Ouch! BG column takes Steve Lynch apart on HCR votes

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/03/24/evasive_maneuvers/">Evasive Maneuvers

Brian McGrory

With all the surprising confusion over United States Representative Stephen F. Lynch’s very straightforward position on health care reform, I thought I’d use this moment to clarify his stance.

He’s forgainst it.

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What does his forgainst vote get Lynch? He watched Scott Brown get elected on a message of sending health care back to the drawing board. He’s read about the Republican Party organizing in his native South Boston. He certainly witnessed the Tea Party activists gathered outside the Capitol during the votes.

When he’s running for reelection, or challenging Brown in 2012 (yes, a man can dream), he can tell all those Brown supporters that he, too, voted against health care reform. And he can tell liberals that he tried to be with them, but the bill wasn’t up to his standards.

And they say statesmanship is dead.