Democratic businessman Steve Pemberton is stopping his race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, but not before taking a shot at his party's preference for what he called "legacy and birthright … incumbency and connections."
Pemberton was one of two outsiders who thought they had a shot to upset U.S. Senator Ed Markey in the September 2020 Democratic primary before U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III jumped into the race last month. The Kennedy-Markey fight is taking the lion's share of attention and political donations, leaving Pemberton and Brookline labor lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan scrambling for attention.
Vandals splashed a statue of Christopher Columbus designed by the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty with red paint from head to toe in Providence, Rhode Island to mark Columbus Day.
