Sen. Ed Markey is calling out specific Kennedy family members by name and even drawing from the Kennedy myth in his bid to fend off his youthful challenger
Sen. Ed Markey is going where few Massachusetts Democrats have dared to go before. He’s not only attacking his challenger, Rep. Joe Kennedy III, he’s throwing shade at the Kennedy family, the state’s equivalent of political royalty.
Kennedy, the son of former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy II and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, is vying to become the fourth member of his family to win election to the Senate. Markey, who has held office in Massachusetts for more than 40 years, can’t hope to match his star power. Markey often invokes his own father, who was a milk truck driver, to draw a contrast between his own working class roots and his opponent's upbringing. The senator recently posted a black-and-white childhood photo with his parents and two brothers.
"We asked what we could do for our country. We went out, we did it," Markey says at the end of the video, with his arms crossed and rock music playing in the background. "With all due respect, it's time to start asking what your country can do for you.""He's taking the elephant in the room and just going right at it. He's using the most identifiable characteristic of Joe Kennedy, which is his name, and trying to use it against him.
"It's Camelot. Just because they may not be resounding in the national scene the way they had in the past, they still have that same importance in the reality of Massachusetts. But over the course of the last 20 years in Massachusetts, there has also been a lot of change," Rivera continued. In a matter of minutes, the senator's campaign turned the debate spat into a viral video. "Free advice for Joe Kennedy. Don't rely on the old man's money," Markey captioned the video, which begins with a shot of Kennedy standing on a yacht and is set to the Hall and Oates song "Rich Girl."
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