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A campaign aide to Democratic US Senate candidate Martha Coakley has acknowledged that he acted too aggressively in an incident Tuesday night in which he jostled a reporter for a conservative magazine who was pursuing Coakley for a comment and the reporter fell to the ground. "Last evening I was a little too aggressive in trying to help the attorney general get to her car and catch a flight," Michael Meehan said this afternoon in a statement. He said he had called the reporter, John McCormack of the Weekly Standard, this afternoon to apologize. McCormack, who reported on the incident...

Coakley's bodyguard is connected all the way to the top of the Democratic party.Update: 3:10 P.M.: An aide to a Republican senator on the Foreign Relations Committee, which handles nominations to the BBG, says the shoving incident “will certainly be an issue if the White House continues to back his nomination.”“The BBG works to promote freedom and stop abuse of the press overseas. What kind of message does that send dictators in Iran and Venezuela if the U.S. promotes someone caught on tape assaulting reporters?”Update: 2:57 P.M.: The Boston Globe is reporting that Meehan  “said in an e-mail he would...

Reporter who was assaulted by Obama Goon to be interviewd by Hannity on his radio show today.

Michael P. Meehan, Member, Broadcasting Board of Governors Michael P. Meehan currently serves as President of Blue Line Strategic Communications, Inc. and as Senior Vice President at Virilion, a digital media company. For over two decades, Meehan served in senior roles for U.S. Senators John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, two presidential campaigns, two U.S. House offices and congressional campaigns in 25 states. Mr. Meehan earned a B.A. in political science from Bates College.

Michael not only works for Marth Coakley!!! Michael Meehan, Weekly Standard Assailant, Works For PHRMA as Lobbyist for PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. PhRMA represents America’s leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. PhRMA member companies spent $44.5 billon in 2007 to discover and develop new medications. And apparently a bit of money for democrate Martha Coakley.

The DSCC sends Michael Meehan, Blue Line's President with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging.

Video "which shows a Weekly Standard reporter getting pushed around by a DSCC consultant, Michael Meehan, as a "dirty trick" by "Washington Republicans."

Or just a really good lookalike? A tipster tells me that the man who was pushing me outside of a Capitol Hill fundraiser Tuesday night for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley is Michael Meehan. Meehan heads up a firm called Blue Line Strategic Communications along with his partner David DiMartino, who was outside the fundraiser with Coakley tonight and introduced himself to me there. The AP reported on Monday that Meehan is also working for Coakley: "The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee also dispatched Michael Meehan, a media consultant with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging."

This Party Sucks For half a century, the Republican Party has been a joke in Philadelphia. But now a few upstarts have a radical idea: Let’s try to get Republican candidates elected! By Jason Fagone Page 1 of 9 THIS IS THE story of the biggest group of losers in the city and their struggle not to be such losers anymore, and it begins with the story of the biggest loser of all. His talent for losing was epic. He worked at it. He was good at it. He built an empire on top of losing, and by doing so,...

Burlington — The head of a private laboratory where DNA evidence in the Duke lacrosse case was tested no longer works there. The move comes less than a month after the former defendants filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Dr. Brian Meehan, former District Attorney Mike Nifong and several others involved in the investigation. Civil attorneys allege they were part of a "DNA conspiracy" and purposely withheld potentially exculpatory evidence that could have been used to clear their clients of the criminal charges against them. Neither Meehan nor his attorney would talk Monday about why he was replaced. DNA...

WASHINGTON - The editor of the Lowell Sun, which last December published a special section in tribute to Martin T. Meehan under a controversial arrangement between the newspaper and Meehan's staff, has purchased Meehan's house

Last week, a SurveyUSA/WBZ poll out of Boston caused a minor earthquake in the Massachusetts political universe. The race to replace liberal Congressman Marty Meehan was supposed to be a sleepy affair leading to a walk-in-the-park victory for Democrat Niki Tsongas, the well-known wife of the late Senator Paul Tsongas. So it came as quite a surprise when the poll showed Republican Jim Ogonowski, a farmer and veteran from the Merrimack Valley, within 10 points of Tsongas. Tsongas polled just 51 percent to Ogonowski's 41 percent. In any political environment, a win by Ogonowski on October 16th would be considered...

