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Our condolences go out to his family and friends. Here is the family statement posted on Ted’s official senate site, ““Edward M. Kennedy—the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply—died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port. We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever…” Read the rest from Kennedy.Senate.Gov Photo courtesy Xavierla
Bio: Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy is the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro tempore of the United States Senate Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he is the youngest brother of the late President John F. Kennedy and the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.
Read the rest of his bio from Wikipedia. Edward Kennedy’s Voting Record Edward M. Kennedy: Campaign Finance/Money Contributions
Official Site: Kennedy for Senate
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Senator Kennedy is trying to bring our troops home. He recognizes the foolishness of going to Iraq in the first place and he is trying to bring our boys (like my son) home!I would give him my thanks and the highest rating I could!
well wishes to Ted Kennedy and his family. You are in our prayers
Losing Senator Kennedy would be losing a powerful voice in our country. Get Well man!
Well said Logan! You are in my prayers Mr. Kennedy!
Fight Mr Kennedy! Our country needs you!
Why is this family always plagued by such tragedy.. get well Mr. Kennedy!
Senator Kennedy has been a beacon for the party for years and my family and I will have him in our prayers. The amount of work he has done in the senate for this country is amazing. We should celebrate his accomplishments!
We are all pulling for you Ted!
Hard to believe this person did no time for Chappaquiddick. He also was secretly negotiating with leaders from the former Soviet Union secret police (KGB) to help undermine a sitting President Ronald Regan. As well, he passed along technical details to members of the KGB.
Quoting Wikipedia :
“A KGB file describes Kennedy in 1978 trying to help a close friend, former Sen. John Tunney of California, get some business in the Soviet Union.
Yevgenia Albats writes:
‘In 1978, American Senator Edward Kennedy appealed to the KGB to assist in establishing cooperation between Soviet organizations and the California firm Agritech, headed by former Senator J. Tunney. This firm in turn was connected to a French-American company, Finatech S.A., which was run by a competent KGB source, the prominent Western financier D. Karr, through whom opinions had been confidentially exchanged for several years between the General Secretary of the Communist Party and Sen. Kennedy. D. Karr provided the KGB with technical information on conditions in the U.S. and other capitalist countries which were regularly reported to the Central Committee,’ ”
Teddy has been hard at work to undermine the security of the USA. Go quickly ted
You know if Ted Kennedy could do just one more thing for this country before he dies I hope he can co author legislation for the much needed “OJ LAW”. He was one of the pioneers with vehicular manslaughter and aggravated homicide and getting completely away with it by hiring the best attorneys in the country. Many restaurants where I have vacationed on Cape Cod for 30 years tell him that he can eat there if he pays cash and first clears his outstanding bill. He is a dead beat and a murderer. Why the people of Massachusetts continue to vote for him is a sad fact of life in America. Most Americans have never read a book after high school. Like our current President. A friend of mine told me once “the good ones die young”. That is why Pol Pot and Ted Kennedy made it to old age.
Fight Mr Kennedy! Lots of work ahead of you.
What an icon in American politics… it’s hard to pick a place to begin. You know so many people focus on the Chappaquiddick “incident” and forget that we need voices like Ted’s to help us to decide what is right and what is wrong. He represents the people of Massachusettes and they elect him over and over again because they believe in him. Look, he may have never done a minute in jail for the alcohol related vehicular homicide of Mary Jo Kopechne but he did pay for the crime. He paid cash to her parents in the form of a new house worth almost $200,000. I’d say that was a whole lot more than OJ paid for cutting his wife’s head off. So he is a good man and a good Senator. And even if he had 50 Chappaquiddick “incidents” I think the people there would continue to elect him because his brother was the President and that’s really worth something afterall.
Sen. Kenedy and his other buddies are ruining this country and should be working for our U.S. citizens before doing anything for the Illegals.
I would be happy if they all QUIT and let an American take over
the last of the great Kennedy dynasty is gone… America has lost its royal family
Mr. Kennedy was an asset to Boston! We will Miss you
Mr. Kennedy advocated for African American Rights.. he was a hero!
Mr. Spaulding Jr
I would like to remind you that immigrants built this country… unless your native american…we were all once immigrants…
Kennedy motto: One blonde in the pond.
You know most people caught cheating at Harvard would be told to leave. Ted Kennedy was caught TWICE cheating at Harvard and they graduated him! That’s the kind of politician America loves. Someone who can work within the system and under the system and around the system to succeed.
The life style that an average american affords today is probably the best in the world. thankx to ted kennedy.
well the good news is he is sober now.
If it wasn’t for Ted and his brothers, all of you would not have what you have today or be where you are tody.
How can they say he is a champion for health care when he left that girl to die in the car….were was her health care!!! He cheated at school his dad was involved with the underworld. He did not earn his title on his own merits but on the coat tails of his crooked father..This guy is not a hero, he is from a world of the upper class that has brain washed the masses. So when you speak of him get all the facts behind his history…
He’s dead. Good or bad he had an impact. He also was a genius Parliamentarian who knew the Senate and its workings. He had more than a few shortcomings. Mary Jo Kapechne perhaps his saddest moment. Love him or hate Ted Kennedy his record speaks for itself. Millions of people with disabilities are grateful for his life and work.