How Low Will Coakley Go? Brown Files Criminal Complaint

We knew a desperate Martha Coakley would get down and dirty and she has. Martha’s Machine has released a mailer declaring that Scott Brown wants to abolish 1,736 female rape victims from Massachusetts hospitals. It’s a lie. It’s contemptible. And, Scott Brown filed a criminal complaint against the Massachusetts Democrat Party today.

The Weekly Standard
By Mary Katharine Ham
January 16, 2010

Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts Senate seat up for election on Tuesday, is filing a criminal complaint against the Massachusetts Democratic Party over a flier claiming he’s against giving emergency contraception to rape victims.

The flier reportedly says “1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away,” according to Greg Sargent’s blog.

Dan Winslow, counsel for the Scott Brown for U.S. Senate campaign, will hold a media availability at 4 p.m. today to announce the criminal complaint resulting from a recent mailing paid for and sent by the Massachusetts Democratic Party, according to a press release sent out by the campaign.

Brown has taken heat from Democratic challenger Martha Coakley in the campaign because as a lawmaker in Massachusetts, he once offered an amendment that allows health care workers to opt out of giving emergency contraception to rape victims if doing so conflicts with their beliefs.

“The campaign’s rhetoric has gone from negative to malicious,” Massachusetts Republican party spokeswoman Tarah Donoghue told The Daily Caller from Brown’s weekend bus tour Saturday. “It’s outright offensive and it’s a distortion of Scott Brown’s record.”

Donoghue said Massachusetts GOP chairwoman Jennifer Nassour will also attend Saturday’s announcements at the state GOP headquarters. The Coakley campaign did not immediately return requests for comment.

Atlanta-based United Parcel Service, known for its ubiquitous brown trucks, demanded yesterday that the Massachusetts Democratic Party, which is listed as paying for the pamphlet, stop distributing it.

The mailer asks “What can Brown do to you?” It shows Scott Brown dressed up as a UPS driver and says, “He can reward corporations that ship your job overseas just like George W. Bush.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Felix Browne
January 16, 2010 617-335-8333

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TODAY

Dan Winslow, counsel for the Scott Brown for U.S. Senate campaign, will hold a media availability to announce the filing of a criminal complaint against the Massachusetts Democratic Party regarding a recent mailing paid for and sent by the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Winslow will make a statement and take reporters’ questions at MassGOP Headquarters in Boston TODAY at 4:00 PM.

Massachusetts GOP Headquarters
85 Merrimac Street, 4th Floor
Boston.

After stopping in to visit with firemen at a firehouse in Plymouth today, Brown responded to reporters’ questions about the Democratic Party flier: “It’s so far below the belt it’s malicious, and shame on Martha.”

Kathryn Jean Lopez (National Review Online) comments here and here.

Brown’s response to a Coakley attack ad:

“There’s only one tax-cutter in this race and it isn’t Martha Coakley.” – Scott Brown

With just a couple of days until election day, the question is: How low will Coakley go?

UPDATE: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz is not advocating voter fraud in Massachusetts.  Acorn and SEIU didn’t need any extra encouragement. This is disgusting!

P.S. If you have any free time this Sunday or Monday, please make some calls from home for Scott Go Scott Brown!