Scott Brown's true record from Mass Uniting

At a noon press conference in Randolph today, US Senator Scott Brown is set to deliver what his office is calling a “major policy speech” ontaxes. While his Massachusetts constituents can certainly expect Senator Brown to echo the stereotypical ‘gut-and-cut’ tax rhetoric of his Republican colleagues in Washington, here are five truths we won’t hear Brown mention about his voting record on taxes:

1. “I voted to give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas.”

Scott Brown voted to filibuster the Creating American Jobs & Ending Offshoring Act, a bill would have ended tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs or build plants and offices offshore to replace American facilities. The vote came as thousands of American workers face impending layoffs while training their replacements from China, India, and elsewhere. (US Senate roll call vote #242, 9/28/10)

2. “I gave $24 billion of your tax dollars to Big Oil.”

In the face of drastic budget cuts, Scott Brown voted three times to give more than $24 billion in taxpayer funds to the oil industry over the next decade. The top five Big Oil companies – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell – are amongst the most profitable corporations in the world, posting $137 billion in profits in 2011 alone. (US Senate roll call votes #187 6/15/10; #72, 5/17/11; #63, 3/29/12)

3. “I voted to take more money out of your paycheck.”

Scott Brown voted to filibuster legislation to extend the payroll tax cut for working families – holding low and middle income workers hostage to shield the wealthiest Americans from a small surtax on income over $1 million. In effect, Brown cast a deciding vote to raise taxes on 113 million working families. In Massachusetts, the surtax would have affected just 0.6% of taxpayers with an average income of more than $2 million. (US Senate roll call vote #219, 12/1/11)

4. “I support tax breaks for millionaires…just not middle class or low-income families.”

Three times in 2010 and again in 2012, Scott Brown voted to kill measures that would extend tax cuts for the middle class. Like his vote for payroll tax hikes, Brown used the same rationale to justify his votes to raise taxes on middle and low-income families: those making $250,000 to $1 million or more each year shouldn’t have to pay their fair share like the rest of his Massachusetts constituents. (US Senate roll call votes #258 & #259, 12/4/10; #275, 12/15/10; #184, 7/25/12)

5. “I filibustered tax credits and loans that help small businesses grow and create jobs.”

Despite his claims of supporting job creators, Scott Brown repeatedly filibustered and opposed major legislation that helps small businesses grown and create jobs. Brown twice voted to filibuster the Small Business Jobs & Credit Act – a bill that connected growing small businesses to credit through community banks and offered significant tax credits to small firms that create American jobs. When his filibuster failed, Brown voted again to kill the legislation. The Massachusetts Bankers Association stated that failure to act on the bill “would be a missed opportunity that our struggling economy cannot afford.” (US Senate roll call votes #218 & #221, 7/29/10; #237, 9/14/10)

What else will Wall Street's millions buy: how about a former drunken ex mayor

LP - It good to have the endorsement of the career hard drinking career politician. I'm sure the Republican electorate believes strongly in career politicians and it is something that Scott Brown hopes to grow into, now that he's moved his wife Gail Huff off of making all his commercials for him. There is no sign as to when Curt Schilling will make his appearance again. I have heard he's been tied up with some business dealings in Rhode Island. Now let's meet Scott Brown's newest advocate and for god sake can somebody get him a well paying job in the private sector.

This what the Boston Phoenix wrote about the former governor.


At 58, the old warrior is saddling up to run for governor, apparently for the worst of reasons: having failed to secure a high-paying, high-profile private sector job (he was even snubbed for the athletic director's post at Northeastern University), he can't think of anything better to do.

Even before last Friday, his chances of actually winning the governor's office had been rated as slim. And now he's been whacked out by his old friends at the Boston Globe, a paper that endorsed him twice, that provided him not just with ideological support but also with drinking buddies during those long nights at Doyle's and J.J. Foley's.

