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There is no governorship, only Juul

WBUR reports that former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who'd already been doing some consulting for vape maker Juul, is taking a full-time job at the company - pushing the company's assertion that it's doing everything it can to keep young people from e-smoking and that vaping is a great way to get adults off real cigarettes. As AG, Coakley fought for a crackdown on e-cigarette companies.

H/t Liam Sullivan for the headline.

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Maybe she will make friends with that vaping congressman?

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So gross. She just keeps proving the point over and over again that she was un-electable in that Senate race against Scott Brown.
Another sleazy career politician.....

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for people opposed to threats to public health, corporate wrongdoing, etc.?

One that doesn't require them to be a politician with a short job life?

I've heard a lot of complaints about AGs around here, and about revolving doors, but nothing about what their career alternatives are.

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but they don't pay as much as boot-licking does.
That's the rub
She is a lawyer. She could be a public defender. That would be admirable. There is a huge need for those everywhere. However it's not going to buy her a new Benz so....

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she must have realized that no one would ever vote her into a high office and decided to go for the money grab.

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This article notes that "former attorney general." Coakley isn't a public servant anymore. She works in the private sector and she is allowed to seek employment in the private sector. She's a grown-ass woman and she can do what she wants!

"Maura Healey" and "Martha Coakley" are two different people. Like how Dave Chappelle and David LaChapelle are two different people.

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However, it's the kind of move a bad person would make, and she should feel bad about it.

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Croakley has always been a corporate tool. Big Money Contractor screws up, woman is killed? Big money contractor donates much money to Croakley? Hey LETS GO AFTER THE TINY OUT OF STATE COMPANY WHOSE PRODUCT WAS BLATANTLY MISUSED!

This is not new for her at all. She's a hateful opportunistic corporate shill.

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To keep kids on drugs!

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Our pols are such exemplars for our youth. Sal Lammattinnar, Andrea Cabal, Tito Jackson, Mike Ross, Martha Coakley, pushing MJ and ecigs, all of them pushing lotteries and gambling, why the heck can't we legalize prostitution so that fellow Brookliner Bob Craft can get a respectable BJ? Yes, youth, do as they say not as the politicians do.

Always, always, women get the short end of the stick.

No more misogyny, let women profit from Sin as well. At least the sin taxes help us intelligent people of the Brookline's< Newtons, and W suburbs pay less in tax and get subsidized by the low level fools playing scratchies and lottos on the north and south shore and east and west.

#nomoremisogyny
#metoo
#legalizeprostitution

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Thank you Adam

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Stand outside of Fenway Park and smoke cigarettes?

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Pahk.

Sheesh.

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I leave transcription of that dumbass Boston stereotype to dumbass advertising agencies.

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E-cigarettes have really emboldened the "I'm gonna smoke where I want" enthusiasts. Buses, train stations, train cars...go nuts, kid!

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The revolving door between regulators and businesses continues to spin.

Less egregious than the likes of John Boehner going into legalized marijuana after years of enforcing the drug war, but still probably worthy of the woodchippers.

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I guess they needed someone who had expertise in choking.

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"It's not illegal to be illegal to be an e-smoker in Massachusetts." Ex-Attorney General Martha Coakley (D-MA)

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need clean air, and this is more proof

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Unless she's an ex-smoker who used Juul to stop smoking (or is married to one), this is just disgusting. How the mighty have fallen. So many teens are now addicted to nicotine because of Juul and Coakley is going to defend Juul? Despicable.

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I am a 40 year old adult, heavy smoker for nearly 25 years. I tried will power, patches, gums, antidepressants, and I never managed to quit. I decided to try a Juul about a year and a half ago, and I'm now cigarette free for over 8 months. It's been a lifesaver. It will be tragic if Juul is removed from the market entirely. However, I would support it as a by-prescription, or behind-the-counter smoking cessation device (like the lozenges, patches, etc. available at CVS). I'm still addicted to the nicotine, and it's likely that vaping is no better than smoking, but it's been a miracle for me. It truly is an effective smoking cessation device.

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is that this sellout should ruin any chances of a Coakley comeback.

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