My Saturday afternoon with Martha(Eyewitness to a campaign stop)(vanity)

Free Republic | 1/16/10 | GQuagmire

[GQuagmire]

I just witnessed a Coakley campaign stop.I was driving by and figured I'd see what her turnout would be. It was in Lynn, a blue collar city of 90,000 plus. It's a soon to be minority majority city. The event was at a popular diner in downtown. There were maybe 75+ people there, and 95% were, as I like to call them,"stagehands". Holding signs in the parking lot, and on the sidewalk. Most of the stagehands were kids 17-22 years old. And a few union types thrown in for good measure.

Before she arrived I was listening for car horns in support for her for about 10 min. Pretty quiet in my opinion. The teenage stagehands had to cajole a few times for a toot of the horn. Unless of course at the time they weren't texting which quite a few were doing instead of waving to the motorists which is what you're supposed to do.

When Coakley pulled up the stagehands did their duty and made some noise. She got out of the car which was directed where to go by some operatives and got out and did some gladhandling with the help. She met a couple of local hacks(one I know. He's a state rep. Nice guy but will tow the Dem line and will do whatever he's told).She proceeded in to the diner and I went on my way.

Other than the stagehands, no one else showed up.I'm not counting the half dozen union goons off to the side, looking bored and drinking coffee. People stopped to see what was going on, but after a minute or so, they went on their way.

On the way about a mile away I saw some Brown supporters at the Lynn/ Nahant rotary. More horns were heard including mine. The most encouraging thing that all 15 people were waving to the cars, and they all were the right age group. 30 to 50's. Taxpayers. None were being paid to be there. You can tell who is there because they want to be there and the ones who were told (or paid) to be there.

[GQuagmire]

Anyone else who has witnessed a Brown or Coakley event feel free to add on to this shameless vanity.

[DogBarkTree]

Thanks for the report. Was Coakley wearing a Yankees cap?

[chris haney]

Thanks for the update. I live in Jersey and received a live phone call from a campaign worker in Massachusetts asking me to vote for Coakley.

[homegroan]

I bet she just dreaded going into that diner with the common people...she’s probably still washing her hands.

[bigbob]

Good job, and not all that shameless ;-)

Hopefully no reporters were shoved to the ground in the making of this report.

[dusttoyou]

Massa2shites / Neuvo Jersey whats a few miles between good dems? Little doubt they have recipical voter registration and are happy to help when called on.

[imskylark]

“I live in Jersey and received a live phone call from a campaign worker in Massachusetts asking me to vote for Coakley.”

Ed Schultz did say Coakley needs to cheat.

[jazminerose]

“Reciprocal voter registration”, I love that.

[ml/nj]

I live in Jersey and received a live phone call from a campaign worker in Massachusetts asking me to vote for Coakley.

Maybe she figures she has a better shot if she can deliver the Essex County vote?

ML/NJ

[Gomez]

I live in Jersey and received a live phone call from a campaign worker in Massachusetts asking me to vote for Coakley.

Don't be surprised if you find out you DID vote in this election.

I'm waiting for reports of bus loads of crooks and goons from the Democratic Party, ACORN and SEIU heading to Massachuttes (or however you spell it) to do whatever it takes to steal the election.

[Mountain Mary]

LOL, Chris, LOL

[dusttoyou]

Doesn’t New York and Florida already have that? Am pretty sure they do.

Reciprocal voter registration, would be better than Acorn having to chase down Mickey Mouse and Goofy to sign Registration cards every four years.

[JPG]

Martha in the diner (gasp) reminded me of the time Mama T lowered herself to go into a Wendy's with Silky and his wife and had no clue as to what to order. Whatever it was was trash canned and her and Jon Cary beat it back to the campaign bus for the finger sandwiches, caviar, lobster and other peasant foods. The RATS are fakes one and all.

[tennmountainman]

It would not be a real democrat election stop without some union thugs thrown in the mix.

[tennmountainman]

“Unless of course at the time they weren’t texting”

These young teens were propably texting their friends with something like this.

“Hey dude can u believe I’m getting $50 to hold this Coakley sign for an hour. PARTY TIME TONITE!!!!!

[nina0113]

I live in Jersey and received a live phone call from a campaign worker in Massachusetts asking me to vote for Coakley.

Find someone at the Massachusetts election board to report that to. Maybe make a joke about the reciprocal voter registration?

[Aria]

To tell you the truth I wouldn’t eat at Wendy’s either unless I wanted to end up on The Biggest Loser.

