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Senate politics on Greater Boston
Watch Jan. 30, 2013: Interim Senator Mo Cowan on PBS. See more from Greater Boston.
Mo Cowan “For a Vast Future Also”
Frank Phillips has a very good story in the Boston Globe today on the Mo Cowan pick, made all the more excellent by quoting my favorite political scientist: me. I was responding to criticisms from bluemassgroup.com founder David Kravitz and other progressives that Barney Frank would have been a better pick: “The impact that someone could have for just five months in the Senate is not great, and the argument overstates the importance of having a Frank, Meehan, or a Kennedy.”
Let me expand on my thought.