Fight the SEIU & Demcare corruption: Support Scott Brown for Senate
Last month, I noted how Massachusetts Senate GOP candidate Scott Brown called out rival Democrat candidate Martha Coakley’s SEIU thug pals.
The Purple Shirts continue to “pull out all the stops” to install Coakley in Teddy Kennedy’s seat. The special election will be held January 19.
SEIU endorsed her in October, poured $214,000 into a radio ad buy for her in December, and are pouring all available “resources and clout” into her bid. As she prattles on about “economic justice,” Coakley now boasts a total campaign treasury of more than $5 million:
Attorney General Martha Coakley raised more than $1 million over the past six weeks for her US Senate campaign, bringing her total haul for the race to $5.2 million, her campaign reported yesterday. The campaign of her rival, state Senator Scott Brown, said it raised $700,000 during the same period, much of it on the Internet, for a total of $1.2 million.
Coakley, who faced three opponents in the Democratic primary, started the special election campaign with less than $500,000 in her campaign account, compared with about $300,000 for Brown, a Republican of Wrentham.
Coakley raised the $1 million between Nov. 20 and Dec. 31. The campaign did not release donor lists, say how much money the campaign spent over that period, or reveal how much it has in the bank to begin the new year. Those details must be included in information that has to be submitted next week to the Federal Election Commission.
Where’s the GOP establishment? As Ed Morrissey reported last week: AWOL.
Yes, once again, it’s up to grass-roots conservatives and independents to help a GOP candidate fight the Big Labor-backed corruptocrat. Demcare hangs in the balance. Yet, Brown received a measly $50,000 from the national GOP and NRSC compared to the nearly $1 million that radical leftist Dede Scozzafava raked in.
Sean Trende crunches the numbers and will be “stunned if Brown wins.” But Patrick Ruffini sees “evidence Scott Brown is within single digits.” And William Jacobson reports on the grass-roots conservative groundswell for underdog Brown:
Three things have happened in the last three weeks to make this election competitive:
1. Coakley’s “read my lips” moment: During the campaign, Coakley promised as a matter of “principle” not to support the Senate health bill if it contained restrictions on abortion. This promise was a prime fundraising tool. Just days after the primary, Coakley went back on this promise, and now is in the Harry Reid/Ben Nelson camp, to the anger of the left-wing base.
2. Obamacare is sinking in popularity: Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate demonstrated, in the weeks leading up to Christmas eve, the absolute moral corruption in Washington, D.C., by legally bribing Senators to vote for the health care bill. By supporting these efforts, Coakley has shown herself to be just more of the same (and her own maneuvers around the campaign finance laws drive that point home). At a time when the country is facing monumental deficits and national debt, Coakley handed Brown the central issue in the campaign – Democratic efforts to force through a health care bill which is unpopular and economically ruinous. Had Coakley stood by her “principles” she would not be in this position.
3. Brown has gone viral: Largely shunned by the Republican establishment, Brown has utilized an online strategy which has ignited a grassroots campaign to get Brown elected. Do a Google search of blogs, and you will see that Brown is the talk of the internet, and most posts about Coakley are negative. While the mainstream media still holds great sway, Brown is seen as rising and Coakley as more of the same. Brown is winning the online battle.
Moe Lane at RedState underscores that most of Coakley’s cash was spent securing the Dem nomination:
You see, most of that money Coakley raised got spent fighting for the nomination. William Jacobson’s all over this topic: while he and I both think that she’s got more money in the bank right now than Brown, it’s not the 5-to-1 advantage she’s hyping. At best, it’s 3-to-2. She’s also facing the problem that her public retreat on abortion language in the bill is going to depress enthusiasm in the progressive netroots; and that Republican activists at least have noted that flipping Massachusetts could – could! – possibly derail the health care rationing bill, and are contributing accordingly…
Pro-lifers in Massachusetts are also rallying around Brown. LifeNews reports:
In a state known for its left-leaning and pro-abortion politics, Brown has an uphill battle but he enjoys the support of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. Jack Rowe, chairman of the MCFL PAC, emailed LifeNews.com today to say that he is seeing movement in Brown’s direction. “People are terribly upset about health care and asking what to do. Here is the very exciting part. We in Massachusetts can actually save the whole country from this awful health care. Our PAC has been supporting Scott Brown because he will be a pro-life vote in the Senate. Scott Brown will also vote against the health care bill. After the compromise bill comes out of conference, it must be approved again by each house. Brown will vote against the bill. That means there will not be 60 votes in the Senate. That means the bill will be defeated.” That’s a lofty goal but Rowe is encouraging pro-life advocates in Massachusetts to get involved in the special election. “Can we do it? We certainly can! Turn-out will be very small,” he said — adding that the pr-life movement could change the dynamics of the race of it gets mobilized.
