{"id":788,"date":"2009-09-24T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2009-09-24T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:21:11","slug":"sen-kennedys-replacement-to-be-named-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/788\/sen-kennedys-replacement-to-be-named-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Kennedy&#8217;s Replacement to be Named Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Boston Globe<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/09\/patrick_to_anno_3.html\" target=\"_blank\">is reporting<\/a>\u00a0that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will announce his choice to fill U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy&#8217;s seat on an interim basis.\u00a0 He is schedule\u00a0to make the announcement at a press conference at 11:00 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Democratic National Committee Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_G._Kirk,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Paul G. Kirk, Jr.<\/a>, who served as an assistant to Senator Kennedy from 1969-1977,\u00a0appears to be the choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Massachusetts\u00a0legislature\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/741\/the-60th-senator\/\" target=\"_blank\">changed state law<\/a>\u00a0to permit\u00a0Governor Patrick\u00a0to appoint an\u00a0interim Senator, but the legislature stipulated that the Governor would have to\u00a0wait 90 days or, alternatively,\u00a0declare an\u00a0&#8220;emergency situation&#8221; to\u00a0name Kennedy&#8217;s successor\u00a0immediately.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, the Governor\u00a0is choosing\u00a0to do the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe is reporting\u00a0that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will announce his choice to fill U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy&#8217;s seat on an interim basis.\u00a0 He is schedule\u00a0to make the announcement at a press conference at 11:00 a.m.\u00a0 Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul G. Kirk, Jr., who served as an assistant to Senator Kennedy from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,170,38],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-massachusetts","tag-paul-g-kirk","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}