Representative Ed Markey throws his hat into the Senate race

Boston Globe: One day after former Senator Scott Brown announced he would not run in the special Senate race for John Kerry's vacated seat, Representative Ed Markey, a Democrat from Malden, formally announced his plan to make a run for the spot in the US Senate. In a 20-minute speech at the Malden YMCA where Markey played basketball as a child, he made no mention of the Republican who would have been perhaps his most fearsome opponent. Instead, he regaled a crowd of about 500 supporters in the gymnasium...

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