Posted on 01/08/2010 1:02:57 PM PST by FrdmLvr
Dear MoveOn member,
In 11 days, we could lose progressive hero Ted Kennedy's Senate seatand with it, any hope for passing major progressive legislation this year.
A new poll Tuesday showed Democrat Martha Coakley's lead in the special election to succeed Kennedy is at the edge of the margin of error, and the non-partisan Cook Political Report now says it's very competitive.1 And today, some of the people behind the infamous Swift Boat and racist Willie Horton ads are spending $400,000 on a new attack ad. Republican Scott Brown and his extreme right-wing supporters are significantly outspending Coakley on TV.2
A Republican victory here would be a catastropheDemocrats would lose their 60th vote in the Senate, health care could die, and the Republicans could block pretty much anything they want.
We can't let a right-winger take over Ted Kennedy's seat because not enough progressives are paying attention. Coakley urgently needs help before it's too late. Your contribution in the next 24 hours will help her expand her all-out campaign for victory. Can you contribute $5 to Coakley's campaign right away?
Martha Coakley's link deleted here.
Martha Coakley will carry on Ted Kennedy's progressive legacy. In endorsing Coakley, Vicki Kennedy, Ted Kennedy's wife, said, "My husband fought for healthcare reform for more than 40 years. Martha Coakley shares those critical beliefs." Coakley has also been outspoken against restrictions in the bill on women's right to choose.3
As Massachusetts Attorney General, Coakley was aggressive in challenging the Wall Street titans who helped bring on the financial crisis, and she recovered tens of millions of dollars for taxpayers and victims of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and UBS for their deceptive activities.4 She'll be a strong fighter in Washington for tough regulations on the financial industry.
And Republican Scott Brown? He's a "free enterprise advocate"5 who thinks the system works just fine. But he's giving Coakley a serious challenge. He promised, "As the 41st senator I can stop a lot of this stuff in its tracks....I can actually force them to go back to the drawing board."6 And there are rumors that the Republican Party and the Club for Growth will also begin attack ads on Coakley soon.
And the race is further confused by the presence of a 3rd candidate, named Joe Kennedy, who isn't related to Ted Kennedy, but is a tea-party extremist. Martha Coakley needs our help to cut through the clutter and get her message outon TV, at the doors, and on the phones.
At this moment, when Ted Kennedy's greatest goal in life is within reach, we cannot afford to let Republican extremists snatch away his legacy. Can you help with an urgent contribution of $5? Click here:
https://pol.moveon.org/give/coakley_martha.html?id=18516-10389527-dk6Lm_x&t=4
Thank you. Sincerely,
Adam, Kat, Wes, Daniel, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1 "Election 2010: Massachusetts Special Senate Election," Rasmussen Reports, Jan. 5, 2010. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85948&id=18516-10389527-dk6Lm_x&t=5
"Massachusetts Senate: Looking for a Massachusetts Miracle," The Cook Political Report, Jan. 7, 2010. http://www.cookpolitical.com/node/5698 [subscription required]
2 "Brown decries conservative group's anti-Coakley ad," Associated Press, Jan. 7, 2010. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85949&id=18516-10389527-dk6Lm_x&t=6
"Secrets of the American Future Fund," The Iowa Independent, Aug. 19, 2008. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85950&id=18516-10389527-dk6Lm_x&t=7
"Massachusetts Senate: Looking for a Massachusetts Miracle," The Cook Political Report, Jan. 7, 2010. http://www.cookpolitical.com/node/5698 [subscription required]
3 "Coakley basks in political blessings," The Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 2010. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85951&id=18516-10389527-dk6Lm_x&t=8
4 Martha Coakley, U.S. Senate, accessed Jan. 8, 2010. http://www.marthacoakley.com/about/Issues/details/21
5 Scott Brown, United States Senate, accessed Jan. 8, 2010. http://www.brownforussenate.com/issues
6 "Health bill at issue in Mass. Special," Politico, Jan. 7. 2010. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85952&id=18516-10389527-dk6Lm_x&t=9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authorized by: Martha Coakley for Senate PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. This email was sent on January 8, 2010.
Very good.
I was so inspired by this thread that I whipped out my wallet and donated a little bit myself!
As a side note to the RNC, I live in Maryland.
Sounds good to me!
Very good point!
They have never NEEDED to have to stuff ballots in Mass. It has always been a dem stronghold so they may not have the fraud network and cheaters resources there to support a fraudulent vote.
This could be very interesting in deed!
“health care could die”
LOL! Well, I hope that this particular health care LEGISLATION dies, but OK. Does MoveOn not have a copy editor? ;)
Not to mention gear up in what...10 days? Nope, this one should be somewhat clean....
