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1. Not sure he is in the new 5th district. (He was in the old one, which is Tsongas's district, I think

Reply to bottomofthehill (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 01:34 AM

Feb 2013

There will be plenty of candidates, some of them already known:

Carl Sciortino, state representative from Medford and a favorite of young progressives, has announced his candidacy and started raising money into a federal campaign account.

State Senator William Brownsberger of Belmont has also opened a federal account and established a placeholder web page. "We want to make sure, job one, Ed Markey gets elected," Brownsberger says. "If he does get elected, I will run for the seat."

And State Senator Katherine Clark of Melrose opened a federal account and declared her own candidacy this past Friday.

Read more: http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/151914-after-markey-get-set-go/#ixzz2LVcHhCez

Other names at the link.

But we may want to win this race first.

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Not sure he is in the new 5th district. (He was in the old one, which is Tsongas's district, I think Mass Feb 2013 #1

Thanks for the Link. bottomofthehill Feb 2013 #2

David Bernstein JasonGWB Feb 2013 #3