Another Generation Of Kennedy Saps Please Spare Us

                                       

Joseph "Carrot Top" Kennedy III

Joe Kennedy III declares ‘I’m running’

By Matt Stout Boston Herald Reporter

Joseph P. Kennedy III formally declared his candidacy for Congress this morning through a video on his Web site in which he touted his support for the common worker and his family’s rich political bloodline.
Simply titled “I’m Running,” the 2-minute, 50-second spot gives voters in the 4th Congressional District their first official look at Kennedy’s campaign priorities: rebuilding infrastructure, a “21st century energy economy” and easing the tax burden on the middle class.
“You can always count on me to fight for small businesses, seniors, veterans and for you, to make sure you get the constituent service you’ve come to expect,” Kennedy said.
The announcement comes roughly six weeks after Kennedy said he was forming an exploratory committee. He has since moved to Brookline, where he is now a registered voter, and has nabbed endorsements of the local AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union.
Kennedy has planned a day-long tour this morning that will take him from Newton to Wesport in a flesh-pressing parade around the district.
In the video, he played up his background as a prosecutor and touched upon the Kennedy legacy that’s entranced Bay State voters in the past.
“My family has had the great privilege of serving Massachusetts before,” Kennedy said. “They taught me that public service is an honor, given in trust, and that trust must be earned each and every day. That’s exactly what I intend to do.”
In addition to his time as a Middlesex assistant district attorney, Kennedy said he also worked in a legal aid clinic that helped tenants “who were mistreated by landlords and banks.” He also highlighted an after-school program he helped found with his fiance, Lauren.
Enjoying a huge lead in a UMass Lowell/Boston Herald poll, Kennedy joins the fray against GOP challengers Sean Bielat and Elizabeth Childs for the seat held the last three decades by retiring liberal firebrand Barney Frank.
Childs, a Brookline psychiatrist, is banking on her well-rooted ties to the district to overcome Kennedy’s name recognition, saying, “I’ve lived here for 20 years, I know the district. I don’t have to go tour it.”
“I think the Kennedys have been incredible public servants,” Childs said by phone this morning. “But that does not mean just because of that, that the voters will say, ‘You’re ready to go.’ Joe’s a young guy, he’s 31, he doesn’t have a lot of experience. I may not be a newly minted Harvard law school grad, but I have a lot of experience.”
Bielat, a former Marine who challenged Frank in 2010, also attacked the newcomer for his lack of campaign experience, saying today’s “showboating” around the district “isn’t real voter interaction.”
“I think some of the mystique is going to wear off shortly when we get into the campaign and he becomes less of a myth and more of a man,” Bielat said in a phone interview.

Commentary

Bloodline is political yes but can he understand and interpret the Constitution,Declaration Of Independence and the Federalist Papers in its intended fashion as the Founders would have.
From this point onward here at the Conservative American blog he is going to be known if he wins as Congressman Carrot Top