Martha Coakley: The Voice for Fat Cats and Corruptocrats

Democrat Martha Coakley is the
voice of the
"little people" the way Ted Kennedy was the voice of
sobriety. If Massachusetts voters want another
privileged liberal who talks a good

"social justice" game while ignoring

public corruption, pocketing gobs of money from
Beltway fat cats and pandering to corporate special
interests, Coakley`s the one.

Coakley, the Bay State`s attorney
general, has campaigned to replace

the late Sen. Kennedy on a law-and-order platform.
But she has consistently turned a blind eye to both.
When a top aide to Boston Mayor Tom Menino was caught
deleting thousands of e-mails in violation of public
records law last fall, Coakley punted. Democrat Menino
was in the middle of a re-election bid; Coakley was
wrapped up in her own senatorial bid.

Instead of expressing any concern
about the City Hall information black hole, Coakley
refused to investigate. She accused her critics of
playing politics:
"(W)e get lots of complaints from folks who are
adversaries who have a particular agenda."[Martha
Coakley cyber-steps Menino controversy,
BostonHerald.com, September 16, 2009]

But who`s got the agenda? After
undertaking Herculean technical efforts to recover the
trashed e-mails, Boston city officials discovered e-mail
fragments related to an ongoing federal probe of

former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson. Wilkerson
attained

national infamy as the lawmaker caught on film
stuffing thousands of dollars of bribes from an FBI
informant
down her bra in exchange for her help securing a
liquor license for a nightclub. She is currently
awaiting federal trial.

Coakley cut an immunity deal with
Wilkerson last year, protecting her from prosecution for
campaign finance violations. But according to the

Boston Herald,
the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance
reported last month that Wilkerson had failed to
comply or only partially complied with 11 of 51
conditions. Coakley allowed Wilkerson to pay a measly
$10,000 fine to avoid any legal action. She has failed
to make those payments, failed to file ordered paperwork
and failed to answer information requests from state
campaign finance officials.

Coakley`s response? Meh. Instead,
she used the power of her office to herald her new,
taxpayer-funded $750,000 cybercrime lab initiative—a
picture-perfect, campaign-ready moment—without an ironic
pause, and has launched a crackdown on ladies` gardening
clubs for failing to file financial disclosure forms
related to their dues and plant sales.

Perhaps if they were in the
lingerie business, they might have gotten a pass. Or if
they had volunteered for Coakley`s campaign.

While she`s a stickler with the
gardeners, Coakley has been mighty sloppy practicing
what she selectively enforces. She has siphoned $25,000
out of her state campaign fund for a poll on her federal
Senate bid; used another $24,000 from her state account
to pay Beltway political consultants advising her on the
Senate campaign; and reportedly used a secret asset sale
pact between her state and federal campaign committees
to use state campaign funds to purchase a fundraising
database, redesign her website and obtain $6,000 worth
of campaign paraphernalia with her Senate logo.

Then there`s Coakley`s relationship
with Massachusetts` corrupt former House Speaker Sal
DiMasi. Bay State records show that Coakley sent annual
donations to the beleaguered Democrat over the past
three years worth just under $1,000. But the obeisance
Coakley has paid to the Democratic machine has been
priceless. Last June, DiMasi was indicted on seven
counts of mail and wire fraud related to pay-for-play
schemes worth tens of thousands of dollars in monthly
payments.
"Where`s Martha?" asked Republican lawmakers.

Coakley let the feds take on the
powerful DiMasi. Only after months of foot-dragging did
Coakley`s AG office initiate an investigation into the
indictments of one of DiMasi`s top cronies, Richard
Vitale, on lobbying and campaign finance crimes.

More recently, Coakley`s
GOP
opponent Scott Brown blew the whistle on campaign
finance shenanigans involving her deep-pocketed
supporters at the SEIU. The radical labor organization,
saddled with nationwide embezzlement scandals and

political thuggery,

is "pulling out
all the stops" for Coakley, and has dumped more
than $200,000 into her campaign for radio ads. In
mid-December, SEIU Local 509, which represents public
employees, sent two e-mails to 7,500 state government
employees at their government e-mail addresses over
public computers endorsing Coakley and urging union
members to vote for her. The use of state resources for
politicking is forbidden under state ethics laws and
subject to both civil and criminal penalties.

Coakley`s office has not responded
to the complaint. She`s probably too busy writing
thank-you notes to all of the fat-cat

lobbyists and donors who threw her a high-priced
fundraiser in Washington, D.C., this week. Host
committee members each raised $10,000 or more for her
coffers. They included representatives from drug
companies, health insurers and hospitals who joined the
Demcare protection racket. (And Coakley has the nerve to
attack

"shadowy
out-of-state organizations" for running ads
supporting Brown.)

Washington is already teeming with
Democratic foxes guarding the Cash for Corruptocrats
henhouse. Isn`t there a nice gardening club in
Massachusetts that can take Coakley in?

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Michelle Malkin

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