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Lynch could face second progressive opponent
By adamg on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 10:03am
Draft Harmony Wu - Facebook effort to convince Harmony Wu of Needham, who was an Obama organizer, to run against Lynch. Her supporters are heading into the lion's den today - they're planning to collect signatures between 12:30 and 4 p.m. at the Broadway T stop.
Lynch is also opposed by Phil Dunkelbarger, running this time as an independent (ran against Lynch as a Democrat in 2006) and Republican Keith Lepor.
Thanks to Anonymous for pointing her out.
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Thats great news. They will
Thats great news. They will split the moonbat vote.
I've seen this posted before.
I've seen this posted before. Are you mistaken? You do know a "Moonbat" is a derogatory term for a member of the GOP... right? Named after "moonbat" Sun Myung Moon.
Not surprised, but funny none the less that we get another ill informed opinion for a "Conservative". Especially since it won't "split a vote", being a primary and all. But hey, what does this librul "moon-bat" know.
Anyways, I walked down to Broadway and signed up my name to get her on the ballot. Seemed like they had a good number of names too when I was there. They should have had someone at the commons / public garden, it was out of control with people enjoying the day down there.
Oh, and I saw the 3:1'ers out too today, between Gov center and Faneuil Hall. All 25-30 of them! If that's what Lynch is worried about, then he deserves a swift boot out of office this Nov. Surprisingly, their posters were quite mundane for a tea party rally. Still, many were just GOP talking points that had nothing to do with reality or what actually in the damn bill.
Last, Lynch really went to great lengths to make sure his office is inaccessible to the public, didn't he!?
I was going to go see if anything was going down there today and register a complaint in person, but it's at the very end of black falcon terminal. You think the guy that's proud of hailing from Southie's district would have an nice accessible office on Broadway. Nope. He wants to keep the plebs as far away from him as possible. My guess from the location was that nothing was going on.
yesterday
calls to Lynch's South Boston office went directly to voicemail, which was full. Calls to DC rang busy even when You called the Capitol operator and were transferred. Only his Brockton office was answering the phone.
interesting...
i went to high school with Harmony and had no idea what she had been up to. it appears she has been up to quite a bit. i can say that she is (or at least was...) incredibly intelligent and driven. best of luck to Harmony!
Harmony is GREAT!
I was fortunate to get to know Harmony when she was organizing the MetroWest area for Alan Khazei's Senate campaign. She is great and this is very exciting news!
Maybe Lynch is right
I posted this in the earlier thread, but that appears to be dead.
Of course none of us have read the bill, so debating its merits is a sham.
But is it possible that it is such a bloated give-away to the insurance companies, big health combines and Big Pharma as to be repulsive?
It sounds like Lynch might be genuinely repulsed. I also first blanched at the report of his no vote, but when I read his statement it seemed genuinely chagrined and based on principle.
Glenn Greenwald has an interesting piece today on the subject which is congruent with Lynch's statement.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/...
The jist of it:
We might be signing on to a huge subsidy of insurance companies and Big Health which will bankrupt us and which cannot be changed.
I know Obama's presidency might be on the line here, but he and the Dems in Congress have fucked this up so badly they probably deserve to be in this situation.
As an aside, has this Harmony Wu ever had a real job? Give me a break!
has this Harmony Wu ever had
Stephen Lynch's skills as a pipefitter have certainly come in handy as Congressman, don't you think? Lynch is a union rep who got a law degree and ran for congress. He's bought and paid for. I appreciate one thing about Lynch. He didn't pull a Bart Stupak.
Nice little Anonymous sneer at the working class
He was an ironworker, not a pipefitter, but I don't expect you to know the difference, to you he is just one of those guys who happen to, like, really build things. Have you or Harmony ever done anything as practical or useful as building a steel framework to an office building? So yeah, I do think those skills as an ironworker have come in handy as Congressman. Not to mention he was a union leader, lawyer, state representative and state senator before running for Congress.
I'm all for an honest days work
you were the guy disparaging Wu's experience. You can dish it out but you can't take it.
what experience?
Anonymous, you disparaged Lynch's experience as a member of the building trades. It was about an elitist sneer as I've ever seen on a comment thread. If you are indicative of Harmony's supporters, she'll get 243 limousine liberal votes in Needham and nowhere else.
Harmony? She's gone to school, been an "instructor" at Emerson, and been a campaign volunteer.
Not a real full-time job among them. I'll reconsider if she took full-time care of her kids instead of hiring au-pair or day-care help for when she was campaigning for others, but otherwise not qualified for Congress.
You have to admit
not every steelworker makes a good Congressman. I can give you a case in point. Stephen Lynch.
Lynch was wrong on Iraq, wrong on abortion and wrong on health care. In November, we'll find out if the union that got him elected is still behind him.
Credentials to serve in Congress
The preferred qualifications for Congress depend upon the times. The case I will be making in this race is that our times require someone with a business and technical background. The most serious problems facing our nation are economic, financial, and technical. As someone who has owned and run a small business for 25 years, involved in manufacturing capital equipment and international trade, and who previously spent 10 years in the Engineering business, I think I would bring important skills to a deliberative body that's over-populated with Lawyers. Politically, my experience was as a City Councilor-at-Large, where I learned the importance of constituent service.
