Keith McCormic For Mass. Senate

A little link love for candidate McCormic:

While marching in the town of Amherst’s Independence Day parade, Republican state Senate candidate Keith McCormic of Greenfield momentarily stunned his opponent, Amherst Democrat Stanley Rosenberg, by mounting a wooden soapbox during a pause in the parade and dramatically reciting lines from the Declaration of Independence. Rosenberg, the Senate’s President Pro Tempore, along with Congressman John Olver (D-Amherst) and state Representative Ellen Story (D-Amherst) stood frozen, staring at McCormic throughout his first oration. Cheers and clapping from onlookers in the crowd accompanied the end of McCormic’s performance.

McCormic, a teacher who works with troubled youth in Holyoke, repeatedly jumped up on the wooden soapbox during lulls in the parade. His retinue, mostly young voters, wore outfits reminiscent of turn-of-the-century political rallies, complete with straw skimmer hats. The Republican candidate himself appeared in a three-piece wool suit complete with a Victorian top hat. “I wanted to remind people of a time when politics, not baseball, was the ‘American Pastime’. Politics can be a lot of fun if we let it,” he later told a woman in the crowd.

Via Keith C. McCormic for Massachusetts State Senate