Massachusetts Special Senate Election Update
January 7, 2010 by cvarley
Filed under What's Brewing
The Scott Brown Breakfast with MA Tea Party Members was a great success. After speaking with many that attended, despite the snow, I can assure you he answered our questions and gave us reason to hope. One of our members, Peter Laird, wrote the following that I would like to share with you.
Dear Tea Party Member,
Citizens concerned about trends in Washington – ever larger deficits – increasingly intrusive government into the private sector and individual’s lives – disdain for the Constitution – have a golden opportunity to reverse these trends January 19th by voting for Scott Brown in the special Senate election.
Scott Brown’s election sends a huge message to Washington to reverse course and return to a more responsible and commonsense approach to governing. Please vote (absentee ballots are now available at all MA Town Halls) and encourage like-minded friends and acquaintances to do the same.
This is a winnable election. Vote for Scott Brown on January 19th and send a message.
Pete
Visit www.redmassgroup.com – Rasmussen just released poll: Coakley 50% Brown 41%. Among those “very certain to vote” the lead is only 2%. Also, Brown leads the unaffiliated 65% to 21%.
How to help – www.brownforussenate.com has all the information you need to volunteer making GOTV calls from one of nine offices statewide or from your own home. Also, donations are always welcome. With all the national attention the campaign is now receiving, you can be sure the D’s/Liberals/Progressives will pleading for cash.
Of course I have not forgotten that there is another worthy candidate in this race. We were hoping to schedule a similar event in support of Joe L. Kennedy, Independent candidate in the Special Senate Election, but the campaign has not as of yet notified me. To find out more about the Kennedy campaign, to volunteer and to donate, visit www.joekennedyforsenate.com.
Please note that while a few Tea Party groups across the nation have endorsed either Brown or Kennedy, the Greater Boston Tea Party has not endorsed either. We are encouraging you to get informed, make your own decision and then get involved. We want to have a say – this is our opportunity.
are there any plans for rally this friday when bill clinton and john kerry
arrive for a fundraiser for coakley?
ct tea party people , dump dodd , often met visiting “royalty” when they came to town to raise money for their fellow politicians…
semed to work evidenced re: bye bye chris dodd. he’s history.
i will be there friday for sure to remind them that , this senate seat belongs “to the people”, not clones of the Kennedy’s, “the aristocratic political family, not only of our lifetimes, but for all time in American political life” –quoted US Rep. ed. markey 1/10/10. HUH???
didn’t bostonians, american founding fathers revolt against royalty? against no taxation w/o representation?
It seems that Mr. Brown is rather embarrassed by the Tea Party movement. In an interview with the Globe he denied even being familiar with the group. Either he wants to distance himself from the movement and just use it as an ATM or he has the memory of a guppy. Read about it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/scott-brown-held-tea-part_n_423198.html?page=3&show_comment_id=38080622#comment_38080622
Dear Capt.
Please do not take what Sen. Scott Brown out of context. Scott Brown’s response was twisted by the Boston Globe to cause some controversy. You believed what they wrote as gospel.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/brown-tea-party-movement-what-tea-party-movement.php” rel=”nofollow”>CORRECTED: Brown: Tea Party Movement? What Tea Party Movement?
WARNING to Tea Party Activists and Supporters, Town Hall Meeting Protesters, and Tax Cutters living in Massachusetts who are even considering voting for Scott Brown for US Senate January 19th:
CSG Missive
Honestly, Bill. You’re about to reach Tea Party Stalker status.
Backing Kennedy is backing Coakley in the election. His candidacy is a joke. If he had intended to run a legitimate campaign, he would actually be out there running a campaign. His somewhat admirable fiscal positions aside, his foreign policy ideas amount to suicide. Scott has my vote because he understands the factors behind the economic collapse, he understands that tax cuts help the economy and he understands that states’ rights should supersede Federal rights, especially when it comes to entitlements and education policy. He’s also opposed to gay marriage – a position where Kennedy is way off base. As a law and order guy, why hasn’t Kennedy spent more time on the illegal means by which this “right” was made legal in Massachusetts and the unconstitutionality of the process? And legalizing marijuana? HA! Now there’s a priority right at the top of everyone’s list these days. Oh wait, what about illegal immigration. Kennedy is off base on that one too!
The support I am independently giving to Brown’s campaign is just that – my independent right to support whichever candidate I want. And you have the same right. The Tea Party endorses and supports no candidate. You and your wacky cohorts over at CSG really went off the deep end on this one. You misjudged our motives. We, unlike your organization apparently, do not exist to tell voters what to do. CSG has shown itself to one in a long line of “Special Interest Groups” determining voters are too stupid to figure things out for themselves. We already have too many groups like that. We are smart enough to make our own decision based on the principles we hold dear and the candidate(s) that adhere to them. CSG has proven themselves to be just another group of pseudo-intellectual elites living up in the clouds while the rest of us here on the ground are living in the real world, making real world decisions.
So my question is – DId CSG give any funds donated to CSG to Kennedy?