Coakley targets garden clubs....

[formerlurker]

Martha Coakley plants seed of doubt in gardening clubs
By Hillary Chabot   |   Tuesday, January 12, 2010  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Politics


Photo by AP
Attorney General Martha Coakley’s crackdown on Bay State gardening clubs for failing to file financial disclosure forms has left some green thumbs fearing arrest - and many sore at the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.

Linda Jean Smith, president of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, has been besieged with calls from frightened, angry members after a prickly Jan. 4 letter from Coakley’s office declared many of them were breaking the law for failing to file their financial records for the past four years.

“One club president asked me if she was going to be led away in handcuffs,” said Smith, adding that many members are in nursing homes or in Florida. “These ladies are confused.”

Roughly 100 garden clubs “ranging from 12 to 100 members” got the stern letter last week informing them they need to file four years’ worth of financial records by Feb. 4.

“A lot of them do their bookkeeping with checkbooks. One treasurer doesn’t own a computer,” Smith said. “It isn’t that none of them want to comply. They would be more than happy to do it, if they understood how to.”

The local clubs quietly maintain traffic islands, town halls, libraries and veterans’ hospitals across the state. Most take in about $5,000 to $10,000 a year in annual dues and plant sales, Smith said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1224976&format=text


Which age group has the largest % of voters, especially for a special election where voter turnout is predcted to be an all time low?...... Bueller..... Bueller...... that's right, piss off the elderly.  Her campaign manager should be tarred and feathered.

[miskie]

Its almost as if she is trying to lose now, isn't it ?

Well, If I were to wear some Tin-Foil, it could be said that a Scott Brown victory could be good for Democrat leaders, as they could then turn the anger of their constituents back at the Republicans.

Its very hard to have a scapegoat when the only ones to blame are on your team.

[RightCoast]

As a former masshole and fairly new connecticutter I could really use the humiliating defeat of a state AG going for senate.