Home > Updates 6th District Libertarian candidate announces Senate run Originally Published on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 By Item Staff

BEVERLY Libertarian candidate Daniel Fishman, who ran for Congress in the 6th District, announced Tuesday he will attempt to get on the ballot for the U.S. Senate special election to fill former Sen. John Kerrys seat.

Fishman, a software engineer from Beverly, launched an unsuccessful campaign for Congress this fall against U.S. Rep. John Tierney, a Democrat from Salem, and former state senator Richard Tisei, a Republican from Wakefield. Fishman earned about 16, 000 votes in that race, or 5 percent.

He said in a press release Tuesday that hes decided to try to run for Senate because he thinks Massachusetts voters are stuck between a Democratic machine and a too-conservative Republican party.

" [T]he thing I became most aware of on the campaign trail is that there is a large group of citizens in Massachusetts who are not being represented by the Democratic machine, which elects favorite sons time after time. Nor are they represented by the Republican party which is tied to a national platform a social tolerance policy from 1950, he said in his release.

Fishman, who campaigned for the Congressional seat on a platform of replacing most federal taxes with a 23-percent sales tax, is also pro-choice and supports legalizing marijuana.

He has called himself to the left socially of John Tierney and to the right fiscally of Richard Tisei, in an October interview with The Daily Item.

"I am the most fiscally conservative and the most socially tolerant candidate in the race, he said in his press release Tuesday.

Fishmans announcement comes two days after Tisei became the latest Republican to say he would not be running for the Senate seat. Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown also said he would not run for the seat in the Republican field.

On the Democratic side, U.S. Reps. Edward Markey, of Malden, and Stephen Lynch, of South Boston, have launched campaigns for the seat.

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6th District Libertarian candidate announces Senate run