Posted on 09/13/2022 10:39:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
It’s been quite a political journey for Scott Brown and his family, and that journey could very well come to an end in today’s N.H. 01 GOP primary.
In 2010, Brown pulled off a stunning upset in Massachusetts, winning the Senate seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and ending the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority.
In 2012, he lost the Senate seat to Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
In 2014, he switched states — from Massachusetts to New Hampshire — to challenge Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. He lost, but the issues he used in that campaign’s closing days (immigration, ISIS and Ebola) served as a precursor to Donald Trump’s presidential run the next year.
In 2017, Trump nominated Brown as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, and he served in that post for four years.
And in 2022, wife Gail Huff Brown — a former prominent Boston-area TV news reporter — is running for the GOP nomination in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, where she’s been running ads supporting abortion rights.
And where she appears to be trailing Republicans Matt Mowers and Karoline Leavitt for the right to challenge Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., in the fall.
The potential takeaway from the Brown’s political journey over the last 12 years: They were too conservative for Massachusetts — save for that Tea Party-fueled upset in 2010.
And they maybe weren’t conservative enough to be a Republican in New Hampshire in 2022.
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So I guess Chuck & the Gang REALLY wanted Gail Huff Brown to be the GOP nominee to continue the pantywaistery in Congress (or to make it easier for the Democrat to win). They're all teary-eyed.
I sent him $50 when he won the Ted Kennedy seat. Say what you want but 36 years(or so) was long enough. 2 years later we get Pocahontas. That’s ok. There will be another ambassadorship out there for him.
Isn't that inferring this is where Trump got part of his
platform?
Maybe others see it differently, but I think that's painting
with a very broad bush.
Hogwash!
He wasn’t a hero. He was voted in to stop Obamacare, but the he voted to move it forward. Republican have never forgotten his betrayal. Also, he ran as a phony populist.
“In 2017, Trump nominated Brown as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, and he served in that post for four years.”
Ohhh, plum job.
“Isn’t that inferring this is where Trump got part of his
platform?
Maybe others see it differently, but I think that’s painting
with a very broad bush.
Hogwash!”
Golly gee, those running for office addressing issues of the day like immigration instead of pretend issues of 200 years from now like climate change. What a novelty!
Agreed...
Would prefer Levitt over Mowers.
Uhmmm...
Are you sure?
The Senate passed the original Obamacare bill BEFORE Scott won. Scott Brown won, but the Senate let the interim replacement, Paul Kirk, vote on Obamacare “Reconciliation”.
Remember that the Senate only had 59 votes to pass the Reconciliation Act since Republican Scott Brown replaced Democrat Ted Kennedy. Therefore in order to pass the Act Senate Democrats decided to change the rules. They declared that they could use the “Reconciliation Rule (this is a different “reconciliation” than the House bill). This rule was only supposed to be used for budget item approvals so that such items could be passed with only 51 votes in the Senate, not the usual 60. Reconciliation was never intended to be used for legislation of the magnitude of Obamacare. But that didn’t stop them.
So both of the “Acts” were able to pass both houses of Congress and sent to President Obama for his signature without a single Republican vote in favor of the legislation. The American system of governance was shafted. To quote Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee during the bill process: “We’re making up the rules as we go along.”
Carpetbaggers deserve to lose.
5 commies to write simple agitprop? No wonder their losing.
I campaigned and voted for him, because the alternative was so odious.
Then he did that. Boy, did I ever feel stupid and used. He can pound sand.
Why lie?
Weeks before Brown’s election, the Senate had already passed its version of health care reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, on Dec. 24, 2009, on a 60-39 vote.
The House passed the Senate bill on March 21, 2010. On that same day, the House passed a slew of their own measures in a separate bill, which the Senate passed March 25, 2010, through the filibuster-proof reconciliation process.
His wife wants to kill babies?
I hope she loses BIG.
Obastardcare..like the federal income tax, is unconstitutional.
But he did not vote to pass it.
The democrats did that on their own.
I don’t understand why people are saying he voted for it, to pass it thru, or something like that.
He wasn’t given the opportunity.
100% correct.
Then..Bart “skunk head” Stupak made a stink about it because of the abortion thing.
Skunk Head took a bow after he voted for it-that is after Obastard gave/promised him an EO on the abortion thing. He then took a bow and got to hell out of his district after which Doc Benishek got the seat. Doc Benishek..my former friend who I fought for tooth and nail to get him in.
How is the federal income tax unconstitutional, when the 16th amendment explicitly allows for the federal income tax?
That bill was never reconciled between both houses.
It was deemed passed. If I remember right.
Read up on your history of how rotten that amendment was pushed through and all the SCOTUS rulings before about a federal income tax.
I aint gonna explain it.
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