Morning round up.

Every morning I wake up, get out of bed, run a comb across my head...wait sorry, I think the Beatles have gotten to me today. Let's try again - every morning I wake up to read about more candidates for the Kennedy seat. It's a beautiful thing really, almost as if each and every one of these potential candidates wants to help create content for kennedyseat.com.

Last night of course, we had the Christy Mihos news, which I just got around to writing about this morning. Wonderful, exciting, hilarious, cringe inducing - so many emotions overwhelmed me when I read the news. I can only hope his campaign puts together ads to rival some of his best from 2006, such as the following:



And yet even with this terrific news, the political world was not done! The Boston Globe is reporting today that Alan Khazei, cofounder of CityYear, is also considering entering the Democratic primary, as heir-apparent to the Kennedy legacy of public service. I don't know anything, and I mean anything, about Khazei, so I will hold off on a snapshot until I do some research, but the fact that he has also thrown his name into the mix has me just gleeful about the next four months.  We could be looking at a five way Democratic primary, and at least a three way Republic primary.

One can only dream.  On to the morning roundup:

• The Globe article linked above also discusses Coakley's meeting today with Emily's List, more on Christy, and Capuano's claim to Ted Kennedy's liberal legacy. 
• Massachusetts lawmakers will hold their hearing today on a bill that would allow Governor Patrick to appoint an interim Senator. Plenty of links on this, including a Globe editorial, a Scott Lehigh column, and a Politico piece. 
• Howie Carr takes a look at how the field is shaping up in today's Herald. 
• WBUR reports on Martha Coakley's career in the courtroom.
• And over on NECN, Joe Malone and Mardee Xifaras join Jim Braude to discuss the candidates: