Marty Meehan

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Meehan celebrates gaining enough votes to bring his campaign finance reform bill to the floor.

Martin Thomas Meehan (born December 30 1956), has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 5th District of Massachusetts (map). He was a lawyer, a staff member for Representative James M. Shannon, head research analyst for the joint committee on election laws, Massachusetts Senate, director of public affairs for the Massachusetts Secretary of State, and Massachusetts Deputy Secretary of State before entering the House.

Early life and education

Meehan was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and is the oldest son in a family of seven children. He attended Lowell public schools. Meehan attended college at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and earned J.D. and M.P.A. law degrees from Suffolk University in 1986.

He married Ellen T. Murphy, a vice president at Lawrence General Hospital, on July 14, 1996.[1] They have two sons, Robert Francis and Daniel Martin, the latter of whom was born on July 25, 2002. [1]

Meehan served as the Massachusetts Deputy Secretary of State for Securities and Corporations from 1986 to 1990.

Political career

Campaign finance reform

Congressman Meehan is an advocate for campaign finance reform, and is one of the sponsors of the Shays-Meehan-McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.

Financing

The Marty Meehan for Congress Committee fund is probably the largest campaign account of any House member at slightly over $4.8 million cash on hand as of his 15 October 2005 FEC filing[2]. In his 2004 Congressional race Meehan was able to raise $3,170,733 but only spent $459,977. His opponent Thomas Patrick Tierney raised and spent a little over $30,000 [3].

Controversies

Term limits

Meehan first ran for Congress in 1992 on a platform of reform. As part of that platform Meehan made a pledge not to serve more than four terms. He won the 1992 election and was re-elected to Congress every two years since, including the latest election (2004). On the House floor in 1995 he scolded members who might go back on their promise to limit their tenure in office. "The best test of any politicians' credibility on term limits," he said, "is whether they are willing to put their careers where their mouths are and limit their own service." Despite this pledge, he again ran for Congress in the year 2000, exceeding four terms. [4]

Wikipedia

Wikinews has related news:

On 18 July 2005, U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan's staff made controversial changes to his Wikipedia article. These edits consisted of, among other things, removing verified facts that portrayed him in a bad light. On January 27, 2006, Matt Vogel, Meehan's chief of staff, admitted to authorizing a replacement article on Meehan published on Wikipedia, with a staff-written biography.[2] This ran afoul of internal Wikipedia guidelines and possibly federal campaign laws as well.

References

  1. ^ "Weddings; Martin T. Meehan, Ellen T. Murphy". New York Times. July 14, 1996.
  2. ^ Lehmann, Evan. "Rewriting history under the dome". Lowell Sun Online. January 27, 2006.

External links

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