Posts tagged Scott Brown

Replacing a Replacement

10
3 months ago
by dcpetterson in
U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts

About to have replace­ment replaced

With John Kerry’s con­fir­ma­tion as Sec­re­tary of State, a seat opened in the U.S. Sen­ate. Mass­a­chu­setts Gov­er­nor Deval Patrick named his for­mer chief of staff, William “Mo” Cowan, as his interim replace­ment, and he was sworn in on Feb­ru­ary 7, cre­ated a record two (2) African Amer­i­cans in the Sen­ate at the same time.

A spe­cial elec­tion will be held June 25 to choose a “per­ma­nent” replace­ment for the five-​​term Sen­a­tor Kerry. It isn’t really very per­ma­nent, because it will only fill out Kerry’s cur­rent term, which expires after the 2014 midterms. In other words, there will be yet another elec­tion for that seat next year.

Here is a brief run­down of some can­di­dates who have so far declared their inten­tion to run in the June spe­cial elec­tion. (more…)

Senate Watch: April

16
1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in

This is the sec­ond in our Sen­ate Watch series. In this series, we look at the seats up for elec­tion this cycle, and which way it looks like they’re going.

Here is this month’s map:

Now for the details. (more…)

Senate Watch: March

17
1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in

Today marks the begin­ning of a new series: Sen­ate Watch. We’ll be look­ing at the seats up for elec­tion this cycle, and which way it looks like they’re going.

I’ll start this month with a map, fol­lowed by an expla­na­tion. First, the map:

Now for the expla­na­tion. (more…)

Most Telling

0
2 years ago
by Michael Weiss in

(Ed. Note. Update: Sen­ate Repeals DADT)

This morn­ing, the Sen­ate voted for clo­ture on the bill repeal­ing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Six Repub­li­cans voted in favor of cloture:

  • Susan Collins (ME)
  • Olympia Snowe (ME)
  • Mark Kirk (IL)
  • Lisa Murkowski (AK)
  • George Voinovich (OH)
  • Scott Brown (MA)

All of them, except for Brown and Kirk, have been in the Tea Party’s sights. Given how Brown has proven to be very mod­er­ate by Repub­li­can stan­dards, I won­der how long it will be before he, too, is targeted.

Updated to add: The final Sen­ate vote is expected to occur at about 3PM EST.

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