John Kerry

Tad Devine, a leading Democratic campaign strategist, will be the keynote speaker at the Muskie Lobster Bake in Scarborough Sunday.

Devine heads the consulting firm Devine Mulvey LLC and gives communications advice to Democrats running for top offices, including U.S. Rep. Tom Allen who hopes to take the Senate seat away from Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November.

"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that."

Mr. King made those comments in Washington DC, while conducting a writer's symposium for high school students. Unlike his unique writing style, Mr. King's comments were nothing more than a rehash of John Kerry's comments

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Four years later, U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is back. This time, however, he’s campaigning for someone else.  read more »

A few high-profile politicos will be campaigning for Barack Obama this afternoon.

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry will be in Bangor, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will be in Portland, and Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy will be in South Portland and Augusta.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is running for re-election in 2008 and today he has sent out a fundraising appeal to supporters– except it’s not for himself. It’s for U.S. Senate candidates Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Udall of Colorado, Tom Allen of Maine, and Jeff Merkely of Oregon.  read more »