'I Certainly Didn’t Realize That This Was a Rally for Martha'

Memo to GOP candidates across the country. Get the blueprint for the Scott Brown campaign. Right now he's batting 1.000 and may have just finished off the hapless Martha Coakley. I seriously think I have a man-crush on him.

The surging GOP U.S. Senate candidate today slammed his Democratic rival for asking for votes while addressing about 1,000 people at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial breakfast.

State Sen. Scott Brown (R-Wrentham) and Attorney General Martha Coakley began their last full day of campaigning at the annual event, which is sponorsed the United Union Methodist Church and St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church.

The too-close-to-call special U.S. Senate election is tomorrow.

“I certainly didn’t realize that this was a rally for Martha,” said Brown. “I think it’s inappropriate to ask for people’s votes when they’re trying to remember Martin Luther King Jr.”

Coakley was invited by event organizers to speak at the Hynes Convention Center breakfast. Brown sat in the crowd with supporters. He said he was not invited to speak.

We are in the middle of a very close election. I know that people are frustrated. They’re angry. They may be focusing that in many different ways,” Coakley said during her remarks.

“Do not forget they were problems that were not created by, but inherited by our president Barack Obama,” Coakley said.

The state’s political elite are perennial faces at the annual breakfast, which raises money for student scholarships and community programs. King’s son, Martin Luther King III, also attended this year.

Among the crowd were glum Democrats, who have been pressed overdrive in recent days to rescue Coakley from faltering in what has become an unexpectedly close race.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino was grim when asked how the contest is going.

“It’s going,” he said.

She's going, going, gone.