Records from the Millbury town clerk’s office show McKenna has voted in most elections over the last decade but did not vote in the 2008 presidential primary and the 2000 presidential election.
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p>As you are probably aware this is little reason for Republicans to vote in a presidential election. I’m pretty sure I didn’t vote in 2004. And in the 2008 primary there was little reason to think that Mitt wouldn’t win. On top of that the other guy was John McLame.
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p>Who cares?
stomvsays
There’s US Senate, US House of Rep, state senate, state rep, and a host of other things.
patricksays
The contentious Senate election of 2000 between Ted Kennedy, Jack E. Robinson, and Carla Howell.
stomvsays
so I have no idea which races might have been close. But thanks for (twice in one thread) boiling an election of many public officials down to one (then two) races, as if the rest of democracy ain’t relevant.
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p>Besides which — the odds of any election coming down to one vote is extremely small; it takes chutzpah to ask others to make their one vote for him if he couldn’t be bothered to do it himself 40% of the time.
p>He live in Millbury, a suburb north of Worcester.
somervilletomsays
The fact remains that he demonstrates no commitment to the nuts and bolts of local governance.
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p>I don’t vote in every local election either — I have long practiced a policy of not voting in an election or for an office in which I don’t know the issues, don’t know the candidates, and don’t know the responsibilities of the office. I’m also not running for that office.
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p>I want the candidates I vote for to know something about the office they seek. I want them to demonstrate some commitment to familiarity with and engagement in the process they seek to participate in.
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p>The fact that 25,000 people got mailers from right-wing advocacy groups encouraging them to write in this guy’s name is approximately as valuable as the fact that those same 25,000 people are able to repeat some slogan they heard from Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
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p>I watched the “debate” with Martha Coakley — did you? My take is that the unfamiliarity with the office he displayed in that debate is reflected in his abysmal voting record.
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p>That’s why I think stomv’s observations are right on the money.
Brookline – I was responding to Stomv’s remark that he didn’t know where McKenna lived. It was mildly humorous, as in this instance voters had to know EXACLY where he lived, which is unusual. I was merely answering his implied question about hot GOP races (and there were none in his own neighborhood). Now to respond to your indignation.
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p>Yes, I watched the debate. McKenna is a poor and unpolished debater. He’s never run for office before, and there’s a natural knack to these things as well. Governance and politics are not the same thing, which is why so many people great as speechmaking fail at administering. I’ve met him a few times, and he’s not any more polished as a speaker in small groups. But he is intelligent, accomplished and sincere. We’ll see if the electorate prefers polish and smirking to hesitation and thought.
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p>You are affronted by his failure to vote and say, “I’m also not running for that office.” (italics are yours). The Atty. General was not on the 2008 GOP Primary ballot. And the Atty. General was not on the 2000 ballot at all, as the race was not held that year. So McKenna may actually be AHEAD of you on voting responsibiltiy, as you “practiced a policy of not voting in an election or for an office in which I don’t know the issues, don’t know the candidates, and don’t know the responsibilities of the office”.
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p>And as a point of fact, there was no vast mailing by McKenna or by evil forces on his behalf. His opponent did several, but McKenna depended on local RTC’s and activists to hand stickers out. It worked well.
There’s US Senate, US House of Rep, state senate, state rep, and a host of other things.
magic-dartssays
This guy is a joke. I’d take Jackie Robinson over him any day.
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p>I’m not Martha Coakley’s biggest fan – I voted for Capuano in the US Senate Primary – and I still cringe at the race she ran against Scott Brown. For payback, I blanked her in the Primary, but I am sure as hell voting for her against this clown.
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p>With an active slate of Republicans with wrong values on the ballot this year, it’s our duty to vote the ticket – and make sure we bring our friends to the polls too. This year’s Republican ticket is dimmer than usual.
capnangussays
How many documented cases of keeping innocent people incarcerated does Jim McKenna have under his belt.
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p>Coakley’s repulsive record in this area has led to a Pulitzer Prize being awarded in 1 case & perhaps no doubt a few Academy Awards for another one.
centralmassdadsays
That he is an enthusiastic supporter of gross prosecutorial misconduct, he is the superior candidate, clown or not.
This is your main criticism of the guy?
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p>As you are probably aware this is little reason for Republicans to vote in a presidential election. I’m pretty sure I didn’t vote in 2004. And in the 2008 primary there was little reason to think that Mitt wouldn’t win. On top of that the other guy was John McLame.
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p>Who cares?
There’s US Senate, US House of Rep, state senate, state rep, and a host of other things.
