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Jan 19, 2010 by News Gatherer
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — Republican Scott Brown won theMassachusetts Senate bench of the backward Democrat Edward Kennedy, apolitical upset that imperils health-care legislation inCongress and sends a warning shot to Democrats ahead ofNovembers elections.
Brown was leading Democratic state Attorney General MarthaCoakley 52-47 percent with 92 percent of the states precinctsreporting, according to the Associated Press, which projectedBrown as the winner. Independent candidate Joseph Kennedy, norelation to the backward senator, had about 1 percent of the vote.
Instead, he crisscrossed the state in a auto truck andappeared days before the election with Boston Red Sox pitchinglegend Curt Schilling and John Ratzenberger, an amateur who playeda mail carrier on the Cheers television comedy.
24 to temporarilyfill the seat. He will replace Paul Kirk, a Kennedy friend andformer head of the Democratic National Committee who wasappointed by Governor Deval Patrick on Sept. Brown will serve the blow of Kennedys term, ending inJanuary 2013.
Youre going to see not only an beverage of real money,but also a lot of good-quality candidates come out and want torun — because they aroma blood in the water, said Republicanstrategist Scott Reed, who managed Bob Doles 1996 presidentialcampaign.
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