MoveOn Rolls Into Massachusetts

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Friday, January 08, 2010 at 4:36 pm

The liberal group — which recently campaigned for liberal Democratic senators to kill a health care bill that didn’t include a public option — is asking its members to help Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts special election for Senate.

The Republicans are pulling out all the stops in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat, because if they win, they’ll be able to stall health care reform. Election Day is January 19th. Can you contribute to help Democrat Martha Coakley hold on to Senator Kennedy’s seat?

On Monday, before there’d been polling on the race, some smart Republicans told me that the lack of outside interest in the election was a boon — liberals had been lulled to sleep, expecting a Coakley landslide, while conservatives were going full-out for Republican Scott Brown. The newfound liberal interest/panic is, on balance, bad news for Brown.

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Paula Parker Connell
Comment posted January 8, 2010 @ 4:40 pm

leave it to Weigel to find a way to crack on the GOP


Doc3
Comment posted January 8, 2010 @ 5:22 pm

Support Scott Brown and deny these fools the 60 seats they currently hold. We do not need this health care monstrosity, cap and tax and now amnesty for illegals. No more spending, borrowing, printing of trillions. Our Nation is being bankrupted.

If you want to make a donation to help Scott Brown:
https://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown

Let's send a message to DC and we can finish draining the swamps in November 2010 and 2012.


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americarising
Comment posted January 8, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

Tell MOVE ON to MOVE ON…..Support Scott Brown.


rscottgrooters
Comment posted January 8, 2010 @ 7:55 pm

Scott Brown is the man to win, Dead Kenedy's spot! Then we could propaly start taking our Country off the Ventilator!


jrepps
Comment posted January 8, 2010 @ 8:20 pm

Want to do something to really good for yourself and America?? Go to the website of Scott Brown and donate $100 to help him beat Coakley and Move-On-Org. That's what I'm doing.


pauldisidoro
Comment posted January 8, 2010 @ 9:44 pm

the tea party revolts start here in mass, get out and vote and bring a friend-get your country back-go scott


lilly2
Comment posted January 9, 2010 @ 12:16 am

Go Scott–Here we go again—ACORNs are coming to MA to corrupt the election. Can't we get rid of that nasty group?


neckcarjim
Comment posted January 9, 2010 @ 3:44 am

The bottom line this progressive nightmare “Tax & Control” health care bill must be stopped by any means under the Constitution why we still have one.

It just shocks me that the greatest threat to liberty and freedom in this nations history comes from the progressive. Andy Stern (SEIU), John Podesta Center For American Progress, George Soros who funds Media Matters and the Daily Koss. When then have Barack H Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi the can almost tear down the greatness that is America but the American people will not stand by and let these facist destroy our


anamerican666
Comment posted January 9, 2010 @ 10:03 am

obama must die


murmur55
Comment posted January 9, 2010 @ 11:00 am

Stop Martha Coakley from continuing the same dangerous political games with healthcare and law enforcement.


George Miami
Comment posted January 9, 2010 @ 11:36 am

To the Patriots in Massachusetts.

Take a page from the IRANIAN PEOPLE.!!!!!. YES THE IRANIAN PEOPLE.

They were able to mobilize the masses by using twitter. They posted sites and meeting places by using this medium and successfully mounted a movement that up until today resonates in their country.

Use this technology to inform on the precincts that have abnormalities such as, low turnout, intimidation by ACORN, and irregularities in absentee ballots. Send patriots to counter peacefully these abnormalities. Those actions should make this election more characteristic of the people’s wishes.

The Kennedy Machine, ACORN, and the mechanism they have in place, are design to cheat us of our vote. Only SHEAR NUMBERS will tilt the democratic process in your favor.

Use twitter to report on low turnout in the precincts, call the voters that are unable to go to the polls and facilitate the means to get there. Be vigilant of intimidation and reported. If you use this technology right, you will prevail and give the people of Massachusetts a chance to make history.

Go Patriots.


Herrence Meritocracy
Comment posted January 9, 2010 @ 3:37 pm

Good to hear that people are finally getting off their rumps to fundraise and campaign for Coakley. One thing the Democrats need to learn from the Republicans is to never be complacent in an electoral campaign.

Additionally, this article wins the “Most Insane Comments” category for this week. Where in this article is ACORN mentioned at all? And what would it matter if ACORN–an organization never convicted of fraud or anything else–was registering voters in Massachusetts anyway?


Proverb
Comment posted January 10, 2010 @ 10:44 am

Let's not for get about Democrat Party duplicity. In 2004 when Kerry was running for Pres, the Mass. state law stated that an empty senate seat would be filled by a special election. The Dem Gov and legistature changed the law so Kerry's vacancy could be filled by appointment. Now, after Kennedy's death, the law was changed back to having a special election because Mass has a Republican Gov (his veto overridden). The Democrats do not deserve this seat because they have not let the people decide! Dirty politics must be defeated.


Proverb
Comment posted January 10, 2010 @ 11:08 am

CORRECTION:
Let's not for get about Democrat Party duplicity. In 2004 when Kerry was running for Pres, the Mass. state law stated that an empty senate seat would be filled by appointment from the Governor. Mass. Governor was Mitt Romney, a Republican, at that time. The Dem legistature changed the law (veto proof legislature) so Kerry's vacancy could be filled by special election should he win the Presidency. Now, after Kennedy's death, the law was changed back to having a special election because Mass has a Democrat Governor. The special election for Kennedy's seat is January 19th. The Democrats do not deserve this seat because they have not let the people decide! Dirty politics must be defeated.


jerkmeoff
Comment posted January 10, 2010 @ 11:42 am

If you area independent media organization, why are you allowing / advertising for Moveon.org.

