Even during a fierce campaign for Senate, Martha Coakley speaks with quiet fervor, a serious woman who has been arguing issues since she was a standout on her Western Massachusetts high school debate team.He's surging alright!
Ms. Coakley, the state’s attorney general, gained international recognition as a methodical county prosecutor during the 1997 trial of Louise Woodward, a British au pair convicted of killing a baby boy in her care. Her composed television appearances helped her become the first woman elected district attorney in Middlesex County, the state’s most populous, a year later. In 2006, just as easily, she swept the race for attorney general. Since then, she has won settlements from Boston’s Big Dig contractors and from Wall Street firms that engaged in deceptive practices.
A straightforward progressive on issues from abortion rights to same-sex marriage to the environment, Ms. Coakley, 56, has said she will be the 60th vote in the Senate in favor of health care legislation if she wins the seat long held by Edward M. Kennedy in Tuesday’s special election.
Ms. Coakley captured 47 percent of the vote in the Dec. 9 Democratic primary against three opponents. She was seen as rarely making a misstep, but since then she has been criticized for running a lackluster campaign until polls started showing her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, a state senator, was galvanizing independent voters.
And that discussion of Coakley sounds a whole lot nicer than what I've been reading!
See also, Howie Carr, "Want Payback? Vote for Scott Brown!"
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In the last two weeks, a number of missteps by the lace-curtain matron of entitlement has brought her essential mediocrity front and center.
Scott Brown in answering pompous serial-oaf David Gergen's "Ted Kennedy's seat" question: "with all due respect, it's the people's seat" exposed his own readiness not to compromise and cut corners. A former Army colonel, he will be much better than corrupt AG Coakley as Senator.
If he wins the election, it'll be a political earthquake that will match the seismic quake in Haiti.
And like the quake in Haiti, it will reveal the utterly corrupt state of the ruling authorities, in the political case in the US, the Democrats.
Nancy Pelosi can pass a bill and the SCOTUS can declare it unconstitutional, and will if November 2010 is a GOP replication of Scott Brown's amazing ascent.
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