While the mainstream media swarmed all over Bernie Madoff, AIG and corporate billionaires, the gentlemen of the press, who are so proud of fighting for the Little Guy, were mostly out to an expense-account lunch when Melissa King allegedly made off with $42 million rightfully belonging to members of the Laborers International Union of North American (LIUNA).
In what is being called the largest union embezzlement in American history, the LIUNA Local 147 (New York) office administration was apparently unsatisfied with her meager $500,000 a year paycheck.
According to watchdog Carl Horowitz:
LIUNA Local 147 is an elite underground construction unit known as the "Sandhogs." With roots going back well over 100 years, the heavily Irish-ethnic 1,000-member union represents the workers who dig New York City's subway, sewer and water tunnels, often at hundreds of feet beneath the ground. It was the sandhogs who did the excavation work for such engineering marvels as the Lincoln, Holland, Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn-Battery Tunnels. Their massive ongoing main project, the Third Water Tunnel, when completed in 2020 at a projected cost of roughly $6 billion, will carry 1.3 billion gallons of water per day for 9 million area residents and ensure that water keeps running should either of the first two tunnels fails. It's grueling and dangerous work. And the workers are paid well. They also expect to collect their full retirement benefits. But thanks to the alleged actions of Melissa King, there's a distinct possibility they won't.
King, 58, a resident of Irvington, N.Y., through her home-based company, King Care LLC, handled all administrative functions for Sandhog benefit funds since 1980, and at an annual official compensation that eventually reached $540,000. That's pretty lavish even for an international union president. Apparently, it wasn't lavish enough. Starting in 2002, prosecutors charge, King illegally transferred about $42 million from three union accounts covering pensions, vacation pay and other benefits to accounts she personally controlled. A large portion of it, to put it lightly, was unrelated to union business. Of the alleged thefts, $7.2 million went to pay off American Express bills, more than $3 million to equestrian businesses (apparently she was grooming her daughter for an equestrian career), and $713,500 to a jewelry business. The criminal complaint states she also transferred $500,000 to an E*Trade Securities account without union authorization.
Mrs. King's lawyers made a routine statement about expected vindication, and claimed in a response to a civil suit by union trustees that she was asked to provide administrative services not usually required, and charged reasonable fees.
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Were these embezzled funds in addition to or instead of the usual Mob contributions - in other words was this just a way to launder those contributions?
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According to a "Sandhogs" spokes person, "We have no hard feelings against Melissa King, as a matter of fact we were planning to invite her to inspect City Water Tunnel No. 3 at her next opportunity, say before our next union meeting on January 31, 2010. Safe, sure she won't even get her feet wet."
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Zero never misses a chance to show he is an arrogant ass.
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This is good stuff. My girl friend down here in the South has been pushing me to get a "big truck" to drive. She's even offered to buy one for me. But every time I try to talk to her about Big Zero being a flop, she "doesn't want to talk politics". THIS WILL change her mind. :)
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Scott's rebuttal ( at the link) is priceless!
We have a bet @ work regarding the victory percentage of Scott; it is a bet we are all willing to lose ( as long as one of us win!)
No matter what happens at the ballot box tomorrow, one thing is certain: Martha Coakley is a loser.
Even if Bill Clinton and Barack Obama can somehow rescue her candidacy, Coakley will never recover from the self-inflicted damage of the worst political campaign in recent history.
Win or lose, she will forever be Martha the Blind - the woman who couldn't see terrorists in Afghanistan, or a staffer giving a beatdown to a reporter right before her eyes. She's Sen. Spellcheck, forced to pull one ad because her campaign misspelled Massachusetts, then another because it superimposed Scott Brown's image in front of the World Trade Center.
Win or lose, she will forever be Martha the Blind - the woman who couldn't see terrorists in Afghanistan, or a staffer giving a beatdown to a reporter right before her eyes. She's Sen. Spellcheck, forced to pull one ad because her campaign misspelled Massachusetts, then another because it superimposed Scott Brown's image in front of the World Trade Center.
