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Monday, February 8, 2010

Game Change in Massachusetts

The People of Massachusetts Are Taking Back Their Seats

by Mike LaChance

The Scott Brown revolution is alive and well in Massachusetts.

Tuesday night, January 26th at 7:00 when most people would like to be home relaxing after work, almost 500 average citizens from Massachusetts packed a convention hall in the Boston suburb of Braintree. They shared some common interests. They’re either running for office or helping someone else run for office. Some of them are running for federal or state offices, some for seats in local towns and cities and some for school boards. The one sentiment they share is clear: They’ve had enough.

The Crowd

A capacity crowd!

The event they showed up for was a “candidate school” offered by Boston talk radio host Michael Graham of 96.9 WTKK, a man the Boston Phoenix dubbed “Boston’s maestro of conservative controversies.” In between his tenure at WTKK and a career in stand-up comedy, Graham ran political campaigns. Today, he is sharing his knowledge with the citizens of the Bay State and encouraging them to participate in the system.

Attendees included people like Francis McLaughlin, a retired Boston fire fighter and registered Republican since 1975. McLaughlin is running for the Massachusetts House of Representatives for specific reasons:

“The Massachusetts legislature is totally ineffective. They’re not protecting children from predators, taxes are too high and there are way too many entitlements.”

Another attendee was Vernon Harrison, an “Independent Republican” who works in the computer industry and is planning a run for congress.

“I’m tired of the size, scope and spending of government. I also think people are tired of self serving career politicians.”

Potential candidates weren’t limited to Republicans. Marty Hogan of South Boston is a Democrat who’s gearing up for his second run for Boston City Council.

“Boston is not getting any better for Bostonians and we need real transparency. We need to return the seats to the people.”

The panel of speakers arranged by Michael Graham included every political persuasion. Holly Robichaud, a Republican strategist who blogs at the Boston Herald website as “The Lone Republican” gave a step by step explanation of a political campaign and former Boston City Councilman Bruce Bolling, a Democrat, offered an inspiring call to public service based on his own experiences. Tea Party activist, Corie Whalen provided advice on social networking software and Dennis Corrigan, a Libertarian, broke down the do’s and don’ts of campaign finance law.

The Speakers

Whalen, Graham, Robichaud, Bolling and Corrigan.

http://biggovernment.com/mlachance/2010/02/03/the-people-of-massachusetts-are-taking-back-their-seats/

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Martha Has Already Lost

A loser and a sore loser at that.

No matter what happens at the ballot box tomorrow, one thing is certain: Martha Coakley is a loser.
Even if Bill Clinton and Barack Obama can somehow rescue her candidacy, Coakley will never recover from the self-inflicted damage of the worst political campaign in recent history.

Cont.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1226304

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Monday, January 18, 2010

What a Difference a Year Makes

by Janet Crain; Liberal Joan Walsh having second thoughts about the Messiah? Hint, Joan, populists drive pickups, not make fun of them.

"From a black church in DC to a Martha Coakley rally in Boston, Obama makes a fired-up populist pitch for his agenda

By Joan Walsh"

President Obama speaks at a campaign stop for Democratic senate candidate Martha Coakley on Sunday

What strange forces conspired to schedule a crucial, down-to-the-wire Senate race that Democrats can't afford to lose, almost exactly a year to the day after Barack Obama's historic inauguration? For Obama supporters, there's no time to commemorate the glorious events of a year ago. All that joy and promise has turned to dread and doubt, as a defeat for Martha Coakley on Jan. 19 could block Obama's signature policy initiative, health care reform. If she loses, Obama wakes up Jan. 20 to endless news cycles declaring his presidency, having lost its 60-vote Senate majority, either impotent or doomed. What a difference a year makes.

Against that backdrop, it was fascinating to watch the president take time to preach Sunday morning (just hours before stumping for Coakley in Boston) at Vernon Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., the legendary black church that hosted Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in December, 1956. I was surprised to see Obama lay out parallels between the struggles of King's movement, and his own.

Surprised, because almost a year after his inauguration, I've stopped seeing Obama's career as having much to do with a movement. That's not to deny that the election of our first black president was a huge civil right milestone, and owed an enormous debt to that movement's hard work and heroes. It was, and it did. But the Obama White House has mostly seemed to shed the "movement" trappings that elected him in 2008, to the chagrin of progressives of every race who saw his campaign as the highest expression of the social justice and civil rights movement, and who made his election the cause of their lifetimes.

