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AFL-CIO Mailer: Brown 'Wants To Make History Repeat Itself' From The Bush Years
MA Senate Candidates AG Martha Coakley (D) and State Sen. Scott Brown (R)
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The Massachusetts AFL-CIO is mobilizing in the Massachusetts Senate special election, with a new mailer get-out-the-vote effort to stop Republican candidate Scott Brown, and elect Democratic candidate Martha Coakley.
The new mailer warns voters that Brown would create a repeat of the Bush years: "Tax cuts for the wealthy. Economic deregulation. Party-line votes. Scott Brown wants to make history repeat itself."
In an e-mail to reporters, national AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale claimed that the AFL-CIO has tens of thousands of volunteers who will be phone-banking and canvassing through the election, and the unions will also be doing robocalls.
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Maritza
January 13, 2010 12:41 PM
All out mobilizing for Coakley. Excellent.
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texscubarat
January 13, 2010 1:03 PM
Image Kennedy's home state electing a rethug who is against everything Ted Kennedy was for. Talk about slapping one's own face...repeatedly!!! It would be an embarrassment to the state of Mass. if any rethug like him were ever elected. The people of MA need to honor Teddy by electing Coakley. Period!!!
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Schmed
January 13, 2010 1:20 PM in reply to texscubarat
Not that I disagree with your general sentiment, BUT, less than half of the registered voters in MA are Democrats. The Democrats of MA may feel the need to honor Kennedy, but please don't assume that the people of MA feel the same obligation. The Democratic Party doesn't own us. Neither did Ted Kennedy, and he knew that! He never took the voters for granted in any campaign. Coakley has to earn our votes, not assume that she owns them.
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Walter Mitty
January 13, 2010 1:10 PM
This is a test case for Axelrod's 2010 strategy. Tie any Republican to going back to the Bush/Cheney years. Force them to distance themselves from Bush/Cheney which will alienate them from the 26 percenters.
Come 2012 the Dems will run on what they did, and try and ride on Obama's re-election.
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Schmed
January 13, 2010 1:23 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
Even the bogeyman fades into the receding horizon. Obama and the Democrats are going to have to come up with some meaningful accomplishments (jobs, Jobs JOBS!!!) and not just offer themselves as the AntiBush.
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Indie Pro
January 13, 2010 1:42 PM
so both parties have their own fear card. Lovely.
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Steve LaBonne
January 13, 2010 2:42 PM in reply to Indie Pro
What else have they got, when neither party has any interest in actually doing anything for ordinary people?
That's the state to which our corrupt, crippled political system has sunk.
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NH
January 17, 2010 10:21 PM
"Tax cuts for the wealthy. Economic deregulation. Party-line votes. Scott Brown wants to make history repeat itself."
Well, this is exactly what we have NOW and worse, isn't it? Looting of the treasury to reward euro-trash bankers and Bernanke won't tell where $500B went because the FedRes is not a gov't entity and answers to no one... party line votes (they fly them in, do it on Christmas eve, or your wife gets threatened with being fired from her job) and history is repeating itself = Youth brigades, censorship, taxation, and gun grabs = Nazi Germany history!
This AFL-CIO Local 495 is voting for BROWN.
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