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NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. - Attorney General Martha Coakley will be guest speaker Tuesday, April 10 at the Membership Breakfast of the Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce.
The breakfast will be at Pleasant Valley Country club, 95 Armsby Road, Sutton, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Cost is $25 for members, $35 for non-members.
To pre-register only, call the Chamber at 508-234-9090 x 100 or register online at http://www.blackstonevalley.org/events.
Re-elected to her second term as attorney general in 2010, Martha Coakley has devoted her career to protecting children and public safety, standing up for consumers and taxpayers, and fighting for equality for all.
Coakley has charted a career as a distinguished prosecutor on the state and federal levels before serving as Middlesex district attorney and now as the Commonwealth’s first female attorney general.
First elected as attorney general in 2006, Coakley quickly confronted the challenge of addressing the economic crisis that gripped the country shortly thereafter. Her office became a national leader in holding Wall Street accountable by bringing first-of-their-kind actions against investment giants such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
During these difficult economic times, Coakley has also successfully worked to reduce costs for consumers and taxpayers and vigorously prosecuted cases of corruption and fraud. During the 2010 fiscal year alone, her office recovered more than $660 million for taxpayers based on her office’s budget of $37 million. Her office has saved families and businesses hundreds of millions of dollars by challenging utility rate increases, and recovered over $100 million in Medicaid fraud prosecutions - a record for the office.
Prior to her election as attorney general, Coakley served for eight years as Middlesex district attorney, the largest county in the Commonwealth.
She is a former president of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts, and has served on the board of directors at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
A native of Western Massachusetts, Coakley received her B.A. degree cum laude from Williams College in 1975, and her J.D. from the Boston University School of Law in 1979.
Coakley resides in Medford with her husband, retired police Deputy Superintendent Thomas F. O’Connor, Jr.
In her spare time, Coakley is an avid reader and enjoys downhill skiing, walking her Labrador retrievers, Jackson and Beau, and kayaking on the Mystic Lakes.
Comments (11)
As a volunteer for the Chamber I will be introducing Attorney General Coakley at breakfast and moderating the Q&A. If anyone would like to submit a question just post it here before 7am on Tuesday with your full name and I will bring it to the breakfast.
The 2010 United States census, has identified large pockets of illegal immigrants living in Massachusetts second tier cities. I think I'll go to the breakfast and ask her as A.G. what she has done to deport these known pockets of illegals?
She was defeated by Karl Rove and all the wealthy right wing Tea Party who funded the campaign of the phony barncoat wearing pickup truck driving Millionaire RINO Scott Brown, while her $$ came from the average voters. She has nothing to be ashamed of, she's a great AG, and he's a Horses A$$.
You have no idea how ignorant your comment is. First off calling Scott Brown a RINO should be an attack reserved for Republicans to claim he is not "one of them". I find it hilarious that Democrats can attack Republicans for being obstructionists and not being bipartisan while at the same time attack them for being......bipartisan? You're calling out the Senator for being backed by wealthy people while claiming Marsha's $$ came from the average voter? Talk about being out of touch. Get a grip!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/lobbyists-hosting-martha-_n_421114.html
She is a very classy women your just all jelous. If you want to ask her questions then make it a point to take a day off.
RE; Classy she is not. She ran the most negative election campaign in the history of history. If she was so classy, she could of run off her own merits. She owns her bad reputation, because she embraced it.
She is yet another example as to why we need to kick the democrats out of power in Boston.
Another politician out of touch....who actually has time to go to an event on a work day at 9:30 in the morning? If I could go, my first question would be,
"Are you planning on doing an investigation into how an illegal alien who gets arrested for a DUI can 1. Get a job, 2. get a license and 3. not be deported while here illegally?"
My gut feeling would be that she would blow off the question...
There are a lot of questions I'd love to ask but unfortunately, I have to work as well.
It's not illegal to be an illegal.....
All I remember about this person, is that she ran the most negative election campaign in history.
What a sad introspective interpretation of a public figure.
Kind of like you Lamp, except maybe the campaign thing, Negative, Negative, Negative!