Posted on 01/11/2010 2:32:33 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Massachusetts voters have to ask themselves a serious question before they head to the polls next week: Are they content with the current state of affairs in Washington?
Are they content with a sweeping health care bill, now being negotiated behind closed doors by principals from only one political party? (So much for a new era of bipartisanship promised by our president.)
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Is the Herald a lib rag?
The problem is, this is from the Herald...my paper of choice in Boston, home of the Bean and the Cod and electorate that kept putting Ded Kennedy (D-HELL) and John Kerry into office...I used to refer to them as the MassiveTwoShits from Massachusetts...hard to underestimate that MA voting crowd...if it was the Globe, it would be all over...still have my fingers crossed, though.
No. Leans to the right. Has a few lib scribes but the editorial board is to the right of center.
“Is the Herald a lib rag?”
Bite your tongue!
It’s a Conservative Rag!
In 1961, the Boston American merged with the Boston Record to become the Boston Record-American, a tabloid that was published throughout the day with five to six editions. In 1972, it merged with the Boston Herald Traveler (no hyphen) to become the Boston Herald-Traveler and Record American, a broadsheet that eventually was renamed the Boston Herald-American and is now the Boston Herald.
Almost as many names as the Stadium where the Patriots play!
How many absentee votes have already been cast or for special elections must you go to the polls?
“I heard a caller to a Boston talk show say he was in a blue-collar community, at a bar, Saturday night.”
I wonder why Martha Coakley never apologized to Tookie Amirault.
Check out this — http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x370520253/Absentee-ballot-application-deadline-for-Senate-race-is-Friday
BOSTON — Voters interested in using absentee ballots for the special U.S. Senate election Jan. 19 must apply by 5 p.m. Friday.
While applications are usually available a day before elections, municipal offices will be closed Jan. 18 for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Applications are available through election commissions, city or town clerks, and at www.sec.state.ma.us. Voters are allowed to use absentee ballots if they will be gone from their city or town on election day, have a physical disability that prevents voting at polling places or cannot vote at the polls due to religious beliefs.
In the special election, state Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham; Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley; and Libertarian Joseph L. Kennedy - no relation to Edward M. - are seeking to succeed the late senator. Secretary of State William Galvin says interest is rising as voting day draws closer, with 44,000 requests for absentee ballots received as of Friday, more than in the party primaries.
“Then an ad for Coakley appeared and people booed. We’ll see”
...I love that kind of “grassroots” news! Thanks for passing it along!
They endorsed Scott Brown and Alan Khazei. Then Alan was defeated. So, in my book at least, no matter what the Globe does from here on out, democrats in Boston should vote for the remaining candidate that the Globe endorsed that is still in the race: Only one: Scott Brown.
MONEY BOMB FOR SCOTT at $503,000
“have a physical disability that” how many dead Mass vote. A lot I would guess.
This is quite a change for Massachusetts. Isn’t it?
Not being from there I don’t know ALL the history but as a student of history my mind can not recollect it being a Pubbie of Conservative state. Except maybe during the Civil War/War Between the States.
I wonder if the ballott will actually read;
Libertarian Joseph L. Kennedy - no relation to Edward M.
You know, this could get a lot of the wicked smaht Dems crowd voting for the wrong guy out of reflex...
I just went to Brown’s site to donate to the “moneybomb” - the original goal of $500,000 has been met, and he now has over $700,000, so has raised the goal to $750,000! There’s a lot of enthusiasm out there.
Ed Brooke was elected to the Senate in MA even though he was a R, but it was because he was a clean, well spoken negro...
We’ve raised $705,201.97 so far!
Edward Brooke was the last Republican elected to the U.S. Senate. Hardly a Conservative. He was defeated in the late 70s by Paul Tsongas.
Mostly to the “right” it was a big supporter of McCain last year and went over the top in criticizing Romney in the Primaries.
I suppose that mostly to the “right” is an understatement, but they’ve annoyed me immensely over the years on certain issues. The Boston Globe is so far “Liberal” that I refuse to knowingly even click on links to their web page.
I live on the South Shore and was really dismayed at the number of Obama signs I saw in ‘08. This part of MA. is not particularly liberal. Today, as I drove along Route 123 ,through Norwell and Scituate, all I saw were Brown signs. Not one sign for Coakley. This road was littered with signs for O. My next trip will be a drive through Hingham. Main St. or Rte. 128 was one O sign after the other. I don’t hold out much hope for Hingham. I imagine the women in that town are Coakley clones.
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