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A Battle Of Political Endorsements In The Berkshire DA Race

New England Public Media | By Nancy Eve Cohen
Published October 17, 2018 at 4:10 PM EDT
Andrea Harrington, at left, and Berkshire District Attorney Paul Caccaviello at right.
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Andrea Harrington, at left, and Berkshire District Attorney Paul Caccaviello at right.

A battle of political endorsements is underway in the district attorney race in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

Andrea Harrington, the Democratic nominee for district attorney, announced two new endorsements from U.S. Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren. The announcement came just one day after incumbent Paul Caccaviello was endorsed by attorney Judith Knight.

Both Knight and Caccaviello lost to Harrington in the September primary.

Caccaviello has since launched a write-in campaign.

Harrington said that effort is all about trying to hold onto power.

“This just demonstrates the length to which they are willing to go to attempt to hang onto the power that they have had for a long time now, that has led to really poor results for the people here in Berkshire County,” Harrington said.

But Caccaviello said the write-in campaign just means he's listening to voters who want him to stay in the race.
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Nancy Eve Cohen
Nancy Eve Cohen is a former NEPM senior reporter whose investigative reporting has been recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for Hard News, along with awards for features and spot news from the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA), American Women in Radio & Television and the Society of Professional Journalists.

She has reported on repatriation to Native nations, criminal justice for survivors of child sexual abuse, linguistic and digital barriers to employment, fatal police shootings and efforts to address climate change and protect the environment. She has done extensive reporting on the EPA's Superfund cleanup of the Housatonic River.

Previously, she served as an editor at NPR in Washington D.C., as well as the managing editor of the Northeast Environmental Hub, a collaboration of public radio stations in New York and New England.

Before working in radio, she produced environmental public television documentaries. As part of a camera crew, she also recorded sound for network television news with assignments in Russia, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba and in Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia.
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