Scott Brown called into my radio show on WCAP right after the election in November. When I asked him what he thought the Massachusetts Republicans need to do in order to win, his answer was short and to the point: “Be pro-choice moderates.”
Scott Brown is right. Gabriel Gomez is neither pro-choice nor moderate, and those are two more reasons he will not win this election. But while we may have every reason in the world to feel confident that Ed Markey will beat Gabriel Gomez, we shouldn’t settle for just that. Gabriel Gomez is going to get a lot of money from anonymous, outside donors who want to buy themselves a United States Senate seat. Millions will roll in and we’ll have no idea where the money is coming from.
So let’s use this election to send a message to the Koch brothers, and to Karl Rove, and to Republicans all across the United States: your money doesn’t work in Massachusetts. Let’s not just send Ed Markey to the United States Senate. Let’s beat Gabriel Gomez so badly that the next Republican, and the next, and the next can’t make the case to outside Big Money that their contributions will help them win, and tell the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove: Your money won’t work in Massachusetts.
Mara Dolan is the host of “Twilight Talk” on WCAP and the Co-Chair of the Policy Committee of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee. Write to MDolan@MaraDolan.com, and follow on Twitter @MaraDolan
Yet another Democratic Party attack on the far right without articulating any coherent lefty point of view. This even lays out a right-wing mode of thought (“deregulation as a way to create jobs”) way more persuasively than any Democratic frame.
When the Tea Party got going, instead of articulating a positive liberal vision, we got nonsense like this. Markey’s not a bad guy. We don’t have to just moan about what a monster Gabriel Gomez is.
…I hope Markey pushes the People’s Pledge every day and twice on Sunday.
The electorate at large is not drawing the bright, clear line between this refusal and Citizen’s United that you do here inside the bubble. In fact, the majority party in Mass. – Unenrolled – doesn’t much care about CU anyway. Brown/Warren worked because both were relative neophytes in the political system, but this isn’t the same situation.
Instead, they look at a candidate who has been collecting liberal PAC and government employee union money since Gerald Ford was President saying to the new guy with no warchest – ‘No! Only I should have outside donations, because my friends have been cooler for decades!’
Just underscores how out of touch he is. C’mon – talk again about how Gomez is just a puppet, using language drafted for you by NARAL!
Dems, Reps, and Inds who are not in the process know something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Plus the People’s Pledge does mean no tv ads paid for by unions for Markey either.
I think his point is that Markey’s had cash rolling in for years, enough to build up a huge war chest. Not super meaningful for him to sign this pledge now, especially considering campaign finance isn’t something that directly affects the day-to-day lives of voters who don’t read Globe articles on page B2 about process.
The people’s pledge doesn’t touch the warchests or prevent interests and PACs on either side from contributing to the campaigns. It prevents groups from running independent ads for this race. Independent ads run in previous House races for Markey have no bearing on this race. I disagree strongly that campaign finance doesn’t affect those not interested in process. Like I said lots of interest has been shown as evidenced by the countless resolutions and petitions from diverse groups calling for the overturn of CU. Also, money has a direct impact on why so many issues in people’s lives are not being adequately addressed.