Edward Markey hires Elizabeth Warren’s two top fund-raisers to work on his Senate campaign

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A few other good news for the race: Downing decided not to run.

And, not surprisingly LCV endorsed Markey.

Obviously, Capuano or Lynch could still run, or somebody else, but it is good to see Markey make serious decisions concerning this race. I wished it did not come to money, but sadly, it is all about money in our world.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2013/01/11/edward-markey-hires-elizabeth-warren-two-top-fund-raisers-work-his-senate-campaign/fluM41fSlFmvsVELjVS07K/story.html

Representative Edward J. Markey has hired the two staffers who helped Senator Elizabeth Warren raise a record-setting $42 million last fall to fill the same role for his planned US Senate campaign.

Michael Pratt, who served as Warren’s national finance director, and Colleen Coffey, who headed fund-raising in Massachusetts, were labeled a “dynamic duo” by one Democrat familiar with the hirings who confirmed them for the Globe.

Pratt and Coffey helped Warren outraise not only her Republican rival, then-Senator Scott Brown, but every other 2012 congressional candidate in the country.

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In its statement today, the LCV Action Fund cited Markey’s strong environmental record in deciding to back him.

“There’s been no greater champion in Congress for the clean energy economy than Ed Markey,” said Scott Nathan, chairman of the League of Conservation Voters. “He has never stopped fighting for Massachusetts – promoting new technologies and green jobs, standing up to corporate polluters, and putting the health of our families first. Ed Markey is the leader Massachusetts needs in the U.S. Senate,” said

Markey’s voting record has earned him a 94 percent lifetime score on the LCV’s National Environmental