What a fabulous idea ! I look forward to Marty Lamb coming to my door with them. I'd really like to get a packet. Very creative and it really highlights the economic issue. That's the main one on my mind for sure. I like his ideas and I look forward to hearing more !

I LOVE this!

New gimmick, same tired candidate. Marty, please offer something of substance during this campaign. Many of us in Holliston would be VERY happy to hear new ideas.

Wow! Magic beans! We could all grow that money tree we tell our teen-agers to go pick cash from. Sadly, we all know that it takes more than metaphorical “money seeds” to improve the economy. Carolyn Dykema works tirelessly and has made real, and not imaginary, improvement in the lives of her constituents. We're lucky to have her.

Rep. Dykema and the rest of the Democrats on Beacon Hill have really made MA a beacon for jobs...jobs loss, that is. Just today TDBank announced they are closing the MA call center, due to the high cost of doing business in MA, and moving over 200 jobs to South Carollina. Does this sound familiar? Think Fidelity in Marlborough. Thanks Rep. Dykema for helping to make MA the most expensive state to do business in.

Forbes rates this state as the most anti-business state in the country. We also have the highest underemployment rate in the nation. Dykema has a low rating from the National Federation of Independent Business, meaning she has been anti-business and votes to burden business, raise taxes, and kill jobs. It's a terrible record. Time for Dykema to go.

I think that everything is relative. For example, JKelley sites the Forbes study about Massachusetts being unfriendly to business. The Holliston Economic Development Committee recently found the same thing about Holliston. If Mr. Lamb was truly about being friendly to business wouldn't he have wanted the solar facility on Bullard St? Doesn't he think that Holliston is part of Massachusetts? But Mr. Lamb, rather than practicing what he is preaching, fought against the Bullard St project because it was in his backyard. I'm not saying that the Bullard project was a good one, but I'm saying that consistency is more important than gimmicks and catch phrases.

I think you are confusing the issues. The Bullard St. Solar Power Plant was a zoning issue not a business one. Power Plants should be built in the right zones so as to not negatively affect the health, safety or welfare of the residents - this is why the Planning Board rejected the project. It's helpful to keep the issues clear for those who are not as well informed.

The fact that Massachusetts lost a congressional district speaks volumes. The anti-business climate, tax-aholic legislature and overregulation (bake sale anyone?) are all part of the problem. As for "gimmicks," everyone knows that slogans and so forth are a great way for a non-incumbent and a new face to get known. Lamb represents change and new ideas. One-party states stagnate, and that's what is happening here.

No, I am not confusing the issues. I am very well aware of all of the issues concerning the Bullard project. I actually have a copy of the Zoning Bylaws on the bookshelf next too me. I have it practically memorized. I have a zoning map on a wall in my house. I think that you may not be aware that when a business says that Massachusetts or Holliston is not business friendly the zoning issues ARE a major part of that perception. I agree totally that that was the wrong spot for a solar farm. However, I am not going all over the district claiming that I will create jobs (although I am a small business owner and HAVE created jobs). I don't claim that I will make Massachusetts business friendly and then go and protest a business that wants to open in Holliston.

Michelle, to be "pro-jobs" one has to favor ALL development no matter what? Is that your standard? Unless Lamb pushes for 100% free reign of all industry you call him a hypocrite? Your partisan bias is clear here, ignore common sense, and throw out attacks because you don’t have a leg to stand on based on facts.
Didn't Lamb speak at town meeting in favor of the zoning bylaw amendment which would allow solar power plants? Until this bylaw was passed solar power plants were prohibited. How did your gal Dykema vote? OH, that’s right, she wasn’t there for the vote. We know she favored the commercial energy plant on Bullard Farm, she was very concerned that, in her words, “The State won’t like it if it fails over 7 trees”.