Given the incompetence of her campaign, she was lucky it was a pre-9/11 photo of the towers.
In the Democratic primary, Coakley ran on the one thing she couldn't get wrong: being a woman. It's been downhill ever since.
Right after losing the primary, Rep. Michael Capuano was asked what he learned on the campaign trail. "You're screwed," he told his Democratic colleagues. Everyone wondered what he meant. Now we know.
While Scott Brown was wearing out a set of truck tires on retail politics, Coakley sniffed at the idea of "standing outside Fenway Park, in the cold, shaking hands." She certainly didn't waste time explaining her positions on health care or national security to the voters, in part because when she tried, it became painfully clear she didn't understand them herself.
Coakley's arrogant assumption of victory was so strong that midway through the brief campaign season, she simply disappeared off the campaign trail for days.
When independent voters and moderate Democrats were wondering if Coakley was out of touch, she answered by jetting off to Washington for a big-dollar lobbyist fundraiser.
When independent voters and moderate Democrats were wondering if Coakley was out of touch, she answered by jetting off to Washington for a big-dollar lobbyist fundraiser. Why didn't she just stop by AIG and present them with a bonus check while she was at it?
Then suddenly she found herself in a competitive political race. And how did Coakley respond? She threw a political tantrum.
Voters were deluged with Coakley's attack ads - so many they could barely fit in the commercial breaks. Dark, ominous and ugly, Coakley's media message was the polar opposite to that offered by smiling Scott Brown.
In the end, Coakley spent millions on TV ads that actually drove her own numbers down.
And then, as though to prove she couldn't do anything right, she held a fundraiser starring the U.N. envoy to Haiti.
What was Coakley thinking, having Bill Clinton at a $2,400-per-person fundraiser at the Fairmont Copley while crying Haitian families were clawing through the rubble looking for loved ones? Is rescuing a desperately incompetent Democrat really more important than saving the
This is the kind of political stupidity it takes for a Democrat to lose a Senate race in Massachusetts. You can't just run a weak campaign, or commit a gaffe or two. You've got to run an absolute disaster of a campaign to lose to a Republican here.
starving of Haiti?
This is the kind of political stupidity it takes for a Democrat to lose a Senate race in Massachusetts. You can't just run a weak campaign, or commit a gaffe or two. You've got to run an absolute disaster of a campaign to lose to a Republican here.
And that's what Coakley delivered. It wasn't the Hindenburg or the Titanic. It was the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
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Scott Brown was wearing out a set of truck tires
and destroying the planet with all the CO2 emitted by that monster truck.
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Is rescuing a desperately incompetent Democrat really more important than saving the starving of Haiti?
That's a ridiculous question. Of course it is.
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"In the end, Coakley spent millions on TV ads that actually drove her own numbers down."
I love it when a plan comes together fails so spectacularly. :-D
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Voters were deluged with Coakley's attack ads - so many they could barely fit in the commercial breaks. Dark, ominous and ugly, Coakley's media message was the polar opposite to that offered by smiling Scott Brown.
Reeeeeeeepublican Scott Brown. Scott Brown, Reeeeeeeepublican. Reeeeeeeepublican Scott Brown. He drives a gas guzzling, polluting truck and personally revels in the destruction it causes to the environment. Reeeeeeeepublican Scott Brown will pick up old friends George Bush and Dick Cheney at the airport, drive to your house in his truck, rape your women, deny them an abortion, and watch happily as George Bush and Dick Cheney kill and eat your children. Reeeeeeeepublican Scott Brown and his good friends George Bush and Dick Cheney will then ransack your house, take every dollar you own and have you fired from your job. If Reeeeeeeepublican Scott Brown is elected, he will personally swear allegience to good friends George Bush and Dick Cheney and head to Washington to destroy health care in America and lynch President Obama as his masters George Bush and Dick Cheney, Big Bankers and Wall Street have commanded him to do.
