A Republican Senate upset in Massachusetts?

By Kathleen Parker

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Jan. 19 special election to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat is beginning to resemble the 2008 presidential election, when the "inevitable" Hillary Clinton was overtaken by a surprising phenomenon named Barack Obama.

Only this time, it's a wunderkind from the right overtaking an overconfident woman on the left. Conventional wisdom in Massachusetts has long held that Attorney General Martha Coakley would sail into Kennedy's seat as a natural heiress, without having to stock up on hand sanitizer. She's a liberal Democrat in tune with Kennedy's philosophy and ready to cast her votes accordingly.

But something has happened the past couple of months. State Sen. Scott Brown, a relative pauper when it comes to political spending, has been closing in. While Coakley has been drumming her fingers until fate gets on with it, Brown has been standing on street corners, holding up signs, delivering posters and putting 200,000 miles on his pickup truck.

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Scott Brown on Hannity - Jan. 8th 2010

The Massachusetts Senate race is now a toss up.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Toss up in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Senate race is now a toss up.

Buoyed by a huge advantage with independents and relative disinterest from Democratic voters in the state, Republican Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 48-47.

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Servicemember voting laws reflect changes

Please get this out to your deployed friends overseas, we missed our chance to vote in 2006 while deployed in Kosovo, glad to see the Guard is doing something to improve that broken process.
-Nick

Servicemember voting laws reflect changes

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

One of the bigger changes in the process is that military votersmust send in a federal postcard application – again available at www.fvap.gov -- as soon as possible. "The law has changed and even if they have been getting their absentee ballot automatically they have to register each and every year," Carey pointed out.

Servicemembers also must submit a postcard application each time they move, each time they deploy and each time they redeploy."We're encouraging everyone by Jan. 15 to send in a new federal postcard application," Carey said. Local election officials, he said, are more than happy to deliver balloting materials, but they have to know whereto send them.

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LETTER: Mayor says city cannot support Green Line without more information

From the Medford Transcript;

To the editor:

The following letter was sent by Mayor Michael J. McGlynn to Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian A. Bowles in regards to the Green Line Extension Project Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR):

Please accept this comment letter on the DEIR prepared for the Green Line Extension Project.

The city of Medford has led by example in its support of public transportation and transit oriented development as evidenced by the redevelopment of both the Station’s Landing and River’s Edge projects adjacent to the Wellington Station Orange line.

However, due to the lack of detailed technical analyses, the inability of the State’s Project Director to deliver promises made during this planning process and the insufficiency of mitigation to ameliorate anticipated negative impacts on both residential and commercial properties and therefore the citizens of the city itself, I am prevented from fully embracing the project as proposed at this time.

Be assured that as mayor I support the expansion of public transit service in Medford with the goal of improving air quality and creating transit oriented development. The Green Line Extension originally proposed to the Medford Hillside has the potential of providing benefits in addition to improvement in air quality.

When the Romney Administration proposed substituting other projects for the Green Line, I argued for the project to move ahead and proposed that the project terminus be studied in a DEIR to Mystic Valley Parkway.

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Voting Brown

Since the Medford Transcript has gotten out of the business of printing letters from readers(3 letters posted since November 15th, one from the Mayor), I will again drop my submission here;

Thousands of Massachusetts residents will be coming out to vote for Scott Brown next week because he is a breath of fresh air in this state. They will be voting for Scott Brown because he is an honorable man, a fiscally responsible leader, and an honest broker, a true rarity in a state capital that produces more felons like Galluccio, Marzilli, DeLeo, Finneran, and Demasi than officers and gentlemen like Scott Brown.

But many of us will also be voting for him because of what he is not. Scott Brown is not what Paul Kirk and Martha Coakley most certainly are - purchasable, reliable, lockstep, 60^th votes for Barrack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid on socialized medicine, cap and tax, and every other far left policy that comes before the Senate to be rammed into law against the will of the people for the next 2 years.

Nick McNulty

Medford MA

Medford City Officials Sworn in Sunday Morning

The Medford City Council will remain unchanged in 2010 and 2011. From left: Robert Penta, Michael Marks, Robert Maiocco, Breanna Lungo-Koehn, Fred Dello Russo, Jr., Paul Camuso, and Stephanie Muccini Burke.

InsideMedford.com

Despite the snow, the city’s inauguration went on as planned at City Hall on Sunday morning.

Mayor Michael McGlynn was sworn in for his twelfth consecutive term by state Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Medford resident and candidate for US Senate.

Each of the seven City Councilors- Robert Maiocco, Breanna Lungo-Koehn, Michael Marks, Paul Camuso, Robert Penta, Stephanie Muccini Burke, and Frederick Dello Russo, Jr.- were sworn in for another two-year term by City Clerk Ed Finn.

Four new School Committee members received the oath of office alongside returning veterans Ann Marie Cugno and Paulette Van der Kloot. George Scarpelli, Bill O’Keefe, Sharon Guzik, and John Falco were each sworn in for their first terms as School Committee members.

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