Massachusetts Senate Race: Gabriel Gomez makes Ed Markey look like a Jackass with Term Limits exchange

H/T Joel 2013

Gomez’s opponent, Democratic Congressman Ed Markey, has been in congress for 37 years, something that Gomez repeatedly attacked him on in a debate Tuesday night. During a segment of the debate in which the two candidates got to ask each other questions, Gomez asked Markey if he did not feel that he ought to have left office by now. 

“Congressman, you’ve been down there for 37 years … The president’s got term limits. Don’t you believe that Congressmen and Senators should be term-limited?” Gomez asked him.

Markey retorted that Gomez ought to ask McCain, who stumped for Gomez in May, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who has been fundraising for the Republican Senate hopeful, that very same question. McCain has represented Arizona in the Senate for 26 years, and before that spent four years in the House. McConnell has been in the Senate for 28 years. 

“Did you ask John McCain to leave the Senate?” Markey asked. 

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Gomez said that, in fact, he had done exactly that with McCain. “I did, actually, Congressman,” he said.

After that, Markey basically called Gomez a liar, Guess What?

McCain's Office confirmed that Gomez and the Senatator did have that Conversation...

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