GOP Smear Machine Targets Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren The progressive favorite hasn't even officially launched her Senate campaign, but the mud is already flying.
DonateWed Aug. 31, 2011 3:00 AM PDT
Elizabeth Warren has yet to officially declare whether she'll challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in 2012—but already Massachusetts Republicans are flinging mud in her direction and previewing their attack plan if she does jump into the race.Since Warren formed an exploratory committee on August 18, Brown's staff and the Massachusetts Republican Party have branded Warren a carpetbagger, an elitist, and a candidate too liberal to represent the Bay State. Using press releases, public statements, and even an anonymous Twitter account, GOPers have depicted Warren, a Harvard professor and middle-class champion who launched the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as a political nonentity and "another Martha Coakley." The latter refers to the state's Democratic attorney general who, despite greater name recognition and the advantage of running for a seat controlled by Democrats for more than 50 years, was upset by Brown in a 2010 special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy. "If the first few days of professor Warren's campaign are any indicator, Massachusetts Democrats will soon be yearning for the golden days of Martha Coakley," sniped Jennifer Nassour, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts GOP in August....
Now, some facts. Warren is no carpetbagger—she's lived in Massachusetts for 17 years, and the Boston Globe named her "Bostonian of the Year" in 2009. Nor is she an elitist—she grew up in a family hit hard by the Oklahoma dust bowl and the Depression, and her work focuses on protecting consumers and improving the lot of middle-class families. Warren's no Ivy League snob either—she taught at big public universities, including the University of Texas and the University of Michigan, before later landing at Harvard.
Meranwhile hardscrabble Scott Brown is scrimping by on five residents and this is before he got to Washington to cash in.
Below are the details:
70 Hayden Woods, Wrentham, MA: A 3,000 squared-foot single-family house that is the current principal residence of Brown and his family. The house lies off a cul-de-sac in a recently developed neighborhood near a small lake is nearby. According to financial disclosures, it is valued at $100,000 or more.
1840 Commonwealth Avenue #11-14, Brighton, MA 02135. In October 2007 Brown and wife Gail purchased what property records indicate is two condominium units at 1840 Commonwealth Avenue in the Brighton neighborhood of the city of Boston. The assessed value for #11 is $60,000 to $100,000; for #14 it is $100,000 or more
1870 Commonwealth Avenue #8, Brighton, MA. Brown's 2008 SFI reports ownership of this unit, with a net income derived from it of $1,001 to $5,000. The property itself is valued at $100,00 or more
33 Ocean View Ave. Rye, NH. This property is listed as Brown's second home with an asset value greater than $100,000.
Aruba Timeshare. Brown and presumably his wife have a timeshare on the island that is valued at $10,001 to $20,000
Full Story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/ma-senate-candidate-brown_n_422399.html
Of course Scott Brown had his hard scrabble truck that is a requirement for every Republican candidate.
God knows what he bought after he got out of this dump.
And of course people who read this blog will recognize these elitist outside Brown's fundraiser
