Obama, Clinton, Kerry Campaign for Coakley

Story Updated 5:26PM Saturday, January 16, 2010

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and former President Bill Clinton campaign together for Sen. Kerry’s presidential run in 2004. Getty Images.

Democratic heavyweights will be making a last-minute pitch to keep former US Senator Edward Kennedy’s seat in the party.

Massachusetts senator John Kerry and former President Bill Clinton will hit the campaign trail together for Martha Coakley on Friday while President Barack Obama will make a campaign appearance on Sunday.

Kerry and Clinton will hold a campaign rally for Coakley’s US Senate campaign at the Fairmont Copley Hotel in Boston on Friday, January 15, at 2PM.

President Clinton also endorsed Coakley during the Democratic Primary when she was running against three other Democrats. Clinton recorded a phone message that was sent to more than 500,000 primary voters. Stating that “you can trust her to get results,” Clinton urged Massachusetts residents to vote for Coakley because she “will go to Washington as your next U.S. Senator to fight every day to create jobs with good benefits and health reform with a strong public option.”

“I am honored to have President Clinton’s and Senator Kerry’s support,” Coakley said. “President Clinton oversaw one of the great periods of economic expansion in our nation’s history, and we cannot afford to return back to the same failed economic policies of George Bush and Dick Cheney that led out country into the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. As Senator, I have proposed targeted tax relief for middle class families and to small businesses to help them grow and create jobs.”

President Obama recorded a video message in support of Coakley earlier this week and will make a visit to Massachusetts on Sunday to campaign for her. The President will hold a public rally at Northeastern University’s Solomon Court at Cabot Center, located at 400 Huntington Avenue in Boston. The rally is open to the public and doors open at 1PM for the 3PM event.

Coakley, a Medford resident and current state Attorney General, is attempting to become the first female US Senator from Massachusetts. She became the state’s first female Attorney General in 2007.

Republican state senator Scott Brown of Wrentham and independent candidate Joseph Kennedy (who is of no relation to former Senator Ted Kennedy) are also running for the seat.

A special election is scheduled for Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

– InsideMedford.com