Martha Coakley Wins Democratic Primary for Massachusetts Senate Seat
David Sessions
Washington Reporter
Posted:
12/9/09
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley easily won the Democratic primary in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the late Ted Kennedy, Politico reports. A former prosecutor in the Boston area, Coakley is the heavy favorite to win the January special election, where she will face Republican Scott Brown.
Coakley won 47 percent of the Democratic vote, nearly doubling the 28 percent Rep. Michael Capuano received.
Brown, who also easily won his primary election on Tuesday, is a lieutenant colonel in the state National Guard's JAG corps and a longtime legislator and lawyer.
A victory for Coakley next month would make her the Bay State's first female senator. "Tonight the glass ceiling in Massachusetts politics was smashed into a thousand pieces," John Kerry, now the state's senior senator, said following Tuesday's election.
Coakley won 47 percent of the Democratic vote, nearly doubling the 28 percent Rep. Michael Capuano received.
Brown, who also easily won his primary election on Tuesday, is a lieutenant colonel in the state National Guard's JAG corps and a longtime legislator and lawyer.
A victory for Coakley next month would make her the Bay State's first female senator. "Tonight the glass ceiling in Massachusetts politics was smashed into a thousand pieces," John Kerry, now the state's senior senator, said following Tuesday's election.