It won't be easy for me, but I am going to try very hard in this campaign to focus on the positive attributes of my candidacy, and avoid disparaging my opponents. We'll see how well I can do. For more on my background you can check out www.dunk2010.com
Good luck, Dunk.
I give you credit for having the experience and for showing up here.
Lynch is a union rep who got
And we wouldn't want those union activists in Congress, would we? Working people are so over-represented as it is. What we need is more Film Studies instructors. Vote Wu!
Hubris, meet Nemesis
The presumption of someone setting up a "draft me" website, as if she were a stateswoman of long experience instead of a part-time film studies instructor, dilettante campaigner and professional student. And on Facebook, no less. How precious can you get? And her supporters disparage membership in the building trades.
Hubris, meet Nemesis: Southie, Dorchester, Braintree, Bridgewater.
deselby, That's nonsense. He
deselby,
That's nonsense. He was trying to find a way to balk at the House bill that included the public option. Ultimately they forced him to fall in line, but now he's found a talking point in the after math of Brown that he thinks can shield him.
Like man have said, this bill ain't perfect. But looks at the history of healthcare. Every time there's a failure, the problem gets worse, is punted on the next generation, and less can be done because the lobbys get more powerful.
Politics is the art of the possible, not the perfect. Pass the damn bill, and continue working on the problem once the frame work is there. Insuring 30 million new Americans is a huge accomplishment, and will help in the long run to mitigate costs and risk.
Framework is ramshackle
In the end, someone has to pay for this, and a massive transfer from taxpayers to insurance companies is not the way to go.
Maybe if Obama had a bill with clear talking points ready when this all started, instead of letting lobbyists and the feckless Congress write it, things would have gone better. Inept.
Really? With majorities in
Really?
With majorities in both houses of congress, the Dem's biggest hurdle was the Dem's themselves.
Wishing the public option through is nice, but it became apparent very quickly that the support wasn't there. Want to change that? Work to elect more honest dems.
In the mean time, this is the best framework we can do. Scrapping it means punting it 15 years and at a cost of about a trillion dollars to the deficit, and arguably more to the GDP of the country. It might seem like a give away, but remember the gov has been forecast to spend more money if we don't do this down the black hole of health care as it is now.
lights are on, nobody is home
After Lynch announced his health care bill vote, he got killed with phone calls. His Washington Office rang busy constantly, even when you called the switchboard and they connected. His South Boston office went straight to voice mail, which was full. His Brockton office answered but they couldn't answer questions, just take messages. Keep you eyes open for James O'Keefe. He may set up a sting on Lynch, make a video, and publish it on Brietbart.
You mean this Harmony Wu,
You mean this Harmony Wu, from HuffPo?:
There's someone with her fingers on the pulse of Massachusetts....
When was that posted
When was that posted NWhitey?
I would have agreed early in the game too. But then Coakley decided to not run a campaign in any name shape or form for some reason, and Brown ran a absolutely brilliant one.
I'm not a fan of Coakley and didn't want her running because I expected a poor campaign from her, but even I had no idea just how tone death and stupid she ended up being. She apparently would have had a hard time making class president.
I wasn't a fan of Martha Coakley, either,
she seemed rather dull, and she was arrogant and lazy enough so that she didn't do a lick of work for herself, because she though she had the Electorate right in her pocket. Boy was she wrong! The main reason that Scott Brown got elected, with such a huge landslide, however, is because he rode on the coattails of people's (justifiable) anger and frustration with the "Obamacare" healthcare "reform" bill that's about to get passed.
I did a Google search, and it
I did a Google search, and it wasn't too far down the page. Look for Huffington Post, and check the link to her comments.
I predict
Well if we're getting audited on our comments, I predict Lynch will take over 50% in his primary.
As a Dem, I'm Still Voting DUNK!
Just wanted to point out that back in 2006, I thought this DUNK guy (Phil Dunkelbarger) had no chance, and the numbers indicated that I was spot on. But, this time around, take a look at the situation, and what's on the line. Dunkelbarger got roughly 23,000 votes last time out, when he was way outspent, and way understaffed. I was a Lynch Democrat anyway, who thought the guy was just wonderful with constituent services.
Now, everyone is turning on Lynch, cause they found out he was:
1) Way out of touch
2) Never around, never in the community, and never sponsoring any bills
3) Never responded to voters quickly, and never listened
4) Dropped almost all his Union Support
5) Voted NO on Healthcare and YES on the Iraq War
I'm just fed up with "politicians" anyway. DUNK will be a fresh new perspective. They guy's owned his own business, has been out in the REAL WORLD for his whole life, and has had experience getting things done when time was on the line. Throughout my years in the political realm, Dukelbarger (http://www.dunk2010.com) is the only man that I know won't trick me this time around. It's hard to admit, but all these Lynch "career politician types" are good for, is getting paid almost double what I make, for doing a quarter of the work I do every week.
If you're fed up, and you're a Democrat, forget people like Khazei and Wu...they're "community organizers" by trade. Give DUNK a Chance.
Best,
Mark
like Iraqi WMD, he's a
slam DUNK.