Marty Lamb is real expert when it comes to gimmicks. Barf bags, money plant seeds, that's what we really want from a state rep. No plans, no proposals just cute gimmicks. Rep. Dykema has been working tirelessly for the people of her district since the day she arrived on the hill. She doesn't resort to silly antics she finds out what the issues are and how it will effect the people of her district. There will always be people that disagree, that is human nature. However, snippy & snide comments will serve no one. Rep. Dykema is not solely responsible for the economy of this state. Blaming her for a Canadian bank (TD Bank) closing a call center or Fidelity moving jobs out of Marlboro (which is not in her district) is being absurd. How does Mr. Lamb propose to create jobs? I don't hear any proposals yet only rhetoric and seeds. Mr. Lamb always likes to refer to tax cuts as the answer to everything. Its not. The more taxes are at the Federal level, the more the state has to pick up. When the state cuts taxes, those cost must be borne by local citizens. Unless the local citizens wish to give up local services. In most communities they don't. People need to understand that services cost real money. When you cut local or state government jobs you ADD to the unemployment rate and those that get cut are your neighbors. Good polices help things grow. Taking away funding from programs hurts people. Gimmicks don't work, dedication does.

Instead of seeds, I would like Marty Lamb to produce a comprehensive list of specific regulations that he would eliminate, and connect each regulation empirically to the loss of jobs and to the direct harm of small businesses. It's not enough to proclaim that less regulation and lower taxes is good. You need to state which regulations, lower taxes for whom, and how that will produce good outcomes. He needs to prove that lower taxes lead to more jobs. That might be difficult, because lowering taxes has not done so previously. Our corporations are paying less in taxes than they have in many decades: 12.1% due to loopholes. So...where are the jobs? Massachusetts is "unfriendly" to business, but we have a 6.5% unemployment rate, much better than other states (nationally it is around 8.2%). Perhaps more states should be "unfriendly" to businesses. Seeds are cute, but grown ups require something more specific. Marty? What regulations exactly?

I wish Marty Lamb would denounce corporate welfare and polluting energy sector subsidies. The total tax payer being gobbled up by large influential businesses is one of the reasons for our debt which conservatives blame for the lack of hiring.

Dykema has destroyed the job market in this state. Zeamer is throwing out partisan attacks for no other reason than to cloud over the issue that her candidate and party has destroyed the job market in the state.

It is NOT in Lamb's backyard, it is on the other side of town. Is Ms Zeamer attacking the Bullard Street residents because it is in their back yards, literally?

Is she attacking her husband who sits on the Planning Board as anti-business because he voted against the proposed power plant?

Democrats just can't handle the truth.

Thank you Marty Lamb ! This is great ! I saw one of these packets at my door today. Very creative ! I took notice.I really like the printed message on them. So true !!

Wonderful having these money plant seeds on Mother's Day Weekend ! Thank you ! I am gardening and these will be planted today. It's very thoughtful of you, Mr. Lamb. Thanks for all this effort !

All these false claims about Lamb having no ideas and no plans. Liberal talking points of “Republican stereotypes” don’t fly. Let’s talk reality rather than lies. First, Lamb was one of the founders of New Jobs for Massachusetts, a non-profit working for and proposing pro-job legislation and working with Beacon Hill ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE including the Small Business Caucus. While at New Jobs he has put out proposals on pro-business legislation.

Businesses are fleeing Massachusetts. Costs of doing business are not only the high corporate tax rate but other issues most people are unaware of. EMC moved their entire server operation out of our district to the Carolinas because Massachusetts has one of the highest electric rates in the country! Why you may ask. Because Massachusetts forces a penalty tax on our electric bills to punish the utilities for not using enough “alternative energy sources.” Big bad corporations don’t pay; the consumer does including businesses who consume power.

While I do not know all his specific proposals, I do know by following his Congressional run that he did put out detailed proposals on all his issues. I would expect the same in this run. I look forward to reading his plans as they come out in the next few months.

Maybe Marty Lamb should spend his money on public speaking and forming his words so they canbe understood rather than on seed packets for weeds. His interview with Neil Cavuto still ranks as one of the most absymal in recent political oratory. Dykma is an atrocious representative, but with Lamb as her opposition, she is a shoe-in! She