[0:45/03/32] Jon Keller: What else did the Republicans do wrong . . . What did they do wrong?
[0:40/03/20] John Walsh: First of all, um, I thought, the issues really drive the issues, and something just popped into my head. But let's take some of the stuff that we don't think about; yeah were the Republicans in trouble if they don't figure out how to deal with the demographic changes in America and stop being jerks. . .
[1:13/03/32] Pretty soon they'll have to have candidates who don't think rape is a good thing. . .
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Has it come to this? Name-calling from the party of the high-minded? With their candidate for U.S. Senate floundering and failing to gain any kind of meaningful traction on the huge head start she enjoys, the Democrats are reduced to calling U.S. Senator Scott Brown an "honorary girl".
Imagine if a Massachusetts Republican pronounced his or her opposition in a similar sexist fashion. The press would be outraged.
Walsh, who six hours after making his initial comment back-peddled and apologized, believes that Brown is running a campaign based on images. (Now that's rich for the affirmative action party that cleared the way for a flawed candidate like Elizabeth Warren.) But the more the Democrats attack the more Brown holds steady in the likeability quotient.
Brown spokeswoman Alleigh Marre said Walsh's comments were a sign of desperation.
"When a candidate starts to fall behind in the polls is when they resort to name-calling and personal insults," Marre said. "Scott Brown is pro-choice and wants all women to have good jobs with equal pay. Elizabeth Warren should be ashamed of herself for these negative attacks."
Walsh issued his apology about six hours later, shortly after the Brown campaign issued a second statement from the leader of the Women for Brown coalition.
Chairwoman Angela Davis connected the Walsh statement with one Warren made in a column published in the Boston Sunday Globe.
In that piece, Warren said that, unlike Brown, she feels embarrassed to to run ads focused on her personal life, adding, "You probably won't see me folding laundry."
Davis said: "It seems Professor Warren and her spokesman can't decide if they are just too good to fold laundry, or if household chores are suitable only for women. Professor Warren should apologize for her own elitist remark, and denounce her spokesman's insulting comments suggesting folding laundry is a 'girl's' job."
Life is hard when you are chairman of the Democratic party in the bluest of bluest one-party states and you are saddled with a mediocre candidate who won't be caught folding laundry.
Things keep getting better for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, and their latest failing video calling Scott Brown a gasp Republican. First we showed that Kevin Franck and John Walsh at MassDems HQ think that all Jews end their names in "stein".
Now Red Mass Group has uncovered that the cabal of evil bankers waving at you half way through the video aren't bankers at all. Nope their Members of the Lower East Side Business Improvement District. A non-profit that works to improve the lives of the business owners and residents of New York's Lower East Side.
Here's the screen grab of the Mass Dems video showing the members of the non-profit, after the words "both Pick Wall Street and Billionaires over the Middle Class.. Every Time". The grab is from 0:36 in the MassDems video.
The Boston Herald gave the leader of the most corrupt political organization in the country, the Massachusetts Democratic Party, the front page treatment today. Calling the website, put together by John Walsh, Chairman, and Kevin Franck, communications director, a new low in campaigning. The website attacks Richard Tisei for things his parents allegedly did, and were never charged for.
Smearing someone's family is about as low as it gets in politics, but Massachusetts Democrats are setting a new standard in sliminess.
The party's new website targeting Republican congressional candidate Richard Tisei claims to show his family's "web of fraud and deceit," but all it really shows is how dirty the Democrats are willing to get to win an election.
Tisei's parents, including his deceased father, Ralph, were never charged with any crime, and Tisei himself has never been accused of wrongdoing. But those inconvenient facts don't seem to matter to Democrats and U.S. Rep. John Tierney.
Franck and Walsh have never been fans of the truth. Remember they tried to gin up charges that Paul Ferro, and the Marlborough Republican City Committee illegally coordinated campaign activity. Charges that were thrown out by the Office of Campaign and Political finance.
As we get closer to possible indictments in the probation/ alleged jobs for speakership scandal, expect the Walsh-Frank shiny ball attacks to ratchet up.
