“When the longtime mayor of North Adams, John Barrett III, picks up the phone these days, he often hears a familiar deep voice that he once acidly complained wasn’t heard very much in his city or other smaller venues in Massachusetts. John F. Kerry’s voice. ‘He’ll say, What do you need? What’s going on back there? How can I help you?‘ Barrett said. ‘I’ve been all over him like a cheap suit when I think he’s wrong about something or not paying attention,’ added Barrett, a Democrat who snubbed Kerry to endorse GOP Senate candidate William Weld in 1996. ‘I would go through the wall now for John Kerry, and I wouldn’t have said that 10 years ago.’” (06/29/09)