You appear to be a shill for them.


lyliataylor
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 1:01 am

Scott Brown is the best thing MA has seen in a long time.

Let us not forget that Coakley, to advance her own career, convinced Jane Swift not to sign the recommended release of Gerald Amirault.

Remember him? He was sent to jail, innocent of the crime that didn't happen – the Fells Acre Child Abuse case.


ronvictor
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 3:21 am

With Move On moving into Mass. it appears that there's a real fear that Brown may win this thing. The Tea Party Movement has endorsed him, and that is becoming a big thing these days… Read: Tea Party Passion…at…
http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/


steveholben
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 4:15 pm

I would think if this gal Coakley has any sense she'd tell the terrorists in Move On to do just that. No politicial with any perspective and understanding of people's attitudes would want to have any assocaition with them; But then, this is Mass. The people there kept a silver spoon drunken murderer in office his whole life and never seemed to be embarrassed.


eRtwngr
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 4:29 pm

ACORN will have trouble getting all the bums out of the shelters on election day. Plus, a straw candidate named Joe Kennedy will get some votes from the uninformed who are rushed in to vote.

Polls show that of the people who are looking closely at this race, Brown is winning. And why not? He's new, fresh, with no taint of corruption. Heck, even the State Police endorsed him despite Coakley being the sitting Attorney General. What's that say?


Amazingoly
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 4:52 pm

Hoping the Mass voters choose Scott Brown for some “Real Change” instead of what we are getting from the Democrats. Ted stayed there too long (47 years), and most don't give a hoot about any “historic” or any “legacy” there., We just want to be heard, and not dictated to. The Obama experiment went wrong, and Brown could be the start of us taking our run-a-way country back.


mac72
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 5:31 pm

Today is Brown's Moneybomb Day. The target was $500,000. Donations are pouring in and stands at $676,000 as of 5PM.

Here in FL at Congressman Bill posey's Melbourne town hall meeting, the crowd of several hundred erupted in applause at the mention of Scott Brown.


Allen
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 7:15 pm

Herrence,

you are a funny man. LOL


Meryl
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 12:44 am

It's “Ted Kennedy's seat”????????


antiprogressive
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 6:49 am

We are pulling for you scott!
If you can do it, there will be a msall glimmer of hope for the people in California to do something similar!
Go Scott!


pappadave
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 8:55 am

That idiot liberal using that pseudonym “anamerican666″ who made that comment about Obama needs to have a visit from the Secret Service! As much as I dislike Obama, I certainly don't want him threatened in any way–except by expulsion using Constitutional means! You MUST know that no conservatives have EVER tried to assassinate any President. Every assassin has been either a leftie, an anarchist or an apolitical nut-job like Sirhan Sirhan.


Herrence Meritocracy
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 1:35 pm

Um, nice assumptions there, “pappadave”! But the latter one is definitely wrong. Ever heard of John Wilkes Booth? Or Richard Paul Pavlick, who attempted to assassinate JFK? Or Francisco Duran, who attempted to assassinate Bill Clinton? And just take a look at this here list


pappadave
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 8:41 pm

John Wilkes Booth was no “conservative.” He was a secessionist, more akin to an anarchist.
THREATENING to assassinate someone is NOT the same thing as attempting to. To quote from your own link: “It has been questioned how much evidence existed that he planned to actually go through with an assassination attempt.”


Herrence Meritocracy
Comment posted January 13, 2010 @ 1:16 am

Booth was a conservative, in that he (and his ilk) fought to conserve a feudalistic system against the onslaught of Northern-based capitalism. To argue otherwise renders the term meaningless.

Sure, threats may not be the same thing as attempts/successes, but I mentioned two attempts, which you did not attempt to refute. Additionally, I admit you are somewhat correct–white supremacists today are not conservatives in the strict sense of the term. They are reactionaries, a political postion most closely related to conservatism.

Try and learn to think objectively and logically rather than trying to score whatever “points” you can in the “sport” that you consider politics to be…


pappadave
Comment posted January 13, 2010 @ 11:50 am

I skipped over your “examples” because no sane person considers some screwball, standing on the sidewalk firing an AK47 in the general direction of the White House to be an “assassination attempt.” The fact is, that every assassination of a President that at least succeeded in HITTING someone, was committed by a leftist, anarchist or simple, apolitical nut-job.


youmustbejoking
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 4:23 am

Your comment displays your ignorance of what and who ACORN is. You have only listened to the lies the right wing spews without doing any investigative work on your own. You know nothing.


youmustbejoking
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 4:31 am

You are a either a fool or a liar. ACORN does not “intimidate” nor is there any evidence of “irregularities” with absentee ballots. That is right wing propaganda with no basis in fact. Do some investigating for yourself instead of listening to the lies. The right are the ones who have commonly used intimidation to keep poor and Black/Hispanic people away from the polls. Oh, what numbers are you planning to cut (shear). Perhaps you meant sheer?


youmustbejoking
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 4:32 am

An election is not the people deciding? Since when?


jamesx8x8
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 12:42 pm

Booth was operating from his contemporary political right, not his left. No number of posts from you will make it otherwise.


pappadave
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 1:59 pm

Believe whatever you wish. One thing I've learned from sites like this–”You simply CAN'T fix stupid!”


jamesx8x8
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 5:42 pm

Booth was operating from his contemporary political right, not his left. No number of posts from you will make it otherwise.


pappadave
Comment posted January 15, 2010 @ 6:59 pm

Believe whatever you wish. One thing I've learned from sites like this–”You simply CAN'T fix stupid!”


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Sure, threats may not be the same thing as attempts/successes, but I mentioned two attempts, which you did not attempt to refute. Additionally, I admit you are somewhat correct–white supremacists today are not conservatives in the strict sense of the term. They are reactionaries, a political postion most closely related to conservatism.


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