Friday, June 15, 2012
Is the Brown-Warren race all style, no substance?
“It’s about nothing. Warren wants to talk about her father’s janitorial job, and Brown is all about if he can make a half-court shot. Let’s get serious.’’ That's what Democratic media strategist Dan Payne told the Boston Globe about the nationally-watched U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Scott Brown and Democrat challenger Elizabeth Warren. The Globe reported Friday that Payne and other state political experts -- on both sides of the aisle -- are seeing a "lack of an elevated policy debate" in both campaigns. Along with the the pundits, the Globe pointed to ads for both candidates; Brown's "often laced with nostalgic comments on Boston sports" commercials, and Warren's mostly biographical ads. Both candidates defended their …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
It’s been an interesting week in the U.S. Senate Race between Democrat Elizabeth Warren and incumbent Republican Scott Brown.
First it was revealed that Harvard University once touted Warren’s marginal Native American heritage as proof of their faculty’s diversity. That story was followed up with another revealing one that Warren had listed herself as a minority professor between 1986 and 1995 in the Association of American Law Schools desk book, a major reference for legal professors. On Tuesday it was revealed that Brown, who ran for office vowing to kill President Obama’s health care law (and who has since voted three times to repeal it) took advantage of a key provision in it: the provision that allows him to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan. Meanwhile, both candidates downplayed their wealth this week as they revealed their …
Friday, March 2, 2012
"Rush Limbaugh's comments are reprehensible. He should apologize." -Scott Brown via Twitter
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown took to Twitter today to speak out against comments Rush Limbaugh made to a woman denied the right to speak at a controversial contraception hearing Wednesday. "Rush Limbaugh's comments are reprehensible," Brown said, via Twitter Friday afternoon. "He should apologize." Limbaugh used a derogetory remark and referred to Sandra Fluke as a prostitute during his radio show Wednesday, according to the Huffington Post. "What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her?" Limbaugh said. "It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute." Brown, a Republican, joins politicans on…
The vote in our unscientific poll showed a near even split between those who thought Brown was right and those who thought he was wrong to air the ad.
We asked if Scott Brown should stop running radio ads that compare his views with the late Senator Ted Kennedy? And your response was nearly split, with 249 saying yes, and 267 saying no (as of 12:50 p.m. Friday, March 3, 2012). Brown recently came under fire for running radio ads that contend that Kennedy would have agreed with him that employers and insurers should be able to exclude health care coverage of drugs and procedures that go against their moral views. Ted Kennedy's son, Patrick, asked Brown to stop running the ads in which he says, “Like Ted Kennedy before me, I support a conscience exemption in health care for Catholics and other people of faith.” In the ads Brown was voicing his support for an amendment to a bill that would…
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
What do you make of the latest controversy in the U.S. Senate race?
Should Scott Brown stop running radio ads that compare his views with the late Senator Ted Kennedy? Brown recently came under fire for running radio ads that contend that Kennedy would have agreed with him that employers and insurers should be able to exclude health care coverage of drugs and procedures that go against their moral views. Ted Kennedy's son, Patrick, asked Brown to stop running the ads in which he says, “Like Ted Kennedy before me, I support a conscience exemption in health care for Catholics and other people of faith.” However, a look at bills that Ted Kennedy sponsored in the 1990s and 2000s show that Kennedy would have required all employers who offer prescription drug coverage to include contraception coverage, …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Medford residents donated a total of over $16,000 to Brown and Warren campaigns in 4th quarter of 2011.
More than $16,000 was donated by Medford residents to either the Elizabeth Warren or Scott Brown campaigns in the last three months of 2011, according to federal data. And, although more donations were given to Warren, Brown received larger sums from his Medford supporters, the data shows. Brown received 22 donations from Medfordians, totalling $9,400, while Warren received 34 donations totalling $6,850, according to the data from the Federal Elections Commission. Overall, Warren out-raised Brown in the fourth quarter of 2011, pulling in $5.7 million to Brown's $3.2. But Brown has more money in his coffers, leading Warren overall in cash $12.9 million to $6.1 million. Check out this interactive map from The Boston Globe to see how Medford'…
Democratic frontrunner Elizabeth Warren is expected to challenge Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown.
In less than three weeks Massachusetts voters will vote in the March 6 Super Tuesday primary, and, while much focus is deservedly upon the upcoming presidential race, we decided to take a look ahead to the Sept. 6 Democratic senate primary. Democrats will have three choices for someone to challenge Republican Senator Scott Brown: frontrunner and Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren, immigration lawyer Marisa DeFranco, and corporate lawyer James Coyne King. Each of the candidates list what they believe are the most important issues in this race on their campaign websites: Scott Brown on the issues; Elizabeth Warren on the issues; Marisa DeFranco on the issues; James Coyne King on the issues. But we want to know what you think is the most …
Stephen
4:18 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Ronnie, that's a baseless ad hominem attack, given that all candidates are hand-picked by the party with which they are affiliated, and I would contend that most are narsicists as well! Your comment is as lacking of substance as is political discourse in general today. more ›