You can do your part right now. Brown’s campaign site is here. His donation page is here. There’s a grass-roots “moneybomb” fundraiser for Brown on January 11.
Fight the SEIU and Demcare corruption. Help do the job the national GOP fund-raising organizations won’t do. With two weeks until the special election date in Massachusetts, there isn’t a moment to waste.
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After the blowout we saw happen here in Virginia and also in New Jersey, I think anything can happen. It’s ridiculous that the GOP isn’t even trying especially since if Brown were to win that magic “60″ would be history.
Electing Scott Brown to replace Teddy Kennedy in the Massachusetts Special Election on January 19, is the most important thing Conservatives can do right now!
Scott Brown would be the 41st vote in the Senate for the Republicans. Scott Brown could be the vote that saves us from Obamacare, cap & trade and amnesty for illegals!
Massachusetts has elected Republicans as Governors in state-wide elections recently (Governors Romney and Weld) so it is possible for a Republican to win in Massachusetts.
Find out more about Scott Brown at http://www.BrownForUSSenate.com
Then help to spread the word by telling everybody you know how important this race is!
We showed what we could do for Hoffman in NY-23. Now let’s score a victory for Scott Brown!
Ugh, I hit the link to his site and the first thing I see is the video of John McCain’s support for Brown. McCain, please do us all a favor and go away, friend. I get just as disgusted seeing you as I do Obama, you know the guy you campaigned for (I’d love to see how much you were paid to throw that election) The only good thing that came out of it was when you picked Palin (obviously you thought it would hurt your chances to win), but that backfired on you. Maybe you can get a job working for La Raza. Good luck to Brown, but he should run, not walk, run away from the bonehead, traitor McCain.
This is why I think you should soften your position about working “within the Republican party” Michelle. You should at least modify your position to “I refuse to work with THIS Republican party”. Otherwise, a new party is viable. It is just plain wrong to see Tea Party people as “spoilers” by assuming we have no choice but to vote for Republicans as you implied this morning on C-SPAN. There is a big difference between what Jim DeMint is doing in fighting the Senate GOP leadership and what Michelle Bachmann is doing delivering tricking us into having to hear speeches by House leadership on the Capitol steps a few months ago.
I simply will not even consider helping Republicans until the entire leadership of the Senate, the House and the RNC have been run out of town.
+1
That’s what I’m talking about. If this guy is “conservative” (which I doubt), he would understand why being shown with McCain is a big mistake. Might as well have your picture taken with Obama.
The GOP must have an implicit agreement to not challenge that seat or they would be working for Brown already.
I just don’t think it matters who is elected in MA. I expect Brown to be just as liberal as Kennedy. The only good I see from getting Brown elected to demonstrate why we grassroots conservatives are important and powerful. I hope Brown wins but I see no reason to expect that he will be a true conservative nor vote on our side.
Michelle,
It’s unconscionable that the Republican Party gave $1 Million to RINO Scozzafava and only $50 Thousand to Conservative Scott Brown.
You and many of your commenters predicted that the Scozzafava $ would hurt Republican Party fundraising, and that is exactly what has happened:
Those small donors haven’t gone away completely… they have just decided to make their own choice of where that money will go. Many of them will donate directly to Brown’s campaign. Why give money to the Republican party when it will spend 20 times more on a RINO Democratic Socialist than it will on a conservative Republican?
As a Massachusetts resident and Scott Brown supporter, I don’t think he has any real chance of beating any Democrat for Senator of Mass. The liberal nutjobs here will always vote Dem, no matter how they feel about the party or how the candidate treats them; it just doesn’t matter, they will never put a Republican in a national post such as senator. Throw in the facts that Brown is running against a woman candidate, for Ted Kennedy’s seat, and could be the one to break their beloved Obama’s 60 vote lock in the senate, and all I can do is hope for a miracle, cause that’s what it will take. And even then, if the Mass loonies think there was a miracle, they’ll vote against Brown just to spite people who believe in miracles.
