Comments on: Martha Coakley will win, and I’d vote for her

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:12:04 +0000

Jason – see how good we’re getting at seeing the silver lining!? And I’ve already spotted a couple of references to GOP people getting very nervous that Brown is some wolf in sheep’s clothing regarding the conservative agenda. From what little I’ve read, that does seem like a possibility. Who knows.

By: Jason S.

Jason S. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:18:15 +0000

“Jason, I don’t think she was the best candidate ever and I am pretty sure I haven’t suggested that I do.”

You’re right, Jill. You haven’t. If I gave the impression that I was accusing you of thinking Coakley was the best candidate ever, then I apologize.

“Like I wrote somewhere, the best news is that the MA state senate can get someone more progressive than Brown.”

That’s true. There’s also the probability that Brown will be vulnerable in 2012 or 2018. If Coakley had won, we likely would have been stuck with her until she decided to retire.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:22 +0000

Jason, I don’t think she was the best candidate ever and I am pretty sure I haven’t suggested that I do. I tried to highlight how I feel between the two. The reality: 1) I don’t live there so who knows? Maybe if I was there, I’d feel differently. 2) I don’t “not vote.” Which is to say, I always expect to vote and not abstain, skip or otherwise use my vote in a way that I feel doesn’t contribute. Would I protest vote? Maybe – but again, I’m not there.

Like I wrote somewhere, the best news is that the MA state senate can get someone more progressive than Brown.

By: Jason S.

Jason S. — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:09:07 +0000

I'm a life-long Democrat, but I would have been unable to vote for Coakley in good conscience. Her conduct regarding the Amirault case shows her to be unfit for public office.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:07:33 +0000

Jolly – just to be double-sure, I re-read what I edited out of your comment and I stand by it. It’s a nasty name and your allegation tied to that name was simply gratuitous.

I also see that you do in fact appear to have a blog. So seriously, publish that thought and that name for Republicans there. You don’t need to put it here or need me to allow it here.

One of the reasons blogs are wildly popular is because we offer such a variety of tones, even on the same point on the political ideological spectrum. I’m glad that’s the case, but again, it doesn’t mean I have to allow the kind of name-calling on this blog that you showed a preference for in your comment.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on this.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:02:43 +0000

Jolly – that’s your prerogative, this blog is mine. It has my name on it and everything else. Tolerance has nothing to do with the making sure the content here reflects what I approve.

If you want to publish the words you tried to publish on this blog, please, start your own blog.

You are not the commenter whose IP I investigated – the commenter in #4 and #6 is.

I appreciate you voicing your disagreement with my stance on the edited out words you submitted (do you remember what they were? you left me an email that doesn’t work and bounced back to me, so I couldn’t notify you and ask you to change it).

By: Jolly Roger

Jolly Roger — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:55:13 +0000

Editing words that come nowhere near swearing, threatening people…. I hate to agree with the right wing poster here, but I do. I usually see this kind of behavior in their bastions; we of the left tend to be more, uh, tolerant?

There is no need for you to send my info to DHS-I most assuredly will never post, or even read, here again.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:51:07 +0000

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By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:56:15 +0000

@6 I have your IP, I have the name of the employer from which it comes. If you want to keep up what you’re doing, you do so at your own risk. The rules are the same as ever – find another place to voice your parallel universe.

By: The Man

The Man — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:55:07 +0000

I believe I can justify deeming you as inexperienced and thus substantially uninformed regarding issues related to far away Massachusetts. This is especially true as you write like you talk from your Pepper Pike ivory tower, 700 miles west of Boston.

It is obvious your opinions, on this topic, are unworthy of serious consideration. Especially since you have been exclusionary and unjustifiably accusatory of men as you have been making broad generalizations while assuming your chosen narrow minded advocacy role on behalf of women.

You should try to disclose what issues your narrow mind is constantly fixated instead of play acting as if you are omnipresent and thus somehow supremely objective.