The story, by Walter Robinson, Kate Zernike, and David Marcus -- headlined FLYNN AT THE VATICAN: HIS MAYORAL STYLE DIDN'T CUT IT -- was devastating. Much of the post-publication buzz has focused on revelations concerning Flynn's drinking; but about two-thirds of the piece was devoted to establishing that, during his final year as ambassador, he virtually ceased working. Numerous sources were quoted, both by name and anonymously, to the effect that Flynn became increasingly out of touch and isolated, rarely coming to the embassy office and spending vast amounts of time in Rome's Irish pubs.
Although the questions about Flynn's once-inspiring work ethic were surely new, his drinking is the oldest of stories among political and media insiders. The difference is that editors today -- whether at the Globe or any other news organization -- are far less inclined than they were in the past to keep such knowledge to themselves. This shift is especially telling at the Globe, which, until recent years, had a reputation for protecting its favorites, allowing national media to break stories about Senator Ted Kennedy's debauchery or to poke holes in former governor Michael Dukakis's record.

Flynn's reaction has been to deny everything, and to accuse the Globe of coming after him because he's working-class, Irish, and Catholic. It is a ridiculous allegation, of course. Boston has been run by Irish Catholics for most of this century. The editor of the Globe, Matt Storin, is an Irish Catholic with a modest middle-class background. But such class-warfare demogaguery has always been one of Flynn's stocks in trade. He hoists like a shield his concern for "working-class families," a phrase that pops up in his lexicon with the same approximate frequency that it does in Marx's Das Kapital.

A demagogue needs a villain, and Flynn, for the moment, has settled on Globe publisher Ben Taylor, whom the ex-mayor has variously referred to during the past week as a polo-watching, penthouse-dwelling, chablis-sipping, brie-nibbling elitist.

...Meanwhile, Flynn's performance in office was deteriorating. Arguably an outstanding mayor in his first two terms, he displayed indifference and boredom during his third. He fought for the right to appoint the school committee, then shocked supporters by loading it up with cronies. The police department, run by his childhood friend Mickey Roache (now a popular city councilor), was beset by corruption and incompetence. Thus, when Bill Clinton tapped Flynn for the ambassadorship to the Vatican in 1993, the appointment was met by many in the city with genuine excitement for Flynn, combined with relief that he was finally leaving.

Flynn's triumph, though, quickly turned to tragedy and farce. A former aide, Douglas deRusha, was convicted of embezzling more than $200,000 from Flynn's campaign and was sent to prison. A trusted associate, Joe Fisher, went to prison for corruption. Attorney General Scott Harshbarger -- now the frontrunner for the office Flynn intends to seek -- investigated Flynn, a probe that ended inconclusively. Flynn was also hit by accusations that he was too political and raw to be an ambassador (he was reprimanded twice by the State Department for speaking out of turn). And his son Ray Jr. was battling substance abuse problems.

Flynn considered running for governor in 1994, but decided against it in the face of rapidly dropping poll numbers. A headline in the Sunday Globe Focus section that spring read: ONCE MASSACHUSETTS' MOST POPULAR POLITICIAN, RAY FLYNN IS NOW ITS FAVORITE POLITICAL JOKE.

...Robinson insists that doing in Ray Flynn was the last thing on his mind when he saw Flynn, on August 6, weaving on Hanover Street in the North End, drunkenly hailing him and insisting that he and a friend join him for a drink.

"My role at the time was simply to get him off the street, because he was making a fool of himself," Robinson says, adding that he called a Flynn "acolyte" and told him: "This is a serious problem."

The full story: http://bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/97/10/09/GLOBE_VS_RAY_FLYNN_2.html

Scott Brown Features Foreign Businesses In 'Let America Be America Again' Ad

Scott Brown Features Foreign Businesses In 'Let America Be America Again' Ad:

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LP - The Democratic Presidents at the beginning are a nice touch for the Wall Street. What will Wall Street money buy you click on it and enjoy it.

According to Daily Kos

US Senator Scott Brown, who played a critical role in the battle over the 2010 financial regulatory overhaul, has used a joint fund-raising committee to collect$2.9 million in political donations over the last year, nearly half of which came from the nation’s financial sector.

The mechanism is a joint committee, the Scott Brown Victory Committee, between Brown and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Campaign finance laws allow this kind of committee much higher donation limits than traditional campaign committees, $30,800 per donor per election cycle versus the $5,000 limit for regular committees.

So he has this Victory fund, along with his regular campaign committee, allowing for seven times the donation power for donors, an effective limit of $35,800. Among those donors, theGlobe reports, are "deep-pocketed venture capitalists, bankers, and leaders of some of the country’s largest investment firms."

