Massachusetts Dems Not Sold On Martha Coakley

She is running for governor. It is not going well.

Massachusetts Democrats on Saturday endorsed for governor Steve Grossman, the state treasurer, passing over Martha Coakley, the attorney general, and setting up an intense fight for the party nomination in the September primary.

The outcome at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention was a defeat for Ms. Coakley, not so much because Mr. Grossman, a former party chairman, beat her, as expected, but because a third candidate who had never run for office before won almost as many votes as she did. …

Mr. Grossman’s success was overshadowed by an old Coakley loss — to the Republican Scott Brown in the 2010 race for the Senate seat long held by Edward M. Kennedy. She has tried to shake off the perception that she was a weak candidate who ran a bad campaign. But many of the 4,600 delegates here remain bitter at the loss and said they were not ready to risk letting the governor’s office fall out of Democratic hands.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.