Hide the pretty young female staffers, Ed Markey has a broken bridge to drive over.
Via Boston Herald:
U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, attacked by GOP rival Gabriel E. Gomez for being in Congress too long, is now embracing his status as an entrenched Washington insider during the final sprint of the U.S. Senate campaign, comparing his Beltway longevity to that of the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
“Did anyone ever say that Ted Kennedy was in the Senate too long?” Markey asked a crowd while campaigning in Framingham with the late liberal lion’s widow Vicki Kennedy. “Did anyone ever say that Ted Kennedy wasn’t doing the job every single day he was there fighting for the people of Massachusetts?”
Kennedy became a pivotal symbol in former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s upset win in 2010, when the Republican famously said the race was for “the people’s seat,” not the “Kennedy’s seat.”
But yesterday Markey grasped the Kennedy mantle, saying, “It is my honor that the spirit of Ted Kennedy is here, because that is what this fight is all about.”