Somewhere between 57 and 60 percent of the voters in next month’s Democratic primaries are expected to be women.
To which I say, only 60 percent? If you watch the candidates’ TV spots, you’ll see that the minority gender is an afterthought, a bad dream, “the old boys’ club,” as Marsha Coakley describes them, or should I say us?
The state Democratic Party is turning into the first scene of “Macbeth,” with witches chanting: “Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
Guess who they want to throw into the steaming kettle.
Check out the 30-second spot of Warren Tolman, the chrome dome candidate for attorney general who is running against Maura Healey.
“This is where two women were gunned down at health clinics in Brookline.”
(Cut to the State House) “So this is where I fought to pass the buffer zone law to protect women exercising their right to choose. Now women’s safety is being denied by the Supreme Court.”
The vote was 9-0, including the three leftist females, but don’t let that get in the way of the hurly-burly, as “Macbeth’s” three witches would cackle.
“I’m Warren Tolman and as attorney general, I’ll focus on gun violence, and violence against women … If you endanger women at a health clinic, you’ll be prosecuted.”
Wow! Take that, all you evil men who don’t want to prosecute violent crimes against women.
Tolman is a perennial candidate. It’s easy to run when you’re using OPM — other people’s money. Twelve years ago, the taxpayers were on the hook for his ridiculous campaign for governor. Now it’s the poor dues-paying saps of the AFL-CIO, of which his brother, another hack ex-state senator, serves as president.
Tolman plans to use “Marty money” — what union bucks are now called, since Marty Walsh rode a tidal wave of them to victory in the Boston mayor’s race last year.
Tolman wants to be the next Walsh, or Steve Lynch. But those guys are real union leaders, not the brother of a union hack.
Here’s a bulletin for Tolman. Men — at least those of the white working-class variety — are fading out of the Democratic Party. They were way underrepresented at the party caucuses, and at the state convention. The atmosphere is just not very … “welcoming,” as the moonbats like to say.
The Democrats are very open about their strategy. They’re not just looking for women, they prefer unmarried women. You see, if you have a husband, you are very likely concerned about things like jobs. Employment is not exactly a pressing concern to the EBT classes these candidates are aiming for.
Then there’s Marsha Coakley, and her blasts against “the old boys’ club.”
Don’t take it personally, though. When she was DA, she hired her nephew. When she became AG, she hired her brother-in-law. Her husband’s getting a $7,000-a-month municipal pension. So it’s all a gag. Marsha is a hack’s hack.
There’s only one all-male statewide race this year and that’s lieutenant governor, which in this post-Crash Murray era, is about as worthless as, well, Crash Murray.
The front-runner is Steve Kerrigan. Not only is he gay, he wants to “continue the path of progress and reform begun so ably by Gov. Deval Patrick and Lt. Gov. Tim Murray.”
You can’t say you weren’t warned.
Then there’s Mike Lake, who runs a “nonprofit urban policy group,” whatever that is. He’s been endorsed by Mike Dukakis — the “Dukakiss of death,” as someone said.
The third candidate is Leland Cheung, who was for the decriminalization of heroin before he was against the decriminalization of heroin. He’s from Cambridge, but you probably already figured that out.
Primary day is Sept. 9. I know, you can’t wait.