Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Former Congressman Barney Frank's personal papers will be housed at the library on the campus of the University of Massachusets-Dartmouth.
Barney Frank's personal papers, notes and other memorabilia from his 32-year congressional career wll be housed in the creation of archives at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. The announcement was made Tuesday. "The people of Southeastern Massachusetts for 30 years have been such an important part of my life. They've not just been voters, but they've been friends, they've been people I've learned from, they've been people with whom I've worked with together on common problems," said Frank in an interview on myfoxboston.com. Frank, who elected to retire rather than run for another term this year after his district was re-drawn, was on campus yesterday as the university is celebrating the inauguration celebration for Chancellor …
Friday, January 4, 2013
Former Congressman Barney Frank told the "Morning Joe" Show on MSNBC he is interested in being the interim senator.
Senator Barney Frank? One day after watching Joseph Kennedy III take over his former Congressional seat, Frank told the "Morning Joe" show on MSNBC he wants to be the interim senator if John Kerry is confirmed as Secretary of State. “A month ago, or a few weeks ago, I said I wasn’t interested,” said Frank Friday morning on the show. “It was kind of like you’re about to graduate, and they said: ‘You gotta go to summer school.’ But [the fiscal cliff deal] now means that February, March and April are going to be among the most important months in American financial history.” Frank said Friday he told Gov. Deval Patrick he wanted to be the interim senator. He wouldn't be a candidate in the special election, according to Politico. Former …
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Congressman Stephen Lynch is deciding on whether to run for John Kerry's Senate set.
Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch said he is definitely considering running for John Kerry's senate seat. Lynch was on the Joe Ligotti Show on WTKK Radio Saturday afternoon and said he would be honored to be a Senator. Kerry has been nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and is expected to be confirmed. Gov. Deval Patrick is expected to appoint an interim Senator until a special election can be held. The Boston Herald is reporting Barney Frank is the leading candidate for the interim position. Frank didn't seek reelection to Congress after redistricting was finalized. Instead, he announced his retirement. Patrick has said he isn't interested in the position. Massachusetts Attorney …
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Kennedy, a Democrat, is facing off against Republican Sean Bielat in the Fourth Congressional District race.
Democratic congressional candidate Joe Kennedy III joined us for a live chat with Patch readers on Oct. 12. Many of the questions submitted touched on Kennedy's experience as well as his economic plan, healthcare and budget reductions. Kennedy will face off against Republican Sean Bielat for the Fourth District seat currently held by Newton Congressman Barney Frank, who plans to retire at the end of this year. Bielat joined Patch for a similar live chat Q&A on October 11. Read through the following short recap of Kennedy's chat (below), or browse the full Q&A transcript. Patch: Throughout this campaign, your opponent has often criticized your experience. How do you respond? Specifically, what kind of experience and knowledge can you …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
A look at the top headlines in your town and the surrounding area for the week of August 5, 2012.
2,800-Mile Takeout Run: Mississippi Man Returns Home with 250 Pizzas from Stoughton's Town Spa Most people have a favorite pizza place. For David Schuler his is Town Spa in Stoughton, about 1,400 miles away from his Madison, Mississippi home. But that doesn't prevent Schuler, a Stoughton native, from enjoying a slice (or more) of his favorite hometown pizza. Schuler made headlines last August when he drove from his home in Madison, Miss. (north of Jackson, Miss.) to Town Spa and back again to pick up an order of 150 pizzas. He upped the ante this year by placing an order of 250 pizzas. After enjoying lunch at the Stoughton restaurant August 11, he packed up his car with six coolers full of pizza and began his journey back home to …
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Sean Bielat will run as a Republican in the 4th Congressional District.
After losing the Fourth Congressional District by 11 percentage points to Democrat Barney Frank in the 2010 election, Republican Sean Bielat thinks a second try in 2012 will pay off. "We started something in 2010 and we are going to finish it in 2012," Bielat told a packed room at the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum Tuesday night. The Norfolk resident will face a different opponent this time around. Frank announced in November that he would not seek re-election after 16 terms in the House of Representatives. His final re-election bid against Bielat was his closest since 1982. Frank acknowledged that redistricting played into his reason not to run. For Bielat, the loss of New Bedford and areas in Fall River and the addition of more …
Monday, January 9, 2012
Democrat Marty Farren seeks the Fourth Congressional District seat held by Barney Frank.
A Sharon Democrat is running for Congress to promote "a mostly honest look" at federal government. Marty Farren told Sharon Patch Friday night he's running for the Fourth Congressional District seat held by Barney Frank (D-Newton) largely because "there's a lot of what I see as slander, denigration of our federal government." A data analyst who handles large data sets, Farren is the latest person to announce their interest in the congressional seat. Joseph Kennedy III announced this week he's forming an exploratory committee. Frank will not seek re-election in November. "Our federal government does a phenomenally good job of the things that it does, and we call it lots of bad names," Farren said. "That's problematic. Because it means …
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The local democrat recently dropped out of the U.S. Senate race to run for the seat currently held by Barney Frank.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
For more information on Robinson's decision to run for Congress, check out this earlier Patch article here. The following is a press release issued by the Herb Robinson campaign: The Herb Robinson Campaign is pleased to announce that Herb Robinson is withdrawing from the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race and entering the race for the U.S. House of Representatives in [the] Massachusetts Fourth Congressional District. Herb is an ordinary American running for Congress because four years ago he got fed up with Congress and decided to try and fix it. Herb is not a career politician, he is an engineer with more than 30 years experience solving problems in private industry. Herb's first priority is fixing the economy: The best way to do that is …
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Massachusetts Congressman, Barney Frank, stops in New Haven to meet with fellow Democrats.
Despite more than 2,000 pages in legislation aiming to regulate Wall Street, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank said the legislation doesn’t do enough to limit foreclosures. Part of the reason, according to Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, is partisan meddling. “Go tell a Republican,” Frank said at the University of New Haven on Thursday to a crowd of bankers and Realtors. “You have people now who say you got to cut the deficit, you got to stay in Afghanistan, we got to stay in Iraq, you can’t raise the taxes on Warren Buffet and you have to cut the crap out of everything else.” Frank, chairman of the commission overseeing the banking industry from 2007-11, oft cited Republican …
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The bill would give states the option of whether to legalize pot.
Newton Democrat and U.S. Rep. Barney Frank is reportedly working with Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul to introduce a bill in congress that would end the federal ban on marijuana. According to reports from the Huffington Post, the legislation would end the ban on pot and allow individual states to decide whether to legalize it. The Marijuana Policy Project, an organization sourced in the Huffington Post story, says the legislation "is the first bill ever introduced in Congress to end federal marijuana prohibition." “The legislation would limit the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, allowing people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states where it is legal,” according to the …
Anna Bucciarelli
8:57 am on Saturday, April 6, 2013
:) ..... all too true ... how did this guy stay in so long, how did people not recognize his "jerkiness" ? True colors? Always able to see them, but some folks refused to observe carefully. Say bye-bye, Barney, once and for all time. more ›