Politics

Clark says she’s received ‘positive’ reaction to her boycott of inauguration

Congresswoman Katherine Clark during a Martin Luther King Jr. remembrance service at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Cambridge on Monday. Keith Bedford/Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE — When US Representative Katherine Clark finished speaking at an event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Cambridge Monday, a voice rang out from the crowd: “Thank you for boycotting the inauguration.”

Clark, a Democratic from a solidly blue congressional district north and west of Boston, said she has been “pleasantly surprised” by the reaction she’s received since announcing plans two weeks ago to boycott the presidential inauguration.

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