…and the importance of Brown in the Senate is at least 20 times more important than the NY-23 House race.
A Brown win can filibuster the Democratic Socialists, unless one of the Maine Senators goes the way of Arlen Specter.
The Republican party should have given $50 thousand in the NY-23 race, and given $1 Million to Scott Brown’s race, not the other way around.
On January 3rd, 2010 at 10:25 pm, get-off-my-lawn said:
May the spirit of John Hancock rise again in Massachusetts.
Most people are familiar with the largest and most recognizable signature on the Declaration of Independence… that of John Hancock.
But most people are not familiar with a document he (and several others) consented to less than four months earlier…
The Library of Congress Document Image
I repeat: May the spirit of John Hancock rise again in Massachusetts!
If the GOP can’t figure out the importance of Scott Brown winning this election, then forget the GOP.
You can donate directly to Scott Brown’s campaign at http://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown
The special election is on January 19, but absentee voting has already begun.
The faster Scott Brown raises money, the faster he can get more advertising on the air.
As Michelle said, “there isn’t a moment to waste!”
GO WATCH THIS VIDEO – if THAT don’t motivate you, there’s no HOPE!! It HAS to go viral!
Semper Fi’
DM
Busy spending money on nitwits like Scozzafava, then wondering why the base refuses to contribute.
According to the article:
They acknowledge the Tea Party, but one wonders if they will embrace what it stands for.
Arsenio Steele needs to go. He is a pathetic person and exactly what we do not need right now.
I wish Sarah would jump into this. She could turn up the heat very quickly. Please write to the RNC and tell them Arsenio Steele needs to go, now.
Exactly what I was thinking when I first read the article.
Many of us quit giving to the national republican anythings (congressional national committees as well as the official national republican committee) because they are supporting and recruiting RINOs that screw us on critical, close votes. We are now donating down the ticket directly to the candidates that best advance real conservatism.
From a quote MM used above:
Hi, I would like to follow MM on Twitter but I can’t find her. I found 2 accts that use her name, but it is obviously is not her.
Thanks for any help.
Hmmm…tough choice.
An SEIU member? Or a Bible-thumping theocrat ready to impose religious doctrine in place of medical care, Taliban-style?
Which candidate is going to be more conservative? Which will be more likely to keep their nose out of my private affairs?
Certainly not the Republican, based on his own statements.
Brown’s campaign needs to be pounding out two words: Gerald Amirault.
Coakley’s role in the unethical, immoral, and illegal prosecution of Gerald Amirault not only show her unfit for any government position, but show what a crass, unfeeling and downright evil person she really is. If nothing else, I would support Scott Brown because of Coakley’s reprehensible conduct in the Amirault case.
Anyone who really hates a particular religion (whatever it is) is simply a hard-core member of an opposing religion. I love it when I see people writing about Bible-thumping theocratic republicans… it tells me that the writers are little more than hard-core members of an opposing religion. The most common hard-core Christian-hating religion in this country is the environmentalist/socialist/communist religion. The weird thing to me is that they don’t even realize that they are religious extremists.
SGTjack brought up Coakley’s role in the Amirault witch hunt. Oh my God. The whole Amirault persecution was the Salem Witch Trials redux. I would love to see all the prosecutors in that case in jail for a long long time for gross prosecutorial misconduct…the people who persecuted the Amiraults are evil people.
Here is a Houston Examiner article on Coakley’s involvement in the Amirault case: http://www.examiner.com/x-14537-Albany-CPS-and-Family-Court-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Involvement-in-Amirault-case-makes-Martha-Coakley-unfit-to-replace-Ted-Kennedy-as-Senator.
I have leaned to trust Michelle’s judgement. I will donate to Brown’s campaign today, online.
I agree with frontierguy. Any candidate who would put John McCain front and center on his website did not get “the message”. He would be MUCH better than any democrat, but still part of the overall problem. Don’t get me wrong, I would vote for him in a heartbeat over the democrat if I lived in Massachusetts, but it does show we have a ways to go in clearing the McCain-types from the party.
Thanks Michelle for shining the spotlight on this very important election. I hope the other conservative media pick up on this and help rally the conservative base to support the only viable candidate in this election with strong conservative values.
I implore my conservative peers in Massachusetts to not waste their precious vote on another candidate, A vote for Brown is the only chance we have to put a conservative in Kennedy’s seat.
