Vote from abroad | 25 JUNE 2013: MASSACHUSETTS SPECIAL ELECTION TO REPLACE JOHN KERRY

The general election to select candidates to fill the seat vacated by John Kerry will take place on Tuesday 25 June. If you have not sent in an FPCA since January 2013, you must act NOW to vote.

You can STILL request your ballot!

Go to www.votefromabroad.org, fill-out the information, download your FPCA and email your FPCA to your local election official by June 5 and they will email you the blank ballot. The ballot can then be emailed or faxed back to your local election official by 8:00 pm June 25. (It can be mailed back if postmarked by midnight June2 5 and received within 10 days of the election).

Retired Barney Frank wants interim Massachusetts Senate appointment By Jim Puzzanghera LA Times - The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat, whose 16 terms in the House officially ended this week, said Friday he wanted to be the interim replacement for Sen. John Kerry. Kerry (D-Mass.) has been nominated by President Obama to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of State. If Kerry is confirmed, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, would appoint someone to hold the seat until a special election could be held a few months later. With Congress set to make major decisions on government spending cuts and raising the nation’s debt ceiling this winter, Frank said he’d like to rejoin the fray.
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Retired Barney Frank wants interim Massachusetts Senate appointment

By Jim Puzzanghera LA Times - The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat, whose 16 terms in the House officially ended this week, said Friday he wanted to be the interim replacement for Sen. John Kerry.

Kerry (D-Mass.) has been nominated by President Obama to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of State. If Kerry is confirmed, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, would appoint someone to hold the seat until a special election could be held a few months later.

With Congress set to make major decisions on government spending cuts and raising the nation’s debt ceiling this winter, Frank said he’d like to rejoin the fray.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Democrats surge in key Senate campaigns Democratic candidates in some of the most critical Senate races in the country are surging, putting the party in its best position of the election cycle to keep its majority in November. The reasons range from the post-convention bounce led by President Barack Obama, to potent Democratic attack ads, to anemic performances of some GOP candidates. Fresh polling in marquee contests shows a distinct trend line in the Democrats’ favor, making the GOP’s narrow path to a Senate majority significantly more difficult with less than two months until the election. Democratic candidates in Virginia, Massachusetts and Wisconsin are on the rise after navigating a summer of challenges, and benefiting from Obama’s growing strength in all three states. In Florida and Ohio, Democratic incumbents have so far withstood a tidal wave of spending by conservative super PACs and outside groups. Senate Democrats said Wednesday that stumbles by Republican Senate candidates, infighting between the tea party movement and establishment wings of the GOP and effective Democratic ads have all helped their cause. The Democratic convention, they say, firmed up the party’s base. “Obama’s convention bounce is going to — in the short term — make taking the Senate majority look near impossible for a little bit,” acknowledged one top GOP strategist.
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Democrats surge in key Senate campaigns

Democratic candidates in some of the most critical Senate races in the country are surging, putting the party in its best position of the election cycle to keep its majority in November.

The reasons range from the post-convention bounce led by President Barack Obama, to potent Democratic attack ads, to anemic performances of some GOP candidates.

Fresh polling in marquee contests shows a distinct trend line in the Democrats’ favor, making the GOP’s narrow path to a Senate majority significantly more difficult with less than two months until the election.

Democratic candidates in Virginia, Massachusetts and Wisconsin are on the rise after navigating a summer of challenges, and benefiting from Obama’s growing strength in all three states. In Florida and Ohio, Democratic incumbents have so far withstood a tidal wave of spending by conservative super PACs and outside groups.

Senate Democrats said Wednesday that stumbles by Republican Senate candidates, infighting between the tea party movement and establishment wings of the GOP and effective Democratic ads have all helped their cause. The Democratic convention, they say, firmed up the party’s base.

“Obama’s convention bounce is going to — in the short term — make taking the Senate majority look near impossible for a little bit,” acknowledged one top GOP strategist.

“Number One”

When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was number one. Number one in state debt: $18 billion dollars in debt more debt per person than any other state in the country. At the same time Massachusetts fell to 47th in job creation; one of the worst economic records in the country. First in debt, 47th in job creation. That’s Romney Economics. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.

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Mitt Romney’s Economic Plan: It Didn’t Work Then, It Won’t Work Now

Mitt Romney’s Economic Plan? He wants to cut jobs for firefighters, police, and teachers. It’s the same thing he did in Massachusetts. The plan didn’t work then and it won’t work now.

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