Here is a Piece of Good News..Coakley Wins!
09 December 2009 4:29 pm by Lake Lady
http://www.marthacoakley.com/blog/details/primary-victory
I know you all are aware of this by now but I thought you might enjoy reading her comments on her website.
It seems Cambridge went for Michael Capuano,Obama’s chosen canidate,but Coakley won 47 percent, broadly over the state, in a four way race. Can we hope that the democratic wing of the Democratic party has won one?
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I’ll hope with you, LL
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Me too.
Funny that the candidate without establishment endorsements won. How refreshing.
I tweeted this one last night. Fantastic victory.
Don’t forget, LL, Pelosi backed Capuano, like she did Al Wynn against Donna Edwards. Mind you, friends who know Capuano have good things to say about him, as well as being part of the House Dem caucus. But Pelosi’s 0 for 2; not only because both women won, even if Coakley has another election to win in January, but because Pelosi went against 2 terrific women candidates to further the incumbent/insider racket, with both of them fighting her endorsement off.
Let’s hope that Sestak can bring us another win.
Well if you ask me Taylor that is more good news.
I gotta go watch the local weather,it is fridgidly cold and windy today..hopefully that will be it. K.C. is miserable.
I’m with you LL. Any time Pelosi loses….it’s a win to me.
Re Pelosi, let me just say that her fall in my eyes, talking personally here, is a real loss. Ask anyone who was in the Capitol the day she was sworn in. I flew in, sitting inside an area reserved for certain new media reporting on the event. Busting with pride, I was, finally seeing a woman take that seat.
Pelosi’s abdication as the guardian of women’s civil rights through what she did on Stupak-Pitts, but also the Catholic church being in the room, absolutely did me in. She disgraced herself, the office, as well as sold out women’s civil rights that took us 100 years to gain. I’ll never trust her again with anything, not ever. Mind you, I knew what Obama’s presidency meant to her, but still…
Thanks a lot for this thread, LL. Important.
Taylor, did you really expect more from Pelosi? I have followed her career since I moved to CA in the 1970’s. She always has been a control freak, not trustworthy or ethical, self-absorbed and clearly not one to be crossed.
Good for Coakley. I’m disappointed in Pelosi, too. She should have known better.
Yes Lake Lady is a good day. Coakley did more than win she crushed her nearest competitor. Pelosi is quickly becoming the political kiss of death for primary candidates, zero for two, wow.
Kris while my ring-side seat to California is a little later and lot more southern than yours my disenchantment with Nancy P crystallized when she put impeachment off the table. It was only after that betrayal that I actually looked into her background. How this self-absorbed S.F. socialite became confused with a leading light of Progressive politics is still a mystery to me. Maybe I spent too much time trying to figure out the withers and wherefores of San Diego’s oddball politics to concern myself with what was going on in the far north of the Bay.
I’m only now learning about Zoe Lofgren having just moved up to San Jose two years ago. She is the chairman of the House Ethics comittee, a fact that has lowered my opinion of her dramatically. Still she is not as much fun as car alarm magnet and all around nutcase Daryl Issa from my former stomping grounds.
Thanks for your observations on Pelosi spincity. To take a look at Pelosi’s history would stop anyone from being surprised at her actions now. I loved her 180 on the Public Option today. The woman has no principles at all and certainly no moral compass.
As for Zoe Lofgren, wow, I remember her in local politics. I lived in San Jose from 1974 to 1987 so I remember her quite well.
There is nothing I can say about Daryl Issa that you probably have not said yourself.