O’Reilly is a long-time criminal defense trial attorney who is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the New England School of Law. He has also worked as a firefighter, a corrections officer and counselor and as a commercial lobsterman. In politics, O’Reilly has served on the Gloucester City Council and School Committee.

Kerry is out of touch with people in Massachusetts, O’Reilly charged, and has an inability to lead. O’Reilly contended that Kerry has not accomplished much in over two decades in the Senate and has often been on both sides of an issue in the name of political expediency.

“He doesn’t have a core set of principles,” he said of Kerry.

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