{"id":2984,"date":"2009-08-27T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2009-08-27T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T15:11:49","slug":"teds-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/27\/teds-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted&#8217;s successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no shortage of <a title=\"potential hopefuls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/08\/27\/no_shortage_of_potential_successors?mode=PF\" target=\"_blank\">potential hopefuls <\/a>who might seek Ted Kennedy&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat, it appears the Mass. governor and legislature will <a title=\"amend the law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/08\/27\/patrick_backs_push_to_appoint_successor\/\" target=\"_blank\">amend the law <\/a>to allow for an interim apointee pending a special election.\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"Fred Bayles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/fred_bayles.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Bayles<\/a>, a former AP and USA Today reporter who directs the BU <a title=\"Statehouse journalism program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/statehouse\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Statehouse journalism program<\/a>, says it will likely be a &#8220;contentious and contested&#8221; battle of succession.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Fred Bayles, 617-353-7736, <a href=\"mailto:fbayles@bu.edu\">fbayles@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no shortage of potential hopefuls who might seek Ted Kennedy&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat, it appears the Mass. governor and legislature will amend the law to allow for an interim apointee pending a special election.\u00a0 Professor Fred Bayles, a former AP and USA Today reporter who directs the BU Statehouse journalism program, says it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}