…truckloads of signs… one of the union guys holding the Coakley sign, he admitted that his union was paying him $50 to stand and hold the sign.
That is the very definition of astroturfing.
The best part was when he admitted that although he was there because he needed the money, he was voting for Scott!!
Awesome! Even some union members paid to astroturf for Coakley will be voting for Brown!
There couldn’t be a more textbook example of the difference between “astroturf” support (fake grassroots) and true grassroots support than the current state of the Coakley vs. Brown campaigns.
Yesterday Brown raised over $1.3 Million in a truly grassroots fundraising event:

So, where does Coakley go for money? To grassroots? No. To special interest “Fat Cats”:
With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama’s health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night. The invitation is at right (click here for a better view).
Of the 22 names on the host committee–meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley–17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there’s also the political action commitee for Boston Scientific Corporation.
All the leading drug companies have lobbyists on Coakley’s host committee: Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Astra-Zeneca, and more. On the insurance side of things, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana, HealthSouth, and United Health all are represented on the host committee.
The Democrat[ic Socialist]s always like to pretend that they are the “party of the little guy”. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Even back in the 2004 election cycle, I noticed that a site called Fundrace.org really liked to display the “Money Index” when in late 2003 the leaders were:
GrassRoots Index
Who gets small contributions from all over America?
#1 Howard Dean
Devotion Index
Who inspires repeat giving and financial sacrifice?
#1 John Edwards
FatCats Index
Who gets large contributions from the wealthiest Americans?
#1 George W Bush
They didn’t like it when, once the race was just Kerry and Bush, the results were:
GrassRoots Index
Who gets small contributions from all over America?
#1 George W Bush
Devotion Index
Who inspires repeat giving and financial sacrifice?
#1 George W Bush
FatCats Index
Who gets large contributions from the wealthiest Americans?
#1 John F Kerry
Those results didn’t fit their agenda, so they removed the link to that page from the main page (and any other page). But, since I had bookmarked the URL, I could still get to it directly.
Who was beind that? Well, it’s very interesting to see that if you type “www.fundrace.org” in your browser, it now takes you to “http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/”
Isn’t that special?
Democrats don’t really like transparency.
Much has been said about how Obama promised on no less than 8 occasions that all of the healthcare negotiations would be broadcast on C-SPAN. He deceived people into thinking that the Republicans were the ones promoting the interests of Big Pharma and Big Insurance, and he was going to shine the light of transparency on them.
But Obama never intended to keep his C-SPAN promises, because the truth is that Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et. al. are the ones who are truly promoting the interests of Big Pharma and Big Insurance, and they don’t want to shine the light of transparency on themselves. (Coakley’s recent fundraiser with lobbyists from Big Pharma and Big Insurance reveals the truth that Democrats, not Republicans, are the ones working on behalf of the Drug and Insurance companies!)
As I blogged about that back before the 2008 elections, are Democrats “The Party of Regular People?“
No. Democrat[ic Socialist]s are the party that deceptively takes all of their wrong doings and projects them upon “the other guys”, the Republicans.
UPDATES:
Small donor jackpot: Average Scott Brown moneybomb donation was $77.89
Surprise: SEIU places $685,000 ad buy for Coakley
The new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that Brown is ahead by two percentage points among those who are absolutely certain they will vote. A week ago, he trailed by two among those certain to vote.
…Senator John Kerry in an emergency fundraising letter for Coakley today says the race is “a dead heat,”…
The party bosses sent in Michael Meehan to help with messaging. And it didn’t take him long to send a Chicago-style “message”:

And, by her actions, Martha essentially communicated:
“I’m Martha Coakley, and I approve this message”