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Dems Renominate Patrick Kennedy From Rehab
Less than a week after he crashed his car into a Capitol Hill police barrier, rehabbing Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy received a rousing endorsement from the state Democratic Party, who touted him as a competent, if flawed, public servant at their convention Monday night. In a speech described by the Associated Press as "moving," state Representative Paul Crowley said Kennedy's ability to do his job should not be questioned - downplaying the fact that the he's had two car crashes in the last month, hit himself in the face with a hammer two weeks ago and admitted over the weekend that he was addicted to booze and pain pills. "We do not walk away from our friends," declared Bill Lynch, chairman of the state Democratic Party. On Saturday Mr. Kennedy checked himself into the Mayo Clinic after acknowledging that he had misjudged the extent of his problems, which he described as ranging from binge drinking to misuse of prescription drugs.
Story Continues Below Kennedy continued to maintain, however, that alcohol had nothing to do with his car crash early Thursday morning - though he insisted he remembered nothing about the events the led up to the accident. "I don't really see this as threatening his political career," said Darrell West, a political science professor at Brown University and author of a biography of the Kennedy scion. "The Republicans are going to have to come up with someone much better," West he told the Boston Globe.
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