It may be a coincidence, but no sooner did U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch of South Boston vote to hold former Democratic President Bill Clinton in contempt, than he got a Democratic primary opponent. Before serving two terms as governor (2008-2016) Patrick was Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1997. Neither Lynch nor Pressley, however, ever had much, if any, personal or political interaction with the Clintons when the Clintons were in power. Lynch was a state senator, and Pressley had not even been elected to the Boston City Council when Bill Clinton was president. “He had flown a number of times with Epstein, he had traveled with them, he knew Maxwell very closely,” Lynch said.