on Martha Coakley, the likely replacement for Ted Kennedy

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Balko on Ted Kennedy's Replacement : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

Perhaps most appalling:

It's probably not surprising, then, that as DA in Middlesex County, Coakley opposed efforts to create an innocence commission in Massachusetts, calling the idea "backward-looking instead of forward-looking." Of course, that's sort of the point -- to find people who have been wrongfully convicted. So far, there have been at least 23 exonerations in Massachusetts, including several in Coakley's home county.

That is a vile attitude for anyone in the criminal justice system to take. She has the typical attitude of prosecutors in caring more about maintaining the illusion of the system's perfection than in making sure the system actually works. With "liberals" like this, who needs conservatives?

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I was reading up on her today, and there are even worse things. Guided the prosecuted and conviction in one of the most famous child care "sex abuse" cases in the country, which turned out to be completely bogus and was eventually (15 yrs) overturned with the judge ripping the prosecutors for the complete disregard for the truth and obvious absurdity of the evidence and charges; to this day refuses to say she was wrong or to apologize for the harm she did.

Refused to prosecute a toddler rape case (police officer raped his 2 yr old niece with a hot curling iron), and when finally was forced to do so did not ask for bail for the defendent, allowing him to roam free for two years until his conviction under another DA. Why? Because the defendents father was a union representative who was helping her collect donations for her campaign for state attorney general. Yet she campaigns as someone who "fights to protect children."

I had my own little run-in with her office calling on her behalf, because my publication didn't have an updated minimum wage law poster in it -- the one that coincidentally included Coakley's new campaign headshot. The reason we didn't have it? Her office hadn't corrected and updated the PDF file provided on their server. It took me two months to get them to finally send the correct print copy, at which point I could see both the cheap-ass "correction" (they just pasted a typed corrected on a strip of paper over the error), and by which time the new poster was finished and posted online. Unfortunately the new PDF, other than the picture, had a new error (the wrong legal statutory cite) and had to be redone AGAIN. In the meantime, Coakley's toady kept pesterin my boss about our poster not being "right."

Great candidate, huh?