And so would Obamacare!
Donate Donate Donate!
I think we can even volunteer to help with Scott Brown’s phone banks from wherever we are.
To all of our “take back the R Party” people…has it become evident yet that the R party does not support conservative values? May I ask why not take the D party? I doubt it’d be any more difficult.
Exactly! $50 just went to Brown. Mr. ‘K’ and I are following Hoffman to contribute once again to him.
Nasty statement but at least 6degrees got it out of his/her system. Hey 6degrees, I recommend reading the Life Application Study Bible on your own/by yourself – nothing forced. That kind of Bible thumping isn’t all too bad. No need to reply/snark just get it and read it privately.
I donated $100 to Brown earlier this morning. I agree that we should start donating directly to the candidates and let the GOP flounder by itself. Truly the “Stupid Party.”
As I’ve said before, and as the States’ attorneys general are now doing: Sue them into oblivion. These actions and those of Congress are unconstitutional and illegal. Gum up their finances and you shut them down.
Constitutional reform on term limits and a small and balanced Federal budget is manditory for true government reform and will be greeted with joy by the People. A free America is the world’s last best hope.
You can’t be serious with your post.
And as for bible thumpers, I prefer the Living Water translation.
pasadena phil writes:
This is a BIG MISTAKE.
BIG MISTAKE.
Phil, this is an election of NATIONAL IMPORTANCE.
The results of this race WILL EFFECT YOU.
Scott Brown will TAKE AWAY HARRY REID’S MAJORITY!
That’s why it is crucial that tis race get NATIONAL ATTENTION and support.
Get it on the networks and in the papers.
The more coverage, the greater the turnout, and greater turnout WILL HELP SCOTT BROWN WIN.
Talk it up on the blogs and on the radio.
National GOP is ignoring the race for their own inscrutable reasons – maybe they just like losing to Pelosi/Reid all the time.
Fun fact: THERE ARE NO POLLS FOR THIS RACE
The Democrats certainly have private polls, but they aren’t releasing the numbers.
Why?
BECAUSE SCOTT BROWN IS EITHER LEADING THE DEMOCRAT, OR IS WITHIN SINGLE DIGITS.
If the polls showed a 20 point lead, they would certianly be leaked to the media.
Pasadena Phil, I was there for the Bachmann event and I noticed the same thing…somewhat disappointing to see it develop into politics as usual after I made the effort to attend.
It would not surprise me if the RNC and the Senate Republicans told Harry Reid they would not rock the boat on a “traditional Democrat seat.”
They are that stupid.
“America Rising”…I like the sound of that. Great video.
America needs men like Scott Brown in
Massachusetts and Marco Rubio in Florida. Support them.
I just e-mailed the RNC and asked them to give Brown more money. They have deep pockets and can give much more than I can. It would certainly help them shore up their base.
Working with Democrats has proven to be fatal. The RNC needs to wise up.
Picture Lucy saying, “Oh Charlie Brown, you can trust me this time. I won’t pull the ball away anymore.”
Just donated to Scott’s campaign. May God speed him to victory on January 19.
If Brown or any other candidate wants my money, he has to swear that he will work to depose the current GOP leadership starting right now, today, this second.
Why do I get the idea that the RNC realizes that its endorsement is a kiss of death and have now found a way to get at our money “virally”? Something just isn’t right here. I hope he wins but I’m not going to waste my money on this guy. I grew up in MA and lived half of my adult life in Boston.
This just smells to me. This guy was one of “them” (establishment Republican) until the RNC calculated that he couldn’t win and so abandoned him and now he is one of “us”? Does his website (hello McCain!) suggest that he “gets it”?
Wouldn’t electing Scott Brown for Senate disrespect John McCain-Linday Graham’s “Friend” Fat Teddy- AKA shovel ready Teddy?
My once beloved Party is so full of weaklings, Rockyfeller clones, RINOs and cowards I tend to despair. I trust the only treatment for such despair is full time RINO roundup:
Head em up
Round em up
Move em out
Way Way out.
Hopefully, McCain’s endorsement won’t hurt Scott too much. His comparisons to JFK notwithstanding, I’m hoping he’s conservative enough. I’m tired of being represented by the likes of John kerry or Barney Frank.
I’ve been calling for Brown and getting a mostly positive response from Independants. If you want to help, go to his website scottbrownforussenate.com and you can even call from home!
