Samuel Parris (1653-1720)
Martha Coakley has been compared to Samuel Parris, one of the main prosecutors in the Salem Witch trials.
Posted on 01/15/2010 7:57:18 AM PST by KeyLargo
The Valley Breeze
1/15/2010
TOM WARD - Will candidate Scott Brown stun Democrats, slow agenda?
He's just a little ways up the road. From Cumberland and Woonsocket in northeast Rhode Island, it's a hop and a skip into Wrentham. And in that quiet town is a state senator who could change America - and stagger the national Democratic Party - next Tuesday.
His name is Scott Brown. He's an attorney and member of the Wrentham Lions Club. He's also a 29-year member and lieutenant colonel in the National Guard. A state senator for only six years, he's been active in the community in the Attleboros, and on the Hockamock YMCA board.
He's also a Republican with the nerve - the nerve! - to think he can soon sit in the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat.
His opponent in next Tuesday's special election is Attorney General Martha Coakley, who by all appearances has been running a quiet - some say listless - campaign. Suddenly, there's worry in Democrat circles as the underfunded Brown, who has been working hard for months now, is rapidly gaining traction, and making fast progress in the polls as the Democrats' star rapidly fades.
On Sunday, the Boston Globe released a poll conducted Jan. 2-6 by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. In it, Coakley had a commanding 15-point lead. That same day, a poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm which generally serves Democrats and organized labor clients, found Brown with a 48-47 lead over Coakley.
"The Massachusetts Senate race is shaping up as a potential disaster for Democrats," said Dean Debnam, president of PPP, in a press release. "Coakley's complacent campaign has put Scott Brown in a surprisingly strong position and she will need to step it up in the final week to win a victory once thought inevitable." PPP surveyed 744 likely Massachusetts voters days later than the Globe poll, from Jan. 7-9.
Coakley has read the polls, I guess, On Monday, the mail-it-in Coakley suddenly woke up, criticizing Brown on some issues and linking him to former President George W. Bush. Really. She trotted out that tired old gambit. Coakley and her friends are going to run against Bush forever, I suppose, if Bay Staters are dumb enough to buy it.
Brown is a more moderate Republican, and has wisely gone to great lengths to make sure national Republicans don't come to town to campaign for him. Brown supports Roe vs. Wade and federal funding for stem cell research, and says he would have voted to seat President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor. On the other hand, Brown opposes using civil trials for suspected enemy combatants, and on Monday won the support of the State Police Association of Massachusetts, odd considering Coakley is the state's chief law enforcement officer. Brown also promises to work against the current national health reform bill that might again need 60 Senate votes in the near future. If Brown wins (and many suggest that Democrat Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin will drag his feet in seating Brown if he does), Ted Kennedy's dependable replacement, Paul Kirk, would have to leave and take his "supermajority" vote with him.
Coakley has baggage. She is loathed by those who believe she put her career ahead of justice by helping stop the parole of Gerald Amirault, a man who served 15 years in the modern equivalent of the Salem Witch Trials. The case against Amirault and his mother and sister in the Falls Acres Day Care trial was a known sham by the time Coakley had to act on it, and she failed. She also willfully refused to prosecute Father John Geoghan seven years before he was finally brought to justice for molesting dozens of altar boys.
In what should have been an invisible race, I expect we'll see Democrat panic in Massachusetts and by their acolytes on MSNBC in the days ahead. The Bay State's next "Shot heard 'round the world" could come from right next door in Wrentham.
-Ward is publisher of
the Valley Breeze newspapers
Samuel Parris (1653-1720)
Martha Coakley has been compared to Samuel Parris, one of the main prosecutors in the Salem Witch trials.
Brown has another thing going added to Dem corruption, he’s in a state where residents like rooting for the underdog (redsox)
WALLSTREET JOURNAL
* OPINION
* JANUARY 14, 2010, 10:35 P.M. ET
Martha Coakley’s Convictions
The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment.
The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001. It was well known, especially, to District Attorney Martha Coakley, who had by then arrived to take a final, conspicuous, role in a case so notorious as to assure that the Amiraults’ name would be known around the globe................
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862.html
Terrible Realities: Why Both the Left and Right Oppose Coakley’s Prosecutorial Overreach
By Bronwyn’s HarborgravatarcloseAuthor: Bronwyn’s Harbor Name: Bronwyn’s Harbor Was My Valley
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About: See Authors Posts (194) on January 15, 2010 at 7:45 AM in Current Affairs
Merritt’s three recently expressed reservations, listed below, center on Coakley’s pivots around “hot potato” issues based entirely on Coakley’s whatever-it-takes political motives. Coakley also comes across as the nightmare image of a prosecutor, hellbent on winning a case no matter what tricks, including the manipulation of children, are required in order for her to win her case...
Expect a miracle!
Freepers Unite: Send contributions to Scott Brown for Senate! Any amount will help! I’ve contributed twice over the last three days.
I think it may be safe to begin calling her Martha CRoakley
0 will sh!t sharp, pointy bricks.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Only if the NRC puts a gun to Snowe and Collins’ heads. But, the NRC might even grow a pair if Brown pulls it off.
It would definitely help, but it may be to late on HC. Coming out of conference it will be an up or down vote. 51 to 49 will pass it.
At this point it will have to be stopped in the House. Which is still possible.
NRC=RNC. Duh.
A month ago I wouldn’t have believed it, but now I’ beginning to think Scott Brown could very well pull it off.
From your lips to God’s ears.
Nope, the bill from 'conference' will be different, and thus cloture still applies.
Fantastic video that should be seen by all.
Snowe and Collins may very well wish to keep their jobs.
They’ll take a look at the results from MA, and rightly determine that voting for Obamacare will lose them votes, not get them votes.
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