That's why Massachusettes needs Marcia Coakley. She's...she's...a woman! And Vicki Kennedy sez Ted's ghost came to her in the night crying and told her that he want's you to vote for Marcia Coakley and honor his life long dream of being responsible for spending trillions of dollars even from the grave. And isn't that a legacy we can all be proud of?
The ads aren't that bad. But they're close. And there's still a day left...
In a recent column, I spoke about what I considered a new paradigm emerging in Washington, D.C.: neither the president nor the Democratically-controlled Congress find it necessary to disguise, hide or feel ashamed about their overt corruption. Nothing exemplifies this any better than the latest health care bribe: unionized workers, including government workers, will be exempt from the "Cadillac Tax" imposed on everyone else.
Remember, this is the same bunch of Congressional hooligans, led by the Hooligan-in-Chief, who respectively promised to run the "most ethical Congress in history" and "bring Americans together." As most Americans now know--including some previously comatose hope-and-changers--promises made by this president and this Congress are utterly worthless. They will say absolutely anything to get what they want, and even when they are taken to task for their overt lying, their reaction can be summed up in two words:
Screw you.
That, my friends, is a new paradigm.
Thus, the idea of granting blatantly special favors to certain constituencies requires no explanation. Thug government does what it wants, when it wants, and if playing one group of Americans off other groups gets the country another step closer to socialized medicine, so be it. Perhaps, in the Bizzaro world occupied by such ethically-challenged reprobates, such behavior equals does indeed transparent government: we are openly corrupt, therefore we are transparent.
Campaign promise kept, after all.
There is a possible bright spot on the horizon. Ironically, it is Democrats themselves, suffused with the kind of stupidity that unbridled arrogance begets, who have created it. Here's a hint: trumpeting a union exemption for health care taxes could have been done just as easily this Wednesday, as opposed to last week. The difference? Shoving it in the electorate's face after Tuesday's Senate election in Massachusetts would have made a lot more sense for Democrats looking to secure "Ted Kennedy's seat" for their filibuster-proof 60th vote on health care.
How delicious would it be if this latest example of corruptive cronyism is the tipping point for Bay State voters in this toss-up election, and the bluest blue state in the country sends Republican Scott Brown to the Senate?
Against all odds, it's a distinct possibility. And make no mistake: for Democrats it would be an unmitigated disaster, the proverbial shot across the bow--courtesy of the same state which gave another group of arrogant political hacks a well-deserved smack-down back in 1773, known as the Boston Tea Party.
Perhaps this is what Mr. Arrogance himself, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), had in mind when he called Scott Brown a "far-right teabagger." Way to "bring Americans together," Chuck.
Ironically, he and his fellow Democrats are doing just that. In my fifteen years of political commentary, I have never seen the public more united--in disgust and anger with their government. Certainly anger has always been a staple of the American left, for whom this country is a tragically flawed nation requiring their morally "superior" ministrations for national "salvation." But when Grandma and Grandpa are flexing their arthritic joints and shuffling down to a town hall meeting, when soccer moms are socking it to their elected representatives, and dedicated couch potatoes are aroused enough to get off the Barcaloungers, watch out.
The Silent Majority is clearing its throat. Here's hoping the roar from Massachusetts is deafening.
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The Silent Majority is clearing its throat. Here's hoping the roar from Massachusetts is deafening.
Indeed Fred, the kind of hope and change one can believe in.
Top Democratic operative John Podesta expressed cautious optimism on Saturday that the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Martha Coakley, would defeat Republican Scott Brown in Tuesday's special election, despite running what he called a "lackluster campaign."
"I'm glad the election is this Tuesday instead of last Tuesday," Podesta told The Daily Caller. "Had the election been last Tuesday there would have been a lot higher chance she would have lost."
Podesta served as White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and now runs the Center for American Progress, which has become a powerhouse liberal Democratic think tank over the last few years.
He said that the flood of national Democratic resources into the state, to run television ads and organize get out the vote efforts, would likely combine with President Obama's visit to the state Sunday afternoon to give Coakley the edge.
