Posted on 12/03/2013 9:07:29 PM PST by massmike
Ho - hum. Another day, another pro-family Republican congressional candidate being thrown under the bus by the GOP establishment. But this time it's especially upsetting because this is a special election -- next Tuesday, Dec. 10 -- against a particularly odious radical Democrat.
You may recall that in the 2012 general election, the national (and local Massachusetts) Republican establishment put considerable financial resources behind Richard Tisei, a pro-abortion "out" homosexual activist RINO Republican running for Congress, who unsuccessfully tried to unseat the Democrat incumbent, John Tierney (a political hack who might have been defeated by a good candidate).
That was the 6th District. This month there's a special election (an open seat) in the neighboring 5th District. But this time the Republican is a pro-family conservative running against a very radical Democrat, and the Republican establishment seems to be staying as far away as possible.
Katherine Clark, a state Senator, is the Democrat in the race. She won a seven-candidate primary in October. If elected, Clark would likely be the most radical Massachusetts member of Congress since Barney Frank -- maybe even worse.
According to Clark's campaign literature that we've seen:
Says she'll fight against the Republican "war on women."
Is solidly pro-abortion. Funded by Emily's List. Will fight for continued public funding for Planned Parenthood.
Will strongly support "LGBT rights." Was endorsed by MassEquality.
Pro-gun control. Says she "will work to end the NRA's stranglehold on Congress."
In past elections, she's also been endorsed by the ultra-left Democratic Socialists of America.
Clark's Republican opponent is Frank Addivinola, a lawyer, college instructor, and businessman. He easily won a 3-candidate primary, and is widely liked by GOP grassroots activists. He is pro-life, pro-family, pro-traditional marriage, and is also strong on a range of conservative issues. He wouldn't exactly be a conservative firebrand, though. He told us that he would not vote to impeach Barack Obama, which is annoying but no different from most of the other Republicans in the US House. As a campaigner, he is quite articulate and has been a very hard worker going across the district.
Special MA election for Congress this Tuesday. Pro-family Republican being snubbed by GOP (a disturbing trend). Up against radical anti-family pro-LGBT Democrat.
Pro-Family Republican Frank Addivinola for Ma. Congress (5th District)
Special election Tuesday,Dec.10.
http://www.frankaddivinola.com/
run Frank run !!! ...
The rino led GOP is more comfortable with a psycho far left candidate in office than a constitution loving conservative being elected.
Then grassroots conservative groups need to get the Mass GOP on-record as to why they’re not supporting the candidate i.e. why they’re not doing their f%#*ing jobs. Simple as that. Make them commit to being worthless, and then beat them with it every chance that comes up. That’s the only way to make political systems work nowadays; without the voter actively lighting fires under the party system, they’re going to do as little as possible.
Mass GOP only supports Socialists. If a Conservative tries to run, the party establishment runs interference for their Democrat friends.
Richard Tisei, a pro-abortion “out” homosexual activist RINO Republican
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This is the homosexual that idiot Willard had running his 2012 campaign...
Willard just loves that pro-abortion same sex marriage agenda thingy...
If I wanted pro-abortion and homosexuality candidates, I would never consider NOT voting for the Democrats. Exactly which voters do they think these liberal Republicans will hold any appeal for? And if they actually do win by some miracle, their novelty value wears off by the next election(Scott Brown for example).
Change "good" to "ideal" and it would be right.
Though maybe even an ideal Republican candidate would have trouble in Massachusetts.
Losing by 1.2% isn't awful for a Republican in a Massachusetts congressional race.
I predict Addivinola does well, something less than 47% in light turnout ... DEMS are suppressed ... Obama fatigue. Of course, I am not near the district, so I don’t know how much Addivinola has going on.
May God save us from the voters.
Holmes: The voters aren’t tired – the system is
“California also took the partisan politics out of redistricting, putting it in the hands of an independent commission. Both reforms, pushed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, were designed to reduce the extremism and partisan games that had contributed to legislative dysfunction in Sacramento, as in Washington, and the initial results have been promising.
Massachusetts should move to independent redistricting as well. That, and an open primary system, could reduce voter fatigue by making elections here a little less tiresome.”
We’ll see if your prediction is true in the MA special. If our side actually had money and resources to compete, we’d have a better shot at these races. We haven’t won the Markey seat since Angier Goodwin won his final term in 1952.
As for an “Independent Commission” for redistricting, I regard those as a joke. They almost always manage to stack the deck for Democrats. Look at Arizona where they managed to draw a majority of Congressional seats for the Democrats when they are the minority party (they have 5 seats out of 9 when we should have 6 or 7 out of 9).
7, we should have 7 in AZ. 3 little piggies to beat.
I can’t think of only 1 situation where “non-partisan” redistricting helped us. NJ. Actually that was “bipartisan” with one tiebreaker guy that ended up going for the GOP because they did a better job pretending to be “fair” with their map than the bloodthirsty rats did. So forget it, “non-partisan” is an illusion.
Cali was no good, we G-damn lost seats there in 2012. AZ was a total f***over. Clearly those so called non-partisan people are actually mostly democrats or may as well be.
And Pete if by “open primary system” you mean that jungle primary crap that Cali adopted and the Louisiana has long had, that’s the last thing MA needs. In MA most every race would be a Dem/Dem runoff, may as well disband the state GOP.
In the the recent Louisiana special election the runoff was between 2 Republicans and the democrats made sure the RINO won. It’s a crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap system.
Also that crap is unconstitutional, we have a right to have a single Republican on every general election ballot.
47% for Frank Addivinola? Coming that close and losing would make me sick, I’d rather he lost by 30 points.
I’m going to vote for Frank (I also convinced the g/f to vote for him) in a little while; not that it matters, but I’ve seen many more Frank yard signs than Marxist signs.
It would be great if he won, but, this is Massholestan we’re talking about.
Frank of MA-5 is running about 12% behind what Scott Brown did ... Brown finished with 52% ... which puts Frank at about 40%.
No excuses. Turnout is so light that he could have won with a GOTV effort financed by whomever.
scratch my above analysis ... Brown did 52% statewide .. now suer what he did in the current MA-5.
another town is in. Sherborn.
Brown got 55%. Frank got 35%.
842pm AP calls it for Clark.
total non-event as most expected. Not much fun.
Clark can hold the seat now for 37 years and then we can do this again.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=788928
According to this, Addivinola got a paltry 31.7%. Terrible showing. I’d like to see what the spending breakdown was for the race.
Lame. Romney got 33%.
Pete: “Turnout is so light that he could have won with a GOTV effort financed by whomever.”
I doubt it. A serious GOP effort would have been noticed, and matched with a rat effort.
That district is simply out of range, only the Boston seat had a lower Romnney %, even CD-1 gave Romney 1 point better. Even if we win seat like that in a fluke like in New Orleans with Joe Cao, it could never be held.
Districts 6 and 9 are the two we should be focused on. That ultra-RINO queer Richard Takei (oops, may have spelled that wrong ;) ) is running again in CD 6. Not cool.
Politics1 lists Senate special loser Gabriel Gomez as thinking about running in CD 9.
if i ran the gotv, we coulda run it under the radar ... and surprised him on election day.
i didnt know ma-5 was so DEM, 2nd worse in MASS?
D+16
that means 58 to 42. Not 66%, correct?
MA-03 and MA-04 are potentially winnable as well, as is MA-08 if Lynch retires.
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