Dem press release: Scott Brown made a “deal with the devil” with “radical tea party groups”

Morning Massachusetts Senate Race Briefing - Wednesday January 13th Edition
by: Rob “EaBo Clipper” Eno
Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 05:49:50 AM EST
First off we apologize for the number of front page posts but this race is fluid and as news breaks we are going to break it. Be sure to check the second page of front page posts to ensure that you are not missing any news.

The Boston Globe runs a story that tries to explain why Martha Coakley has been absent from the campaign trail in any public way. Unlike Scott Brown who has taken his message directly to the people of the Commonwealth, Coakley has taken her message to the political machine and the unions.

Coakley leaves quickly, hurrying through a reception downstairs, passing up the refreshments, shaking maybe a few hands on the way out. On the front steps, she rubs elbows with city councilors and School Committee members. She gives the mayor a comradely hug and a peck on the cheek. Then she is gone.

“Do you know where Coakley went?” a man asks. He wants to get another picture of her. He chases her black Ford Taurus and tries in vain to wave it down.

The appearance characterizes Coakley’s approach to this truncated race. Aware that she has little time for the hand-shaking and baby-kissing of a standard political campaign, she has focused instead on rallying key political leaders, Democratic activists, and union organizers, in hope they will get people to the polls.

Let’s read that again, Martha Coakley was chased by a supporter who couldn’t get a chance to meet her. Perhaps that’s why she is down in some polls. She can’t stand being around the people. That will make a great senator now won’t it? She even chides Brown for meeting the people of the Commonwealth.

“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?” she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that. “This is a special election. And I know that I have the support of Kim Driscoll. And I now know the members of the [Salem] School Committee, who know far more people than I could ever meet.”

You can hear the condescension through the ink.

The Boston Herald gives Ayla Brown the front page treatment. They call her “Daddy’s Little Pit Bull”.

“Martha Coakley’s new negative ad represents everything that discourages young women from getting involved in politics, and as a young woman, I’m completely offended by that,” said the 21-year-old Brown. “She even spelled Massachusetts wrong in her original ad which is very embarrassing, I must say as a young woman.”

The facts remain. Scott Brown voted for the emergency contraception bill. He did offer an amendment to protect the civil rights of health care providers who may be personally opposed to abortion on religious grounds. When that amendment failed he still voted for the final bill and voted to override Governor Romney’s veto. Those are the facts.

OmahaConservative on January 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM