Massachusetts Update

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Boston – US Senate Candidate Jeff Beatty called out John Kerry for again for ducking an opportunity to address (much less solve) the problems facing Massachusetts voters. Speaking at a candidates forum in Holliston, MA, Beatty pointed to the announcement that Deval Patrick will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention with John Kerry continuing his role as super surrogate to Barack Obama as evidence that the attention of these politicians is on self promotion and not on solving the problems of the Commonwealth. “Gas and food costs are too high, with the price of heating oil two and a half times last year’s price. It’s the middle class that is feeling the squeeze. And where are John Kerry and Deval Patrick during this crisis? On their way to Denver, looking for new jobs and confirming for voters that they are more interested in their own political futures than they are in protecting families and protecting jobs in Massachusetts,” said Jeff Beatty, Republican US Senate nominee, founder of a successful Homeland Security consulting business and former Delta Force Officer. In his speech today and a Human Events OpEd published this week, Beatty pointed to problems that are going unattended here at home -- problems created and piling up while John Kerry and Deval Patrick were supposed to be on the job: “Under Kerry and Patrick, Massachusetts now has one of the nation’s highest property tax burdens, is among the highest in per capita debt, and is one of the few states in the country to be losing population. Now, Governor Patrick is flirting with raising income taxes to wipe away the sins of his Democratic buddies. In short, the Patrick/Kerry movie boils down to a series of broken promises and failed leadership.” Beatty points to evidence, also “piling up”, that Massachusetts voters are now angry enough to turn John Kerry out of office and deliver the Bay State’s 12 electoral votes to John McCain. He spoke about Obama’s primary loss to Hillary Clinton by 15 points, the Question One ballot measure to eliminate state income tax and a recent poll that shows John McCain closing the gap with Obama from 23 to just 9 points. All of this mounting evidence points to what six months ago may have seemed unlikely in Massachusetts - a potential victory for McCain over Obama and a Jeff Beatty win in the US Senate race against John Kerry.