What Steve Pagliuca and Sonny Bono have in common, plus Women for Coakley, and is Scott Brown a RINO?

Sometimes there is just too much campaign news to get through in the morning. Most of it interesting, some of it old but being reported as if it were fresh (cough...Boston Globe...cough).  Specifically when it comes to TV and radio, it can be a struggle to keep up with links.  I am trying to watch and listen to as much as possible, so that I can clue my loyal readers in on what they should watch/listen to, because I know you probably have even less time than I do.

Still, I am going to miss some things.  For instance, I saw last night that Steve Pagliuca was on Greater Boston with Emily Rooney (or really, I knew about it because he tweeted it).  I went to the website this morning to watch it, and discovered that both Scott Brown and Mike Capuano had already appeared.  My apologies to those camps for not watching them before. If any readers or campaign staffers think I may have missed a key interview or article from the weekend or the previous week, please shoot me an email and let me know.

In the meantime, there is more than enough for you to check out this morning, as we count down the final 14 hours or so until the first FEC reporting deadline:

• Martha Coakley will formally pick up endorsements from several high-profile women and women's groups at the Fairmount Copley this morning. 
• Former U.S. Attorney and acting head of A&F Mike Sullivan will not seek the Republican nomination.   Thanks for checking in Mike, I think we had ruled you out two weeks ago. 
• In a letter to Governor Patrick and Coakley (in her AG roll) Scott Brown demanded that Massachusetts end any business relationships with ACORN, a national organization that has come under heavy fire in Congress. 
• Women for Coakley does a little digging to refute any claims by Capuano that he is best positioned for the Senate due to his service in the House. 
• Scott Brown did a 30 minute interview with the Pundit Review, a WRKO show and podcast, and took calls from listeners. He came under fire a bit from conservative callers, who were determined to find out if he was a RINO (Republican in name only), or if he adhered to conservative principals.  The callers took some convincing but I thought he handled himself well. 
• I assume nobody over at Newsmax would question Brown's conservative credentials, as Blue Mass Group posted an exclusive story this morning reporting that Scott Brown ads have appeared on articles justifying the military takeover of the United States.  May want to rethink that ad buy, Brown Brigade.  
• Another piece over at Women for Coakley takes issue with Stephen Smith's endorsement of Capuano.

And Brian Mooney of the Boston Globe reports that Steve Pagliuca has a spotty voting record.  I feel like I heard that already...

(By the way, as a follow up to my note on Meg Whitman and her voting record, Politico reports that her supporters are using Sonny Bono's example as proof that not voting prior to running for office doesn't mean anything.  I am in favor of any opportunity to use Sonny Bono as an example - Pags should pay attention.)

Speaking of Pags, I did have a chance to watch his sit down with Emily last night (video below).  Key moments:

• On the subject of jobs, Pags brought up the notion of using the Harvard land in Allston to create a collaborative project between the government, businesses, and colleges and universities to develop a research park, similar to the Research Triangle in North Carolina.  He noted that R&D could be completed in Boston and the government could create incentives to have the resulting products developed in Western Mass. 
• Side note: Emily really doesn't like what Harvard has done in Allston.  She called the project, "borderline criminal."  
• Pags elaborated on his Afghan stance, and clearly doesn't believe we can win the war as presently constructed: "If we send more troops in, in three years we're going to be exactly where we are today." 
• Finally, on Romney and his past support of Republicans, Pags continued to point to the friendship of Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch as an example that progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans can work together.