Heads-up to Holliston voters
Dirty tricks in local elections
About 30% of my readership lives in my hometown of Holliston, so I thought this would be interesting, especially if you got one of the mail pieces.
In the last two weeks, 300,000 voters in Framingham, Natick, Ashland, Holliston, Medway, Hopkinton, and Franklin have received four different post cards from the state GOP accusing Spilka of voting to protect sexual predators in the schools. It would be a shocking revelation about any public official. It would be especially alarming news about a lawyer and a mother of three who began her professional life as a social worker investigating child abuse and neglect cases, about a lawmaker honored last spring with a “Friend of Children” award by the state Department of Social Services.
It would be, if it were true. It is not.
The mailings, featuring disturbing black-and-white photographs of menacing men and crying children, are as dishonest as they are cynical.
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October 20th, 2004 at 3:57 pm
I received the mailer, and was reminded of the anti-Goldwater ‘Daisy’ ad in 1964.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
http://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/timeline/years/1964b.html