We recently saw how a single interview is viewed as ending the New York Senate run of Harold Ford Jr. just as it was beginning. Now, an interview with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is being cited as a possible fatal mistake in the close race to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy against Republican Scott Brown. While she did not discuss pedicures and limo rides like Ford, she may have committed a greater political sin in Boston: she called the Red Sox Icon Curt Schilling a Yankee fan.
In Boston, referring to the venerable former Red Sox pitcher, as a Yankee fan is akin to declaring yourself a Polytheist with a hankering for the sacrilegious. Here is what Coakley said [WARNING: The following quote contains disturbing and even vulgar language for Red Sox fans]:
After Coakley raised baseball with WBZ News Radio, she noted that Rudolph W. Giuliani had appeared in Boston to support Brown, a Yankee fan. The reporter, Dan Rea, the noted “Yeah, but now Scott Brown has Curt Schilling, OK?’’
Coakley replied, “And another Yankee fan.’’
“Schilling?’’ Mr. Rea pressed.
“Yes,’’ she said.
Rea collected himself and again asked “Curt Schilling a Yankee fan?’’
Coakley then picked up something was amiss: “No, all right, I’m wrong on my, I’m wrong.’’
It is not clear if that recovery was enough given the sacrilegious Schilling comments for Boston voters. I am just happy that we are finally moving away from those distractions of health care, Haitian relief, and prosecuting torture.
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Bdaman:Speaking of Latin America.
Tu eres un pendejo Bdaman
Bdaman:
“nice shirt”
“Demoncratic registrations”
What would Freud say? ROTFLMAO :>)
EmpireCookie,
You sound cynical.
I have a better idea. You can volunteer to help lick the stamps for the latest RNC voter caging operation. The more voters purged from the voting lists the better! Or you can volunteer to help shred Demoncratic registrations. You dont have to worry about ensuring voting machines malfunction, though. I think someone else is taking care of that…
I could go there and canvass for them,but I can’t vote there.”
Contact the local Acorn office and tell them your dead and that you have some Latin American underage prostitutes that will vote if you allow them into the country.
I got ya enio
Bdaman:
“,I could go there and canvass for them,but I can’t vote there.”
By the way it was Michelle Obama herself who planted the idea Obama was born out of wedlock.
I don’t live in Mass.and there is nothing that I can do in my state as far as voting for that candidate,I could go there and canvass for them,but I can’t vote there.
However no matter what state you live in there are plenty you can do for either candidate. You can sign up to do phone calls for either one calling people of that state and try to get the candidates point across. It doesn’t cost you anything to do that, except for youe time because most campaigns will set you up for free.
Coakley’s latest attack ad says Scott Brown Thinks Obama was born out of wedlock.
AY:
From what most peolpe talk about during election time regardless of what seems to be going on nationally,is that what ever area a particular politician is from that is who is really going to judge that person.
I don’t live in Mass.and there is nothing that I can do in my state as far as voting for that candidate,I could go there and canvass for them,but I can’t vote there.
“What do you mean by that? Local”
eniobob,
What do you mean by that? Local I understand, the remainder not so much.
I know all politics are local,but wow,this shows the sad state that some are coming to in their thinking.
Elaine M.,
Cheers is all I have to say.
P.S. The Cambridge police and any unionized workers should be ashamed of themselves for publicly supporting the likes of Scott Brown.
AY–
Well, she and the rest of us gals DO know who Scott “Centerfold” Brown is.
And one may ask who is Sam Malone? Maybe she knew that….
Cambridge Police Union back Brown despite Coakley’s husband being a retired Cambridge Police officer. Details at Eleven
I wonder if Obama will tell the union they acted stupidly and get them to have a beer with Coakley.
Curt Schilling may have been a great Red Sox pitcher–but I’ve never cared for his politics. And bringing Rudy (9/11) Giuliani to town to help campaign for him certainly won’t help get Brown any votes from folks like me and my husband.
The Chamber of Commerce is financing political commercials for Brown. He’s got the support of a lot of “big money” people helping to prop him up.
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Brown Justifies Denying 9/11 Rescue Worker Aid: ‘We Had To Take Care Of Our Own Priorities First’ By Lee Fang
(Think Progress, 1/16/2010)
Excerpt:
As the Plum Line reported yesterday, State Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate special election on Tuesday, voted on October 17, 2001 to deny financial aid to Red Cross rescue workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts. As a state representative at the time, Brown was one out of only three legislators who had opposed the overwhelmingly bipartisan measure.
At a campaign rally today in Hyannis, ThinkProgress caught up with Brown for comment on why he voted against the measure:
TP: In 2001, you voted against 9/11 recovery workers, giving them aid, do you have any comment on this story?
BROWN: Yes, it was a time when our budget was down. We had a lot of cuts unfortunately, and we had to take care of our own priorities first.
During the same month Brown was voting down efforts to support 9/11 rescue workers, he was pushing a bill to appropriate a tax-subsidized bond to build a golf course in Norfolk, a city in his district. “Priorities,” indeed.
Also during the same period, he was busy fighting for tax subsidies for corporate interests.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/16/justify-denying-911aid/