[cookiedough]

I live in PA and I received a phone call from Pat Boone asking me to vote for Coakley.

[harpu]

Here's what the DemonRATs are sending out to raise money...

I just got up to Martha Coakley's campaign HQ to help her win Tuesday's crucial special election. I have to tell you -- this isn't like anything Massachusetts has ever seen.

It's happening right after the holidays, so a lot of people haven't even heard about it. Meanwhile, the same guys behind the Swift Boat ads are taking over the airwaves to distort Martha's record, and the same far-right tea-party crowd that's attacking President Obama is funding her opponent.

The stakes in this race are incredibly high. If we don't hold this seat, a right-wing Republican will hold Sen. Ted Kennedy's old seat until at least 2012 -- and we'll lose a crucial vote in the Senate for health reform and the agenda we fought so hard for last year.

That's why we're going all out in Massachusetts with a massive effort to lock up a Democratic victory. But we can only afford to keep this battle up against the far right through Election Day if folks like you chip in.

Please donate $5 or more to help us make Martha Coakley the next senator from Massachusetts.

Democratic ads are highlighting the key differences between Martha, a long-time public servant and one of the nation's best attorneys general, and her extreme Republican opponent who would walk in lockstep with Mitch McConnell and national GOP power brokers.

And our organizers are engaging volunteers by the thousands to make sure Obama voters make it back to the polls.

But we need your help to keep it going. Please donate $5 or more to the Democratic Party to support our work, including our efforts to elect Martha Coakley:

Let's win this,

Hari

Hari Sevugan
Press Secretary
Democratic National Committee

[edzo4]

my unofficial Brown Vs Coakley sign count from my ride to work this morning 18 to 1
I counted 18 Brown signs and 1 Coakley sign,
and the ONLY COAKLEY SIGN was on the electricians union HQ in Boston

Hope that is a good sign and Brown wins by enough that they can’t cheat.

Hmm I wonder if the fact that I was driving to work on a saturday relates at all to my political ideology?

[GQuagmire]

I mentioned in an earlier thread that I’m starting to see some more Coakley signs and that I’m starting to get a little nervous. After seeing Coakley’s event today I’m feeling more confident than I was earlier...

[Stormdog]

“Anyone else who has witnessed a Brown or Coakley event feel free to add on to this shameless vanity.”

If anybody’s interested, Scott will be at the FlatIron Restaurant in Middleboro @ 5:00 PM today. 444 Centre Street
Middleboro, MA 02346
(508) 947-3358

[potlatch]

[hoosiermama]

Call the FBI voter fraud unit....Let them know what happened and ask them to investigate. Is your ID being stolen? Ask the state police to investigate. Is your name being used. DO IT NOW! Check your credit information and see if any cards etc have been added.

This may be more serious than you think and others may be being used also.

[NonValueAdded]

"Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin
you never come out the way you went in."

Thanks for the report.

[NonValueAdded]

or someone misdialed an area code ... let’s not go overboard here.

[Joe Boucher]

Good job.
Appreciate it.

[ninonitti]

I'm waiting for reports of bus loads of crooks and goons from the Democratic Party, ACORN and SEIU

The way it works here in Boston as well as every other urbanized area is that the GOTV folks have their lists and vans. They go out and collect elderly voters and bring them to the polls.....unless of course the polling place is in elderly housing in which case they go door to door floor by floor.

No big secret just very labor intensive which is where the goons come in.

The crooks are in the election department where the numbers are moved off the machines and onto tally sheets.....a quote attributed to Stalin comes to mind: It's not the votes that count but who counts the vote"

Florida also comes to mind....hanging chads?

[Joe Boucher]

Come on Gomez,
Ya don’t need bussloads of goons anymore,
Just a good computer guy and election boards leaning your way.

[Big Horn]

I think they steal most their vote by counting. That is the most effective way to win elections. Stalin was right.

[Big Horn]

Good news.

[hugorand]

I work near the Brown HQ in Needham. Driving from there through Wellesley, Framingham, Marlborough and Northborough, Scott Brown supporters with signs far outnumber Coakley supporters.

I even saw a bunch of Scott Brown supporters with signs on an overpass on Rt. 9. It's really unprecedented here in Massachusetts.

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

A trip through Townsend to Lunenburg saw two dozen Brown signs and two for the butch hag.

[GVnana]

Huh?

