New blow for Rice: Moderate senator voices concern

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34. You're right. It's all about the Senate.

They (the rethugs) see an opp and they want to exploit that. If Obama is "forced" into appointing Kerry (for anything - doesn't matter which cabinet post), that would leave a vacant seat in MA Senate. There is no gubernatorial appointment of a replacement, which Patrick would happily appoint another Dem to. Thanks to a Kennedy era change to law in MA, there is no gubernatorial appointment that Patrick would be able to make in Kerry's vacating of that seat. Therefore, another special election is mandated by law, under which Brown could and would do by law throw in for. The rethugs are chomping at the bit, slavering like wolves in the wilderness at the prospect of picking up another seat in Senate that Brown has stated this week he would be eager to take up.