LOWELL - Neophyte candidate Niki Tsongas, the widow of Sen. and presidential contender Paul Tsongas, won a hard-fought primary against established Lowell pol Eileen Donoghue and three others in her first election yesterday. The race to replace U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan pitted the Tsongas name against Donoghue’s local political machine. The almost legendary name won out in the Merrimack Valley’s 5th Congressional District with 19,811 votes, or 36 percent, to Donoghue’s 17,373 votes, 31 percent. “This is just Round 1,” Tsongas said. “Make no mistake. This election will be a referendum on the presidency of George W. Bush.” The Democrats...

WASHINGTON -- Candidates for the 5th District Congressional seat are sharply divided on giving millions of unlawful immigrants eventual citizenship, highlighting a passionate issue in a region where nearly one in six people were born outside the United States. Blurring the district's population picture is the presence of perhaps thousands of people who dare not be counted, fearing deportation, job loss, or being separated from family for living in the district's 29 communities illegally. Their presence has helped place Massachusetts among the top 14 states with high numbers of unlawful immigrants, reaching between 150,000 and 250,000 people, according to the...

(The headline of the column deals with Marty Meehan & Romney, but the second part deserves notice) Stand-up guy Sometimes, Sen. John Kerry’s timing is just abysmal. Speaking to a group of graduates at UMass-Dartmouth this week, Kerry predicted that troubled pop tart Lindsay Lohan could one day be president. “A lot can happen in 10 years. In 10 years, we will have a real people’s president: President Lindsay Lohan,” Kerry reportedly joked. Of course, just hours later Lohan was pinched for allegedly being drunk behind the wheel and pics of the passed-out diva were splashed across Web sites and...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Leading pro-life groups are renewing their call for supporters to contact their elected officials about a provision in a lobbying reform bill that would hurt their ability to keep citizens informed about important pro-life topics on Capitol Hill. They say abortion advocates would benefit if the provision is approved. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Martin Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, would establish, for the first time, federal regulatory authority over efforts aimed at motivating citizens to communicate with their elected representatives about bills pending in Congress. Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, says his amendment targets grassroots lobbying but...

MANASSAS, Va., May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by GrassrootsFreedom.com and Mark Fitzgibbons regarding grassroots legislation, H.R. 2093 introduced May 1 by Congressman Marty Meehan (news, bio, voting record), and expected to be debated in the House May 15: "Now that we've finally seen Congressman Meehan's grassroots bill, H.R. 2093, we know that its proponents were selling the public and Congress a bill of goods. They said: The bill would close a 'Jack Abramoff loophole.' Fact: Neither Jack Abramoff nor the kick-backs to him under the 'Gimme- Five' scandal would have been disclosed under H.R. 2093. They...

Departing U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan of Lowell is a politician aptly described as “cute,” as they say at the State House. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, the closest synonyms are probably “slick” or “sneaky.” And Marty Meehan is definitely sneaky. Case in point: an expensive four-color mailing Marty sent out to constituents in December inviting them to a global warming “TOWN MEETING” last December at the school he’s about to take over, UMass-Lowell. The “special guest” was then Gov.-elect Deval Patrick. It was a nice opportunity for Marty to bond, as it were, with Deval, whom the former Tom...

The Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts will soon elect a new U.S. representative, and today voters in the Merrimack Valley have only one question on their minds: “How much of a pension is that @#$%&*! Marty Meehan going to get?” The answer: $38,000 a year, at age 62, which is 12 years away. U.S. Rep. Marty “Midas” Meehan is about to become the chancellor of UMass-Lowell, which should be good for just under $300,000 a year, plus whatever pension comes behind it. Which raises yet another burning question. Can Marty, the former state hack, “buy back” his years in the...

BOSTON -- U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan was selected Tuesday to be chancellor of his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, a school spokesman said. UMass President Jack Wilson informed Meehan that he's the top pick, and the two sides began contract negotiations with the goal of striking a deal so that the Lowell Democrat's name can be presented for approval to the university's trustees at a meeting Wednesday, the spokesman said. "I'm extremely excited about the opportunity to make UMass-Lowell one of the best universities in the country," Meehan said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press....