Posted on 06/05/2011 3:35:22 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Candidates lob shots during convention
Open season on Scott Brown officially kicked off yesterday with five of the six Democratic candidates seeking to reclaim the “people’s seat” training their sights and barbs squarely on the freshman U.S. senator during speeches at their party’s state convention in Lowell.
“When Ted Kennedy went behind closed doors with lawmakers and lobbyists, he always fought for us,” Bob Massie, the nonprofit executive who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1994, told some 3,000 Democratic delegates gathered on the floor of Tsongas Center. “When Scott Brown goes behind closed door with lawmakers and lobbyists and the Tea Party . . . and all shadowy figures who put him in office, he’s fighting for them.”
While vowing to defend Medicare and Social Security against Republican attacks and battle for social justice and small business, lobbing salvos at Brown was de rigueur for Democratic Senate hopefuls.
Only one candidate, Salem immigration lawyer Marisa DeFranco, refrained from mentioning Brown by name, instead targeting “the right,” whom she accused of waging daily a “war against the people, and the middle class, and the workers, and small business who keep this country running.”
The others, however, launched full-throated assaults on Brown, highlighting his key votes against a summer jobs bill for youths while preserving tax breaks for the country’s big oil companies.
Felix Browne, a spokesman for Brown, who handily defeated state Attorney General Martha Coakley in a special election last year to replace the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, declined to get into a debate over the senator’s record, saying simply: “Senator Brown spent the day in Western Massachusetts helping tornado victims recover from their loss. This is not the time for politics.”
State Rep. Thomas Conroy (D-Wayland), questioned whether Brown was a “worthy successor to Ted Kennedy” and vowed to “devote myself day and night to beating Scott Brown and winning back this seat for the people of Massachusetts.”
First-term Newton Mayor Setti Warren blasted Brown for not representing the “values” of Bay Staters by voting along Republican leadership lines “87 percent of the time.”
“Some say I’m too young, I’m too new, it’s not my time,” declared Warren, a former aide to U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry and President Bill Clinton. “I say that this is exactly the right time to take on the man who held up unemployment benefits for the jobless until millionaires got their tax break,” he continued.
Alan Khazei, founder of City Year, the Boston-based domestic Peace Corps, and a former Senate candidate, criticized Brown.
“We have a senator now who wants to eliminate America’s service programs. Who wants to cut job training . . . who wants to gut the Clean Air Act . . . all while defending the tax cuts of the wealthiest 2 percent,” Khazei said.
Even political neophyte Herb Robinson piled on, telling the delegates that he was the better person to guard the nation from nuclear disaster.
“So, who do you want protecting the safety of Main Street America, a photogenic show-off or an engineer who has to know the difference between hair spray and nuclear fallout?” said the computer programmer from Newton.
>>“When Scott Brown goes behind closed door with lawmakers and lobbyists and the Tea Party . . . and all shadowy figures who put him in office, he’s fighting for them.”
Attention tea partiers: you are shadowy figures acc. to him
>>Salem immigration lawyer Marisa DeFranco
Immigration lawyer...getting new Dems on board.
>>“war against the people, and the middle class, and the workers, and small business who keep this country running.”
Who's for middle class and small businesses, Dems or Republicans? How's Clinton's middle class tax cut working out for everybody? How about Deval Patrick's promised property tax relief?
>>questioned whether Brown was a “worthy successor to Ted Kennedy”
Well no, he HASN'T put a blonde in the pond...
>>winning back this seat
That's right, Massachusetts must have total 100 per cent Dems in office. Having the occasional Republican-even a RINO--can't have that. Why Mass. proudly re-elected Barney Frank, Deval Patrick, John Olver, Ed Markey, Jim McGovern, John "My Wife Does Money Laundering" Tierney...we can't dare put a Republican in office.
>>First-term Newton Mayor Setti Warren blasted Brown for not representing the “values” of Bay Staters by voting along Republican leadership lines “87 percent of the time.”
How are the potholes in Newton, Mr. Mayor? Do you dare spend any time as mayor before suddenly deciding to run for Senator?
>>millionaires got their tax break
Republicans, hang your head in shame :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmyCyxD1lM
Coakley ad
“I’m Martha Coakley and I approved this message”
“Who is Scott Brown, really? A Republican (pix of Bush and Cheney, Limbaugh) Who will vote in lockstep with the
Washington Republicans.”
(So...were they right?)
“Brown even advocates denying emergency room care to
rape victims...In times like these we can’t afford a Republican like Scott Brown”
—
Surprised they didn’t put any swastikas up in the ad...
The little piggies just whine when they do not get their corrupt way....
Start looking for a replacement Massachusetts!
And when have Tea Party folks ever been invited "behind closed doors" with lawmakes and lobbyists? LMAO
If 87% is true then Brown is about as good as we can expect for MA. Because he has let the Republicans down on big issues and is perceived as a RINO by many he probably isn’t going to generate the kind of excitement he did in 2010 and won’t receive as much out of state monetary support. As much as it grieves me to say it we really need to keep this half RINO’s seat. I doubt we can fill that seat with a staunch Republican ever given the extreme liberalism of the NE. But because he won’t get the same support the Dems will probably reclaim that seat in 2012.
A Republican that votes with the Republicans? What a shocker!
Seriously, I’m surprised at the 87%, I thought it would be lower...
He can vote 87% with the Republicans on unimportant issues, and on the remaining 13% important issues against them, and still cause severe damage to our side.
Alternately, he can realize that the Dems will hate him regardless of how much of a RINO he is, and start voting Conservative 100% of the time. Making nice with the Dems buys him nothing, and costs him Republican support.
There they go again showing off their stupidity..Brown won as a Republican so why would he be voting DemocRAT most of the time...
...he came out good and drunk!
I’m sorry to be a silly girl on this but Scott Brown is seriously smoking hot to look at and listen to, every woman and gay is voting for him just to keep his face in the news.
Currently he has a big war chest and is the most popular pol in the state (Brown). However he is on the same ballot as Obama in ‘12 and the Dems will be sure to get their vote out.
YUK! My dinner just came up, eweww! I’m so glad he’s gone and burried.
Brown's 2010 ACU score was 74.
By comparison, Lindsey Grahamnesty’s ACU score for 2010 was 92.
Among key votes, Brown voted:
* Against including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in financial regulatory reform
* Against auditing the Federal Reserve
* for ending debate on S3217 (Financial Regulatory Overhaul)
* for S 510 (Food Safety bill, dramatically increasing power of the FDA)
* for repeal of DADT
* for ratification of START
among the bills scored by ACU.
...five of the six Democratic candidates seeking to reclaim the "people’s seat" training their sights and barbs squarely on the freshman U.S. senator...Oh, definitely let's work for one or more of those six Demwits. They claim (probably accurately) that he votes 87% of the time with the Pubbies, and that's the best we're likely to get out of Massachusetts. Don't like it? Bite it. Or move your ass into Mass and win the seat yourself.
I agree. Even though all of the Congressmen are dems and Boston goes that way, I think a lot of Mass’ liberal dem faction is in the colleges. There are also a lot of nasty looking gerrymandered districts. The 4th, Frank’s district goes from Boston suburbs to the coastline. The 10th was won by a Dem with 46%.
According to Scott Brown’s victory map, the more Republican areas were the solid center, the northeast, and the southeast coasts. The 1st incorporates a large part of the center, but is overwhemled by the west. The southeast is broken into the 3rd, 4th, and 10th allowing Boston suburbs to out-vote the coast.
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