June 7, 2008 — For the first time since he was elected to the Senate 24 years ago, John Kerry, who voted to authorize President Bush to use military force in Iraq before becoming one of the war's most ardent critics, will face a primary challenge for his Massachusetts seat.
Attorney and former Gloucester city councilman Ed O'Reilly, a onetime commercial lobsterman, won 22.5 percent of the delegates today at the Democratic state convention in Lowell, Mass., to secure a place on the state primary ballot in September.
"Party officials said this campaign is a nuisance. And it is. It's a total nuisance," O'Reilly said to the convention floor, The Boston Globe is reporting. "Democracy is a nuisance. People said the American Revolution was a nuisance - and it was!"
