Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Senate: ' MA-Sen: Hah, there's going to be a contested Republican primary for the Massachusetts Senate special election? Sure looks that way'if everyone can get enough signatures to make it on the ballot in time. Businessman Gabriel Gomez, who seems to be the NRSC's preferred choice (to the extent they have one), declared on Wednesday that he would enter the race, joining state Rep. Dan Winslow who announced a few days earlier.
It could actually be entertaining, though: Again, to the extent there is one, the MA GOP establishment seems to prefer Gomez, because, opines local analyst David Bernstein, Winslow once served as chief counsel to Americans Elect, the third party splitter movement that may well have hurt Mitt Romney more than Barack Obama had it been successful. Of course, it wasn't successful, and it didn't matter in the end anyway, but that sort of disloyalty may well have cheesed off Romney's remaining Bay State partisans. Indeed, Romney's old lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, has endorsed Gomez. Nothing like seeing old scores settled when the stakes are so small.
Want to know something even funnier, though? In a follow-up post, Bernstein discovered that Gomez donated $1,000 to none other than Alan Khazei, who ran for Senate against Scott Brown before Elizabeth Warren got into the race back in 2011. And on top of that, in 2007, he also gave money to Barack Obama's presidential campaign! So this is the guy the GOP wants as their standard-bearer? Pretty awesome, if you ask me. Hopefully a "true conservative" will emerge before time runs out!
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