Posts from — October 2009

WCVB has posted video from Coakley’s appearance on the talk show On The Record.  Despite questioning that was unusually antagonistic and at times misleading, Coakley handled the situation with aplomb and aced the show’s quiz.  [Read more →]

Coakley today issued another in her series of white papers, this one on health care reform.  The report points out that 97% of Massachusetts residents have health insurance, and that as AG, promoting quality health care and protecting consumers from unfair and deceptive insurance company practices has been one of Coakley’s primary goals.  Coakley says that she agrees with the basic elements of bills pending before congress including a strong public option.  Based on her experience in Massachusetts, she proposes that the nation: [Read more →]

Because many small businesses are owned by women, their success is in part a women’s issue, and yet again, the leader on a women’s issue is a female senator.  Olympia Snowe originally proposed many features of the small-business lending plan announced yesterday by President Obama.   Sen. Snowe said: [Read more →]

The Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committee’s only female member, Patty Murray, yesterday spoke to the committee about three bills she has introduced, one of which, S. 1237,  would assist homeless women veterans and homeless veterans with children.  She said: [Read more →]

Cross-posted with permission.

by Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine

A Boston Herald pop culture reporter called Massachusetts attorney general and candidate for the United States Senate a “mean girl” and an “ice queen”. Lauren Beckham Falcone took Martha Coakley to task for dodging a reporter’s question about her campaign finance report. [Read more →]

Yesterday on WWZN Radio, Jeff Santos interviewed  Coakley about the economy. She discussed how community banks could help stimulate job creation in the private sector by making loans available to entrepreneurs and to growing small businesses. After agreeing with her, Santos asked about the public sector, and whether Coakley favors a second stimulus package with more emphasis on stemming increasing job losses. Her response: [Read more →]

This post originally appeared on the blog of the Women’s Campaign Forum, which has endorsed Coakley.  Cross-posted with permission.  The author is WCF Fellow Trish.

Detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, 19 year-old Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. Not only was Ms. Jones deterred from seeking medical treatment under the threat of being fired, she was prevented from justice and due process by a binding contract. That’s right: her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations could only be heard by “private arbitration,” and not in a U.S. court of law. [Read more →]

Yet another example of why we need women’s voices and votes in the senate:  Last week all of the women senators — Democrats and Republicans — came together to vote for an amendment barring use of taxpayer money to pay contractors who require employees to waive their right to sue in the event of workplace rape.  MinnPost quoted Lisa Murkowski as saying: [Read more →]

KennedySeat.com has published a great interview with Coakley that gets beyond boiler-plate issues stances.  Click over and read the entire thing, but here’s an excerpt that particularly interested me: [Read more →]