Spooked that Democrat candidate Rep. Ed Markey holds only a slim lead over his Republican challenger, Gabriel Gomez, national Democrats are pouring money into the race. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is blitzing Massachusetts with a $700,000 ad buy attacking
On Wednesday evening, Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez put his opponent, long time Democratic Congressman Ed Markey, on the defensive in the first debate of the special election campaign to replace John Kerry in the United States Senate from Massachusetts. Gomez
On Thursday, the well respected Cook Political Report moved the Massachusetts special Senate election that pits Democratic Congressman Ed Markey against Republican political newcomer Gabriel Gomez from “leans Democratic” to “toss-up.” The Cook Political Report’s Jennifer Duffy wrote that while they still had their “thumb on the
Republican Senate Candidate Gabriel Gomez, who made headlines by calling his opponent in next month’s Massachusetts special Senate election Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) “pond scum” for running an internet ad that compared Gomez to Osama bin Laden, doubled down by repeating the
BOSTON, May 24 (UPI) — Massachusetts Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez called his Democratic opponent, Rep. Ed Markey, “pond scum” in an interview. Gomez was asked by National Public Radio about a Gomez political advertisement in which he accused
After Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), who is running for the Senate seat abandoned by Secretary of State John Kerry, released an ad attacking his Republican opponent, businessman Gabriel Gomez, inking Gomez with Osama bin Laden the race has gotten ugly
PPP, the left leaning polling organization, released a poll on Friday that showed Democratic nominee Ed Markey clinging to a 44% to 40% lead over Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts special election to select a new Senator to
Two days after the Massachusetts primary election in which Ed Markey won the Democratic nomination and Gabriel Gomez won the Republican nomination, the Emerson College Polling Society released a poll that shows Markey has only a 42% to 36% lead over
Last Friday the Washington Post reported that Senator John Kerry and Vicki Kennedy, widow of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, both endorsed the candidacy of Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for the Senate seat Kerry will vacate if, as expected, he is
You know, this whole FCC torpedoing AT&T’s planned T-Mobile merger is nonsense. As I have written about often, I think the merger’s a mini jobs stimulus plan which can inject jobs into the economy far beyond anything that may happen
With his budget, President Obama shows he misunderstands arithmetic; with his energy plan, he shows he misunderstands supply and demand. Or perhaps, as his congressional critics allege, he understands them all too well. Speaker Boehner laid out the charges: “[The
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House on Thursday voted to end federal funding to National Public Radio. Republican supporters said it made good fiscal sense, and Democratic opponents called it an ideological attack that would deprive local stations of access to
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House on Thursday voted to end federal funding to National Public Radio. Republican supporters said it made good fiscal sense, and Democratic opponents called it an ideological attack that would deprive local stations of access to
Republicans are considering ways to trim the federal budget — and the funds that go toward public broadcasting are on the chopping block. Now it appears that certain public radio stations may be violating federal law to convince listeners to
I am told that, at this morning’s hearing of the House Select Committee on Global Warming, the Ranking Republican Jim Sensenbrenner (WI) requested that the two administration science witnesses — White House science advisor John Holdren, most recently seen in
