Teacher alleges intimidation in advance of Mass. election
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By Andrew W. Griffin
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
January 19, 2010
LAWRENCE, Mass. — Minutes after the polls opened at Guilmette School here in Lawrence, school teacher Diane MacDonald drove up into the parking lot in a car sporing a Scott Brown for Senate bumper sticker in her back window. Stopping her to talk, MacDonald told Oklahoma Watchdog that for over a week she had been blasted with emails from her teacher’s union telling her and other teachers to be sure and vote for Democrat Martha Coakley.
Pointing to her Brown sticker, MacDonald smiled and said, “I’m really in enemy territory being a school teacher.” Noting the pro-Coakley email blasts from her union, MacDonald added: “They are using school computers to send out those emails. That’s illegal.”
MacDonald said that while “you can’t do that,” referring to using public computers to send partisan messages, she said that she’d be looking for trouble by responding.
Still, other teachers have whispered to MacDonald that they are supportive of Brown but are afraid to voice their opinions publicly.
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12:27 pm on January 19th, 2010
Great to see you on the ground there. Keep up the good work. Funny how public property computeter get used improperly all over the country by that party that for the little guy, as long as you do exactly as you are told.
1:30 pm on January 20th, 2010
Andrew,
Great coverage of this story. Good to see you had a chance to get the story via your own “Boots On The Ground.”
It’s even more refreshing to see the status quo efforts up to and including using public school computers to campaign for U.S. Senate Seats will NOT go un-noticed and that this effort by candidate Coakley’s desperate functionaries backfired on them – miserably.
We’ll be reviewing this story and your continued success with getting your work posted on websites such as infowars.com, prisonplanet.com and whatreallyhappened.com,
Keep up the great work you do Andrew !