rssSEIU, Tea Partiers Flood Massachusetts With Cash
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 5:32 pm
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Organizations connected to the Service Employees International Union reported spending $759,000 in independent expenditures on the Massachusetts Senate race in the past seven days, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
The SEIU’s Committee on Political Education spent $665,000 on a television ad supporting Democratic candidate Martha Coakley and $20,000 on Internet ads and a newsletter opposing Republican Scott Brown, according to independent expenditures reported to the FEC. The group’s political action fund spent $74,000 on robocalls on Tuesday.
Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund dropped $10,000 today on get-out-the-vote phone calls for Coakley and The League of Conservation Voters Inc. spent $350,000 on an ad supporting Coakley in the past week.
Brown has his own share of issue advocacy groups stepping in to aid his campaign during its final days. The National Rifle Association spent $19,800 on postcard mailers for Brown, while the Our Country Deserves Better PAC, connected to TeaPartyExpress.org, spent $146,000 to support Brown through media buys and online messaging in the past week.
Candidates are prohibited from coordinating with groups that choose to make independent expenditures on federal races.
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Comment posted January 16, 2010 @ 9:47 am
Those progressives, young, and independents that are dissatisfied with the direction Obama has gone since being elected are either staying home or are going to show their disgust by voting for Brown. The pay-offs to Wall Street and the inclusion of Geithner and Summers at the table, is infuriating many voters. The addition of 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan is a turn-off to the progressives. The employment situation has not significantly improved, as promised, and more jobs are being shipped overseas. Health care reform, as promised, has been gutted and we have a denial by Obama that he was for the public option, even though he campaigned on that. Promise after promise, either broken or unfulfilled, with a Democratic majority in congress, is driving the party's base away. It looks like Brown will be elected and Rahm Emanual, who should have been fired months ago, will have some serious explaining to do. Watch out in November as Howard Dean points out, it could be an electoral blood-bath for Democrats.
Comment posted January 18, 2010 @ 1:22 pm
I Just re-registered as a Republican. I had been registered as a democrat all my life,I am 73 years old. Obama and his crew will be voted out in the next elections if we are going to be these United States.
Comment posted January 18, 2010 @ 6:22 pm
I Just re-registered as a Republican. I had been registered as a democrat all my life,I am 73 years old. Obama and his crew will be voted out in the next elections if we are going to be these United States.
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Comment posted July 26, 2010 @ 7:31 am
The pay-offs to Wall Street and the inclusion of Geithner and Summers at the table, is infuriating many voters. The addition of 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan is a turn-off to the progressives. The employment situation has not significantly improved, as promised
Comment posted July 26, 2010 @ 7:39 am
He has lied about so much of his history who even cares at this point. This isn't a real person it is a figment of the media and crooked chicago political machine.
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