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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 10:34 AM Oct 2012

Scott Brown Has Sunk To A New Low - No Wonder He Is Losing

Elizabeth Warren represented the families of people who died from asbestos poisoning, and some of those people agreed to appear in one of her campaign commercials attesting to the good work she did on their behalf. As a result, Scott Brown received a question yesterday from a firefighter while he was campaigning in Taunton, Massachusetts.

During a question and answer session, one firefighter commented that both campaigns are publishing advertisements featuring family members of victims of asbestos-related illness. He asked Brown how Warren gets the victims' family members to go on her commercial.

"A lot of them are paid," Brown said. "We hear that maybe they pay actors. Listen, you can get surrogates and go out and say your thing. We have regular people in our commercials. No one is paid. They are regular folks that reach out to us and say she is full of it."


That was a big mistake on Scott Brown's part. Three family members came out to blast Brown for his insensitivity.

"What Scott Brown said today is so offensive to me and my family after what we went through," Ginny Jackson said. "He's sunk to a new low."

Jackson said going through her husband Sam's sickness and death from mesothelioma was one of the most difficult situations she ever endured.

"Sam and I were childhood sweethearts and we had been together since I was 15 years old," Jackson said. "I came forward in this campaign because Massachusetts voters need to know the truth about what Elizabeth Warren did to help families like mine who were affected by asbestos poisoning, rather than Sen. Brown's misleading attacks."


"Let Scott Brown tell me to my face that I am nothing but a paid actor, and I'll set him straight on what it was like to watch my father suffocate to death," John English said


http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/10/18/93043/375
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Scott Brown Has Sunk To A New Low - No Wonder He Is Losing (Original Post) kpete Oct 2012 OP
We will need new terms to describe how low Brown will go before it is over. FSogol Oct 2012 #1
One word oswaldactedalone Oct 2012 #2
Brownie's sexist attitude toward Warren reminds me of Chipper Chat Oct 2012 #3
Like the little squirrel said " Scock Brown is a GOP Nutsack! Segami Oct 2012 #4

FSogol

(45,488 posts)
1. We will need new terms to describe how low Brown will go before it is over.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 10:36 AM
Oct 2012

Brown is a true in every sense of the word. Why was he ever elected?

oswaldactedalone

(3,491 posts)
2. One word
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 10:52 AM
Oct 2012

Obamacare.

The "astroturf" racists, aka, Tea Party stirred up so much crap about denying Obama the 60 Senate votes to kill the filibuster and vote for Obamacare, that they rallied their fellow racists to the polls, and the Dems didn't show up for the special election.

Chipper Chat

(9,680 posts)
3. Brownie's sexist attitude toward Warren reminds me of
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:13 AM
Oct 2012

Rick Lazio's overconfident sexist treatment of Hillary in the NY Senate debates.

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