US Congressman Stephen Lynch, D-South Boston, has already announced his intention to vote “no” on Health Care Reform today.
http://www.boston.com/news/loc…
Luckily, a primary challenger emerged today. Needham Town Meeting member Harmony Wu is a former professor at Emerson College in Boston, and was the Needham town coordinator for the Obama campaign. Wu has said she will challenge Lynch if he follows through on his pledge to vote against Health Care Reform.
A Facebook page set up for Wu has drawn more than 400 followers within a few hours of being posted. Many are experienced organizers and campaign staffers from throughout the Boston area.
http://www.facebook.com/group….
This is only the begining.
If Representative Lynch votes against Health Care today, he will have a fight on his hands for the Democratic nomination.
Let this be a message to all Democratic members who are thinking of throwing their values out the window for the sake of political expediency in today’s vote.
We, the base, are watching.
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Plz kill this.
someone please tell me some potential candidates? What about the former council pres that ran for mayor in 2009? Or what about the one who didn’t make it through the first round of voting? While Wu sounds nice, I question her electability.
Lynch deserves to lose the nomination and seat over this vote.
I don’t know anything about Harmony Wu, so I’m not ruling her out. That said, I’m not sure a low profile challenger from suburban Needham whose only elected position is Town Meeting Member is the ideal challenger for this blue collar district.
Are there higher profile potential challengers looking at the race? In terms of the geography of the district, where would the strongest challenge come from? Who could do the best job of rallying the unions, Democratic activists, and (most importantly) voters together to oust Lynch?
If that is Wu, great, and more power to her for jumping in first. But I’m going to wait a bit to see if she’s the right candidate for the district before I write my check.