Elizabeth Warren, who has been the nation’s leading congressional fund-raiser this year, today announced raising $12.12 million during the most recent quarter for her bid to unseat Senator Scott Brown, who raised $7.45 million.
The period from July 1 through Sept. 30 was the most lucrative three-month for the Democrat since entered the Senate race last year. Warren’s previous best was the prior quarter, running from April through June, when she raised $8.6 million. Brown, the Republican incumbent, also had his best quarter, topping the $4.97 million he raised from April through June.
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What a crazy waste of money on both sides.
Had Democrat Party hegemony, exercised in this Commonwealth for nearly all of my adult life, ushered in a new "Golden Age of Pericles", with good jobs and prosperity for all, a concomitant diminution of poverty, reduced crime, general civic and cultural health, and honest government, then I suppose that there would be a good argument for maintaining the Massachusetts Congressional delegation as it is: an all Democrat Club.
But do any but the most partisan Democrats and knee-jerk liberals among us really believe that this is what nearly absolute, predominantly "liberal", one-party Democrat rule, with its institutional and historical preference for state sponsored solutions, has wrought? Does anyone really believe anymore that it is only the Democrat Party that enjoys a monopoly on good ideas?
If you do, then consider the names and party affiliation of our indicted and convicted political felons. And come with me and behold - a half century after the vast and expensive Democrat Party’s Great Society Programs were launched - the neighborhoods of Roxbury, or Brockton, or Lawrence, or Fall River, or New Bedford, or Springfield, and on and on. And if you think that the cultural and economic despoliation is limited to areas of conspicuous urban blight, then I invite you to have a conversation with cops and teachers in the so-called "better" suburban towns. There the index of cultural and civic decay, while not as obvious as in the inner cities, is every bit as real.
No. I think that a day of reckoning is at hand. I think that people who think for themselves and who are not led around like oxen with rings in their noses by such morally corrupt institutions as the Boston Globe and Harvard University have tired of the stultifying liberal homogeneity that those entities inflict and that have degraded and limited our political choices to those of a third world dictatorship. The time is long overdue for some real diversity of thought and opinion in our ballot choices, in our Congressional delegation, and in the ideological complexion of those who purport to govern us on Beacon Hill.
Scott Brown does not represent diversity of thought. He represents the restricted freedom, higher taxes for the middle class, war mongering, and vote suppression indicative of present day Republicans because is most emphatically is one.
She's for the working folks! Union members are getting "HAMMERED" by the requirement that they take time away from their families to hold signs for Elizabeth Warren. If they don't they are docked $250 pay. She won't stand for hammering working folks like that! Union members says he got fined if you don't do it .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cGzbBNHyEU Warren's reaction (tries to not answer, very funny): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRsCeKCaBQ4 special bonus! Sign holders for Elizabeth Warren make homophobic slurs! *** warning - language *** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THz8RlkrQPQ
What a bunch of hogwash. They show up because it is their and their families and their fellow workers' interest. You must be referring to Mr. Romney whose coal miner CEO forced workers to show up for a photo op. By the way what about the issues? Oh guess more interested in slinging mud.
Time for the Boston Globe to have an educational story on how requiring entry of a credit card CVV code prevents foreign donations (which are illegal).
No, Obama.com and ElizabethWarren.com do NOT require this,
YES, scottbrown.com DOES.
Oh, yes ... Romney's website requires the CVV code also. I'm sure Eric Holder will be all over this, right?
So here's your project. Why don't you get even a crumb of evidence this is so and present it to the Herald. Eric Fernstrom will make sure it gets published.
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howie carr is a must read today