In The News 9/24/08

Dianne Delivers A Recount, And A Sticker Campaign - This Time Without Deval's Support

Warren Buffet Drops $5 Billion In Goldman Sachs

and The NYPost Wonders about Friday's debate TV Ratings

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McCain-Palin Phone Bank Locations

Boston Victory HQ: 145 Tremont St., Boston
5:00-:830pm, Mon-Fri
10:00-6:00pm, Saturday & Sunday
RSVP: (617) 338-2008 jgreene@massgop.com

Plymouth (Victory HQ): 62 Court St., Plymouth (free parking in rear)
5:00-:830pm, Mon-Fri
10:00-6:00pm, Saturday & Sunday
RSVP: 508-747-JOHN (5646) kclarkeson@massgop.com

Springfield (Victory HQ): 1915 Wilbraham Rd (Fresh Acres Plaza, next to Walgreen’s)
5:00-:830pm, Mon-Fri
10:00-6:00pm, Saturday & Sunday
RSVP: 413-782-1010 alamontagne@massgop.com

Methuen (Merrimack County): TA Sullivan Insurance, 369 Merrimack St. Methuen, MA
Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
RSVP: John MacDonald (603) 380-2313 johnformccain@yahoo.com

New Bedford (Bristol County): Shawmut Diner, 943 Shawmut Ave. New Bedford, MA
Every Monday and Tuesday from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
RSVP: Brock Cordeiro (508) 264-1600 BNCordeiro@comcast.net

Quincy: Cedrone Law Offices, 21 Mayor Thomas McGrath Hwy, Suite 306, Quincy, MA
Every Wednesday from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
RSVP: CedroneLaw@aol.com

Beverly (Essex County Victory HQ): 194 Cabot St., Beverly (near the Beverly Depot)
Every Monday and Tuesday from 6-8pm
Every Saturday from 10am-2pm
RSVP: 978-973-4522 BeverlyMassGOP@gmail.com

Sturbridge (Central MA): Southbridge Savings Bank (rear entrance), Main Street, Sturbridge, MA
Every Wednesday from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
RSVP: 413-244-8827 mikevalanzola@charter.net

Westford: Paul Avella Campaign HQ, 3 Meadowview Lane, Westford, MA
Monday-Thursday 6-9pm
RSVP: 617-338-2008 or Alan.S.Rubin@gmail.com

Weymouth: 122 Washington St., Weymouth Landing, MA
Every Tuesday from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
RSVP: 617-338-2008 norfolk4mccain08@gmail.com

Framingham: Framingham, MA
Every Tuesday & Thursday from 7:00pm-9:00pm
RSVP: 508-397-0649 mcgrathed@rcn.com

Michael Graham Tomorrow

The GOP8 will be hosting an event tomorrow with Michael Graham.

To attend, click this link. It's going to be a great event.

McCain Outside Good Morning America In Springfield!

Wherever Good Morning America goes - The Mac Attack will follow...

Jeff Beatty Kicks Off Run Against Kerry

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/09/beatty_takes_ai.html

Republican challenger Jeff Beatty took aim today at US Senator John F. Kerry, chiding him as an "elitist" who is "worried about becoming the secretary of state instead of worrying about the secretaries in our state."

The attack came less than 24 hours after Kerry shook off a primary challenge from Gloucester Lawyer Edward O'Reilly. Beatty, a counter-terrorism consultant and former CIA agent, reached out to the 31 percent of Democratic primary voters who cast ballots for O'Reilly.

"There's a significant number of people, even among the Democratic base, that hard-working base that John Kerry has abandoned in favor of illegal aliens, who are ready to make a change," Beatty said at a lightly attended news conference in front of Financial District office tower that includes offices of the troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae.

Borrowing a line of attack used by Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama, Beatty said voters had had "enough" of the 24-year incumbent.

"We've had enough of a senator who puts special interests ahead of the public interest," Beatty said. "We've had enough of a senator who will go on a five-week paid vacation when citizens in Massachusetts are filling their oil tanks paying nearly twice what they paid last year."

Kerry's re-election campaign dismissed Beatty's attempts to present himself as an ally of blue-collar voters.

"John Kerry has a proven track record of fighting for the interests of everyone in Massachusetts -- secretaries, fishermen, firemen, school teachers -- you name it," spokeswoman Brigid O'Rourke said in an e-mail. "And he’s going to continue fighting for issues that are important to our state for the next six years."

DartmouthGOP Phonebank for Victory!

Here are two mobile photos from the first phone bank here on the south coast for McCain tonight. Special thanks to Phil Paleologos for his diner and Amber Hillman and Brock Cordeiro for their coordination in getting this phone bank operation off the ground (every Mon and Tue night until election night from 5:30-8:30pm.)
Contact boston@johnmccain.com for more info.


UMD College Republicans phone banking for McCain

Scott Brown Event

TED & VALERIE SCHENSNOL
request your presence at a fundraising event
for
SENATOR SCOTT BROWN
with
“Special Guest”
WTKK 96.9 FM RADIO TALK SHOW HOST
and
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
MICHELE McPHEE

SHE WILL DISCUSS HER NEW BOOK - HEARTLESS
a true story about the
Neil Entwistle Murders

Date: Sept. 28, 2008
Time: 6-8 PM
Where: 75 Tilting Rock Road,
Wrentham, MA
Cost: $65.00 per person, $100 per couple

RSVP requested, but not required
To confirm – call
508-384-1358 (Val & Ted)
508-384-6200 (Scott)

Come and enjoy some light refreshments
with friends and meet Sen. Brown and
Michele

The first 100 guests will receive an
autographed copy of Michele’s best-
selling book - Heartless

If you can’t attend, you can still support Sen. Brown
by mailing a check to P.O. Box 566, Wrentham, MA
02093 or go to www.scottbrown4senate.com and
make a payment online.

MANCHESTER GOP CHILI CHOWDER

Question: What is better than Chili Chowder in Manchester on a cool September day?

Answer: Chili Chowder in Manchester on a cool September day with Jay Severin!

SEPTEMBER 27, 6:00-9:00pm

MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTER

$20 per person.

The Community Center is located off Beach Street next to the T Station.

RSVP to gopbythesea@hotmail.com or send check payable to Manchester Republican Town Committee c/o Rich Renehan, 10 Norwood Avenue, Manchester, MA 01944.

New Ad "Lipstick On a Pig"

Palin Bridge To Nowhere?

The Wall Street Journal has this today about Palin's position on the bridge to nowhere.

Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge
By Jim DeMint, Wall Street Journal,
September 10, 2008; Page A15

"But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up." -- Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2008

In politics, words are cheap. What really counts are actions. Democrats and Republicans have talked about fiscal responsibility for years. In reality, both parties have a shameful record of wasting hundreds of billions of tax dollars on pork-barrel projects.

My Senate colleague Barack Obama is now attacking Gov. Sarah Palin over earmarks. Having worked with both John McCain and Mr. Obama on earmarks, and as a recovering earmarker myself, I can tell you that Mrs. Palin's leadership and record of reform stands well above that of Mr. Obama.

Let's compare.

Obama Calls Palin a Pig?

At a rally today, Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a pig.

"You can put lipstick on a pig,... it's still a pig"

You can check out the Obama lipstick pig video here.

UPDATE:
Our very own, Governor Jane Swift has stepped up to defend Sarah Palin against Barack Obama's pig comment.

From Boston.com

Jane Swift went quickly to work this evening as a leader of a brand new "truth squad" defending GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, excoriating Barack Obama for a comment he made while campaigning in Virginia today.

Obama told voters that they shouldn't believe John McCain and Palin's talk about reforming Washington. "You can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said. "It's still a pig."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink," Obama added. "We've had enough of the same old thing."

Republicans took offense, saying that was a personal attack on Palin, who during the GOP convention speech last week, asked delegates if they knew the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull. Pointing to her mouth, she exclaimed, "Lipstick."

Swift told reporters on a conference call that Obama's comment was "disgraceful" and that "he owes Governor Palin an apology."

Challenged about how she could be sure that Obama was referring to Palin, Swift replied, "She's the only one of the four presidential or vice presidential candidates who wears lipstick."

Swift also said Obama's remark was different than McCain comparing Mitt Romney to a pig during their free-for-all before the New Hampshire primary. "Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty -- and the pig likes it," McCain said then.

Swift said Obama's comment was gender-specific.

The Obama campaign, however, pointed out that McCain used the same phrase while criticizing Hillary Clinton's healthcare plan, saying it was the same as the one she pushed as first lady. "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.

The former Massachusetts governor said it's only the latest in a series of offensive comments from Obama and his supporters. She said that after going up against Hillary Clinton in the primaries, Obama's campaign "would have figured out how to respectfully" debate a female candidate.

"This is just the same old low road," Swift said.

Republicans also blasted Obama for describing Palin in Michigan on Monday as a "mother, governor, moose shooter."

The McCain campaign issued a statement today from Walter Morse, co-chairman of New Hampshire Sportsmen for McCain: "What Barack Obama dismisses as a 'moose shooter' we in New Hampshire call a 'sportsman' or a 'moose hunter.' Senator Obama has demonstrated once again that he doesn't understand rural America -- and after suggesting that many of us 'cling' to religion and guns, he also doesn't seem interested in learning. Although the sportsmen's community knows Barack Obama is no friend, this comment reinforces the critical need for hunters and anglers to mobilize behind our allies John McCain and Sarah Palin."

New Beverly GOP Office Grand Opening

This Saturday - Seats Are Being Filled Fast

Jeff Perry = Grassroots

NY Post Endorses John McCain

HE Post today enthusiastically urges the election of Sen. John S. McCain as the 44th president of the United States.

McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakeable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing the nation stand in dramatic contrast to the tissue-paper-thin résumé of his Democratic opponent, freshman Sen. Barack Obama.

McCain has been in Washington for many years now, but he is not of Washington. He knows where the levers of power are located - and how to manipulate them - but he is not controlled by them.

