(CNN) - Just one week ago, former Sen. Scott Brown's suggestion his political future might lie not in Massachusetts but New Hampshire stirred speculation he might try to unseat a Democratic senator there in 2014.
But when Brown, a Republican, appeared in New Hampshire on Saturday - for another in a series of speaking invitations he has accepted there - he stressed his connections to the Granite State were about more than politics.
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(CNN) - Former Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who in November lost his reelection bid for a full term, said Thursday night he is considering a return to politics, and possibly not in the state which previously sent him to Washington.
"I don't think I'm done with politics, but I'm not going to rule out anything right now because I really haven't thought a heck of a lot about it," he said, when asked by reporters whether he would run for office in New Hampshire.
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(CNN) - Gabriel Gomez has his sights set on Massachusetts' open Senate seat - and what better place to meet potential voters than the state's premier running event?
Gomez will run in this year's Boston Marathon, held April 15, and hopes to meet as many of the race's spectators as possible.
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(CNN) – Mayor Thomas Menino, the longest-serving mayor in Boston history, will not seek re-election to a sixth term, a Boston City Hall source said.
Menino, 70, is expected to make the announcement Thursday afternoon at a 4 p.m. news conference with his family at his side.
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(CNN) – Rep. Ed Markey, running in a special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, is highlighting his response to 2010's gulf oil spill in a new ad released Thursday.
The longtime Democratic lawmaker led the charge to put a live stream of the leaking wellhead online, and pushed for legal action against BP, the owner of the oil platform where the leak began.
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(CNN) – Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch's latest ad, released Monday, touts his background as an iron worker who studied his way through college and law school at night.
The spot comes after two major liberal groups – MoveOn and Democracy for America – endorsed Lynch's rival, fellow U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, for the Democratic nomination in Massachusetts' Senate special election.
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(CNN) – Two new political ads in the Massachusetts special election emerged Tuesday, with both Democratic candidates releasing their first television commercials of the campaign.
Longtime Rep. Ed Markey, considered the leading contender in the Democratic primary race, made gun control the focus of his inaugural ad, emphasizing his fight against the National Rifle Association.
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(CNN) – Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts has the backing of another progressive group in his bid for Secretary of State John Kerry's former Senate seat.
Democracy for America, the political action committee founded by former Vermont Gov.and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, announced its support for Markey on Monday, saying the longtime congressman is better suited for the role than his primary opponent, Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch.
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(CNN) – The liberal group, MoveOn.org, endorsed Democratic Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts on Thursday in his bid for the Democratic nomination in his state’s open U.S. Senate race.
According to a survey of its 219,000 members in the Bay State, MoveOn found that 94% voted to endorse Markey, well above its two-thirds threshold for endorsing a candidate. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a social conservative from South Boston, is also running for the Democratic nomination.
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(CNN) – Former Sen. Scott Brown said he wasn't drunk when he tweeted this: "Bqhatevwr."
The Massachusetts Republican, who was ousted from his seat in November, sparked a round of questions on Twitter last month after posting multiple late-night tweets, including one that seemed to come from some fumbling thumbs.
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