Mass. front-runner avoids Kennedy legacy
From: The Washington Times | December 28, 2009
BOSTON | Attorney General Martha Coakley may be the front-runner in the race to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, but she is crafting a campaign largely free of the Kennedy mystique. Although she shares Kennedy's position on key issues and is appealing to the same liberal Democratic voters who returned him to office during his 47 years in the Senate, Mrs. Coakley is helping usher in a post-Kennedy Massachusetts - a state where politics have been inextricably linked to the family for generations. Unlike her three Democratic rivals in the recent primary, Mrs. Coakley refrained from ...
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