"It's highly likely the president's visit will push her over the finish line," Podesta said.
Podesta also said there are "a number of paths," including reconciliation, to getting the president's health-care reform bill through the Congress even if Democrats lose their Senate seat in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
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I'm afraid at the end of the day when the people of Boston go to vote, they will vote by party.
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I'm afraid we'll get another cliff hanger complete with challenges and counter-challenges to the final outcome, hanging chads, misplaced absentee ballots, etc., etc. Then it'll all go before a bunch of loonie judges who won't really care what the tally was. They'll do what they were put on the bench to do and that's to certify Coakley's victory. Has a fund been established for Scott Brown's legal team yet?
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The following people have already voted for Martha Coakley via Absentee Ballot:
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I think he's wrong. The ads are pissing people off. And Obama looked like some guy who stopped in while on the way to get a coupla bets down on the playoff games instead of President of the United States. Did he ever hear of a tie?
I think he's gonna win and easier then most people think. But what do I know next to some Clintonista think tank running guy?
Republican Scott Brown now leads Democrat Martha Coakley by five points in the race to fill the vacant Massachusetts Senate seat, according to a poll released Monday.
Public Policy Polling found that Brown is favored by 20 percent of Bay State voters who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and that the majority who plan to vote in the election oppose the Democratic health care plan.
Brown is ahead 51 percent to 46 percent in the poll, with big support among the state's unenrolled, or independent voters, who favor him over Coakley by 64 to 32 percent.
Brown voters are more enthusiastic, according to the poll, with 80 percent saying they are "very excited" about voting in Tuesday's special election, while only 60 percent of Coakley backers felt the same way.
The poll also found Coakley's negative rating has increased, probably the result of a series of campaign blunders, while Brown's positive rating has stayed about the same.
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Brown voters are more enthusiastic, according to the poll, with 80 percent saying they are "very excited" about voting in Tuesday's special election...
I know it's exhilirating having my vote in Mass., win or lose, actually matter for once (aside from a few local referendums).
From Hotline On Call reporter Felicia Sonmez's dispatch from a gaggle with Ted Kennedy's son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, after the Obama-Martha Coakley event:
"If you think there's magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown," Kennedy said. "If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole ... then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president's in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that."
(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as "Marcia," not "Martha.")
More Kennedy: "One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven't kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We've tried too hard to do that right thing, and that's to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place."
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"If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole"
How quickly they forget how we got in this hole. The Dems need to take a long hard look in the mirror.
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On a Sunday when Obama and some fellow
Held a rally that was much more than a hunch,
That Patrick referred to her as "Marcia."
That's the way we all became the Coakley Bunch.
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Like I said the other day. All that's left of the Kennedy's are a bunch of flawed, inept, self serving boobs surviving off the coat tails of the "legacy". I don't think I'd trust Patrick to valet my car.
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The gross thing with the Zero Coakley rally was the interviews with people lined up to get in. Most of them were college kids (Boston's biggest import) and many of them were from out of state.
Zero couldn't fill a smallish venue in the largest city/capital of MA with real adult voters.
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To those who Blame Bush(tm) for the lousy economy today I always try to point out two things. 1) When Bush had a stimulus, I got a few hundred $$$ of my taxes back in the form of a check from the govt. And 2) Clinton was the one who gave China MFN trading status, which is what triggered the massive flight of US jobs overseas, enriching the Chicoms and irreparably damaging domestic employment prospects.
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OOOh, yes, - I remember my Bush administration stimulus check. By one of those very weird coincidences that are just too dramatic to be thought deliberate -I received mine on 10 September 2001.
Yes, I was downstairs in San Antonio's Mercantile Building (which then and now houses a Wells Fargo branch and certain of their administration facilities), during the morning of 9/11, depositing that check into my bank account. The Laredo National Bank also has a branch in that building - it is in my memory that someone at LNB ran out an TV set on one of those AV carts, into the lobby, which was running continuous news coverage, all during that day.
