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First person report – phone banking for Martha Coakley tonight in Arlington

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The second shift had 15 intrepid callers.  I don’t know how many calls were made – other than lots – but our easy clean pergo floors and quirky floor plan worked quite well.

If as much GOTV energy as I saw tonight was happening all over Massachusetts, then Martha Coakley WILL win.

A little after everyone left, I answered a phone call – a smarmy sounding, insinuating voice started to tell me I could make history and send a message to Washington by voting for Scott Brown.  Whoever recorded that robo-call sounded like the voice for a cartoon villain…anyway, I simply hung up.

ME – I want to make history by sending Martha Coakley, who I believe to be honest, brave, and courageous – and incidentally, a woman – to Washington.

As I told those I called, my support for Martha Coakley is personal.  I know her.  Her raw courage in fighting for her staff when only Middlesex DA and asbestos was discovered in the court house at 40 Thorndike in Cambridge was inspiring – and the way she has always returned phone calls, answered e-mails, and even remembered my son’s name means a lot.

Besides, she has fought a true campaign to rein in abusive mortgage lenders and to hold Wall Street’s financial abusers accountable, something I wish I saw more of on the national level.

GO MARTHA!! NEXT STOP THE SENATE IN WASHINGTON, DC.

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  1. Something like 30 people there this afternoon, a good chunk of the day. I don’t think it would be off to say thousands of calls, maybe over 10K, were made in a single day just from Lowell.

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    p>There were quite a number of people of those who answered who said they were definitely going out to vote. Only got a couple of “voting for another guy” and like two of the “not sure who/if going to vote (for).”

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    p>If turnout is the key, I think there’s some really good news for Coakley.

  2. and will be out bright and early Tuesday to cast my vote for her. As I registered Democrat, I suspect that’s why I have received numerous calls from the campaign, Bill Clinton, and a few others in support of Martha Coakley. OTOH, I haven’t received any calls from the Brown organization. If I did, I’m not sure if I’d keep them on the line, stringing them along, wasting their time (and mine) or just hang up on them.

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