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Article: Not much traction, but still running ; Little-known candidates take shot at Senate seat
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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Adam Azia wants to be your next United States senator.
Perhaps you have never heard of him. You have almost certainly
never seen his television show, aired on Somerville cable access,
during which he wears a white brassiere filled with oranges,
grapefruit, and other fruit.
If such antics disqualify him, to some voters, for service in the
hallowed halls of the US Senate, Azia, a 36-year-old ad salesman
from Arlington, does not seem to mind.
"If you don't want to vote for me because I was wearing a bra
with fruit," he said, "go ahead."
Beyond the five major candidates in the race to fill Edward M.
Kennedy's Senate seat, there are roughly four dozen other would-be
contenders who have taken out ...