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| Scott Brown Files Criminal Complaint against Dem Party- CLAIMS DEFAMATION |
| 2010-01-16 |
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Felix Browne January 16, 2010 MEDIA ADVISORY FOR TODAY Dan Winslow, counsel for the Scott Brown for U.S. Senate campaign, will hold a media availability to announce the filing of a criminal complaint against the Massachusetts Democratic Party regarding a recent mailing paid for and sent by the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Winslow will make a statement and take reportersâ questions at MassGOP Headquarters in Boston TODAY at 4:00 PM. Massachusetts GOP Headquarters 85 Merrimac Street, 4th Floor Boston. BOSTON â Republican Senate hopeful Scott Brown has filed a complaint with the State Ethics Commission after a report that a union backing rival Martha Coakley used state resources to urge workers to volunteer for Coakleyâs campaign. The report by FOX25 said the Service Employees International Union used state computers and e-mail addresses to direct state employees to volunteer for Coakley, the Democratic state attorney general. Coakleyâs campaign referred questions to the attorney generalâs office. A spokeswoman said the attorney generalâs office has received the letter from Brownâs attorney and will review it before commenting. The SEIU did not immediately return a call for comment. Republican Scott Brown charged Saturday that a Democratic mailing against his U.S. Senate campaign violates a Massachusetts law prohibiting false statements against a political candidate. The cover of a four-page mailer sent by the Massachusetts Democratic Party says, â1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away.â Brown is a state senator, and in 2005 he filed an amendment that would have allowed workers at religious hospitals or with firmly held religious beliefs to avoid giving emergency contraception to rape victims. The amendment failed, and Brown voted in favor of a bill allowing the contraception. He also voted to override a veto issued by his fellow Republican, then-Gov. Mitt Romney. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #5 Question, What the HELL business does SEIU or UAW or any other union have in supporting or opposing any political candidate or cause? Unions were derived to support and protect their workers from abusive companies right? Yet they have so much corrupting influence in our government that they are replacing the 'people' as the source of the government's power. Take for example Healthcare - The voters were expressly excluded - but the Unions were allowed to participate and dictate the terms. Unions should be banned from participating from the political process - no giving support, no contributions, no 'bundling', nothing. Any 'political' power they derive should be only via their members. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-01-17 00:40 |
| #4 It probably won't get investigated, but at least he's not sitting there and taking it like a lot of Repubs do. (Besides, Coakley doesn't need one more bit of bad publicity...) |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-16 22:40 |
| #3 And who's gonna investigate it? The attorney general? That's a nice little hole card they got up their sleeve... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-01-16 21:07 |
| #2 I'm just glad he is fighting back. This crap has gone on far too long from the left. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-01-16 19:46 |
| #1 SEIU is beginning to show their criminal nature--AGAIN. When is ACORN going to weigh in under different names? And the dead voters mysteriously show up. And Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck appear to vote? And will the Black Panthers show up at the polls with clubs on Tuesday. I sense the voters will wring their "collective" necks if this happens. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-01-16 19:33 |