Tagged: election

  The Massachusetts Senate race primary is just weeks away.

In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Representative Stephen Lynch tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that he hopes to be successful in his race against fellow Congressman Ed Markey.

The US Senate is expected to vote Tuesday to confirm John Kerry as Secretary of State setting the stage for a special election in Massachusetts. 

  It seems hard to believe, but the Congressional midterms are already on the radar. In today’s Congressional Corner, Union College political science professor Brad Hays tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that Republicans are likely to ascend in the 2014 elections.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Middlebury man who owned two roll-your-own tobacco shops in Waterbury has pleaded guilty for his role in an alleged campaign financing plot surrounding former House Speaker Chris Donovan's one-time congressional campaign.

Forty-year-old Paul Rogers pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of devising a scheme to bribe a public official, one count of conspiring to make false statements to the Federal Election Commission and impeding the agency's enforcement of federal campaign finance laws.