Posted on 04/07/2014 5:48:49 AM PDT by cotton1706
Nervous Bay State Dems are scrambling to bolster U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s struggling re-election campaign in New Hampshire — with local top-tier fundraisers and political heavyweights rushing to help her battle Republican Scott Brown.
“It’s all hands on board,” said one top Massachusetts Democrat, who said the former governor is going to need, “a boatload of money,” to fight off Brown. The former Bay State Republican senator is a proven fundraiser and will likely get thousands from third parties looking to topple the Democratic majority in the Senate.
“Everybody feels that Jeanne Shaheen is vulnerable,” said the Dem, who noted that U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Gov. Deval Patrick have offered help. “Her main challenge will be money.”
Shaheen’s team recently brought on Massachusetts-based Democratic fundraiser Jon Patsavos, who has worked for Patrick and U.S. Sen. Edward Markey’s campaigns. The move highlights that Shaheen’s team values the true-blue state — especially as she battles with Brown in the more bipartisan New Hampshire.
Local Democratic heavyweights such as Alan Solomont said the fact that Brown refused to agree to a ban on outside money in the nationally watched campaign means outsider groups will flood the airwaves.
“It’s going to be a tough race, but voters in New Hampshire are too smart to be boondoggled by a lot of money from out of state,” said Solomont, a former top Massachusetts fundraiser who now serves as the dean of the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.
“I’m not doing any fundraising these days, but I’m certainly supporting people I believe in. I’m certainly contributing and I certainly believe in her candidacy,” he said.
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“Last year, in the Massachusetts special Senate election, Ed Markey won the seat with less than 14% of registered voters. Brown probably could have won that race but his standing with the 30-40% who always vote conservatively here were simply too unreliable for him.”
Scott Brown totally screwed us over last year. He got his crony elected to be head of the MA Republican Party by saying that if she wasn’t elected, then he wouldn’t run for the senate against Markey. Then once she was elected, THE VERY NEXT DAY Brown announced he wasn’t running. THEN his crony endorsed and funded Gabe Gomez, who was in third place. And surprise, surprise, Gomez lost to Markey. Brown and his ilk did what they had to to prevent a conservative from getting the senate nomination, to keep the meme going that “conservatives can’t win in New England so we’re not going to even try, we want moderate nominees only because in our distorted reality, moderates win elections (there just isn’t any evidence to speak of)”
NH was much more conservative when Smith won 20 years ago. Now, even conservatives think he is a joke.
Gordon Humphrey probably could not win in NH today either.
The person I would like to see run is our current NH Republican chairwoman Jennifer Horn from Nashua. I think she would have won against Kuster in the general last time. She came in second to Bass in a three way primary battle where the conservative vote was split. Bass is another has been that needs to just go away. Retire to Blatherboro and never be seen again. Horn is a conservative well spoken Tea Party supporter and a mom. She speaks well in public. She was a radio DJ on a local station for years. She is also not bad looking. That does not hurt.
Out of state money is OK for the Dems, but always bad when it is for a Republican. God forbid it is especially bad when it comes from the EVIL KOCH brothers.
Carpetbagger will be the mantra for the dems in this election. It will be repeated over and over. It was OK for Hillary and Bobby Kennedy but not for Brown.
Again, thank you getting Elizabeth Warren elected.
“Again, thank you getting Elizabeth Warren elected.”
Keep pushing that phony line. My vote is my own. And I’m not playing the “lesser of two evils” game. Because it’s a one way street with these moderate and establishment types. They twisted Santorum’s are in 2004 to endorse Specter but Specter was nowhere to be seen in 2006 when Santorum was up for reelection. Lisa Murkowski would not endorse the republican nominee in 2010 and instead ran as an independent with democrat help to keep her seat. Dede Scozzafava endorsed the democrat to prevent a conservative from winning a house seat in New York. Charlie Crist has become a democrat. Lincoln Chafee has become a democrat. Jim Jeffords became an independent to sieze control of the senate from a republican majority. Richard Lugar just endorsed the democrat in Georgia. John Warner just endorsed the democrat in Virginia.
For decades, the establishment types counted on conservatives voting for them because “well, the democrat is worse” but when push comes to shove, in contests between a conservative and a democrat, the establishment types back the democrat because in their eyes, the democrat is the “lesser of two evils.”
I’m not playing the game anymore. Brown didn’t want my vote, didn’t deserve it, and didn’t get it. I am not to blame for Warren getting elected. He is.
That’s great. You should e-mail that to the Brown and Smith Campaigns.
Bet the traditional Democrat ballot-stuffing operation is wheezing into battle one more time.
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I think the “stolen elections” thing is way over-blown. For there to be election fraud, the order has to come down from the higher-ups (like in Chicago). The little ladies at the polling place and in the County Clerk’s Office, are not rigging elections.
great so ya gets Brown who is a terrible RINO poser
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Yeah, but we know who, and what, he is going in. He’s not a back-stabbing, hypocrite b**ch like Mitch McConnell, John McCain and Lindsey Graham. And, with Brown, we get control of the Senate and we get to say goodbye to Dirty Harry Reid.
Apparently you live in NH. Can you tell us how the everyday, average Joe seems to be leaning with regard to Shaheen or her GOP opponents?
Re: Your Post #14: I was thinking the same thing.
“I hate to cede the Senate to the Democrats again, but Scott Brown is his own worst enemy and I think that he is a real long shot in New Hampshire even though the carpetbagger charge is spurious as he apparently has seriously long term family ties there.”
I don’t get why by attempting to oust Shaheen by any means is “ceding” the Senate. Brown is about as good as it gets for a Republican in Commiechusetts or New Hampshire. If he takes out Shaheen, it will simply be a plus, because the ability to retake the Senate doesn’t rest on taking Shaheen out. It pisses me off to listen to these “principled voters” who decide to “show em” who’s boss by staying home and not voting because the “right candidate” isn’t on the ballot.
You shouldn't be surprised, while the donkey is the mascot for the demonRATs, the jackass is the mascot for the purists that would rather lose than compromise.
If our purists had the vote in 1776, there would be no USA because they wouldn't have agreed with slavery, and the RINO's were in favor of slavery, so they would hold their breath and join the british.
Same logic, different times.
So cottonpicker and swamprat and the rest of the purists can scream and holler and denigrate me, but they can't disprove the logic.
I have not heard or seen any recent polls. However, the initial polls that were done 3-6 months ago showed that Brown could/would beat Shaheen in a head to head matchup. Obviously, these were polls that were made public. The paid for scientific polls done for the parties must be showing that Brown could/would win or Brown would not be running.
Shaheen had been a popular governor and relatively popular in the state until recently. This Obamacare vote and support may just kill her career. That is OK with me. Plus her husbands law firm is one of the biggest in the state. I was a potential juror(never picked) on a case his firm won against a pharmaceutical company. The settlement was $20 million. They are part of the problem driving up the cost of healthcare.
I'm for Andy Martin.
Scott Brown can crawl back to MA where he belongs.
Where is Andy Martin from? I have never heard of him.
Sounds very much like Colorado.
My brother lives in NH and would agree with what you’ve said.
The place to push the full on Conservative line is conservative States.
Holding the line is the best we can hope for in NH for now.
Demographically, NH is probably very similar to CO.
I think most NH people want the government to balance the budget, keep the roads paved and mind your own business.
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