This weekend during a commencement address at Lasell College, Senator Scott Brown had the temerity (the nerve! the absolute GALL!) to voice the obvious fact that Beacon Hill under monolithic Democratic rule is suffused with a "go along to get along" attitude that has created a "culture of corruption" in state government.
The Democrats' reaction was fun to watch. From the Herald: "'This is a guy who's starting to see - with his recent missteps - the erosion of his invulnerability as a candidate. That's what this is about,' said Democratic strategist Michael Goldman." Okay...
Or... maybe it's about the huge hole blown in Beacon Hill's cesspool by the ongoing Sal DiMasi trial, through which vast quantities of political sludge and slag are flowing into the street for all to see and smell?
Some of you may remember that back in March John Walsh, the Democratic Chair that lost the Kennedy seat, tweeted someone about taking on Scott Brown. Problem was he forgot to use the direct message function and the world saw the tweet. Which started the affectionately named Walshgate. To quell the rumors Walsh posted the following to his twitter page.
Well last week Walsh went over 1000 and he isn't telling us who he was tweeting. Our friend Adam at Universal Hub is all over the story.
Sometime in the last couple of weeks, Walsh reached 1,000 followers (he was at 1,064 this morning). Now, maybe Walsh has been too busy thinking up ways of calling Charlie Baker a Nazi or something, but he's yet to dish. Crack reporter Gin Dumcius caught up with Walsh after yesterday's debate and reports that when he asked Walsh whom the tweet was for, "he says he isn't saying."
When you start losing progressives in the blogosphere (although UHub is a very non-partisan and fair site) who do you have left John? et tu Adam?
(Really John, you blocked me. How droll. You know I can just put you in a tweetdeck search and see your tweets in real time right. And I can see them if I go to twitter.com/johnewalshdem. Seems pretty childish to me.
Last evening I had the opportunity to be at the Westin Copley Place. I took the picture you see to the left. It is a picture of one of the podiums from which you will speak tomorrow. From that podium you have two choices. You can praise the work of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and your friend Deval Patrick, or you can call on that party to clean up its act. If the party doesn't volunteer to clean up it's act you should ask Attorney General Holder to appoint a Special Prosecutor with powers to investigate Massachusetts State Government. You see Mr. President, the Massachusetts Democratic Party over the past year has shown itself to be one of the most corrupt in the nation. Although you may be used to this sort of corruption being from Chicago and all, we here in Massachusetts still see it for what it is, corruption.
You may be asking yourself, doesn't Massachusetts have an Attorney General? Can't that Attorney General handle corruption probes. Well yes Mr. President we do have an Attorney General, perhaps you've heard of her? Martha Coakley is her name and she is the leading candidate of your party for the Senate Seat left vacant special election caused by the death of Senator Kennedy. I almost forgot, it would have been a vacant seat, but as you know the reason you are here is to pay back Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Democratic Party for having the political courage to once again change election laws to suit your agenda's needs. A little quid pro quo still goes a long way.
Sorry for the digression Mr. President but let's get back to General Coakley. You see instead of focusing on the corruption in this state and rooting it out, General Coakley has been running for Senator Kennedy's seat since he announced his brain cancer. She's been running a secret campaign for the seat for over a year. As part of that campaign the Attorney General has turned a blind eye to the corruption going on all around her. After all, why would she want to upset potential allies by investigating them.
Earlier this month John Walsh tried to say that the change of law to allow Governor Deval Patrick to appoint a Senator differed substantially from that proposed by Republicans in 2004 and 2006. His main point was that it did not prohibit the interim appointment from running in the special election. Well he was wrong.
First and foremost, remember this: NO DEMOCRAT voted in 2004 against the proposal that Senator Kennedy put forward in the days before his death: that Massachusetts voters fill a Senate vacancy via special election, that the governor name an interim Senator to represent our state until voters can make their choice, and that whomever the governor selects not run in the special election. Nor did Democrats vote against the proposal that has been filed for consideration and will be discussed at a hearing on Wednesday.
