Ogonowski gets newspaper endorsements

In the Fifth Congressional District race, the two-candidate Republican primary has not been nearly as contested as the five-candidate Democratic primary. So it doesn't come as a huge surprise that the two largest local newspapers in the district have endorsed Jim Ogonowski on the Republican side. The Lowell Sun endorsed him on Tuesday, and the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune weighed in today.

It wasn't necessarily a ringing endorsement (it said "Ogonowski's inexperience would be a liability in the general election," and noted that he and his staff "can be rough around the edges and, at times, an irritant"), but it said he would be better against the Democrats than his opponent, Thomas P. Tierney, who is running for the seat for the fifth time and currently has $1,130 in his campaign account.

"He is the candidate who will contrast most clearly with the Democratic nominee and give us an interesting congressional race in October," the editorial says in favor of Ogonowski.