Hi Everyone,
Here are more standouts this weekend! Also, the Gloucester
Daily Times has endorsed Scott Brown! I've included the endorsement below.
And many of you know about my
latest project on creating a GOP Women's Coalition here in Massachusetts. I wanted to share with you that the Republican
National Committee co-chair, Jan Larimer, sent out the word to over 60,000 women who
are a part of this growing coalition to volunteer for Scott Brown. These women were encouraged to make phone
calls and travel to Massachusetts to volunter. WOW.
Thank you for ALL your hard work!
Let's get out the vote! Christina
MORE STANDOUTS for SCOTT BROWN:
SATURDAY, JANUARY
16TH 10:00AM-1:00PM
NORTH ANDOVER
Meet in front of North Andover Post Office,
131 Main Street, North Andover
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16TH, 10:00AM-12:00PM
READING
The Reading GOP will be holding signs on Walkers Brook Drive ( near the entrance to Market Basket)
SATURDAY,
JANUARY 16TH 11:00AM-1:00PM
GLOUCESTER
Gather at the Friendly's parking lot located
near Grant Circle (Rt. 128). Bring your own sign and show your support for Scott Brown! FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE
CONTACT PETE FARIEL AT 617 797 6989 (ptfariel@verizon.net) OR LUKE NOBLE AT 978-394-1648 (lukejnoble@yahoo.com)
Gloucester Daily Times Endorsement!
Scott Brown is best choice
for Mass. seat in U.S. Senate
The Times Endorsement
Voters on
Cape Ann and across Massachusetts have a chance Tuesday to vote for change — again.
Let's face it: The optimism that marked the first months of the Obama administration has, within
the past year, devolved into a gnawing unease over the country's future prospects.
Despite hundreds of billions spent on economic "stimulus," the unemployment rate remains in
double digits and some economists are expressing fears of a double-dip recession. Despite the billions spent and thousands
of lives sacrificed to keep terrorists at bay, a known Muslim fanatic very nearly succeeded in blowing up a Detroit-bound
airliner Christmas Day with a bomb sewn in his underwear.
And,
discarding his Inauguration Day pledge to seek consensus on major issues, Obama is pressing the Democratic majority in Congress
to pass a health bill — any bill, apparently — despite still-unanswered questions about its likely cost and effectiveness.
So there is, once again, a need for change — a need to restore some balance
to the debate in Washington and bring a contrarian voice to the all-Democratic Massachusetts delegation. And voters can achieve
that Tuesday by choosing Republican state Sen. Scott Brown as their new U.S. senator.
A vote for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee, is, quite simply, a
vote for more of the same.
While she seeks to link her opponent
to the GOP's radical right wing, it is Coakley who has compromised her independence in order to attract support from the unions,
the family of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and other of the more liberal elements of the Democratic Party in her effort to
pull out what has become an intense, close race.
Meanwhile,
as a former selectman, state representative and now state senator from Wrentham with a 30-year record of military service,
Brown has the experience that would allow him to become an effective voice for moderation and bipartisanship within the halls
of the Capitol.
Coakley has made points locally by taking
up the case of Gloucester fishermen and especially the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction, with a 2009 visit that led her
to join the call for an Inspector General's investigation into federal regulatory and enforcement against the industry.
Yet, during a Wednesday meeting in Salem, Brown not only said he'd support revisiting
and reforming the Magnuson-Stevens Act — the federal legislation that governs New England's and America's fisheries.
He said Magnuson "must be" reopened and reformed.
That
doesn't just show his support for the fishing industry. Perhaps more importantly, shows he's willing to join the current push
by Congressman Barney Frank and John Tierney, both obviously Democrats.
That's the kind of open, refreshing bipartisan approach voters should expect. On the other hand, it's his opponent
who would likely become simply another Bay State politician marching in lockstep with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In contrast to those Democrats
who fervently believe that government should be in charge of everything, Brown has faith in the ability of private enterprise
to get the economy back on the right track.
Unlike Coakley,
he believes terrorists who have declared war on the United States, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, should
be treated as enemy combatants, rather than criminals entitled to expensive "show trials" funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Brown is the kind of Republican — fiscally conservative, but generally
middle-of-the-road on social issues in the Ed Brooke-Bill Weld mold — Massachusetts voters have endorsed in the past
with good results.
He says he's running to give people a
choice. And if elected, he would be on the ballot again in 2012 when Kennedy's six-year term was due to expire.
In this special election, residents of Massachusetts can send a clear message
that the scatterbrained, deficit-fueled approach to problems seen in Washington to date is not the kind of change people voted
for in 2008.
They can do that by electing Scott Brown to
the U.S. Senate.
