My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
“Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.”
“Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single ”