Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) tells Ted Kennedy's widow "I'm a firm no"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6:30 PM ET -- Vicki Kennedy whipped Stephen Lynch to no avail. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) one of the few Democrats opposing the bill because it doesn't go far enough, said Friday that he got a call two or three days ago from Ted Kennedy's widow Vicki Kennedy.

"She said Ted had worked at this for quite some time and invoked his name," Lynch told reporters. He regretfully told her he would be opposing the bill, he said. Senate Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) pushed Lynch again today on the House floor. Lynch said he told Hoyer not to waste time on him. He's a firm no.

Rep. Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts said that if Lynch says he's voting not, he's voting no. "He's a man of integrity," said Delahunt.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/19/health-care-whip-count-li_n_505709.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Disgusting. He ought to be ashamed of himself.

nt

[Enrique]

2. so if Lynch ends up voting no

then Delahunt won't consider him a "man of integrity"?

And I guess we know what Delahunt thinks of Kucinich.

[gateley]

3. Boy, he'll sure show us! nt

[DFLforever]

4. Does he have the " I've got mine, f,, you" Mass. health

care syndrome, or what?

Can anyone explain.

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. Senatorial ambitions. n/t

[rucky]

9. that's what I was thinking.

[Faygo Kid]

5. Take him down.

Period.

[janet118]

8. Harmony Wu is at this very moment collecting signatures . . .

to run against Lynch. He is always on the wrong side of history - one of the few in the Mass. delegation to vote for the Iraq War Resolution (John Kerry was another one). Lynch is usually a union guy, but the unions want health care reform. I think this is a Southie Catholic, anti-abortion thing or else he's getting money from the insurance lobby. Rumor has it that he wants to run for Scott Brown's Senate seat in 2012.

Delahunt's leaving and there is a chance that either his or Lynch's district will be swallowed up by re-districting.

About Harmony Wu

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