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Article: Coakley's following lots of footsteps
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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You heard it here first: Attorney General Martha Coakley, newly
christened candidate for US Senate, has turned to US Representative
James McGovern to write her campaign speeches.
OK, not really. But a stanza or two of Coakley's announcement
speech on Thursday morning, in which she lamented the passing of
Edward M. Kennedy and talked of fulfilling his legacy, hewed close
to what McGovern had said immediately following Kennedy's death.
On Aug. 26, the day the world learned that the senior senator
from Massachusetts had died, McGovern issued a statement saying: "No
one can ever fill his shoes. But we can, and must, follow in his
footsteps."
A week later, Coakley, in proclaiming herself the best ...