Coakley supporters cross the line
Over the past few days we’ve received numerous fliers on behalf of the two major-party Senate candidates, Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown. Somehow, though, this one eluded us: a nasty piece of work put out by the Democratic State Committee accusing Brown of wanting to turn away rape victims from hospitals.
The truth about Brown and rape victims is bad enough. Under an amendment Brown unsuccessfully sponsored in the Massachusetts Senate in 2005, hospitals and individual health-care workers would have been allowed to refuse rape victims emergency contraception on the grounds that such contraception amounts to abortion. Brown has waffled on the subject during the past week, and his supporters have ludicrously claimed that insisting health-care workers do their jobs is a form of anti-Catholic discrimination.
But that hardly adds up to this:
1,736 WOMEN WERE RAPED IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 2008. SCOTT BROWN WANTS HOSPITALS TO TURN THEM ALL AWAY.
As I said, the flier was produced not by the Coakley campaign but by the Democratic State Committee. I don’t know whether or not the campaign and the party are legally able to coordinate their efforts. But I think there’s a good chance Coakley didn’t know this was coming.
Should she denounce it? Yes. Will she? Probably not.
On the other hand, it looks like the Brown campaign is going to overplay the hand it’s been dealt. According to an e-mail posted at Red Mass Group, the campaign plans to file a “criminal complaint” about the ad. Sen. Brown, meet Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Then again, I’m not surprised that Brown would take this gift the Democrats have handed him and turn it into another example of his reverence for the Constitution — and his contempt for its actual provisions.
Tags: election, Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Senate
@Scutch: How embarrassing! A white woman — clearly visible and soon-to-be-identified — so out of touch with history, she calls a black man a “Nazi.”
Doesn’t she realize Hitler hated blacks?
Reminds me of that Dave Chappelle skit where he plays a blind black man who is also a KKK leader. Good stuff.
mikeb_1 wrote: “@Fish: There you go again. You love repeating that myth, don’t you?”
b1: Apparently Dr. King’s niece, Dr. Alveda C. King, loves repeating the “myth” too.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/mlk-was-republican-affirmed-niece-dr-alveda-c-king
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@Dan Kennedy: “Somehow I don’t think he would be welcome in today’s Republican Party.”
Don’t be so sure Dan. Dr. King dreamed of a day when blacks wouldn’t be judged by the color of their skin. What makes you think he’d associate with the party of race-based preferences, quotas and affirmative action? The young black Congressman J.C. Watts had it right when he said today’s black leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are little more than “race baiting poverty pimps.”
@O-FISH, that is the funniest thing you’ve ever said.
“Dr.” Alveda King is considered by the family to be a complete joke. She works for the Tocqueville Institution … need I say more?
She uses her familial relationship to MLK Jr. to make claims historians know to be untrue. The family disowned her years ago.
She’s not even a Ph.D. She received an honorary degree and fraudulently claims this gives her the right to call herself a “doctor.”
From my limited Googling, there is no evidence of King’s specific party affiliation, whatever his relatives may claim now.
And aside from this allowing folks to claim him as their own now, perhaps this is as it should be, and is apparently the way King wanted it.
MLK Jr. became a Democrat, while Eldridge Cleaver became a Republican.