Monday, January 11, 2010
Get it? That's a round up of Scott Brown links! Clever right? Moving right along...
Red Invades Blue! Scott Brown's "money bomb" is exploding on the internet today, and as I type this is already up to $430,713.17 (since midnight) of the $500K they are hoping to make today [Update: 500K level busted, going on to 750K now! Update: Over $1 Million before 11PM. Wow!]. We need to hold one of these things around here, though somehow I'm not holding out hopes for the same effect. Go here to add to the take!
Sissy's also got words about the Moneybomb.
The Wall Street Journal writes about The 60th Senate Vote - The special election in Massachusetts and the Democratic agenda.
When Ted Kennedy died last August, Democrats said they'd honor him by finally passing the national health care he had long campaigned for. What an irony it would be if the race for Kennedy's successor in Massachusetts denied Democrats the 60th vote to ram their federal takeover into law on a partisan basis.
That prospect isn't as implausible as it once seemed in that most liberal of states, as Republican Scott Brown has closed to within striking distance of Democrat Martha Coakley in the January 19 special election. A Boston Globe survey released this weekend showed Ms. Coakley with a 15-point lead, but a survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling found the race a dead heat, with Mr. Brown up 48% to 47%. The scary prospect for Democrats is that the race is even this close on their home ideological turf, and turnout is always difficult to predict in special elections...[More.]
I'm not buying that "Brown is up" result -- this is still Massachusetts, after all -- but it's still interesting. As they say, there's only one poll that counts... On the other hand, John Hood at The Corner says Believe the Closer Massachusetts Poll, and Karl at HotAir analyzes the polls here.
Michelle Malkin has a musical number for the occasion, bringing in a few links and noting the DNC is growing concerned: High anxiety: DNC dispatches helper to Boston. SEIU and White House next?
The Washington Examiner notes that the Washington lobbyist set came out in force for Martha: Coakley in trouble? Pharma and HMO lobbyists to the rescue:
With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama's health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night. The invitation is at right...
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...
Say, aren't the big corporate-types, particularly the health care people supposed to be for the Republican? Oh yeah, I forgot who I was talking to. You guys know better than that.
Meanwhile, closer to home, a fund raiser turns "listless": Democrats turn out for Coakley
The fare was light, and attendance was even lighter, but enough contributions came in to enable the organizers of yesterday's fundraiser for state Attorney General Martha Coakley to claim the outcome was a favorable one.
"I think it was a success," reported organizer Nora O'Brien. "We raised more than $1,500, and that's a good figure."
Local Democrats had hoped for at least 100 attendees. O'Brien estimated the number was close to that.
But in reality, Sunday's event paralleled the listlessness with which voters statewide have treated the upcoming election...
Democrats are listless. Republicans and independents are fired up.
Even though Martha Coakley is the state Attorney General, the State Troopers have come out in support of Scott Brown. Ouch: Troopers announce support for Scott Brown - "...Republican Scott Brown was scheduled Monday to receive the endorsement of the State Police Association of Massachusetts. It represents rank-and-file troopers. Association President Richard Brown says "the terrorist threat in this country is real and Scott Brown will always come down on the side of protecting our nation."..."
MoveOn and Company are getting worried: "...Organizing for America, a grass-roots group linked to President Obama, yesterday sent a frantic e-mail blast to Bay State supporters urging them to man phones for Attorney General Martha Coakley. The group claims "special interests have poured in hundreds of thousands of dollars to mislead voters" in the race that has Wrentham state Sen. Scott Brown, the GOP nominee, gaining momentum. Liberal political action group MoveOn.org, meanwhile, raised money online for Coakley, using the pitch-line, "Can you chip in to hold Ted Kennedy's seat and pass real health care reform?"..."
Legal Insurrection says, among other things, "Embedded below is the invitation to Coakley's lobbyist fundraiser tomorrow (via Big Gov't). Who is on the list? None other than Jamie Gorelick, the "Mistress of Disaster" responsible strenthening the wall between intelligence services and law enforcement which contributed to the systemic failure to detect the 9/11 plot, and former Vice Chair of Fannie Mae. Coakley will raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from these lobbyists, including grouped contributions..."
Scott Brown is asking an out of state group to stop trying to help.
Update: The Boston Herald has endorsed Scott Brown.
Update2: I have posted the position paper on Israel that Scott submitted to AIPAC. It is great.
I sent Brown a $20 spot. Im not rich.
However, I dont hold out much hope, if Brown edges it out, Im sure the Democrat election stealing machine will kick in, even if its post election, ala Al Franken.