Vote Coakley!

Coakley for Senate

Just blasting out an email to people on my list, sorry if you haven’t heard from me recently but that’s a whole other thing. I want you to encourage everyone you know to get out the vote for Martha Coakley for Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Even you Republicans and especially you independent thinkers who may think that this is the way to send a message to Capitol Hill and the White House.

OK, let me first say this, I’m voting strictly on the “D” for this one, no disrespect for Martha Coakley, I’m sure she’ll do a good job, the state Democratic party has sputtered during this whole race as has the candidate herself, they just counted on the legacy of Senator Kennedy to pull them through, counting on the Senator who has served the Commonwealth (whether you liked him or not personally) and had a special place in his heart for the poor, the disabled and the elderly, generally those who had least among us.

I got nothing against Scott Brown personally, he serves in the Guard, I’m sure he’s a great dad, raised a daughter who’s a helluva ballplayer and from what I hear a good singer. Hell, if it came down to it, I’d rather have a beer with him than Martha. (I think we’ve been down this road) But I’m not too fond of the company he keeps. He’s the candidate of Rush Limbaugh and of this weird, reactionary, contrived, “revolutionary” tea party bowel movement. He stands together with the party of “no”, the party that will paralyze government for at least the next three years if elected, the party that is party first, America second.

He’ll tell you he’s an independent, a person of the people, yup he’s got a truck with a bunch of miles on it and can bring his camera crews to Southie and Dorchester to shoot some ads but look where that money comes from, as he rails against special interests and lobbyists, looks who’s paying his bill, right wing extremists and the folks that brought you those eight wonderful years of Bush-Cheney. Hey, the candidate of the US Chamber of Commerce? they must be on the side of us working folks and small investors. He’ll fit perfectly into the backbench role in the Senate, he’s used to saying no to everything and not having to come up with a specific policy recommendation or good idea from his time in the Massachusetts Senate in the back seat of the Republican clown car.

I know you all are pissed, hell you should be, but remember who you’re pissed at, this is not a vote for protest, it’s a vote for paralysis in a time where government needs to work well. People are impatient for change and want to rise out of this economic debacle, but remember who the party was that brought you here. If you want the party of plutocrats and a return to the policies of George W. Bush, by all means vote for Brown.

So, if no one has asked you yet, I’m asking, please vote for Martha Coakley on Tuesday and encourage everyone you know to vote!

Thanks, Nyal
If you don’t know where to vote or someone else doesn’t know please go to http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php