Beatty, Kerry duke it out on WTKK in final Senate debate

U.S. Senator John Kerry and challenger Jeff Beatty squared off in their final debate on WTKK FM today. The hour-long debate sharply defined the differences between the candidates, including their positions on:

• abolishing the state income tax: Beatty’s for it, Kerry — surprise, surprise — is against it
• immigration: Beatty supports strong enforcement measures against illegal immigrants, including using asset forfeiture to pay for related prosecution, incarceration and repatriation costs; Kerry gave the same old “enforce the borders” answer;
• term limits:  Beatty thinks the lock that longtime incumbents have on Congress — with some senators serving for 20, 30 and 40 years or more — is not what our Founding Fathers intended, and supports term limits. Now, here’s a shocker! Kerry, a 24-year squatter in the Senate, thinks limiting senators to two or even three six-year terms is a terrible idea!

Here’s hoping that on November 4, the sheeple of Massachusetts wake up and decide to limit John Kerry’s term themselves.

Beatty comes out swinging, nails Kerry on Wall Street cash, Iraq War vote

Last night, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Beatty accomplished something that the local media and Massachusetts voters have failed to do for 24 years: He held John Kerry accountable for his dismal record, slamming the junior senator for voting in favor of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package and for voting for the Iraq War.

Beatty condemned Kerry for taking $19 million in campaign contributions from financial giants like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG execs, then voting to make struggling taxpayers fund the golden parachutes that will keep these 21st-century robber barons in caviar and Dom Perignon for the rest of their naturals. He also called Kerry on his rude demeanor, telling Kerry to “stop laughing — it’s not funny” when Kerry laughed at criticism of his purely political vote on the Iraq War.

View highlights from the Beatty-Kerry matchup at the NECN Web site, and be sure to tune into Part II of Beatty vs. Kerry next Monday, October 27 at 1p.m. , when the candidates go at it again in a radio debate on WTKK 96.9FM.

Jeff Beatty to debate John Kerry Monday at 8 p.m. on NECN

U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Beatty and John Kerry square off in the first of two debates Monday Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. on New England Cable News. After months of stalling, it seems, Sen. Kerry has managed to take time away from his cross-country campaigning for Obama to actually come home to Massachusetts — you remember where that is, right, Sen. Kerry? — to answer to his constituents.

Of course, as rotten luck would have it, the only televised Beatty-Kerry matchup will air opposite the Patriots game on Monday Night Football. Boy, poor Senator Kerry just can’t seem to catch a break, can he? First, Kerry’s 19-minute debate against primary challenger Ed O’Reilly airs on a Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. and now his debate against Beatty goes up against a major primetime sporting event. The cynics among us might even suspect Kerry planned it that way to ensure that as few angry voters tune in as possible.

Kerry has reason to be afraid. No doubt Beatty — a Purple Heart recipient and former FBI and CIA agent –will come out swinging, holding Kerry accountable for his egregious record of taking $19 million in campaign contributions from the same Wall Street giants he voted to have his constituents bail out.

So, let’s review: Kerry — the richest member of Congress – spends 24 years selling his soul to Wall Street bigwigs and Washington lobbyists. When the you-know-what hits the fan, Kerry sells out his constituents again by voting to have struggling taxpayers bail out his millionaire Wall Street cronies. And while other congressmen at least make an effort to solve this financial crisis, Kerry goes traipsing around the country campaigning for a cabinet seat — uh, I mean campaigning for Obama. Yeah, that’s it, Obama.

Be afraid, Sen. Kerry. Be very afraid.

NECN’s debate will be followed by a one-hour radio debate scheduled to air Monday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. on WTKK 96.9 FM. Think Sen. “Cash and Kerry” had anything to do with that time slot?