It’s easy and enables you to make a contribution if you lack funds to donate!
As ‘Mr Smith” said in Mr Smith goes to Washington…”Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for!”
Even if he is an “oldstyle” Republican, he can help stop this health care fiasco. And isn’t that what we want? We can work further into the party in the future. I sent a donation.
Donated…
Although technically an independent, I will be attending my local Republican January meeting where local candidates are selected. I deserve a voice, I figure, as many of those faux Republican opinion polls that I’ve filled out and sent back without a donation….., but with lots of imput.
BTW, don’t expect a Kyl, DeMint or Coburn from Massachusetts.
A McCain or Graham would be a marked improvement over a dedicated Marxist who hates America. They’d at least vote the patriotic way half the time…
Romney is from Massachusetts. Surely these people have at least half a brain.
I DO suspect to be a Kyl, you know, the guy who ran in 2006 swearing on his mother’s grave and risking eternal damnation that he would do everything in his power to stop scamnesty and once re-elected, re-introduced the Kennedy-McCain-Bush amnesty bill under his own name? Assistant Democrats are worse than Democrats. A McCain from MA is not an improvement. All it means is that the Dems can reach across the aisle to secure their landmark victories.
Like I said, I hope he wins for tactical reasons but he is on my “show me” list. His bible-thumping does not make him a conservative. Even Constantine converted to Christianity when it suited his purposes on his death bed. Funny how those things happen.
Since we’re talking about Taxxachusetts, I’m not real hopeful of Brown’s chances, but who knows? A Brown win would be a shot across the bow of Harry Reid – not that he would even notice.
Shooting in Las Vegas this morning
Lloyd George Federal Building
2 federal agents shot
1 suspect shot and killed
Many shots fired
At present he is lying dead in front of a school on 5th street
over head chopper video shows suspect lying dead beside school with shotgun just feet from his body
If by some miracle Brown could prevail, who’s to say Maine’s miscreants Snowe/Collins wouldn’t switch sides!
i really saw very little substantive difference between specter as a d or an r. the two parties need to stand for something different than communist and socialist. we need to move the center of congress back to the right. the center of America is not between communist and socialist, why is the congress there?
http://www.fox4kc.com/wdaf-vegas-courthouse-shooting-video-sns,0,6448279.htmlstory
Deal me in on this. I just wish Brown himself would turn up the heat a little. I went to his Youtube page, and most of the stuff there isn’t the kind of thing that will really inspire independents to vote for him. One thing he really needs to do is demand, at the top of his lungs, that the Democrats, and Coakley in particular, give an explanation for why they’re in such a hot-damn rush to pass “health care reform” and bypass or short-circuit all known deliberative procedures, when the thing won’t take effect in 2014.
If a milquetoaster like Olympia Snowe can ask that question, there’s no reason Brown can’t.
You’re missing the big picture. If Brown wins Ted Kennedy’s seat, it will be an awesome psychological blow to the Democrats that the media will not be able to sweep under the rug.
What my new party affiliation
Disintermedians
The grassroots are coming! The grassroots are coming!
The only Republican who could possibly beat Martha Coakley for Kennedy’s seat is Mitt Romney. Otherwise it’s a lost cause in very liberal Mass. I’m not sure Mitt is still a legal resident of MA.
Thank you maisy!
I spent about an hour making calls from the local Scott Brown office and mostly very positive feedback. Don’t count the chickens before they come home to roost
I just donated, and am willing to do the work needed to elect Scott Brown. PLEASE DO THE SAME!
Thank you Michelle and everyone else for your support! Scott Brown can win this, we just have to get the word out.
It’s the 1st time in years we have had a Senate candidate here is MA that actually made me get out for the 1st time and volunteer and donate to help him succeed in his campaign. His message is clear, his objectives make sense, and are actually sincere. Martha is just more a name people might recognize and might for vote for if they don’t pay attention to the issues, especially with SEIU and Emily’s list funding sources to name a few.
With your help we can make a difference in MA and the Senate – GO SCOTT we need your common sense politics to represent us MA!
IMPORTANT UPDATE! Rasmmussen Reports:
Others comment about the Rasmussen poll over at Hot Air Headlines.
That Rasmussen article also shows that Brown is walloping Coakley among independents. There is NO excuse for the RNC not to be supporting Brown at least as much as the DNC is supporting Coakley.