Coakley: Few go to Senate with foreign policy experience

By Laura Crimaldi
Monday, October 26, 2009 - Updated 136d 11h ago
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Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Democratic U.S. Senate rivals this morning held their fire over her comment that her sister’s overseas residence counted as foreign policy experience while trumpeting their own work overseas.

Coakley declined to comment specifically on her remark, but said she believes foreign policy is taking a back seat to economic issues in the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

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Attorney General Martha Coakley, a candidate in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks at a Senate-candidate forum this morning in Boston.