MA 10: Murdoch owned newspaper endorses ex democrat now independent Marianne Lewis over GOP Jeff

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Perry. (Tea party republican candidate who stood there as a cop while a subordinate molested a young girl).

I guess Perry's campaign is slowly going down, which would be good news.

http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22591&Itemid=112M

ENDORSEMENT: Maryanne Lewis (I), 10th Congressional District
As information trickled out, so too did Perry’s responses, often with defensive refrains about getting back to real issues. It allowed his top opponents in the primary and now the general election to make it the focus of their campaigns, Bill Keating more effectively.

It’s this dependence on Perry’s past to make Keating look more attractive that leaves us flat. Dutiful voters will work to find out where Keating stands on issues. They’d find out he supports Cape Wind, opposes any change in retirement age for Social Security benefits and that as a state Senator, filed and saw passed legislation to cut the state’s estate tax.

But his campaign isn’t relying on dutiful voters. It relies on snapshot characterizations and negative connections.

For those looking for an alternative, Maryanne Lewis, an independent candidate from Scituate, is worth consideration. Of the three independent candidates in this race – Lewis, Jim Sheets of Quincy and Joe van Nes of Martha’s Vineyard – it’s Lewis who has the most to offer voters in the 10th Congressional District.

She served four terms as a Democrat in the state House of Representatives, where she was among then-Speaker of the House Tom Finneran’s top deputies. That role, among other things, was a factor in her 2002 reelection defeat in the Democratic primary.
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1. The Cape Cod Times has rejected Perry today.

WooHoo!