Ed Markey
Here's a
major coup for Ed Markey in the special election for the open U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts.
The largest Spanish-language newspaper in Massachusetts is endorsing US Representative Edward J. Markey over Gabriel E. Gomez in the US Senate race, saying Markey’s stance on the issues should override any desire to catapult the first Latino senator from the state into office.
El Planeta, a Somerville-based newspaper with a circulation of 40,000, said it endorsed Markey because the Irish-American Democrat would fight harder “to continue opening doors” for Latinos than Gomez, the son of Colombian immigrants and the Republican nominee.
“You would expect that for a Spanish-language media outlet, during an electoral campaign with a Latino US Senate candidate, the decision to support him would be easy,” the three-person editorial board wrote in an endorsement to be published Friday. But, they added, “on the matters that most affect the Latino community in Massachusetts, we think that Edward Markey has demonstrated a greater commitment to the defense of those issues than the Republican candidate, Gabriel Gómez.”
Here's the
original endorsement, in Spanish.
This is the first endorsement since the paper was founded in 2004. The nod to Markey might have be in part because, while Markey met with the editorial board, Gomez didn't. But on immigration reform, health care, and gun control, the paper determined that Markey was a better choice. In the endorsement, the board wrote, "On all those issues, Edward Markey has demonstrated resolve, while the candidate Gabriel Gómez has exhibited erratic postures that suggest, at least, conflicts of identifying with the central agenda of his party."
And in other not so great news for the beleaguered Republican candidate, the big infusion of Super PAC spending he's getting from the completely falsely named Americans for Progressive Action might actually do more harm than good. For some unknown reason, they decided that the issue to attack Markey on was his support for the Affordable Care Act. That's the bill modeled on the Massachusetts plan. The plan that two-thirds of the state's voters support. Oops.
Ed Markey is just over a week away from making Gomez's would-be political career history. Help him put it away.
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