BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick plans to announce his choice for an interim appointment to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy on Thursday.
Patrick’s office said the governor will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. at the Statehouse.
Today, lawmakers gave the governor the power to appoint an interim replacement. They had taken that power from Republican Gov. Mitt Romney five years ago.
Kennedy’s sons, Edward Kennedy Jr. and Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, have urged Patrick to tap former Democratic party chairman Paul Kirk. Kirk is a longtime friend of the Kennedy family and is chairman of the JFK Library Foundation.
Other possible replacements include former Gov. Michael Dukakis, former Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy and Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree.
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