{"id":310899,"date":"2010-02-12T07:39:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/12\/kennedy-on-whats-next\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T07:39:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:39:47","slug":"kennedy-on-what%e2%80%99s-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/310899","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy On What\u2019s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kennedy On What’s Next <\/a>
Rhode Island Monthly<\/a> has an exclusive interview with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (R-RI) explaining the reasons why he decided not to run<\/a> for re-election and what he plans to do next.<\/p>\n

“If Ted Kennedy was Patrick’s model for his public life, his aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, is the model for what comes next. As a private citizen, she leveraged the family name to found and promote the Special Olympics, now a worldwide organization.”<\/p>\n

Said Kennedy: “It’s our family’s biggest legacy. I’m awed by it.” <\/p>\n

Buddy TV <\/a>
Ironically it was former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci — who was mulling a challenge<\/a> to Rep. Patrick Kennedy — who actually first broke the news on Rhode Island television that Kennedy would retire<\/a>.
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Perry, White Hold Big Leads in Texas <\/a>
A new University of Texas\/Texas Tribune Poll<\/a> finds Gov. Rick Perry (R) well ahead of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) and Debra Medina (R), who are locked in a statistical tie for second place in a GOP gubernatorial primary that could go to a runoff.<\/p>\n

Perry leads with 45% — still short of the 50% needed to avoid a runoff — followed by Hutchison at 21% and Medina at 19%.<\/p>\n

In the Democratic primary race, Bill White (D) has a huge lead over his next closest challenger, Farouk Shami (D), 50% to 11%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kennedy On What’s Next Rhode Island Monthly has an exclusive interview with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (R-RI) explaining the reasons why he decided not to run for re-election and what he plans to do next. “If Ted Kennedy was Patrick’s model for his public life, his aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, is the model for what comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}