Posted on 02/03/2010 1:02:37 PM PST by STARWISE
GOP rock star Scott Brown’s victory train rolled into Southie last night where the senator-elect hoisted a frosty beer with a local radio host to live up to one his first campaign promises.
“We made a bet and they said if they endorsed me and I won then we’d have to get together for a few beers,” Brown, a Wrentham Republican, said at The Stadium in South Boston last night. “After it was over, they called and reminded me.”
Brown, who drove himself to the pub in his now-legendary green GMC Canyon truck, turned the beer summit with WAAF [website]-FM (107.3) morning man Greg Hill into a charity event, raising $6,000 for Homes for Our Troops, a Taunton-based charity that builds handicapped-accessible houses for soldiers injured in combat.
In addition to chatting with Hill and his radio sidekicks, Brown sipped a Bud Light draft and talked politics with 10 WAAF raffle winners.
“Politicians tend to lie but here’s Scott Brown and one of the first campaign promises he made and he’s living up to it,” Hill said. “A lot of people are looking at him to go to Washington as a true outsider . . . and my hope is he can go there and really make a difference.”
Of the hoopla surrounding his underdog win to succeed iconic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Brown said, “It’s been fun but at some point the lights are going to dim.”
“I’m humbled and honored to serve the people of Massachusetts and looking forward to getting down there and doing my job,” Brown added.
Brown will be sworn in Feb. 11. (((OOOPS .. moved up to TOMORROW .. Feb. 4th!!!)
LOL.
Real men who still have waistlines *might* drink Lite beer...lol.
LOL ...
He’s on the radio and meeting a lot of people and driving his truck. It’s a good idea to be drinking a light beer.
Did he drink and then drive?
I would think they would have had a Sam Adams Boston Lager.
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