Posted on 01/19/2010 6:50:16 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Michael Noyes, special correspondent for Watchdog.org
DORCHESTER, MASS. – An official for Martha Coakley’s campaign removed two campaign signs (pictured right) from near the entrance to the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School polling place after a Boston Police officer responded to a call from an election official.
Election Warden Mary Vines viewed the signs after she was questioned by a reporter about the legality of the placement.
“That’s not supposed to be there,” Vines said. “It’s supposed to be at the street. We’ve had that problem in the last two elections.”
A Boston Police Department officer responded to a call from Vines and spoke with a campaign observer from the Coakley campaign. The Coakley observer then removed the signs.
DORCHESTER, MASS. – Residents going in to vote at the Boys & Girls Club polling place in Dorchester this morning were greeted by two Martha Coakley for senate signs lashed to the handrails leading up the steps to the front entrance.
Inside the building, election officials brushed off questions about the legality of signs posted for the Democratic candidate at the entrance of the polling place.
“How we going to measure them?” said a man who identified himself as the election warden and would only give his first name, Angel, when asked whether the signs were legally placed.
“Ask me something that makes sense,” he said. “Are you serious?”
An election warden at Sarah Greenwood Elementary School made a call to elections officials when questioned about a Coakley sign posted on the fence that sits just feet from the school building and is at the entrance to the parking lot.
“That was there when we opened up,” said the election warden whose nametag identified her as Shirley Montgomery.
The election official on the phone referred questions to the secretary of state’s office and asked that reporters leave the polling place.
“I have an election to run,” she said, identifying herself as an election commissioner.
Signs were also posted near the building at Boston Middle School Academy and Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School.
The signs at each location in Dorchester were identical and read “Martha Coakley, U.S. Senate.”
Dorchester is not the only city with suspect campaign signs. Special correspondent Ashley Badgley has more here.
Keep it up!
Winner May Not Be Sworn in Until February (Sleazy Harry has a plan for Scott Brown)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431913/posts
[But is ‘not sworn in’ the same as ‘not qualified’?]
Question (Obama: “I Don’t Know Brown’s Policies.” DUHOH ALERT)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430701/posts
“So what exactly made him qualified to attack Brown’s policies?” — NRO
Coakley’s Support of “Transgender Rights” Would Force Taxpayers to Fund Murderer’s Trans Procedures
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2430006/posts
” ... he raped a 23-month-old girl with a hot, curling iron ...” But Coakley released him because his “ ... union-representative father steered lots of endorsements and donations to the Coakley for AG campaign ... “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2429753/posts
Coakley: Catholics Shouldn’t Work in ER’s [essentially]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2428942/posts
Patrick Kennedy, son of late Sen. Edward Kennedy, mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as ‘Marcia,’ not ‘Martha’...
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/01/after_obama_ral.php
[Large link blast of Coakley/Brown Race in response to this post.]
In Virginia, an election official can send someone to jail for 24 hours if that someone does not comply with election law.
BROWN RESPONDS TO OBAMA ON THE TRUCK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2430893/posts?page=42
[Zero got B-Slapped.]
Coakley goons wrap cameraman up in campaign sign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431791/posts
More than 600,000 on Massachusetts Voter Rolls Had Died or Moved, Nonpartisan Analysis Discovered
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431575/posts
Coakley dodges questions from media, hides behind labor (Video at link)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431921/posts
Brown Threatens Legal Action
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430542/posts
“Brown wants to send 1,736 rape victims away from the hospital.”
What The Heck (Obumbler Attacks Trucks Drivers Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430706/posts
“ ... hit Scott Brown for driving a truck at least three times ... “
Question (Obama: “I Don’t Know Brown’s Policies.” DUHOH ALERT)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430701/posts
“So what exactly made him qualified to attack Brown’s policies?” — NRO
Barney Frank bashes Coakley. “She let it become a personality contest and that was a mistake”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430656/posts
Dem Congressman predicts ‘very slow count’...
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2010/01/if-coakley-loses-fast-forward.html
Coakley’s Top Ten
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431029/posts
Obama heckled at rally...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/17/obama_heckled_at_coakley_rally.html
Barney Frank: “[Coakley/Mass.] let it become a personality contest and that was a mistake”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430656/posts
[With friends like this ...]
Coakley Supports Partial-birth Abortion, Taxes for Abortion, Opposes Parent Consent Laws on Abortion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431034/posts
[Like I’ve been saying — her overall sense of justice helps validate that infanticidal death trolls are inhuman in other issues too.]
