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Democratic/Liberal $103,500
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Business Services $54,800
Education $44,350
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Civil Servants/Public Officials $22,450
Misc Unions $20,000
Building Trade Unions $20,000
Food & Beverage $19,900
Beer, Wine & Liquor $16,900
Printing & Publishing $13,100
Misc Health $12,000
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $11,900
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Boston Culinary Group $10,100
Home Depot $10,000
Painters & Allied Trades Union $10,000
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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1220446
Coakley, Brown sound off U.S. Senate candidates spar on WBZ
Boston Herald (MA) - Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Author: JESSICA VAN SACK
Attorney General Martha Coakley and state Sen. Scott Brown sparred face-to-face for the first time last night, dueling in a radio debate over health care and other issues after a bruising day that saw the Republican challenger put his Democratic rival on the defensive.
Brown, 50, the GOP nominee for the late Edward M. Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat, accused Coakley of flip-flopping on her pledge to vote against a health-care bill with limits on abortion funding.
Coakley, 56 - who skewered her three Democratic foes over the abortion issue during the primary - now says she supports the current Senate bill despite abortion funding limits.
Earlier in the day, Brown also accused Coakley, the state’s $135,000-a-year attorney general, of playing fast and loose with the truth when she insisted she never benefited from Bush administration tax cuts.
“She’s either lying or she doesn’t understand federal tax code because, as somebody who makes what she makes, she got an across-the-board tax decrease, and she also benefited by the marriage penalty not being in effect,” Brown said during an appearance on WTKK-FM yesterday afternoon.
Coakley spokesman Corey Welford called Brown’s charge “ridiculous,” insisting that she was referring to the those tax cuts that benefited the 1 percent of wealthiest Americans - “those earning $1 million or more.”
Coakley wants to repeal the tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of 2010, while Brown wants to keep them in place.
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Pol wants Big Dig firm ban Blasts governor for not going far enough
Boston Herald (MA) - Saturday, January 31, 2009
Author: HILLARY CHABOT
A top Beacon Hill lawmaker yesterday slammed Gov. Deval Patrick for allowing discredited Big Dig contractors responsible for a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse to continue doing business with state government.
Patrick recently blasted Massport officials for hiring Parsons Brinckerhoff even though MassHighway has paid the controversial firm more than $300,000 for engineering work since the governor took office, the Herald disclosed yesterday. However, the department has rejected or frozen bids from the contractor issued in fiscal 2008 for four state projects, including a bridge project in Amesbury.
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Patrick, who has the power to start the debarment process, deferred to Attorney General Martha Coakley , who was in negotiations with the companies. Patrick later supported Coakley’s settlement agreement to collect $458 million from the faulted contractors in exchange for not debarring them.
“He can’t be held responsible for issuing those contracts, but where he opens himself up for criticism is the debarment issue,” Baddour said.
“If we’re not going to debar them, then they can do work here. We can’t just keep talking ourselves into a circle. If they don’t ban them from working here, there’s no way we can keep them from state projects,” Baddour said.