Full Story here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/02/1088180/-Scott-Brown-double-dips-on-massive-Wall-Street-campaign-donations

WASHINGTON -- Letting "America Be America Again" may be a tall order, if the filming locations of some clips in Sen. Scott Brown's latest reelection ad are any indication.

The two-and-a-half-minute spot, which the Massachusetts Republican's reelection team has hailed as an "online sensation,"features three instances of stock footage filmed overseas, undercutting the ad's running theme of growing American business.

In one scene, a beaming chef is shown before he flips ingredients in a frying pan over an open flame, while President Gerald Ford praises American capitalism. According to Getty Images, the kitchen is located in Barcelona, Spain, a country currently stuck in its second recession in three years.

"Through our system of democracy and free enterprise, the United States has achieved remarkable, unbelievable progress," Ford booms as the chef flicks the frying pan.

In two other scenes, video portraits depict a butcher standing in the doorway of his shop and another worker posing in front of a delivery truck full of boxes. Both clips were filmed in Dublin, according to Getty Images.

Shortly before the camera hovers on the Irish butcher shop, President Ronald Reagan pays tribute to "the forgotten heroes of America, those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street."

The three clips are tagged with "Non US Location" on the Getty Images website, which also lists filming locations in each respective caption.

A Getty Images representative confirmed Monday that the cities and countries listed in the stock footage captions indicate filming locations.

A Brown spokeswoman did not respond to several requests for comment Monday.

In a statement, Massachusetts Democratic Party spokesman Matt House called Brown's rhetoric "as phony as his stock footage."

Full Story:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/scott-brown-ad_n_1720199.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Senator Scott Brown pick-up driver hangs out with royalty

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US Senator Scott Brown’s campaign said the senator misspoke when he asserted in a radio interview this morning that he has held meetings with “kings and queens.”

The comments on WTKK-FM were roundly mocked by Democrats. Brown, in making them, was pushing back against critics who say his campaign has not been focused on serious issues, pointing out that he ran a radio ad about military base closings. He also said he was working on substantive issues on a daily basis, some that involve royalty.

“Each and every day that I’ve been a United States senator, I’ve been discussing issues, meeting on issues, in secret meetings and with kings and queens and prime ministers and business leaders and military leaders, talking, voting, working on issues every single day,” he said on the Jim Braude and Margery Eagan Show.

Brown spokesman Colin Reed said in an e-mail that “Senator Brown was speaking generally about private meetings he has had with foreign and domestic leaders.”

He later acknowledged that Brown, who has made his reputation as a truck-driving everyman, has not met with any royalty.

LP - Scott I hope they allow you to bring the pick up right up to the gates at Buckingham Palace.

Scott's Brown's pick-up: just the latest in a long running photo gimmicks

Full StoryL http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/06/21/senator-scott-brown-says-obama-should-transparent-fast-and-furious-controversy/BSkZcayqEtKbPYYNAHmkqL/story.html?p1=News_links

Scott Brown chickens out of debate with Elizabeth Warren. Maybe his wife Gail Huff can fill in.

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Scott Brown votes against women's right and uses Wall Street/Koch money to push his wife out there to fight his battles

Scott Brown began voting against women's rights in Massachusetts and hiding behind his wife's skirts as she reminded everyone of how she use to do innocuous  fluff infotainment pieces for the local news. Gail was like an old friend basically telling you about weather, fires and somebody involvement in a hit and run accident.

No wonder Scott had time to be home with the babies I'm sure his late night shoots had him on a completely  different schedule while his wife worked for a living.

Then afterwards Scott began to pursue his career as a career politician with three terms in the Massachusetts house and three in the senate, which the job of government worker is pretty much a career that most Massachusetts residents can identify with.

So when Scott was in trouble he quickly went to his Wall Street/Koch friends and got a bundle of money to promote his wife to the point that you might actually think that Gail Huff was running against Elizabeth Warren.

Then who can forget when Scott trolling for cash with one of the Koch Brothers and telling him he couldn't do it without him.

Then finally why would you ever want to return to Wretham, Massachusetts in a beat up old truck when you can pal around with the Washington versions of career politicians, like senator for life John McCain.

