Patrick Kennedy to bow out?
Wow, Patrick Kennedy not running for re-election? Maybe he thinks he’d be the voter’s next whipping boy?
WASHINGTON — A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress.
The official spoke to The Associated Press only on the condition that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak ahead of the official announcement.
The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a month after a stunning Republican upset in the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat his late father, Edward Kennedy, held for almost half a century…
Such a reliably liberal (and equally reliably foolish) Democrat quits in a very blue State?
The times, they are a-changin’…
UPDATE: More blood in the water?
