Scott Brown to announce exploratory committee for U.S. Senate run

New Hampshire Union Leader ^ | March 13, 2014 | John DiStaso

[Din Maker]

Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown on Friday will announce he is launching an exploratory committee for a run for the New Hampshire U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

A source close to Brown confirmed the announcement is at hand, and said it will be made in Nashua, where the state Republican Party will begin its two-day Northeast Republican Leadership Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Brown has been flirting with a Senate run in the Granite State for the better part of a year and recently moved full-time to what had been his vacation home in Rye and registered to vote there.

He has been intensifying his comments about the possibility of a run in recent weeks, as Shaheen's camp and the Democrats have been intensifying their attacks on him.

State Democratic Party spokesman Harrell Kirstein reacted to our report on Brown's contributions with this statement:

"Scott Brown is for Scott Brown and the powerful interests that back him, not New Hampshire. So when he gets back from his next trip to Iowa, he'll find himself in a tough Republican Primary against Republicans who are actually from New Hampshire. If he survives that, he'll face an even tougher general election against Jeanne Shaheen, whose common sense leadership makes a difference for New Hampshire and people here know it. New Hampshire isn't going to let Scott Brown and his big oil buddies like the Koch Brothers buy themselves a Senate seat."

[Din Maker]

I for one am not excited about Scott Brown. The only thing his winning the Senate Seat in NH would do would be help get rid of Harry Reid. Otherwise, just another Democrat who calls himself a Republican.

[Vermont Lt]

NH, you can do better.

I thought carpet baggers only went south.

[Diogenesis]

RINO Brown will push out the REAL conservatives
and then either drop out, lose, or win and metamorphose
to a Democrat, just like before.

[Vaquero]

RINO carpetbagger alert.....

[Maceman]

Hey Scott - explore THIS!

[DoodleDawg]

Isn’t there a conservative who actually lives in New Hampshire who can run?

[DoodleDawg]

I thought carpet baggers only went south.

Or west. Maybe Brown should call Liz Cheney and get her take on how successful carpetbagging is?

[staytrue]

If you want to repeal Obamacare, you need 60 in the Senate.

When 2016 rolls around, you may be happy that Scott Brown is Senator number 60.

[cdcdawg]

Maybe he should have actually competed when he was up for re-election in MA. I know that New Hampshire could have done better a couple of decades ago. What about now?

[cotton1706]

Yeah, it’s only mid-March and the election is in November. Thanks for dithering so long before you decided to “explore” a run!

Thank God I don’t have to not vote for this guy anymore. The people of New Hampshire can have him! We’re done! But they should reject him too!!

[staytrue]

“Maybe Brown should call Liz Cheney and get her take on how successful carpetbagging is? “

Liz Cheney took on a well respected republican incumbent in a red state.

Brown is taking on a democrat incumbent in a blue state.

[DoodleDawg]

Liz Cheney was a carpetbagger. Scott Brown would be a carpetbagger. What difference does it make who they’re taking on? The stigma is stil the same.

[Westbrook]

Scott Brown: gun-grabber, pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage.

I won’t vote for him.

I will vote for Testerman in the primary, and I will write-in her name in the general if she loses the primary.

http://testermanforsenate.com/

NO.MORE.RINOS

[jubail]

Yawn

[Din Maker]

I thought carpet baggers only went south.
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Well, if you read my Post #1, you know I’m no Scott Brown fan. But, to his credit, he has had a vacation home in NH for years, on which, he paid taxes. From what I understand, through the years, he spent almost as much time there as he did in MA. Once again, I don’t care for the RINO, but, just sayin’ .

[Din Maker]

The people of New Hampshire can have him! We’re done! But they should reject him too!!
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Wow; Cotton. You said “reject him TOO”..... Are you saying you voted for Elizabeth Warren? God forbid.

[cotton1706]

No. I left my ballot blank. And thousands like me did the same.

I don’t vote for democrats. But I don’t vote for people just because they call themselves republicans either.

Brown thought he could screw us over and then we’d go ahead and vote for him again either because we had nowhere else to go or because the democrat was so horrible. Well, we had news for him! And now he’s out of power and couldn’t get elected dog catcher here in MA!

[woodbutcher1963]

Sure, there are conservatives left in NH, but it is unlikely they could win in a statewide race in NH anymore. NH has changed so much in the last 25 years that a real conservative can not win anymore. This was evidenced in the last governors race here. NH could generally be described now as a libertarian state. The biggest slice of the electorate now considers themselves to be independent. They are the flip/floppers that determine the outcome. Also, there is not anyone who gets statewide recognition currently running against Shaheen. So, we can reelect a democrat OR potentially elect a moderate Republican. The BIG plus for Brown is that the independent women think he is dreamy. Some times you have to chose between the lesser of two evils. Not everybody gets to vote for Ted Cruz.

[Blackirish]

Scott did more damage to Obamacare then Cruz ever did. If you can snatch a blue state from the dims...take it.

[OldPossum]

All I can remember about Scott Brown is how excited some Freepers got when he was running for senator from Massachusetts. And the inevitable let-down they felt when it became obvious that he was not the conservative they thought he was.