Kerry Snubbed By Menino?
by Matt Margolis, June 26th, 2008 at 08:49pm
There has reportedly been bad blood recently between John Kerry and Mayor Menino, so whether or not there was a snub here, I can’t say.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday insisted his decision to skip the Democratic state convention two weeks ago was not a snub to Sen. John F. Kerry even as one of the mayor’s top operatives said his troops were not rallied to support Kerry there.
“I talked to John Kerry a week before the convention and he knew I wasn’t coming,” Menino said yesterday after an appearance in East Boston.
The Herald yesterday detailed a long-standing feud between the two high-profile pols and reported that Menino didn’t lift a finger to help even as Kerry sought convention backing for his re-election bid.
Kerry had been seeking to keep Democratic primary challenger Ed O’Reilly off the ballot, but O’Reilly got 22 percent of the vote - far more than the 15 percent he needed to force a September primary. It’s the first time Kerry will face a primary opponent since 1984.K
Kerry may easily win the primary, but I’d be insulted if I were him that O’Reilly easily got enough support to get on the ballot.
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