Issues in the Senate race

[TomCADem]

Source: Boston Globe

TAXES: Brown opposes President Obama's proposal to tax large financial institutions to recoup taxpayers' investment in the economic recovery, saying raising taxes will kill jobs. Wants to extend Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers and reduce tax rates across the board.

Coakley supports President Obama's proposal to tax large financial institutions to recoup taxpayers' investment in the economic recovery. Supports letting Bush tax cuts on the top 2 percent of taxpayers expire.

TERRORISM: Brown supports waterboarding to get information from suspected terrorists. Opposes legal representation for alleged terrorists in civilian courts and wants them tried as enemy combatants in military tribunals.

Coakley opposes waterboarding. Supports trials for suspected terrorists in civilian courts, pointing to the consecutive life sentences that shoe bomber Richard Reid is serving after trial in federal court in Boston.



Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/18/issues_in_the_senate_race/

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This is a bit late, but it is nice that the Globe identifies the candidate's positions on the issues a day before the election, so that we know that a Brown victory is a mandate to torture and make the Bush tax cuts to the richest Americans permanent.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It isn't too late.

A significant number of voters decide inside the voting booth. What they read within 24 hours of that moment makes a difference.

[TomCADem]

2. True, But I Find It Pathetic That There Is So Little On Where The Candidates Stand...

...and that this piece by the Boston Globe came out only today, the day before the election.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Depends on your staff and volunteers.

When I volunteered to campaign for a town councilman, I handed out brochures with our position at supermarkets and commuter train stations, prepared to be challenged by or to inform voters. Sounds like this wasn't the strength of this endeavor.

[Mark D.]

4. Boston Globe Innacuracy

"Wants to extend Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers and reduce tax rates across the board."

Lies. Wants to extend them for the top 1%. Bush never significantly cut taxes for the middle class, that is a lie.

Reduce tax rates across the board?

Lies. He and his Republican ilk opposed Obama's budget that included the largest middle-class tax cut in history.

They fail to mention he supports rewarding companies that ship jobs overseas.

Our own state's top newspaper can't get it right?