Boston Herald:
>>The Martha Coakley campaign denied it was responsible for attaching some of the Democratic candidate’s political signs to ones honoring the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday, after some voters called it poor timing.
“If it’s the case, she should do her own thing, not ride on Menino” said Therese Adams at the Orchard Gardens Community Center in Roxbury yesterday. “She needs to do her own thing if she’s going for governor. It’s best for her to start on her own.”
The Menino signs — widely distributed to mourners along the procession route to the late mayor’s funeral on Monday — were seen stapled to Coakley for governor signs.
But a spokesman for the Coakley campaign told the Herald the paired signage wasn’t organized by them.
“Nothing was coordinated with the campaign,” said Coakley spokesman Dave Wedge [Former Herald Reporter--rr]. Any Coakley/Menino signs “would be something somebody decided to do on their own,” he said.
But one volunteer for Republican Charlie Baker’s campaign derided it was an opportunistic move.
“It’s as though she’s riding his coattails,” Jim Doherty, a Baker campaigner in Southie, said yesterday. “It seems like her people couldn’t wait until he got into the ground before attaching the signs together. It’s just tasteless.”