Then finally that brings us back to Gail Huff and her love of family values that marks any Republican candidate.

Gail Huff I wonder what the toothpaste is symbolic of. I guess that goes over big with the family value crowd.

Here's the full video of Gail's talents. She must have been squirting the toothpaste while Scott was posing. This is pretty typical of north east conservative elites.

Everything wrong with our political coverage in one shot

Our local news cut away to Jon Keller at large for some wisdom as to how the politics were shaking out. Jon Keller is our local political wizard who was famous a few years ago for asking George W. Bush a pop quiz on the names of other countries leaders which he failed (surprise, surprise). For me I always think back to a half a dozen years ago when the teachers in the whole eastern part of the state staged a big protest rally at the state house. Some of these groups came from as far away as the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard to take part in a rally in Boston. It must have been quite a feat to even get up there. On that day Keller's big slant on the story, "Who was the idiot who gave them a permit to march in the middle of the day. My commute was terrible."

 While Sunday Morning Keller's sole wisdom was not enough and they had to go to the political wisdom of former speaker of the Massachusetts house Tom Finneran. Finneran pleaded guilty in 2007 to a federal obstruction of justice charge for giving false testimony in a 2003 lawsuit over a legislative redistricting plan that diluted the clout of minority voters. Full Story here: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/a_tale_of_3_speakers_--_salvat.html

 Finneran was guilty of turning the district he represented, which was mostly minority, into a mostly white district so he could keep his job (i.e. see Tom Delay). I guess his plan was to stay in power for life. Since that time Finneran has been released, has his own radio show and he also shows up on spot's like Keller's to spout his wisdom to the rubes who need such expertise to make their decisions. I guess what this really goes to prove is their is no crime too bad for the politically well connected, who get to show up on television without the moniker of political felon next to their names. Tune in next week when Keller has a safe cracker and someone guilty of breaking and entry on his show. I hear it's about public safety.

Exellent speech by Elizabeth Warren somebody needs to ask Brown if he believes corporations are people too

Good image for your voting guide in Massachusetts

Once again the press manages to cover the trivial

Daily Kos: Massachusetts Democrats seeking information on Scott Brown and JPMorgan Chase

Daily Kos: Massachusetts Democrats seeking information on Scott Brown and JPMorgan Chase:

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Massachusetts' Senator from JP Morgan

After his upset election in January 2009, he became the key vote on the bill and leveraged that position to extract big concessions favored by banks, who had given generously to his campaign. First, Brown forced Democrats to strip from the bill a $19 billion bank tax. He also successfully pushed to water down a key reform -- the so-called 'Volcker rule' -- that was aimed at preventing banks from making risky trades with dollars backed by the government. The carve out helped large mutual funds in his state. In fact, Brown initially opposed the entire Wall Street reform bill and threatened to join the Republican filibuster of the legislation, which would have prevented it from even getting an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. Meanwhile, as 'Brown and his Senate staff were working both publicly and behind the scenes to scuttle' these reforms, the senator took in $140,000 from financial firms -- 400 percent more than the average received by other GOP senators over the same time period -- according to the Boston Globe. A ThinkProgress analysis revealed that during his campaign, banks and their allies gave Brown's campaign huge 11th hour contributions and helped with a significant get-out-the-vote effort. He was also supported by outside groups friendly to Wall Street like the Club for Growth. Overall, the financial industry is Brown's second largest contributor." [ThinkProgress, "After Helping Banks Water Down Dodd-Frank, Scott Brown Tries To Claim He's A Wall Street Reformer," 9/13/11]

original post here:  http://www.progressmass.org/press/conservatives-scott-brown-and-chris-christie-share-washington-republican-values-not-massachusetts-va.html

Also a potential issue: When Brown got all those donations from JPMorgan Chase, it coincided perfectly with when Chase officials were pressing Federal Reserve officials for a loophole in Dodd-Frank provisions meant to limit risky trading.

All of which smells slightly fishy to the Massachusetts Democratic Party, which has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with six government agencies, seeking to find out whether Brown was involved in helping JPMorgan Chase with its lobbying.

