Here’s your afternoon handle of politics, from Joshua Miller of the Boston Globe. Cheers!
JOE BIDEN RECALLS TED KENNEDY AS MENTOR, from the vice president ahead of Monday’s formal dedication of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate: “I would not be vice president, and I would not have been a United States senator, but for Ted Kennedy. …” http://bit.ly/1GmNcti
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TICK TOCK, via Matthew Lee of the Associated Press: “With an end-of-March deadline days away, Secretary of State John Kerry is heading back into negotiations with Iran, hoping to seal a framework deal to roll back its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Kerry was flying to Switzerland for several days of make-or-break talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The top diplomats from Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia would join if the U.S. and Iran are close to an agreement. …” http://apne.ws/1y7cC7d
THE GAMES, THE JUICE, via Lauren Dezenski of the Dorchester Reporter: “The Games are on for Mayor Martin Walsh’s political team. His ‘super volunteers’ are being prepared to move onto the field under the Boston 2024 banner to engage in an extended grassroots campaign … Some 75 members of Team Walsh, joined by reporters and camera crews, assembled at Florian Hall on Tuesday evening to get their marching orders in a setting of sandwiches, fruit, and a cash bar. …” http://bit.ly/1BMrDfd
THIS IS UNUSUAL — HACKERS AGAIN DISRUPT MAINE WEBSITES, via the Associated Press in Bangor, Maine: “A group of online hackers is turning its attention to Maine news, tourism and city websites after two days of attacking the state’s Maine.gov site. …” Link via MPBN: http://bit.ly/18XvaAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS, BUT I LOVED THIS LEDE, every clause of it, via Matt Byrne of the Portland Press Herald: “Real L’Heureux, the 91-year-old World War II veteran who broke out of a locked memory-care facility Tuesday to be with his girlfriend, returned to the facility Wednesday morning, his girlfriend said. …” http://bit.ly/1xzhRC9
LUCK, WITH A PUBLIC TWIST, DEPARTMENT, via Alan Blinder of the New York Times in Raleigh, N.C.: “If you are lucky enough to win the lottery here, there is one thing you are virtually certain to lose: your privacy. Like most of the 44 states with lotteries, North Carolina considers the identities of winners of large prizes to be a matter of public record. …” http://nyti.ms/1CaURbd
MARATHON BOMBING TRIAL LATEST, via BostonGlobe.com: http://bit.ly/1BqwcM8
YOUR MBTA-DELAY LONG READ, with the great headline “What If Sarah Palin Were a Brain Surgeon?” via GQ’s Jason Zengerle on former pediatric neurosurgeon and probable GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson: “… ‘In the United States, we have Republicans, Democrats, and independents. What do you have?’ Carson asked … in the first-class lounge at the Newark airport, waiting for a flight to Tel Aviv. … [A]s Carson sat across from the young Israeli woman who’d be his guide, he was getting a head start on what he called his own ‘fact-finding mission.’ The more basic the facts, the better. The woman answered Carson’s question about political parties, telling him that there were Labor and Likud and a host of other factions in the Knesset. ‘And what is the role of the Knesset?’ he interjected. This prompted a tutorial on Israel’s legislature. … As he tried to concentrate on his Hebrew Schoolhouse Rock primer, he seemed even more fatigued. ‘It sounds complex,’ he finally said. ‘Why don’t they just adopt the system we have?’ …” http://gqm.ag/1Ow7Sm3
MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD DEPARTMENT, via KOMO with a Fife, Wash. dateline: “Troopers don’t always stop people in the HOV lanes, but when they do, they prefer ‘dos’ passengers. A motorcycle trooper … spotted a driver and rather unusual ‘passenger’ pass by him in the HOV lane … The trooper pulled the driver over and discovered the ‘passenger’ was none other than a cardboard cutout of the actor who portrays ‘The Most Interesting Man in the World’ in beer advertisements. … The [cutout] was not confiscated, but the driver … got a $124 fine.” http://is.gd/7cZLaN
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