Mass. Rep. Ed Markey might not be clear on the non-difference between math and arithmetic, but he saw the numbers add up at a fundraising event tonight featuring both Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Al Gore. The press, not surprisingly, was kept away from the event — it involved Biden and a microphone, after all — but pool reporter Matt Viser of the Boston Globe relayed some of the best lines.
Biden/Gore/Kennedy fundraiser tonight brought in $250,000, according to Markey's campaign.
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
“Ed Markey in the Senate is not a single vote," Biden says at fundraiser. "Ed Markey in the Senate is part of a movement."
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
Biden: “Obama’s not at the head of the ticket. & that means those legions of Af Americans & Latinos are not automatically going to come out"
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
Still sore from the defeat of the Democrats’ sweeping gun control legislation, Senate graduate Biden chided his colleagues for letting the freshmen push them around.
Biden says those he talked to who voted no on gun control were afraid of Cruz, Paul. “I actually said, ‘Are you kidding? These r 2 freshmen"
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
Biden: "Last thing we need" in the Senate is someone who'll "support Ted Cruz, support the new senator from Ky–or the old senator from Ky.”
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 12, 2013
Biden: Cruz and Paul "cower the bulk of the Republican party"
— Jonathan Easley (@JonEasley) June 12, 2013
Biden: “Folks, Ed Markey has a distinct advantage over the rest of us: He has a psychiatrist for a wife."
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
"Ed’s ahead, Ed should win," Biden says of Mass special elex. "But this is a strange moment. There’s not a lot of people paying attention.”
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
Al Gore took his global warming expert persona out of mothballs for the night to praise Markey’s work.
Gore on Markey: “He is the only member of congress to write legislation to fight global warming that passed either the House or the Senate"
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
Gore, the former future president of the United States, had the chance to play straight man to crazy Uncle Joe.
Gore: “We ran against each other in 1988 for president,” Biden: “And you didn’t even notice!” Gore: “Oh yeah? The hell I didn’t."
— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 12, 2013
Biden jokes, re Gore: "I’m, quite frankly, just lobbying for a job when I leave with Al.”
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) June 12, 2013
And, probably not entirely false from Biden: "I’m, quite frankly, just lobbying for a job when I leave with Al.”
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 12, 2013
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