The contentious Senate election of 2000 between Ted Kennedy, Jack E. Robinson, and Carla Howell.
so I have no idea which races might have been close. But thanks for (twice in one thread) boiling an election of many public officials down to one (then two) races, as if the rest of democracy ain’t relevant.
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p>Besides which — the odds of any election coming down to one vote is extremely small; it takes chutzpah to ask others to make their one vote for him if he couldn’t be bothered to do it himself 40% of the time.
You needed the address to write him in!
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p>He live in Millbury, a suburb north of Worcester.
The fact remains that he demonstrates no commitment to the nuts and bolts of local governance.
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p>I don’t vote in every local election either — I have long practiced a policy of not voting in an election or for an office in which I don’t know the issues, don’t know the candidates, and don’t know the responsibilities of the office. I’m also not running for that office.
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p>I want the candidates I vote for to know something about the office they seek. I want them to demonstrate some commitment to familiarity with and engagement in the process they seek to participate in.
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p>The fact that 25,000 people got mailers from right-wing advocacy groups encouraging them to write in this guy’s name is approximately as valuable as the fact that those same 25,000 people are able to repeat some slogan they heard from Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
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p>I watched the “debate” with Martha Coakley — did you? My take is that the unfamiliarity with the office he displayed in that debate is reflected in his abysmal voting record.
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p>That’s why I think stomv’s observations are right on the money.
Brookline – I was responding to Stomv’s remark that he didn’t know where McKenna lived. It was mildly humorous, as in this instance voters had to know EXACLY where he lived, which is unusual. I was merely answering his implied question about hot GOP races (and there were none in his own neighborhood). Now to respond to your indignation.
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p>Yes, I watched the debate. McKenna is a poor and unpolished debater. He’s never run for office before, and there’s a natural knack to these things as well. Governance and politics are not the same thing, which is why so many people great as speechmaking fail at administering. I’ve met him a few times, and he’s not any more polished as a speaker in small groups. But he is intelligent, accomplished and sincere. We’ll see if the electorate prefers polish and smirking to hesitation and thought.
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p>You are affronted by his failure to vote and say, “I’m also not running for that office.” (italics are yours). The Atty. General was not on the 2008 GOP Primary ballot. And the Atty. General was not on the 2000 ballot at all, as the race was not held that year. So McKenna may actually be AHEAD of you on voting responsibiltiy, as you “practiced a policy of not voting in an election or for an office in which I don’t know the issues, don’t know the candidates, and don’t know the responsibilities of the office”.
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p>And as a point of fact, there was no vast mailing by McKenna or by evil forces on his behalf. His opponent did several, but McKenna depended on local RTC’s and activists to hand stickers out. It worked well.
There’s US Senate, US House of Rep, state senate, state rep, and a host of other things.
This guy is a joke. I’d take Jackie Robinson over him any day.
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p>I’m not Martha Coakley’s biggest fan – I voted for Capuano in the US Senate Primary – and I still cringe at the race she ran against Scott Brown. For payback, I blanked her in the Primary, but I am sure as hell voting for her against this clown.
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p>With an active slate of Republicans with wrong values on the ballot this year, it’s our duty to vote the ticket – and make sure we bring our friends to the polls too. This year’s Republican ticket is dimmer than usual.
How many documented cases of keeping innocent people incarcerated does Jim McKenna have under his belt.
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p>Coakley’s repulsive record in this area has led to a Pulitzer Prize being awarded in 1 case & perhaps no doubt a few Academy Awards for another one.
That he is an enthusiastic supporter of gross prosecutorial misconduct, he is the superior candidate, clown or not.
you’re referring to Fells Acres, right?
to what cases are you referring specifically?
There’s a bunch more but here’s some.
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p>Appointing her former law partners as special council to investigate the big dig tunnel collapse
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p>Not prosecuting Officer Keith Winfield for Child Sexual Abuse because his father was a well connected union hack/donor.
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p>Knowingly keeping the Amerault’s locked up long after it became abundantly clear they had been wrongfully accused & convicted.
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p>Refusing to exonerate Kenny Waters in jail for years after DNA proved he was innocent of murder.
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p>Leaving Diane Wilkerson for the feds to deal with so she could remain a good party loyalist.
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p>I guess I’m just a purist but I like my AG’s to put the truth before their political careers.
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I would toss the terms of the probation imposed on Cheryl LaFave as well.
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p>In short, her entire career as a prosecutor seems to have been an effort to provide cover for other Democratic party players.
She’s an evil B#*ch.