They never thought they could lose in their own back yard..LOL!
It would be supremely ironic if the death of Ted Kennedy lead to the fall of the Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Derailment.
SnakeDoc
I hope to hear an earthquake!
:D
How were either of the Willie Horton ads racist? So what if you show the face of a convicted killer and he’s black? SO WHAT?
He will need at least a 2% lead to overcome the left from recounting and recounting and recounting until they have
stolen the election.
where is acorn???
And the race is further confused by the presence of a 3rd candidate, named Joe Kennedy, who isn't related to Ted Kennedy, but is a tea-party extremist
This was too rich! Go Joe!
We will try for that earthquake. That witch is the reason I can’t get my ammo shipped to MA anymore.:)
Packing their bags for Mass.
Boston Herald ^ | 01/08/10 | Howie Carr
Posted on January 8, 2010 5:14:36 PM GMT+09:00 by raccoonradio
You may be a Scott Brown voter if:
* Youre in a union, and youre going to have to pay a 40 percent tax on your Cadillac health-care plan if Martha Coakley gets a chance to vote for Obamas health-care rationing bill.
* Youre still waiting for that property-tax relief that Deval Patrick promised you in 2006.
* Youre on kidney dialysis and you have to pay for your treatment . . . but illegal aliens dont.
* Youve been rear-ended by a drunken state senator.
* Youve been groped in Lowell by a state senator who, when arrested, gave police the name of a state rep.
* You lost your appetite for lunch one day when you observed a female state senator in a restaurant stuffing FBI cash bribes into her bra.
* You watch this crime wave emanating from the State House and wonder why the attorney general cant seem to find one single solon to arrest, when the feds have no difficulty whatsoever nailing House speaker after speaker after speaker on serious felonies - not the technicalities Martha Coakleys gone after Sal DiMasi for.
* You own a package store in the Merrimack Valley, and youre getting killed by the hacks new 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol, on top of the 37 percent excise tax.
* You believe that if someone rapes his 23-month-old niece with a hot curling iron, the district attorney should go after the rapist even before the childs mother files a complaint - even if the perp is a politically wired cop and the DA is running for higher office.
* You believe that if the governors appointees rubberstamp a $44 million utility-rate increase, and then the next week Deval pockets $7,000 in contributions from that same power companys executives (and spouses) at their lobbyists office, perhaps the attorney general should at least have . . . a comment.
* You dont have a big problem with making county jailbirds pay $5 a day room and board at the House of Correction, even if the SJC does.
* You do, however, have a problem with Billy Bulgers $198,205.92 state pension (with survivors benefits).
* Your local property-tax bill is rising almost as fast as the value of your home is dropping.
* You wonder why Martha Coakley never apologized to Tookie Amirault.
* Youve had to wait hours in line at a Registry office to renew your drivers license after they shut down your local branch because of the states alleged fiscal crisis - but they still want to give free tuition at state colleges to illegal aliens.
# Youre a veteran, and you wonder why youre supposed to vote for an ardent supporter of the administration whose Homeland Security secretary refuses to call real terrorists terrorists, but who last spring issued a memo to local cops warning that the return of military veterans . . . could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups.
# You cant figure out why youre supposed to care about the endorsement of Martha Coakley by some woman from Louisiana whose father did his own bit at Club Fed, and by some guy who put a woman in a wheelchair for life back on Nantucket.
# You did at least some of your Christmas shopping in New Hampshire to beat the 25 percent sales tax increase the Democrats imposed on working people to pay for the corrupt hackerama that Martha Coakley so proudly endorses.
# Your federal income taxes are going through the roof in 2011 when the Bush tax cuts expire - and Martha Coakley thinks thats just wonderful.
# Youd like to send a message to the limousine liberals who are driving this state and this country off a cliff.
Wow
Everyone, please contribute !!!!!!!!!!!
First, he isn't completely pro-abortion, he has pushed for high restrictions on abortion and citizens for life endorsed him. Second, think about chess versus target shooting. The abortion position as a whole will be greatly set back with him in that seat, even if he is only moderate-right on it. It will be a bigger blow against the abortion lobby by our taking that seat.
This was too rich! Go Joe!
Joe Kennedy is no tea-party candidate, he is a trojan horse. He is a self admitted lifelong democrat/independent. Code pinko, completely pro-choice. He is just there to try to split our side. The Tea Party Express endorsed Brown.
Ayla is also a star basketball player at Boston College.
Anybody know anything about the new ad that’s referred to?
The “Willie Horton” ad never showed Willy Horton. The ad featured a revolving gate with 11 actors dressed as cons going through. Only two of them were Black.
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