Massachusetts Senate Race -- Brown versus Coakley

With so many websites following this race, originally we had decided not to post about the race but the idea that the Democrat Coakley is using Washington lobbyists to raise money made us decide to look into this a little further to see just who were the lobbyists that were involved.

While doing the research we found this from The Washington Examiner's Timothy P Carney:

Coakley in trouble? Pharma and HMO lobbyists to the rescue
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
01/09/10 1:55 PM EST

With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama's health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night. The invitation is here.

Of the 22 names on the host committee--meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley--17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there's also the political action commitee for Boston Scientific Corporation.

All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley's host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.

Read more at Washington Examiner

Looks to us like Coakley and the Democrats are bought and paid for by the drug company and HMO lobbyists in order to get them to vote for Obamacare. If the Drug and HMO Lobby is pushing Obamacare so hard, what is in it for them? Are they going to be able to keep high prices on drugs that you can buy in Canada for much less? Are the HMO's going to make more money with Obamacare? Lobbyists do nothing unless there is money involved. When is the last time anyone saw a lobbyists do what is best for Americans not their bottom line?

We also found this gem on You Tube (below) about the Coakley Fundraiser with Lobbyists. Can you imagine what would happen if a Republican would have done this. All the major media outlets would be asking them to drop out of the race. Double standard once again is alive and well as another Democrat, this time the MA Attorney General Coakley looks to be bought and paid for by campaign contributions.

Masschusetts voters can send the democrats and lobbyists a real message by voting for Brown and showing the Democrats they are fed up with the inside the beltway lobbyists making a MA Senator beholding to them for contributions instead of representing the people of MA. If elected, Coakley will be one more Senator with a For Sale sign for all lobbyists to see.

This You Tube smacks of arrogance by a lobbyist saying that DC wouldn't work without them. We know one thing -- we should sure like to see how DC runs WITHOUT lobbyists. We think it would run much better and graft would be much less.

Boggs At Coakley Fundraiser: "Without lobbyists, this town wouldn't work!"

While trying to ask Martha Coakley (D-Mass.) about her statement that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan, Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack is knocked to the ground by a campaign staffer.

After reading the above and seeing the You Tube video of a Coakley staffer pushing a reporter to the groud for asking a question, we wondered who that staffer was and today it all came out.

Coakley aide who roughed up reporter is a Obama admin appointee

Michael P. Meehan, Member, Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Michael P. Meehan currently serves as President of Blue Line Strategic Communications, Inc. and as Senior Vice President at Virilion, a digital media company. For over two decades, Meehan served in senior roles for U.S. Senators John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, two presidential campaigns, two U.S. House offices and congressional campaigns in 25 states. Mr. Meehan earned a B.A. in political science from Bates College.

Here is the video of the Obama appointed staffer who is working for Coakley knocking the reporter to the ground. What kind of people do the Democrats have on their staff today? Once again where is the outrage from the Mainstream Media to this report?

Coakley staffer knocks Weekly Standard reporter to ground