After tensions, Kennedy Institute brings first Republicans (Trent Lott) to its board
The new educational institute named for the late senator Edward M. Kennedy said Tuesday that it has added the first senators and first Republicans to its board, additions that could help calm some tensions within the famous family.
Trent Lott, the Missisippi Republican and former Senate majority leader, has joined the board of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, along with Tom Daschle, a Democrat and former Senate majority leader from South Dakota; Ralph C. Martin II, a Republican and former Suffolk county district attorney; and Stephanie Cutter, a Democratic strategist from Massachusetts who was most recently President Obama’s deputy campaign manager.
The addition of the new board members comes after reports that some of Kennedy’s children were upset over the lack of any figures with national stature, prominent Republicans, or even a US senator involved in the governance of the $71 million institute on Columbia Point in Dorchester.
Boston Globe
3/13/13
