02/01/2013
Re: Deval Patrick Picks Next Massachusetts Senator
From: MrStentorianCommentator
I figure the appointment of Patrick’s former chief of staff “ Mo” Cowan to fill John Kerry’s seat in the US Senate is the set up for a future quid pro quo of some sort. Even being an interim U.S. Senator for a few months brings with it various privileges, such as lifetime access to the Senate floor and gym facilities (good for a lobbyist).
If Cowan makes the most of those privileges, I imagine that whatever firm he lands with following his stint will later find it in their heart to hire Deval.
See previous letters from the same reader.
By James Fulford writes: I believe the reader is overthinking here — I believe that Deval Patrick would have appointed any African-American at all to the Senate seat. There are now two black Senators for the first time since Reconstruction, and in a sort of callback to Reconstruction Era politics, neither of them was elected. (The other is Republican Tim Scott, who was appointed by Nikki Haley.)
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