Only 36% of Likely Mass. Voters Support Obamacare; Only 48% Approve of Job Obama’s Doing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431015/posts
Martha Coakley’s Convictions [role played in a notorious sex case raises questions]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429453/posts
One of Martha Coakley`s victims
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429811/posts
[Louise Woodward, the English Nanny convicted in part by Martha Coakley]
[Coakley’s Witch Hunt of Innocents for Political Gain]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429746/posts
How to Extort a Confession [Gerald Amirault] From April 22, 2002
[NY Slimes?] From Bay State to Red State? [Coakley’s gaffes]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429806/posts
Clinton fights for Martha, rails against ‘Tea Party’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429452/posts
Democrats Accuse Brown of ‘Radical’ Ties as Senate Election Nears [Tea Party Tie-in]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429627/posts
Analysis: Senate race underscores voter anger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429745/posts
Breitbart (AP)
DEM THREAT: SENATE CAN PASS HEALTHCARE WITH 51 VOTES
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPg2UfFaCh9c&pos=9
Martha Coakley Continues Her Blunders, Gaffes, Stumbles and Flubs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2429850/posts
I’ve been called a LOT of things…(Curt Schilling)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429810/posts
[Coakley steps in it again.]
bookmark & BTTT !!
The sun comes up every morning.
Spring follows winter.
Bears crap in the woods.
Popes are Catholic.
Democrats cheat.
Good! Find every election violation and make these socialist clowns answer for them.
THE SHENNANIGANS HAVE BEGUN!!!
Over night, in my Northern Middlesex County town of 6,000 a Republican strong hold, ALL SCOTT BROWN SIGNS STOLEN
We voted at 9:00 this morning, there are 3 precincts in town. We were number 277 and 278.
Weather: Light snow, wind calm, 26 degrees. Prediction for snow to increase
Just checked your profile. Thank you!!! This race proves what we can do. Let’s ROLL!!!
Stu Rothenberg goes so far as to liken a potential Democratic loss in Massachusetts to the stock market collapse that led to the Great Depression: "If you are looking for an analogy for a Republican victory in Massachusetts, the best one for Democrats may well be the stock market crash of 1929. Come Tuesday night, you could have Democrats jumping out windows and off roofs." If Martha Coakley loses today, it won’t be because she didn’t put up enough signs on Blue Hill Ave. It’ll be because she failed to convince enough of the people who put up the Obama signs on Blue Hill Ave. and a lot of other avenues across Massachusetts that Obama’s ability to get anything done depends on her winning the election." One of the places where the sign was put up was in a laundromat, where the man behind the counter said he knew absolutely nothing about Coakley and that he wasn't sure he was going to vote. And many of the customers, he noted, are Haitian and aren't focused on the special election.
I guess the Haitian community was "not bought" by Obama's gift of legal immigration status.
“Ask me something that makes sense,” he said. “Are you serious?”
Duuhhhh. Sounds like Democrat Angel is a poster child for why public schools need to toughen their standards.
The sun comes up every morning.
Spring follows winter.
Bears crap in the woods.
Popes are Catholic.
Democrats cheat.
All true, but can they cheat enough to cover a 5% to 9% margin of contempt? I am going to go out on a limb here, if Dems cheat big to win, I think even the media will stand away from the stench. I know this is a big call, but the media might just want to sell newspapers and news shows next year. Ask yourself one question, if you spent your life in media and lose your job, what are you qualified to do next? Kind of scary isn’t it.
Election warden a no-show, police open polls http://bit.ly/8TqCVu #masen #tcot #tlot #coakley #brown 39 seconds ago reply
Watchdogorg Campaign signs outside of polling places raise legal questions in Dorchester, Boston #tcot #tlot #masen #brown #coakley http://bit.ly/5ZmzcB 41 minutes ago reply
Watchdogorg More possible sign violations http://watchdog.org/2010... #tcot #tlot #masen 40 minutes ago reply
Watchdogorg Coakley campaign removes sign after police called to Crochester polling http://bit.ly/5ZmzcB #tcot #tlot #masen #coakley #brown 38 minutes ago reply
More possible sign violations http://watchdog.org/2010... #tcot #tlot #masen 40 minutes ago reply
Watchdogorg Coakley campaign removes sign after police called to Crochester polling http://bit.ly/5ZmzcB #tcot #tlot #masen #coakley #brown 38 minutes ago reply
Watchdogorg “I’m in enemy territory” teacher alleges voter intimidation http://bit.ly/4JY4hz #tcot #tlot #masen #coakley #brown 35 minutes ago reply
Watchdogorg Teacher Alleges Intimidation at MA Polling Place http://bit.ly/6VcpHy 8 minutes ago reply
Unfortunately, the socialist judges get to rule on the socialist clowns.
“How we going to measure them?” said a man who identified himself as the election warden and would only give his first name, Angel, when asked whether the signs were legally placed.
“Ask me something that makes sense,” he said. “Are you serious?”
Hmmm? Unusual response from this guy. Possibly the culprit?
Wow, keep up those detailed updates!
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