Globe endorsement: Martha Coakley for Senate

[Mass]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2010/01/13/globe_endorsement_martha_coakley_for_senate/

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Both major-party candidates for Senate reflect something of that mood. Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley, after more than two decades in law enforcement, is no pie-in-the-sky dreamer. Thoughtful and empirical, she views issues like a lawyer building a case. She promises hard work and no illusions. And in some cases, that means scaling back the ambition of government programs to carefully monitor what works and what doesn't. Like the consumer-protection lawyer she is, she looks for measurable results.

Republican State Senator Scott Brown, who drives an old truck, channels voter skepticism more directly. Ignoring signs of improvement in the economy, he casts President Obama as the source of today's problems, and would give the Republicans enough votes to block, under Senate rules, anything Obama wants to do. Affable in person, Brown nonetheless seeks to be a terminator, stopping the Democratic domestic agenda in its tracks.
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In Massachusetts, the expected result of a Senate election is a Democratic victory, so Brown wins points for being different. He even entices voters to give him a try, noting that they can toss him out after three years.

Rarely has a pitch been more misleading. A vote for Brown is hardly a symbolic protest against congressional gridlock and the ways of Washington. It's a vote for gridlock, in the form of endless Republican filibusters, and for the status quo in health care, climate change, and financial regulation. That's what will happen if Brown gives the Republicans the additional vote they need to tie up the Senate.
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This follows the endorsement by the Boston Phoenix, a little earlier. http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/95698-coakley-for-senate/

Coakley is a common-sense progressive focused on the host of issues posed by the ongoing economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the challenges of the future.

Brown is a know-nothing reactionary, a cookie-cutter conservative with the political imagination of a George W. Bush. He is committed to an array of positions that would return the nation to the dismal days of the Bush-Cheney years. He's wedded to a failed past and hides from the perils of the future.

The choice is clear. The Phoenix urges citizens to vote for Coakley. She is the best choice for Massachusetts and the smartest choice for the nation.

[Fearless]

1. Well... That's not all that surprizing actually.

[Mass]

3. No, but it will create some positive news.

[Fearless]

6. +1

[karynnj]

2. Nice endorsement - I like the part you put in bold

He is a roadblock Republican

[dtotire]

4. Brown getting money from Tea Party

e-mail from move.on.ort

The news out of Massachusetts is alarming: The Republican running for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat just raised $1.3 million in a single day with help from "Tea Party" activists across the country. His slogan? "Red invades blue."1

And two of the most recent polls show a dead heat.2 It all comes down to these last six days and whether Democrat Martha Coakley has the resources to get her message out to voters: holding big banks accountable, expanding health care coverage, and standing up for working families.3

The bottom line is, we can't afford to lose this race. We must save Ted Kennedy's seat and make sure we have the votes in the Senate to overcome Republican obstruction.

[Forkboy]

5. Sounds like the Globe has a pretty good handle on the guy.

:rofl:

K&R :kick:

[WI_DEM]

7. When can we expect the Herald to come out for Brown?

[Mass]

10. Already done. They called him moderate on social issues, ala Bill Weld.

[Cha]

13. They're either stupid or liars..or both.

[wisteria]

8. Yeah!!!! n/t

[Cha]

9. Thank you, Boston Globe and Boston Phoenix~

STAND WITH MARTHA!

http://www.marthacoakley.com/splash_111310

"Brown is a know-nothing reactionary, a cookie-cutter conservative with the political imagination of a George W. Bush. He is committed to an array of positions that would return the nation to the dismal days of the Bush-Cheney years. He's wedded to a failed past and hides from the perils of the future."

Wonder if the brown daughters will complain about these facts?

[Jennicut]

14. That pretty much sums it up. I hope my neighbors to the north do not allow this idiot to get in.

I am probably closer to the Mass border then to the bottom of CT. My husband and I are there all the time. Love the state, aside from the fact that there is some really crazy drivers there. Everyone beeps at you in Boston. LOL. We are still trying to figure why, we went as fast as we could. Anyway, it would be a huge mistake to let Brown get in. We kicked out all our Repubs in CT by 2006, unless you count Lieberman.

[Kdillard]

11. Good hopefully it will help Coakley.

[ProSense]

12. Excellent. n/t

[Mass]

15. Apparently, the Phoenix is right. Brown is a know-nothing. He does not know the Tea Party movement.

So, we are supposed to believe he does not know anything about people who finance him?

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

He also claimed that he was unfamiliar with the “Tea Party movement,” when asked by a reporter. When told that different people labeled him a conservative, moderate and a liberal Republican, he responded “I’m a Scott Brown Republican.”