Boston.com – MEDFORD — With a broad smile, Attorney General Martha Coakley walked into Dempsey’s Breakfast & Lunch this morning to greet diners and launch her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor.

“How are you? Martha Coakley,” she said, introducing herself. “Did you have breakfast or are you just having coffee?” Coakley asked Medford resident Peter Antonellis.

The crowd was friendly. Before she came in, Bill Murphy, a Democrat from Medford, was sitting at a table in the diner reading a newspaper.

“I’m going to vote for her,” he said. “Local lady, hard worker.”

After making her way through the diner followed by a handful of TV cameras and a gaggle of reporters, Coakley spoke to the gathered press.

“I think that I am ready to both lead and listen to people in Massachusetts about what they want. I know they want to continue moving the economy forward, giving people economic opportunity, improving our educational system,” she said. “I’m going to do that as governor.”

Coakley said she had learned from her 2010 US Senate special election loss.

“Look, we’ve acknowledged, I’ve acknowledged that we made mistakes on that campaign trail and I’ve learned from that,” Coakley said. “I got right back to work in the AG’s office; I got right back out shaking hands and meeting people in order to run for Attorney General.”

“I know it’s going to be a long hard, primary. I welcome that,” she said of the governor’s race.

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