17 Year Old Shadows Senator John Kerry for a day.

[_dynamicdems]

This appeared in Google, but the link didn't go to the article and I couldn't find the article anywhere on the site. Maybe they were told to get rid of it because it was too pro-Kerry. Strange in any case.


http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2006/02/15/news/news09.txt

"Not many 17-year-olds get to spend a day with a former presidential candidate. However, David Finnegan, a North Quincy High School senior, did just that when he shadowed Sen. John Kerry yesterday.

[wisteria]

1. I am unable to find this article in the link you provided. is it gone

now?

[_dynamicdems]

2. It IS gone. That is the point I was making. It was dated YESTERDAY

and the @#$#$@# *#$#%%!s took it off! Can you believe it. Somebody must have gotten rid of it because it wasn't negative. Absolutely unbelievable.

[karynnj]

3. That is crazy - could it just be they don't retain

minor stories more than a day. I don't know how big a newspaper is - but our really local paper spools off local stories as they age. (they are there for longer than one day though)

That's too bad because it sounds like it would be a pretty interesting perspective.

I used the search on the site, and although it wasn't there, there was an interesting paragraph in one article. In call to service, there's a mention of Kerry acting as an arbitor to end a nursing stike - this had more information. (The overall article was about the hospital)

"The strike did not end until after the nurses ratified an agreement on Sept. 4, 2001, and the trustees followed with their own vote of approval on Sept. 5.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., mediated the agreement during the week of Aug. 20, when he hosted both union and hospital administration lawyers and negotiators in his office at 1 Bowdoin Square in Boston. On Aug. 24, Kerry put union and hospital negotiators in separate rooms and went back and forth personally with proposals and counterproposals from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. that day, until the agreement was reached. Kerry telephoned Goodman to get his acceptance."

It seemed a pretty nasty strike:
"According to the hospital's financial report for 2001, the hospital that year paid $10.37 million to the U.S. Nursing Corp. of Denver, which provided replacement nurses during the strike. That was not all loss, since the regular nurses were not being paid.

Part of Goodman's response to the picketing nurses was to hire Pinkerton Security and Investigators, who were paid $987,711 that year.

The law firm of Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane of Quincy conducted labor contract negotiations for the hospital and earned $752,245 in fiscal 2001.

Goodman also took the Massachusetts Nurses Association to the National Labor Relations Board and then appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to contest the strike conduct of the nurses, who had been distributing brochures at the lobby to the hospital over Goodman's objections. In January 2003, the nurses were victorious when the Supreme Court let stand a federal appeals court decision that the hospital had violted federal labor law by barring the nurses union from distributing the material.

The law firm of Ropes & Gray of Boston was paid $666,953 that year for its legal work."

[wisteria]

4. I would have thought it would have been archived though. n/t

[wisteria]

5. Well that's crazy! When you google on the news site under Sen.

John Kerry, the only story that comes up- twice mind you- is the $5,000 contribution story trying to allude to him taking money for favors. You know I am so sick of the media and the administration bullsh*t trying to influencing opinion I could just spit.

[karynnj]

6. I just put in Kerry (not the full name ) and got 3 pages of results

But not the other stories from earlier this week

[ProSense]

7. Here is what I posted yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=71387&mesg_id=71418

[_dynamicdems]

10. Yes. That contribution story will be there FOREVER, but not a

story that has something positive to note about Senator Kerry. The bias is disgusting.

[beachmom]

8. Do you think that you can send them a friendly letter?

Tell them that this looks like a fun story to read, but that there is something wrong with the link. Who knows, maybe they will give you the story. Maybe you could say you are interested in Junior Achievement and would like to learn more, especially by reading the story.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. That's ridiculous

[TayTay]

11. Hey DD: Got a question for ya

Was the 17 year old able to keep up with JK? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I mean the taller Sen from Ma is very energetic and gets a lot done in day. It would have worn me out.

[beachmom]

12. Okay, that's it!! I'm dying of curiosity about this story

much more than the vast right wing conspiracy meme, as compelling as it is. Can't somebody find this kid, have him come here, and do an entry on his day? If the f***ing press won't report it (or only for a fraction of a second until the RW automatons start beeping "does not compute"), we the people, need to GET this story, goshdarnit!!! Okay, we just need our catnip, man, and leaving the headline there while deleting the story, is just downright torture for us Kerrycrats.

[karynnj]

13. I so agree - we neeeeeeedddd it!

even more because it is not a big significant thing, but likely another close in view of who Kerry really is.

[karynnj]

14. This link at least has what Kerry was doing as he was shadowed

Editor's Note: Senator John Kerry will participate in Job Shadowing 2006 today. The Senator will be "shadowed" by David Finnegan, a senior at North Quincy High School as he spends the day on the South Shore speaking before the Chamber of Commerce and meeting with constituents.

http://www.statehousenews.com/skedmonday.htm

(I googled the kid's name & Quincy

[karynnj]

15. Here's the correct link

http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2006/02/14/news/news09.txt

I found an archive that has it for the paper.

Here's a quote:
We talked a lot about sports and had friendly conversations about his views,’’ Finnegan said. ‘‘We also talked a lot about technology.’’

Finnegan was surprised at how warm the senator was toward him.

‘‘I was really nervous and he made me feel very welcome,’’ he said. ‘‘He has a general concern about what is going on in the community.’’



Okay - how often has this been said?

[TayTay]

16. You are a good detective

I like this part:

"We talked a lot about sports and had friendly conversations about his views,’’ Finnegan said. ‘‘We also talked a lot about technology.’’

Finnegan was surprised at how warm the senator was toward him.

‘‘I was really nervous and he made me feel very welcome,’’ he said. ‘‘He has a general concern about what is going on in the community.’’

Finnegan was able to follow Kerry through the Job Shadowing program of Junior Achievement which is designed to help high school students experience life in the real world. A current events buff, Finnegan was eager to shadow someone involved in public affairs.

Awww, that's wicked nice. I also saw the program went from 7:30 am to 1:00 pm. Geez, that's a 1/3rd of a day for my taller Sen.

[karynnj]

18. Doesn't this read like a huge number of articles though

- surprised how warm or how friendly or how nice
- made him real welcome (and likely comfortable, given the nervous comment)

But this is just a really sweet article.

[TayTay]

19. I know. And this is in frggin Massachusetts

Just Bite Me already. How could we, the people of Massachusetts, not know this? Oy! Oy! Oy!

[karynnj]

22. There are more positive ways to take I guess,

He may not have thought Kerry would be unfriendly or aloof, but you guys said about the same thing in different words - I think all of you were blown away that he was so nice and interested in what you had to say. The last line kind of suggests he was very excited about it, but that it was much more than he expected. (If you think about it, Kerry could have just gone about his business after he said hello and had a staffer make sure he was ok.)

[ProSense]

17. Great story!

Once again proves that JK is a great guy.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Nice

Yep. Kerry has a way of having people change their minds about him. :) Remember when he had to go do jury duty and that one republican woman changed her mind about him? It happens all the time. :)

[karynnj]

21. The question is how do all these stories reach critical mass

so people see enough of them and begin to see a pattern.

[sandnsea]

23. A Blogger's Book

Let's write one ladies!!

[globalvillage]

24. That is really

an excellent idear.