Political operatives say the Senate race in Massachusetts between Democratic state attorney general Martha Coakley and Republican state senator Scott Brown is too close to call. But the fact that President Obama felt the need to fly to the Bay State to campaign for a Democrat in one of the most Democratic states in the nation speaks volumes about the ugly climate for Democratic candidates. I'd still call it likely that Marsha Martha will take it. It's tough to fight the machine, and the machine's going to be counting the votes. That means she'll win in a squeaker unless she loses in a landslide. Busloads of ACORN workers and union members should keep her from doing that.
Coakley has run an imperfect campaign and has had a rough couple weeks. She's got as much talent as a politician as I have as a Flying Wallenda.
But, as one senior White House official acknowledged to me, "in Massachusetts, even after a rough couple weeks the Democrat should be ahead." Polls have Coakley and Brown neck and neck. "Marsha Martha Coakley: Canary in the Democratic coal mine or Dead Duck?"
At the rally in Boston for Coakley yesterday, President Obama said a few things worth paying attention to:
1) Feigned Nonchalance:
The president said of Brown: "I don't know him, he may be a perfectly nice guy. I don't know his record, but I don't know whether he's been fighting for you up until now."
But he also revealed some fairly intimate knowledge of Brown and the race: "He voted with the Republicans 96 percent of the time," the president said of Brown's time in the Massachusetts legislature. "Ninety-six percent of the time." He took on one of Brown's best lines during the campaign, when he pushed back on a debate question about sitting in "Teddy Kennedy's seat" and said it's "the people's seat."
"There's been a lot said in this race that this is not the Kennedy seat it's the people's seat," President Obama said. "And let me tell you that the first person who would agree with that is Teddy Kennedy."
And he went after one of Brown's signature shticks, his old pickup truck, used to convey Everyman appeal. "You've got to look under the hood," President Obama said. "Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck."
Clearly President Obama -- as he should -- is well aware of Brown's record.
2) Health Care Reform? What Health Care Reform?:
Last week President Obama attempted to reassure House Democrats that health care reform would be a political winner. "If Republicans want to campaign against what we've done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses, that is a fight I want to have," he said. "I'll be out there waging a great campaign from one end of the country to the other, telling Americans with insurance or without what they stand to gain about the arsenal of consumer protections; about the long-awaited stability that they're going to begin to experience. And I'm going to tell them that I am proud we are putting the future of America before the politics of the moment -- the next generation before the next election."
But in Boston -- a fairly hospitable "one end of the country" -- the president did not directly mention the health care reform legislation, opposition to which Brown has made one of the signatures of his campaign. He talked about Coakley being on the side of the people, and Brown on the side of the insurance industry, but there was no direct reference to Brown being the key vote against passage of the health care reform bill. I notice he didn't bring up the fundraisers the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies gave her...
This was an obvious sign that the White House knows just how unpopular the legislation currently is, regardless of what the president told House Democrats last week.
3) I Feel Your Anger:
The president acknowledged voter anger in a more stark way than I can recall him ever doing. (And again: this is in Massachusetts!) "The anger there is real," a White House official told me, and it's replicated all over the country.
"People are frustrated and they're angry, and they have every right to be," President Obama said, "I understand. Because progress is slow, and no matter how much progress we make, it can't come fast enough for the people who need help right now, today."
He went on to paint Brown and the GOP as exploiting that "pain and anger to score a few political points. There are always folks who think that the best way to solve these problems are to demonize others. And, unfortunately, we're seeing some of that politics in Massachusetts today. He's referring to the Publicans who've been frozen out of the legislative process for the past year?