On Sunday Obama seemed to be trying to get that movement mojo back, and reassure disillusioned liberals that change requires compromise as well as a long view of social progress -- and I found myself wondering, was it desperation? Manipulation? A rare glimpse inside the way Obama thinks about the arc of social justice, and his place in it? Maybe it doesn't matter: We all turn (back) to faith and the community in times of trouble, and Obama is in some trouble right now. It gave me a lot to think about.

Cont.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/01/17/obama_movement?source=newsletter

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Is Coakley about to Croak?

Martha CRCoakley

Heat of the race shows Martha’s true character

By Joe Fitzgerald
Monday, January 18, 2010 - Updated 12h ago

If the old saw is true, that a clear conscience is the softest pillow, Scott Brown ought to sleep well tonight, content he took the high road in his bid to succeed Ted Kennedy.

He proved you don’t have to go to every fight you’re invited to, no matter how much you’re provoked by a desperate opponent willing to win by any means necessary.

If Martha Coakley was accurately portrayed by her campaign, shame on her; if the portrayal that emerged was the handiwork of her handlers, shame on them.

And what the heat of this campaign revealed was that Coakley, who started out presenting herself as a woman of grace and dignity, is, in fact, the personification of the old boys’ network.

She almost had us fooled, but then she began to feel the heat.

She ignored a reporter’s uncomfortable question, then looked the other way while one of her toadies knocked him to the ground. And she’s our top law enforcement officer? Please.

She asked us to believe that Brown, who has two daughters, is totally callous to the trauma of rape. How scurrilous.

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The national implications of this campaign are obvious; the returns will be seen by many as a referendum on the president, for a Brown victory would suggest Americans are not happy with the way the country’s going.

But the local implications are enormous, too, because in Massachusetts we’re not used to having our opinions matter.

Referenda? We told the Beacon Hill crowd how we felt about term limits, capital punishment and legislative pay raises. No one listened. And then that same crowd made very sure no one knew how we felt about gay marriage.

So what’s beautiful about tomorrow is that they are finally going to have to listen to us as one of their own asks for our support.

And that makes this a certainty: When the totals are announced, we will have gotten exactly what we deserved.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1226317

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Oh, how the mighty have fallen............

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Perfect Storm Brewing for Dems

Friday, January 15, 2010

Bring him on.........

by Janet Crain; This is funny. Most analysts think Obama will hurt not help Coakley's chances. LOL We've seen this kiss of death syndrome before; Bush, Clinton, Carter, Nixon, etc. I just don't think we've seen it so early in an incumbancy. But the world is moving much faster these days.

Obama to campaign for Coakley

By BEN SMITH & JOSH KRAUSHAAR | 1/15/10 3:40 PM EST

A composite image of President Obama and Martha Coakley.

President Obama will travel to Mass. to campaign for Martha Coakley. | AP Photos. Close

GOP money, troops pour into Mass.

By ALEX ISENSTADT | 1/15/10 2:45 PM

GOP candidates rally behind long-shot Senate bid.

Scott Brown Surges Ahead by 4% Lead!!!!!

Just received in my Inbox!!!!! Please donate. You can make a difference!!!

The people in Massachusetts have awakened from their long slumber!!!

SCOTT BROWN PULLS AHEAD TO A 4% LEAD IN MASSACHUSETTS SPECIAL ELECTION FOR U.S. SENATE !!!

It is with great excitement that we are passing on to you this breaking news development from Massachusetts where a brand new poll has Republican Scott Brown surging to a 4% lead in the polls for the Special Election for U.S. Senate.

Scott Brown now leads liberal Democrat Martha Coakley by a 50%-46% margin. This is the first time Brown has hit the magical threshold of 50% in a poll, suggesting he has the momentum to win this race in this heavily Democratic state!

The Democrats are in a state of panic and have just dumped even more money into this race. We here at the Tea Party Express are countering with our own TV ad campaign for Scott Brown that is running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars - thanks to your support.

Tomorrow we are expanding our ad buy even more - and we need your support. The final deadlines for us to purchase advertising is the end of the day Friday, and then one last time for the end of the day Monday. This is it, there are no more tomorrow's - we must make our final push now!

You can make a contribution to our campaign effort for Scott Brown - HERE.

We must take action, for if we can pull out a victory, we stop the Democrats dead in their tracks in their effort to secretly ram through their socialistic healthcare plan.

That's because Scott Brown wholeheartedly opposes the Democrat's government-run healthcare plan and has made his opposition to it a central part of his campaign.