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Brown/Coakley Race Heats Up

January 13th, 2010 2:36 pm Author: Jayde Wyatt

Get your fans out! With Rasmussen showing a dead-heat between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley, things are heating up. Today’s update is a big one because this has become a very BIG topic.

Immediately following Brown’s successful $1.3 million Moneybomb campaign on Monday, Jan 11, Martha Coakley was rattled. So, what did she do? She pow-wowed with her corrupt cronies and pulled out the negative ads.

In response, Brown’s accomplished 21 year-old daughter, American-Idol-contestant-basketball-player, *Ayla Brown spoke out yesterday. (The Boston Herald’s front-page treatment of Ayla described her as ‘morphing into campaign pit bull’.)

Ayla Brown:

“Her attack [Martha Coakley] on my dad is completely inaccurate and misleading. I’m here today to say that Martha Coakley should take down her negative ad. Martha Coakley’s new negative ad represents everything that discourages young women from getting involved in politics, and as a young woman, I’m completely offended by that. She even spelled Massachusetts wrong in her original ad which is very embarrassing, I must say as a young woman.”

A quick-time response released today from the MA Republican Party:

Seeing highly prized senate VOTE # 60 wobbling, the Obama health care machine has sprung into action. A ~~fundraiser~~ **’Unity Event’ (as Martha characterized it) was held in Washington D.C. (Sonoma) at the Capitol Hill restaurant last night for Coakley. A legion of lobbyists for health insurance companies, hospitals, and drug companies sponsored the leftist rendesvouz:

Washington Examiner:

Of the 22 names on the host committee–meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley–17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there’s also the political action commitee for Boston Scientific Corporation.

All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley’s host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.

Following Coakley’s ‘Unity Event’ Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack was roughed up by a Coakley aide:

After the event concluded, Coakley took two questions from the media but declined to say whether or not she stands by her statement at last night’s debate that there aren’t any terrorists in Afghanistan (and that they’ve all gone to Pakistan or Yemen).

After taking a question from a CNN reporter on the street outside the restaurant, I asked her:

TWS: Attorney General Coakley, you said last night that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan–that they’re all in Yemen and Pakistan. Do you stand by that remark?

COAKLEY: I’m sorry, did someone else have a question?

GRIFF JENKINS, Fox News: I did. Why are you in Washington tonight?

COAKLEY: We planned an event after the primary that would be a unity event in Washington. We’re also in the middle of a very intense campaign [...]

After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. She didn’t reply.

As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.

He asked if I was with the media, and I told him I work for THE WEEKLY STANDARD. When I asked him who he worked for he replied, “I work for me.” He demanded to see my credentials, and even though it was a public street, I showed them to him.

I eventually got around him and met up with the attorney general halfway down the block.

“Attorney General, could I ask you a question please?” I said. “We’re done, thanks,” Coakley replied. She walked back toward the restaurant, apparently searching for her car. She remained silent as I (politely) repeated my question.

Coakley staffers told me they didn’t know who the man was who pushed me, though by every indication he was somehow connected to the campaign.

Coakley thug roughs up Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack:

After the pharmaceutical fundraiser and before the reporter dust-up, Coakley took time to smear Scott Brown:

Coakley: “If I don’t win, 2010 is going to be hell for Democrats.”

The plot thickens… As former president Bill Clinton and Senator John Kerry rush to Coakley’s side, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has shelled out $567,000 to run ads in the Springfield and Bostons markets. And, SURPRISE! SEIU has purchased $685,000 in advertising against Brown:

“Before you vote for Senate, here’s a few things you should know about Scott Brown,” a narrator pontificates in the 30-second spot. “He has repeatedly opposed a woman’s right to choose” and he “expresses skepticism that climate change is being caused by humans.”
“No wonder Brown’s campaign is being supported by the same extremist group that backs Sarah Palin,” the narrator explains. “Martha Coakley for Senate. Massachusetts values.”
Brown is depicted in black and white and speaking slow-motion. The ad ends with a quicker pace and a color photo of Coakley.

**Coakley’s pharma-fundraiser invitation, January 12, 2010:

With so much at stake, the next six days are going to be toad’s wild ride. Thank goodness Scott Brown is staying above the fray, blocking the punches, and continuing to inspire all of us.