John Walsh, will you admit you were wrong, and this is all about politics?
John Walsh, aka John from Abington, is trying to spin the bold faced politics being practiced by his party over on Blue Mass Group. His word contortions are nothing if not humorous, consider this gem:
First and foremost, remember this: NO DEMOCRAT voted in 2004 against the proposal that Senator Kennedy put forward in the days before his death: that Massachusetts voters fill a Senate vacancy via special election, that the governor name an interim Senator to represent our state until voters can make their choice, and that whomever the governor selects not run in the special election. Nor did Democrats vote against the proposal that has been filed for consideration and will be discussed at a hearing on Wednesday.
Well gee whiz Mr. Walsh, that's a way to spin it. Nobody voted against the probably unconstitutional provision of barring an interim appointment from seeking office. Nice way to spin that one. Of course a majority of Democrats did vote against allowing an interim appointment, not only in 2004 but also in 2006 as George Peterson(R-Grafton) explains in the video below.
Some quick digging finds the text of HR 50 which was introduced by Representative Lepper of Attleboro in 2005 and voted on in March of 2006.
PETITION -- HOUSE
CHIEF SPONSOR:
Representative Lepper of Attleboro
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill or resolve.
PETITIONERS: LEGISLATOR/CITIZEN
DISTRICT/FULL MAILING ADDRESS
John A. Lepper
2nd Bristol
Scott P. Brown
Norfolk, Bristol, Middlesex
Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
20th Middlesex
Jeffrey Davis Perry
5th Barnstable
Lewis G. Evangelidis
1st Worcester
Susan W. Pope
13th Middlesex
Shirley Gomes
4th Barnstable
Michael J. Coppola
1st Bristol
Elizabeth A. Poirier
14th Bristol
Paul K. Frost
7th Worcester
Seal of the CommonwealthThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND FIVE
An Act RELATIVE TO VACANCIES IN U.S SENATE
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a) of section 140 of chapter 54 of the General Laws as amended by section 6 of chapter 236 of the acts of 2004, is hereby further amended by inserting after the second sentence the following sentence:-
The governor shall appoint a person to serve as senator in congress for the interim period until a successor is sworn and qualified.
Not only did the House Republicans fail in trying to change the law to allow an interim appointment in the politically charged 2004 election season, they also tried in 2006 when there was no impending possibility of a vacancy. The roll call of that vote can be found after the flip.
John Walsh is playing loose and fast with the facts. What else would one expect from the head of one of the most corrupt political organizations in the Nation?
Massachusetts Republican Party Chairwoman, Jennifer Nassour, is not currently accepting a salary & she made such a pledge well known during her candidacy for office.
Perhaps our new MassGOP leader, and former Governor Mitt Romney, are role models for the Massachusetts Democratic Party?! Let me explain!
Today's Boston Herald is reporting that George Barnoski (Somerville) of the Massachusetts Democrat State Committee is calling upon Mass Dem Chair John Walsh & Gov. Deval Patrick to take pay cuts!
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According to today's Taunton Gazette:
Looking forward to 2011, the Massachusetts Republican Party is already starting to organize its efforts to redraw the map of legislative and congressional districts throughout the state.
In Massachusetts, the state legislature has the authority to determine the boundaries of voting districts, but the state Republican Party says it will propose maps of new legislative and congressional districts and be prepared to file civil rights lawsuits to enforce redistricting requirements.
Daniel B. Winslow, the man the GOP picked to head up the redistricting effort, said the party's goal is to ensure the "fair and impartial drawing of district lines that protect the civil rights of minorities and all voters."
ABINGTON - John Walsh, freshly re-elected as chairman of the state Democratic Party, said he believes the party can do better than controlling 90 percent of the Legislature and every constitutional office.
"I anticipate there will be contests in 2010, and we're not shying away from those," the lifelong Abington resident said. "We're anxious to defend our record and our policies and to be aggressive in contesting some Republican seats."
Dont let this happen!
Help us South of Boston, we have a large part of the Republican contingent on the hill.
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October 23, 2009
