11.28.2009
Source: The Boston Globe
ONE MAN’S talents and fame are not the only reasons why the US Senate seat being filled in January is legendary. The seat is the vehicle for promoting the ideas of a vast network of Massachusetts leaders in fields as varied as health care, science, law, and, of course, politics. Just as this state is a testing ground for national policies, a senator from Massachusetts should be a leader and an innovator, and an exemplar of the Commonwealth’s tradition of progressive values and independent thought....
...Any new senator will have to grow in the job. Voters must decide who has the capacity to become a great senator in his or her own right, and fully vindicate the interests of their Massachusetts constituents.
With high hopes, the Globe endorses Alan Khazei, the prime mover behind national-service policies, as Massachusetts’ best chance to produce another great senator.
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11.25.2009
Source: The Boston Globe
Whatever else might be said about the other two Democrats - Khazei and Pagliuca - they have spent their lives in the real world. They know what it means to build something from the ground up, to risk their own assets on a goal they believe in, to bring a dream to reality without being able to pass a law ordering others to do it.
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11.25.2009
Source: The Boston Globe
Let’s start by giving Khazei and Pagliuca credit - and Coakley and Capuano demerits - for their attitudes toward transparency.
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11.25.2009
Source: The Boston Phoenix
...But the big news in the Rasmussen poll clearly is Khazei, who emerges from single digits to catch the zillion-dollar man. That's forward movement; that's what we punditry scribes like to see.
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11.25.2009
Source: Cortlandt Johnson: Dart Boston Lifestyle
When Alan rolled into Northeastern last night he introduced himself to each person individually. A standard political move as all candidates do it and what I thought an indicator for how the show would have a political theme. How wrong I was (and grateful that I was wrong)!
Alan is an all star social entrepreneur and he stayed on that topic for the entire 30 minutes.
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