{"id":2240,"date":"2010-09-17T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2010-09-17T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:40:31","slug":"a_successful_writein_campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"A Successful Write-In Campaign In Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view.bg?articleid=1281980\">Boston Herald<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that James McKenna, a former prosecutor from Millbury, has run a successful write-in primary campaign for state Attorney General and will be running against incumbent Martha Coakley.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;McKenna worked for 10 years as a prosecutor, including three years as an assistant district attorney in the organized crime division of the Suffolk County district attorney&#8217;s office and six years as a prosecutor in the Worcester County district attorney&#8217;s office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In 1998 he moved to a private practice in insurance law and criminal appeals, but also served as a special assistant district attorney to ask the Supreme Judicial Court to affirm the conviction of the man found guilty of the 1994 murder of Paxton Police Chief Robert Mortell.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Attorney McKenna stated that he decided to attempt a write-in campaign after the Republicans failed to recruit a candidate to run against Martha Coakley.&nbsp; Successful write-in campaigns are unusual and require a lot of organization.&nbsp; Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Nassour has stated that the party will support&nbsp;McKenna in the November election.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Boston Herald&nbsp;is reporting that James McKenna, a former prosecutor from Millbury, has run a successful write-in primary campaign for state Attorney General and will be running against incumbent Martha Coakley.&nbsp; The article reports: &#8220;McKenna worked for 10 years as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}