Appoint Brown as the interim senator!

Herald commenter said it first (0.00 / 0)

A commenter on the bostonherald.com article made the same suggestion a day before it occurred to me, and got a couple thumbs up. I agree with him, it would be a travesty to appoint anyone else.

Michie
What a giant waste of time that would be. The right thing to do would be for Deval to show he is not bound by partisan politics and appoint Scott Brown to the temporary assignment. He has been in on all the talks and debates thus far. It would be a travesty to the state of Massachusetts to send ANYBODY that can't hit the ground running in such critical times. But it's Deval we're talking about, so we'll probably be saddled with Vickie.
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by: John Howard @ Wed Dec 19, 2012 at 17:03:45 PM UTC

Seems wrong... (0.00 / 0)

...to appoint someone who was just rejected by the voters.  The pick should be someone who won't rock the boat much from the person they are temporarily replacing.

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by: Patrick @ Fri Dec 21, 2012 at 01:23:44 AM UTC

Not all voters rejected him (0.00 / 0)

And keeping him in, along with Warren, wouldn't rock the boat much from when it was Brown and Kerry, would it? It would rock it more to replace Brown with Warren than replace Kerry with Warren.

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by: John Howard @ Fri Dec 21, 2012 at 03:52:22 AM UTC

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Pretty sure this would (0.00 / 0)

make him ineligible to run after the special term, right?

Not that I'm sure he could anyways after the disastrous, and foolish campaign he ran this last time.  He really ruined his likeability, and ran from his record.  Thats going to take time to heal.  

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by: Ryan @ Fri Dec 21, 2012 at 03:11:15 AM UTC

That's just a pledge, and makes no sense (0.00 / 0)

I've seen people say that the interim senator should have to pledge not to run, but I don't get why that is.  It's not a law.

I'm thinking that Patrick would instead make him pledge to use his extended term to be a facilitator of reasonable compromises, perhaps even change parties or become independent.

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by: John Howard @ Fri Dec 21, 2012 at 03:48:35 AM UTC

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