"You know, we always knew that change was going to be hard. And what we also understood -- I understood this the minute I was sworn into office -- was that there were going to be some who stood on the sidelines, who were protectors of the big banks, and protectors of the big insurance companies, protectors of the big drug companies, who would say, 'You know what, we can take advantage of this crisis -- because it's going to be so bad, even though we helped initiate these policies, there's going to be a sleight of hand here because we're going to let Democrats take responsibility. We're going to let them make the tough choices. We're going to let them rescue the economy. And then we can tap into that anger and that frustration.'
"It's the oldest play in the book," the president said.
It's not that the White House has been unaware of how ugly the 2010 midterms could be for Democrats. But however this race turns out, the closeness of the Coakley-Brown race is an ominous sign for Democrats.
4) Planning for a Brown Win:
This was unsaid at the rally, but one other thing worth noting is that the White House is obviously preparing a strategy for health care reform in case Coakley loses.
As we reported previously, the White House would want the House pass the Senate bill, so the Senate doesn't have to vote any more on the matter in the new post-supermajority Senate with Scott Brown. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has told the White House that she's skeptical the House would pass that legislation, given the stark differences in some areas, but Senate Democrats and White House officials would push hard the notion that the bills are 90 percent similar and not doing so would be allowing the insurance companies to win. House Democrats would want Senate Democrats force the bill through by bypassing normal Senate rules and passing the legislation through the "reconciliation" process -- requiring only 50 votes. That would even allow some moderates to peel away.
But White House officials note that reconciliation is only for budget matters so the most popular parts of the bill involving insurance reforms -- banning the denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions, for instance -- would not be part of that bill.
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Yup, I'd say she is the Canary in the Coalmine.
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I think she will win by a couple points, because of the reasons below.
However, the fact that it takes millions of dhimocrat money, union muscle and a dhimocratic president to push her over the top in a state that is supposed to be made of dhimocratic win does not bode well for the party in 2010. November is still a long way off, but the tea leaves are not looking good for anyone running for a seat with a "D" next to their name.
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I got an idea! How about a health care reform bill that 80% of Congress could approve?
Too many Dreamsicles...
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I know I am dreaming, but wouldn't it be really statemanlike if one, just one Democrat (or maybe Independent Joe), would vote 'No' on a hurry up offense on the grounds that it is putting party before country..?
( Well, I can dream, can't I?)
Washington (CNN) - Multiple advisers to President Obama have privately told party officials that they believe Democrat Martha Coakley is going to lose Tuesday's special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy for more than 40 years, several Democratic sources told CNN Sunday.
The sources added that the advisers are still hopeful that Obama's visit to Massachusetts on Sunday - coupled with a late push by Democratic activists - could help Coakley pull out a narrow victory in an increasingly tight race against Republican state Sen. Scott Brown.
However, the presidential advisers have grown increasingly pessimistic in the last three days about Coakley's chances after a series of missteps by the candidate, sources said.
But White House spokesman Bill Burton told CNN: "The President is in Massachusetts today because he believes Martha Coakley is the right person for the job and indeed will be the next senator from Massachusetts." Latest Polls From RealClearPolitics have Brown up 5-15%. The stakes are huge in this election. There is indication the donks will change the rules to a simple majority if Brown wins. Voter dissatisfaction in both parties and for independents is great. If a loss BO administration will spin this such that Coaklely didn't ask for help early enough and she was a bad campaigner. If Coakley wins, BO will spin it such that she came in on his coat-tails. Voters are on to this however.
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the Brown campaign claims they will have volunteer observers and lawyers prepositioned to prevent dem vote cheating
we'll see
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The Brown campaign needs to put people in the parking lots of SEIU offices to watch things. During the recent Presidential Election, there were many out of state cars parked in SEIU parking lots with people coming and going. Haven't been able to figure that activity out. Anyone with any ideas as to what these people were doing would be nice to know.
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Someone should be trying to get Obama on the record saying that Voter fraud and theft is a felony and the Justice Department will investigate all offenders, yada, yada.
Yeah it's a promise he'd break but its the right message and I'd love to see him dodge such a thing.
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No matter what happens at the ballot box tomorrow, one thing is certain: Martha Coakley is a loser.
