Coakley staffer knocks Weekly Standard reporter to ground

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[gopphoenix]

http://twitter.com/ericwilson

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31437.html

DC fundraiser

[TBP]

Typical liberal.

[upstanding]

Much better - and more alarming vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw

Oops, I stand corrected! There is bolshie douchebaggery on film. That first youtube video was useless. Yours is the one people need to be view and spread.

[maggief]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Coakley-in-trouble-Pharma-and-HMO-lobbyists-to-the-rescue-81067542.html

Coakley in trouble? Pharma and HMO lobbyists to the rescue
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
01/09/10 1:55 PM EST

With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama’s health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night. The invitation is here.

Of the 22 names on the host committee—meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley—17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there’s also the political action commitee for Boston Scientific Corporation.

All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley’s host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.

[maggief]

continuing ...

Here are some of Coakley fundraiser hosts with some of their current health care clients:

* Thomas Boggs, Patton Boggs: Bristol-Myers Squibb
* Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies: Amgen, BIO, Merck, PhRMA
* Susan Brophy, Glover Park Group: Blue Cross, Pfizer
* Steven Champlin, Duberstein Group: AHIP, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis
* Licy Do Canto, Raben Group: Amgen
* Gerald Cassidy, Cassidy & Associates: U. Mass Memorial Health Care
* David Castagnetti, Mehlman, Vogel, Castagnetti: Abbot Labs, AHIP, Astra-Zenaca, General Electric, Humana, Merck, PhRMA.
* Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies: Medicines Company, PhRMA, United Health
* Shannon Finley, Capitol Counsel: Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross, GE, PhRMA, Sanofi-Aventis.
* Heather Podesta, Heather Podesta & Partners: Cigna, Eli Lilly, HealthSouth
* Tony Podesta, Podesta Group: Amgen, GE, Merck, Novartis.
* Robert Raben, Raben Group: Amgen, GE.

[Right Wing Assault]

it looks more like an accident

Didn't you watch the rest? The guy continued to push him toward the camera (away from coakley) and then tried to prevent the guy from following her. Looks like the guy was trying to take a picture. He finally escaped.

SEIU bodyguard goon?

[Right Wing Assault]

Look at the second vid, post #18. Clearly her guy was harassing the guy who “fell” after he got back up. Not an accident at all.

[warsaw44]

Same here, I have no idea what happened. Didn’t see anyone pushing or shoving a reporter.

[BP2]

Much better - and more alarming vid here

There's an important lesson here, folks.

As we conduct "operations" at Rallies, Town Hall meetings and Debates this year, always have several buddies to back you up with video cameras and lots of battery & record time!

Going one step further and sticking a long-play, high quality digital recorder in your jeans pocket can help you catch words the Liberal thugs say after they see the red light on your video camera go out. It might come in VERY handy afterward.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

See my follow-up posts-—I now agree that the goon was running interference for the Rat.

[mo]

“Here are some of Coakley fundraiser hosts with some of their current health care clients:...”

All Brown needs to do is get this list out into the deepest Democratic strongholds......

[hoosiermama]

Maggie, how about a thread in breaking news with all this information...Folks are fed up with lobbiest....I can’t imagine that Mass. would be any different.

Greta mentioned it but didn’t give the details you’ve posted.

With the pushing around of the reporter by her goons and this “fund raiser” from the lobbiest it should do her in. Brown won’t go negative so it’s up to us to get the word out....Rush, Dredge should be posting material soon, if not we need to get them on board. FOX already has the lobby info, need to send them the video.

[onyx]

Jesse Waters from Fox was at the fundraising event and managed to interview Martha.

I guess this thuggery happened afterward.

[Minn]

That is awesome. Right out of the Sopranos. That footage, along with some violin music, needs to be in an independent ad immediately. It could take up news cycles into the weekend.

[maggief]

Can you move this thread to breaking news noting the DC invitation and lobbyists referenced in posts 60, 64, 65?

TIA

[supremedoctrine]

Votes are quoted.......
-—sounds like the good ACORN “contractor” thing to do, to give “quotes” on how much it will cost the Dems to steal votes, piecemeal,how much for “each vote”.....like me giving an estimate , as a building contractor.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I wouldn’t vote for her just based on that hard look.

[Blonde]

I agree. The video here shows the thuggery much clearer. They should change the first video.

[pray4liberty]

Meltdown! This is not a good sign for the Coakley campaign. Things like this snowball until the entire campaign starts to feel like a desperate effort to hold off the inevitable.

When they're that desperate, they cheat to win. Watch for reportage on mysterious "computer problems" or problems with the voting machines on election night.

[ksm1]

Brown won’t go negative And he shouldn't. That's our job.