This disgusting mailer by Coakley has now led to criminal complaint being filed against the Massachusetts Democrat Party:
Republican Scott Brown charged Saturday that a Democratic mailing against his U.S. Senate campaign violates a Massachusetts law prohibiting false statements against a political candidate.
The cover of a four-page mailer sent by the Massachusetts Democratic Party says, ”1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away.”
Brown is a state senator, and in 2005 he filed an amendment that would have allowed workers at religious hospitals or with firmly held religious beliefs to avoid giving emergency contraception to rape victims. The amendment failed, and Brown voted in favor of a bill allowing the contraception. He also voted to override a veto issued by his fellow Republican, then-Gov. Mitt Romney.
A section of the Massachusetts General Laws prohibits false statements against political candidates that are designed or tend ”to aid or to injure or defeat such candidate,” with a penalty of to $1,000 fine and up to six months in prison.
Brown campaign legal counsel Daniel Winslow said, ”People can shade things and spin things, but it has to have some kernel of truth.”
This charge from Coakley’s campaign comes from the same women who protected a child rapist for years. It’s a disgusting, vile story:
…On a day in October 2005, a policeman by the name of Keith Winfield was baby sitting his 23-month-old niece, along with his own two daughters. That afternoon, when the toddler’s grandma picked her up, she discovered that the toddler was crying, but not only that—she also refused to walk. After the grandma took the toddler home, she was more shocked to discover a severe “diaper rash” when she was changing her diaper. Fast forward some hours later, and the toddler’s mom returns home from work: The girl was still crying due to being in continuous pain. At 11PM on the same day, still, when the mom changed the toddler’s diaper once more, she became very startled to discover that the previously alarmingly red area had given way to a situation where her toddler’s genital and anal area were bleeding, and the skin was peeling off, too.
The next morning, the mom took her toddler to her pediatrician who referred her to a hospital, and she would ultimately spend a month in Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston, trying to recover from the rape with a hot, curling iron. As the adult who was in the company of the 23-month-old on the day that her private area’s skin began peeling and bleeding, suspicion naturally fell on the policeman uncle, Keith Winfield. In fact, a statement made on November 7, 2005, by the policeman was incriminating enough that prosecutors used it at Winfield’s trial to show motive for hurting his 23-month-old niece.
Before all this was established during the trial that ultimately led to the conviction of Keith Winfield and his ensuing double-life sentence for child rape of his niece, the victim’s family had to endure massive obstructionism from Coakley’s office because, as Frank Frisoli has asserted, Keith Winfield’s father was a union representative who steered endorsements and donations to Coakley when she was running for AG!
Thanks to obstructionism from Coakley’s office, the poor victim’s family had to endure—on top of the trauma of child rape—months and months of stonewalling on the part of Coakley. Indeed, the foot-dragging from Coakley became so extreme that the victim’s family had to actually get a lawyer to represent them to put pressure on Coakley’s office to file charges against Winfield! Said lawyer was the late Larry Frisoli (now deceased from kidney and liver failure in 2009), and if there’s a good guy in this sordid-but-true tale of a Democrat seemingly protecting a child rapist, it’s him.
On behalf of the poor victim’s mom, Frisoli even had to file applications for criminal complaints in local, district court, precisely because the DA’s office under Coakley’s awful management and “leadership” was obstructing the process of filing charges against Winfield! In fact, Frisoli became so outraged at the miserable conduct of Coakley’s foot-dragging and seeming protecting of Winfield that he even ran against her as a Republican for attorney general, just to force the matter.
Making things even more shockingly worse was the fact that Coakley’s office—despite all the aforementioned facts being delivered to her office by Frisoli in a package—recommended releasing Winfield on no cash bail. Unbelievably, Winfield—the child rapist-policeman who ultimately would be convicted and sentenced to two life sentences for the crime—would walk around freely in MA until December 2007!
So this lady has the gall to make unfounded accusations about Brown, telling voters that he would deny medical treatment for rape victims, but in reality she did all she could to prevent a child rapist from going to jail because the rapists family helped her get into power.
A perfect representative for today’s Democrat party.
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