BOSTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them. The long list of potential candidates to replace him in the seat once held by President John F. Kennedy includes congressmen, former prosecutors and, perhaps, one of Edward Kennedy’s nephews. Kennedy’s death leaves little mourning time for the dozen or more Senate hopefuls who face a five-month dash to election day.–Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Speculative list of successors for Sen. Kennedy is lengthy
August 26, 2009
Simon Sousa, of Hyannis, Mass., holds a signed photograph of Sen. Edward Kennedy and himself near the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Sousa says he was a house cleaner at the Kennedys over the last six years. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who died late Tuesday after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.
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