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That was a stupid thing to say. Just cause you have no self control, don’t assume everyone else is like you.

That’s Amy Jacobson of WIND AM560 in the picture.

Another person’s account of the event:
Brown held a rally in Worcester, Mass today which I went to. Worcester has been a predominately blue collar city in the central part of the state that has lost a great deal of it’s industry although it must be said that bio tech is slowly taking it’s place with the help of UMass Medical Center now located in Worcester. I do not have any hard numbers of how many were there; however, the rally was to have taken place at Mechanics Hall which can seat in excess of 2000 people. When I got there about an hour before the rally was to begin, the hall was already filled. I would estimate another 1000 people were then directed to a meeting room in a hotel about a block away where a large screen TV was set up to show the activities and speeches at Mechanics Hall. It was standing room only when we got there with the overflow out into the halls. I must admit that there were no people of color in the group beyond a number of Asians.

What was interesting to me as I walked to the hotel is that everyone I spoke to said they were from the Central part of the state so they had not traveled far to attend and also said they had never been to a political rally in their life. I did not speak to a single person who said they were a Republican. They were either Independents or Democrats and all said the same thing. The Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party that my family supported when they were growing up. It is not the party of John and Ted Kennedy or Tip O’Neil. One lady said it has become the party of Saul Alinsky. Maybe that’s just rhetoric, but I it reflects my family’s experience who were ardent Democrats back in the 60s. I’m not sure exactly when they abandoned the party although I think Chappaquiddick might have started the process, at least for my family.

It seems that with the passing of Ted Kennedy, we in Massachusetts have seen the end of an era and I’m wondering if things are shifting in another direction now. The news reports of the Obama/Coakley rally at Northeastern University in Boston supposedly only drew 1500 and the hall was only half full. It would seem that the pendulum swings back and forth which might be what your comments reflect as far as the Republican party is concerned. As far as the Democrats are concerned, maybe Massachusetts is ahead of the swing once again. And remember, Massachusetts was the first state to elect a black Senator, Edward Brooke who was a Republican.

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