Rick Green, the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional district, which Niki Tsongas is vacating, is in some sense a modern version of the Horatio Alger story. He has the Midas touch. Whatever he has tried has turned to gold.
An Air Force brat whose father was a pilot, he grew up on bases all over the United States. His family moved to Pepperell, Massachusetts when he was thirteen and he enrolled in North Middlesex Regional High School. He excelled there and went on to Cornell to become an engineer. He worked at some first-class enterprises for several years and then headed to the University of Virginia to get a degree in business.
When one of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow, said in June that the federal budget deficit "is coming down," the Democrats and the press — apologies for the redundancy — accused him of lying.
The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, issued a press release about what she called "Kudlow's outrageous claim."
