Far" (August 1996), in which Atlantic senior editor Jack Beatty analyzed that year's Senate contest between Kerry, who was the incumbent, and then-Massachusetts Governor William Weld.
		Articles from 1996 to the present chronicle Tony Blair's career, from his meteoric ascent to his fall from favor.
		Years before the frenzy of the 2004 election, Jack Beatty offered a look at John Kerry and how he was perceived by voters.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/200410u/fb2004-10-11 (619 words)

	Dick Morris - Premiere Speakers Bureau
		In addition to Clinton, Morris has handled the winning campaigns for more than 30 Senators or Governors including former Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and former Governors Bill Weld of Massachusetts and Pete Wilson of California.
		Probably the most prominent American political consultant, Dick Morris is almost universally credited with piloting Bill Clinton to a stunning comeback re-election victory in 1996 after the president lost Congress to the Republican two years before.
		Morris did not work on Clinton's defeat for re-election in 1980 but did oversee his comeback victory in 1982 as well as his Arkansas re-election victories in 1984, 86, and 1990.
	premierespeakers.com /3045/index.cfm (1014 words)

	John Kerry, The Chameleon Senator Prevails Again!
		Despite the prayers and wishful thinking of POW/MIA families and Vietnam veteran activists, Sen. John Forbes Kerry, the "chameleon" senator from Massachusetts, was re-elected to the Senate in the 1996 election.
		Apparently Kerry's well publicized history as a longtime radical supporter of the Vietnamese communists and a recent flap about whether or not he is guilty of a war crime meant very little to the voters in Massachusetts.
		"Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, is one of the key figures pushing for normalization.
	www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com /story10.htm (1678 words)

	Christian Century: Pursuing Kerry: the elusive candidate
		It didn't help that Kerry had only one tough election in his Senate career--in 1996, when he was challenged by Massachusetts Governor William Weld.
		Massachusetts voters took it for granted that their Catholic senator with the Celtic-sounding name had an Irish background.
		Kerry was lonely at all of them, especially in Switzerland, but he adapted to the elite milieu of his classmates and excelled in academics and athletics.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_17_121/ai_n8582401 (1411 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / McGovern opponent lags in campaign funds
		While McGovern is preparing to fend off Crews, other Democrats considering a bid for John F. Kerry's Senate seat if he wins the presidential election this fall continued to rake in money for their war chests.
		By comparison, McGovern, a Democrat first elected to the Third Congressional District seat in 1996, collected nearly $216,000 during the same period and was left with about $414,000 when the most recent three-month reporting period ended June 30.
		McGovern last faced an opponent in 1998, when he soundly defeated Matthew J. Amorello, former Republican state senator and current chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/07/17/mcgovern_opponent_lags_in_campaign_funds (1411 words)

	WRKO
		Apparently $11,312.29 a month after taxes was'nt a big enough state pension for Whitey's little brother, Billy, the former president of the Massachusetts State Senate.
		Heinz at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in South Boston, 1996 (an election year, which explains why Kerry was there).
		The Government is appealing the sentence of Jackie Bulger (brother of both serial killer Whitey Bulger and former Senate President Billy Bulger) who is currently incarcerated in Devons Medical Center for convictions on Perjury and Obstruction of Justice.
	www.wrko.com /article.asp?id=52705 (1155 words)

	John E. Sununu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		First elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1996, he was reelected twice before winning a United States Senate seat from New Hampshire in 2002.
		Born in Boston, Massachusetts, John E. Sununu earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1991.
		Sununu first defeated a Republican incumbent (Bob Smith) in the primary and then the popular governor (Jeanne Shaheen) in the general election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_E._Sununu (390 words)

	Presidential Watch political cartoon -- "Debate practice" -- featuring John Kerry. By Linda Eddy.
		Team Bush has studied old videotapes of Kerry's 1996 Massachusetts Senate re-election campaign debates to the point where advisers like Karl Rove can recite portions from memory.
		Kerry is prepping at a resort in Spring Green, Wisconsin, 40 miles from Madison, at the House on the Rock Resort.
		Getting three contests "was much more important to us than any detail of the format," says Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill.
	www.iowapresidentialwatch.com /cartoonarc/Practice.htm (390 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Connecticut 5th District Race -- Jim Maloney Biography
		Maloney challenged Franks again in 1996, and this time Franks found himself in the midst of a backlash for his calling then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich a liar for not delivering on a promise to bring an affirmative action bill to a floor vote.
		Maloney went on to win in the general election, but by a slim 2,500 votes, a 50 to 48 percent margin.
		In 1986, Maloney was elected to his first public position in the Connecticut state Senate, a body in which he would serve for seven years.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/ct_maloney.html (390 words)

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