"Gabriel Gomez blasts Edward Markey on safety; Stance is newly aggressive; foe defends his votes" by Joshua Miller | Globe Staff, May 21, 2013
Republican Gabriel E. Gomez, on defense in the early weeks of his race against Democrat Edward J. Markey, on Monday unleashed a frontal attack on his opponent’s homeland security credentials, trying to put Markey on his heels just over a month before voters go to the polls and elect a new US senator.
Didn't work for Lynch.
“The bottom line is: Nothing he’s done has made our nation safer,” Gomez said of Markey at a high-dollar fund-raiser, one of the two events he attended with Senator John McCain.
The comments, which echoed similarly heated rhetoric on Friday, suggest a shift for Gomez to a more aggressive posture. Until now, his campaign has largely focused on his biography, with Gomez emphasizing his experience as a Navy SEAL and his status as a Washington outsider but eschewing such direct engagement on Markey’s votes.
Gomez, however, was clearly on offense Monday, calling Markey’s votes “out of the mainstream.”
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Markey said he opposed the 2004 resolution that expressed sympathy to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and lauded first responders and international allies because it mentioned Saddam Hussein, implicitly linking the Sept. 11 attacks to the war in Iraq.
“I wasn’t going to vote and say to the people who were the victims here from Boston that Saddam Hussein had something to do with what happened on 9/11,” Markey said. “I knew it was not true. The families knew it was not true. I had to vote no.”
Markey, who voted for the war in Iraq but later came to regret the vote, argued that the Bush-Cheney administration was trying to use the resolution to bolster the connection between the war and the Sept. 11 attacks....
I regret that you voted for it, Ed.
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You mean $enSible, right?
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As I have walked back my coverage.