McCain's selection of the charming, but rock-solid, outsider Sarah Palin as his running mate underscores the point.

Neither plays well with others.

And this is an unalloyed asset at a time when special interests - lobbyists, lawyers and organized labor chief among them - wield enormous influence in the nation's capital.

McCain's Democratic opponents, Obama and Sen. Joseph Biden, lead a party constructed of special interests - public-employee unionists in particular.

There are many reasons to support the McCain-Palin ticket. Here are but a few:

* National security: The differences between McCain and Obama are especially stark.

McCain says 9/11 represented a two-decade "failure . . . to respond to . . . a [growing] global terror network." He understood that Iraq is a critical front in the war on terror - and he urged perseverance even in the dark days that preceded the success of "the surge."

Obama backed policies that would have abandoned Iraq to its fate, he bitterly opposed the surge, and once insisted that US forces invade Pakistan in search of Osama bin Laden - seemingly without regard for the potential consequences of attacking a nuclear-armed nation, ally or not.

Regarding a nuclear Iran, McCain has pushed for the strongest possible international sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Obama opposes sanctions.

And, when Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia, threatening a return to the Cold War, McCain reacted with stern disapprobation: "We must remind Russia's leaders that the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world require their respect for the values, stability and peace of that world."

Obama called for UN action - unaware, apparently, that Russia's Security Council veto would have prevented any.

* Taxes: McCain knows that when government absorbs ever-larger shares of national income, the economy suffers.

High tax rates diminish investment, killing jobs and stunting growth.

And while Obama promises tax cuts for "95 percent" of Americans, what he actually is proposing is some $650 billion in tax-credit-driven hikes in entitlement and other spending, to be paid for with heavier imposts across the board, but especially on investment - like a sharply higher capital-gains tax.

This is bad news for the millions of ordinary Americans who own stocks, either personally or through pension funds or who plan someday to sell their homes or other real property.

McCain, wisely, vows to keep capital-gains taxes at 15 percent and to keep the Bush-era tax cuts in place - understanding that new growth will boost revenue, and promising to make up the rest with spending restraint.

And he's called for a one-year freeze on most discretionary spending and an end to pork-barrel giveaways.

* Trade: "I object when Senator Obama and others preach the false virtues of economic isolationism," says McCain - noting that "globalization is an opportunity" for US workers. He adds that while emerging economies like those of China and India are worrisome, the answer is competition informed by education and innovation - not protectionism.

* Energy: On the economic issue most vexing Americans today - energy prices - McCain is aggressive

He is a strong convert to offshore drilling: "We have trillions of dollars' worth of oil and gas reserves in the US at a time we are exporting hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas to buy energy."

He also strongly backs nuclear power - a carbon-free form of energy that America can produce relatively cheaply.

Obama, meanwhile, hews to the Democratic Party line on energy: no nukes, no drilling and no comprehension of the consequences of such policies.

None of this implies an iota of disrespect toward Obama. It took a formidable candidacy to defeat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - a candidacy, by the way, which we strongly supported earlier this year.

And the intelligence, the organizational skills and the ability to communicate that Obama demonstrated from the beginning dramatically underscore the history that is being made by the first African-American to head a major-party presidential ticket.

He should be around for a long time, and we hope that he is.

In the end, though, sound security, economic and energy policies - plus allegiance to principle - are critical to keeping America safe and strong.

On all counts, John McCain and Sarah Palin understand this - and that's why we're in their corner to the finish.

Why We Love Newt

Back from Convention

The Massachusetts delegation had a great time in St. Paul Minneapolis, Minnesota at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Our delegation had supporters of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee and others - but, the delegation voted unanimously for John McCain. It was all about unity and I want to thank our entire delegation!

This picture sums it up - smiles, cheers, and a red sox hat for the McCain Pailin ticket!


Here is a picture of Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, Chairman Torkildsen and State Representative Paul Loscocco.

I saw Jeff Beatty chatting with some of America's bravest and snaped this picture. The security team was fantastic and they really did an amazing job! Jack Roy from Haverhill on the right is a great activists for the GOP!


Jeff Beatty speaking to reporters about the convention and how he will take out John Kerry!


House Minority Leader Brad Jones, volunteering to assemble care packets for the hurricane relief effort. Thank you to Target for donating all the supplies.


Here is Peter Torkildsen with his sleeves rolled up volunteering for the care packages.


Here is Maggie our intern along with Representative deMaced and Loscocco volunteering.

Here is Frank Donatelli, former Chairman of the RNC addressing the Mass delegation.


The Massachusetts post.


Many members of the Massachusetts delegation.

GOP Saves Democrat Flags

Remember the Obama rally at Invesco Field with thousands of American flags? It looks like thousands of flags were tossed in the garbage only to be collected for a McCain rally in Colorado Springs.

According to the Denver Post:

"This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags filled with flags out onto the stage — with dramatic effect, no doubt — and tell the story."

Jack Roy on the Economist!

Jack Roy, a delegate from Haverhill, talks about his experience and why he is a republican.