Ex-Rep. Marty Meehan, who has the biggest war chest of any of the potential contenders for the special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat, has announced that he won’t run:
Meehan is currently the chancellor of UMass-Lowell. He told Anderson he wants to finish the job he started there three years ago.
“While I am not ruling out the possibility of seeking public office in the future, I am fortunate to be leading a remarkable university that I love, and I just dont want to walk away,” Meehan wrote in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
Now let’s see what happens with the $5 million that Meehan has been sitting on since leaving the House.
Meanwhile, Rep. Michael Capuano, who represents Cambridge and part of Boston in MA-08, pulled the papers to run for the Senate today.
An advisor briefed on Capuano’s intentions said the six-term Democratic congressman planned to draw nomination papers on Tuesday and will make a formal announcement about his intentions next week.
The dean of the state’s House delegation, Ed Markey, has not taken that step yet, but issued a statement over the weekend that, with Joe Kennedy II’s decision not to run, he is seriously considering the race.
im supporting Coakley, Lynch is awful and there nothing special ive seen about Capuano.
Surprised that Markey would consider giving up his House seat. Obviously there’s no risk in a special election like this if you come up short, but Markey’s got a lot of seniority and near the top of the Energy & Commerce chairmanship ladder.
Of course someone’s House seat is probably disappearing in 2012, but it probably wouldn’t be Markey’s anyway.
I’d be happy with him (well, I’m a former MA resident, not a current one) as a Senator. Capuano would be a terrific choice too.
What we don’t want to see as progressives is Stephen Lynch winning because the progressive/liberal majority vote (at least in a Dem primary) is split too many ways. That danger increases with every big name that throws his/her hat into the ring.
I think the more likely it is that Coakley ultimately wins. I’ve heard a lot about a Hillary-style campaign and if she can get a disporportionate amount of the female vote, she’ll win.
…now that he isn’t running will be wallpapering his entire house with hundred dollar bills.
If you’re not going to give it to the DSCC nothing else to do with the money.
Announcement in next 24 hrs, will spend up to 10 mil of his own money
http://www.thebostonchannel.co…