It now turns to
Joe Kennedy, the former congressman and nephew of the late
senator, to decide whether to keep Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in
the family. The younger Kennedy has been out of the House for
over a decade and decided to take a pass on two consecutive
gubernatorial races (1998 and 2002) due to family problems. But
he has kept a high public profile through his appearances in
Citizens Energy commercials and he is of course a Kennedy. He
would clear some fairly strong candidates out of the primary
field, though the Boston Globe story linked above
suggested Congressman Stephen Lynch of South Boston and Attorney
General Martha Coakley would still run for the Democratic
nomination anyway.
