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After filing papers, Sean Bielat backs out of Senate race

Daily Free Press Admin • February 26, 2013

After coming off two losses in previous Congressional elections, Republican businessman Sean Bielat bowed out of the special senate election race Wednesday, striking a blow to an already small republican...

Barney Frank bids for interim senate seat

Daily Free Press Admin • January 4, 2013

Barney Frank ended his 32 years representing Massachusetts’s fourth district in the House of Representatives on Thursday, but said on Friday that he would be interested in taking John Kerry’s interim...

Frank leaves legacy of liberalism as term ends

Daily Free Press Admin • December 12, 2012

When Barney Frank joined Congress in 1981, he had still not openly come out as a gay man. In fact, equal marriage rights for LGBT citizens during the Reagan administration, or what political scientists...

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank says marijuana should be legal at Boston Freedom Rally

Daily Free Press Admin • September 17, 2012

Speaking before a crowd on the Boston Common at the 23rd Boston Freedom Rally, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said using marijuana is an individual choice that should not be criminalized. Frank headlined the...

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank urges crowd to vote, says marijuana should be legal at Hempfest

Daily Free Press Admin • September 15, 2012

After speaking before a crowd on the Boston Common at the 23rd Boston Freedom Rally, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank told The Daily Free Press that marijuana should be legal and smoking it is an individual decision. “I...