[TimPatriot]

"I'm waiting for reports of bus loads of crooks and goons from the Democratic Party, ACORN and SEIU heading to Massachuttes (or however you spell it) to do whatever it takes to steal the election"

The Mass State Police have endorsed Brown, I don't think the machine is going to get away with as much BS this time around.

[potlatch]

Several Free Republic threads about it plus these sources;

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/01/15/purple-for-brown-seiu-member-s

http://mainstreetradical.com/2010/01/16/some-seiu-members-support-brown/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HbcxXvvf_s&feature=youtu.be

http://redmassgroup.com/diary/6658/wow-purple-shirted-seiu-members-holding-signs-at-standout

http://www.flemingandhayes.com/articles/98-handicapped-seiu-member-barred-from-coakleyclinton-rally-secret-service-forcibly-remove-foreign-coakley-supporter

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/13/seiu-affiliated-union-endorses-scott-brown/

[okie01]

Martha in the diner (gasp) reminded me of the time Mama T lowered herself to go into a Wendy's with Silky and his wife and had no clue as to what to order.

Mama T's immortal inquiry: "What is...chili???

[islander-11]

Thanks for the report. Very telling stuff...

[Political Junkie Too]

...reminded me of the time Mama T lowered herself to go into a Wendy's with Silky and his wife and had no clue as to what to order.

Let's take a stroll down Memory Lane.

-PJ

[BelleAl]

” I live in PA and I received a phone call from Pat Boone asking me to vote for Coakley.”

I’m sure it wasn’t the real Pat Boone (entertainer). He’s a conservative Christian.

[BelleAl]

” I live in PA and I received a phone call from Pat Boone asking me to vote for Coakley.”

I’m sure it wasn’t the real Pat Boone (entertainer). He’s a conservative Christian.

[Mr. Silverback]

Heck, if Dems can get people to vote from the afterlife, why not Jersey?

[GVnana]

WORCESTER, Mass. - Supporters of Republican Scott Brown lined the sides of a street here outside a Democratic rally at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where former President Bill Clinton came to campaign for Martha Coakley.

More than 75 boosters of the GOP candidate turned out for the counter-rally, standing the sub-freezing weather to wave Brown signs and loudly sing (to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"), "Glory, Hallelujah . . . Send Scott Brown to D.C.!"

Among the Brown supporters were - believe it or not - rank-and-file members of the Service Employees International Union.

"We're Americans - we have our free choice," said one of the SEIU members, who identified herself only as Michelle and said she drove more than 60 miles from Western Massachusetts - "The stepchild of this state" - to show her support for Brown in Worcester.

Well I'll be damned.

[potlatch]

[Well I'll be damned. ]

Amazing, isn't it. So glad you posted that as I've been questioned about it by many today. Everyone doubted their eyes, lol.

SO, I started collecting every url I could find to verify it. Guess the youtube does it best.

[SamAdams76]

In my hometown of Chelmsford, the town center is usually where you get the sign holders at election time as it is the major intersection in town where five roads converge. There were the Coakley sign holders on each corner but they were surrounded on both sides by Brown sign holders who outnumbered them easily by a 5:1 margin.

The Brown sign holders were obviously volunteers who seemed happy to be there and they were waving to the motorists and getting lots of honks. The Coakley sign holders looked distracted and bored and seemed like they just wanted their shift to be over so they could get out of there.

[Honorary Serb]

Guess, what, y’all? The Brown campaign is sponsoring a People’ Rally in Mechanics’ Hall in Worcester tomorrow (1/17/09):

http://brownforussenate.com/the-peoples-rally

That is exactly the same time that obama “may” (according to boston.com) speak at Northeastern University in Boston:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/obama_may_speak.html?camp=localsearch:on:twit:metro

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/details_of_pres.html

Please spread the word!!!! If you are in Massachusetts and can get to Worcester, help make a big crowd for Scott Brown, and avoid the SEIU/ACORN thugs and party hacks who are sure to show up at Northeastern. Attending church in the morning and saying a prayer for Brown, the voters of Massachusetts, and our country wouldn’t hurt either.

It’s REALLY interesting that the “People’s Rally” is in support of a Republican candidate, while Democrats (once “the party of the people”) are having more elitist (but thug-infested) events.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Wonders never cease! That is the first positive thing I have ever seen/read about SIEU members!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

More good reports....on the Massachusetts miracle in the making!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Thanks for your report and others on this thread. Quite heartening.

[grey_whiskers]

I bet she just dreaded going into that diner with the common people...she’s probably still washing her hands.

Just like another Massachusetts Dem icon.