Gabriel Gomez, who won the Republican nomination in the Massachusetts special Senate election Tuesday, rejected calls from his Democratic opponent Rep. Ed Markey to sign the so-called “People’s Pledge” to keep outside money from influencing in the race, the Boston Globe reported. Last year, both Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown signed the pledge.
“I think it’s the height of hypocrisy when congressman Markey, who’s been taking outside money for the last 30 years from groups he regulates and has control over, and now he wants to ask me to do the same thing? I’m pretty clear on where I stand,’’ Gomez said Wednesday.
“I am going to challenge him today and I am going to challenge him every day to take the People’s Pledge,” Markey said Wednesday, a few hours after Gomez’s comment.
Gomez originally indicated in March that he would not sign the pledge, saying, “I’m taking one pledge and one pledge only: to protect and defend the Constitution. That’s the pledge I made when defending my country, that’s the pledge my mother and father made when they came here from Colombia, and that’s my pledge to the people of Massachusetts.”
The special election to fill John Kerry’s seat is on June 25.
