Massachusetts holds a special U.S. Senate election in June, to fill the seat left empty when U.S. Senator John Kerry resigned to become Secretary of State. Daniel Fishman, a Libertarian who ran for U.S. House in 2012, plans to get on the ballot. He will need 10,000 signatures.
Fishman is an active campaigner. In 2012, he polled 16,739 votes in the Sixth U.S. House district, in the only close U.S. House race in Massachusetts. The Democrat, John F. Tierney, was re-elected with 180,942 votes; the Republican, Richard Tisei, polled 176,612. Here is Fishman’s campaign web page. Thanks to Carla Howell for this news.
Lets hope he doesn’t get bashed like what happened to Joe Kennedy.
This is politics. When you run for office you should expect to get bashed.
Good news. If the R’s have no candidate even better news!
Richard,
Kerry is Secretary of State and not Defense. Chuck Hagel is the nominee for Defense.
Will he be running as a “Libertarian” or something else?
#4, thanks! I fixed it. #5, I’m pretty sure he would use the label “Libertarian.” That is the label he used in 2012 for US House.
Great news! Let’s hope no Repub runs so he has a crack at actually winning!