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BOSTON -- Joseph Kennedy III is formally jumping into the race for the Massachusetts congressional seat now held by retiring U.S. Rep. Barney Frank. A member of the campaign who requested anonymity so as not to ...
Submit this storydigg reddit stumble BOSTON ? Joseph Kennedy III said Wednesday he's formally jumping into the race for the congressional seat now held by retiring U.S. Rep. Barney Frank.
"I believe this country was founded on a simple idea: that every person deserves to be treated fairly, by each other and by their government, but that's not happening in America anymore," Kennedy, a Democrat, said ahead of an announcement scheduled for Thursday.
Kennedy, the son of former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II and a grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy, recently moved from Cambridge to Brookline, part of the state's newly redrawn 4th Congressional District. The family has deep ties to the Boston suburb.
Kennedy announced last month he was forming an exploratory committee to look at a possible run for the seat. He isn't the only candidate in the race, though.
Republican Sean Bielat, who lost to Frank, a Democrat, in 2010, also has jumped into the contest. He made his announcement official in January.
"I think we started something last time," Bielat, a former U.S. Marine who lives in Norfolk, said at the time. "I think we made some big gains, but we didn't get the job done."
Republican Elizabeth Childs, of Brookline, a former state mental health commissioner under former Gov. Mitt Romney, has also announced her intention to run for the GOP nomination.
The Kennedy family has seen its influence in Washington fade in recent years as its younger generations have largely shunned public office.
The death of Massachusetts' U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy's great-uncle, in 2009 left a void for the family. The retirement of his son, Rhode Island's U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy last year marked the first time in 63 years that a Kennedy wasn't serving in elected office in Washington.
Joseph Kennedy III is a graduate of Stanford University, where he studied management science and engineering and was co-captain of the lacrosse team, and of Harvard Law School, where he served as technical editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic from 2004 to 2006.
Kennedy has not held elective office, but he and his twin brother, Matt Kennedy, served as co-chairmen for Edward Kennedy's final re-election campaign in 2006.
Joseph Kennedy III has served as a prosecutor for the Cape and Islands district attorney's office and more recently as an assistant district attorney in the Middlesex district attorney's office, a job from which he resigned last month.
Other Democratic candidates in the district, which stretches from the Boston suburbs to Fall River, include Paul Heroux, an Attleboro businessman; and Herb Robinson, a software engineer from Newton.
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Grad from Stanford and Harvard. At Stanford, he studied industrial engineering and was the captain of the lacrosse team. While at Harvard, he worked with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, which provides free legal services to low-income people in civil matters involving housing, government Read More... benefits, and wage laws.
1 minute ago ( 6:32 PM) I thought that we had finished with the Kennedys. Can't they make a living without working for the government????
3 minutes ago ( 6:31 PM) We elect people who are good at politics (many who have been trained in it from a young age) and then we wonder why they have such difficulty doing sensible things. Early politicians were citizens who spend a few years in government and then returned to their professions. Now, politics is a profession, the new Dukes and Duchesses.
Grad from Stanford and Harvard. At Stanford, he studied industrial engineering and was the captain of the lacrosse team. While at Harvard, he worked with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, which provides free legal services to low-income people in civil matters involving housing, government benefits, and wage laws.
5 minutes ago ( 6:28 PM) Dork B announcing bid for seat held by Dork A. According to this dork, being "treated fairly" means that if you are stupid or lazy, you should be able to legally steal other people's stuff.
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