In a news release, the party said that Mr. Brown’s re-election campaign had received at least 30 contributions in February from employees of JPMorgan and the company’s federal political action committee. The New York Times reported last week that JPMorgan executives had met with Federal Reserve officials that month to express concerns about the restrictions on banks’ proprietary trading—known as Volcker Rule—that were called for in the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law.

The Times reported that the company had lobbied over months for loose restrictions that would allow banks to make big bets in their portfolios, including some of the types of trading that led to the $2 billion loss that JPMorgan reported last week. (According to people with knowledge of the losses, that figure is now reported to be at least $3 billion.)

From the Daily Kos donations from JP Morgan Chase in Massachusetts senate race

Maybe JP Morgan just doesn't understand finance giving away boodles of money for this every man Scott Brown. Either that or one of the candidates is on the take to the big banks.

Elizabeth Warren has taken a ton of money from Boston. Scott Brown from Manhattan. That isn't even in Massachusetts.

LP - Wall Street's senator from Massachusetts. Or as Scott Brown's adds say he's independent. He's independent if you happen to own a bank.

Is Curt Schilling about to drop a $75 million dollar bill on Rhode Island taxpayers?

Good old Curt Schilling moves jobs from Massachusetts to Rhode Island because the state gives him some free money now they look on the verge of going belly up and dropping the bill on the Rhode Island tax payers. Of course no one can forget the role Schilling played in getting Senator Scott Brown's campaign. One can only imagine that Scott Brown favors having jobs leave the state and then if an important backer fails the bill being given to the little people.

Curt during happier times when they were going to clean up Washington. I guess before that the rich guy never passed the bill onto the tax payers.

Hopefully at least the Rhode Island tax payers each get a bloody sock

Daily Kos: Scott Brown filibusters student loan assistance to 177,000 Massachusetts students

Daily Kos: Scott Brown filibusters student loan assistance to 177,000 Massachusetts students:

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That "independent" Sen. Scott Brown once again voted lock-step with his leadership,filibustering the extension of low interest rates for federally subsidized student loans. In a state dominated by colleges and universities, 177,000 students in Massachusetts will see their student loan payments increase on average $1,000 a year.

According to Boston.com regular guy Scott Brown votes to makes sure student loans are much higher. At least he drives a truck and talks about troubles for students

Dems hit Brown on student loan vote, fundraising - Boston.com: "O"

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BOSTON—U.S. Sen. Scott Brown joined other Senate Republicans Tuesday to derail a Democratic bill aimed at keeping interest rates on federal college loans from doubling July 1, prompting criticism from Democrats in his home state who said he was hurting middle-class families.

The Massachusetts Republican and the state's Democratic Party also traded jabs over his fundraising efforts in New York City and his call for his chief Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, to release law school applications and personnel files from the universities where she's taught.

Tuesday's vote on the student loan bill, largely on partisan lines, came a day after Brown said he supported a one-year extension of the current 3.4 percent interest rate on federal student loans. Brown said it's time to come up with a bipartisan solution.

"The job market is dismal and the cost of getting a college education is out of control," Brown said. "We should be working together on a solution that prevents these rates from skyrocketing."

Massachusetts Democrats said Brown's vote showed he was standing with the national Republican Party, not middle-class Massachusetts families.

"Senate Democrats put forth a measure to keep student loan rates low, but Scott Brown joined Senate Republicans to block it," said Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh.

Both Brown and his chief Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, say they support extending the lower rate for another year. Brown has proposed paying for the extension by reducing what he called "improper payments made by the federal government" including payments sent to the wrong recipient or incorrect amounts sent to the right recipients.

Scott Brown: Trying to Have It Both Ways

Scott Brown: Trying to Have It Both Ways

As he tries to make the case to Massachusetts voters of how bipartisan he is, touting his pride in working with President Obama, he is at the same time promising to his corporate special interest and anti-Obama donors, as well as right-wing Republican base groups, that he will be their champion, especially in an Obama second term. As a result, Brown is in the position of constantly having to run both hot and cold on Obama. He will simultaneously do anything to hug the President publicly even while dissing him more quietly to his Republican supporters.

This week, Brown put out a radio ad talking about his work with the President. He talks about how proud he was to work with Obama and how important cooperation is. “We need to work together now,” Brown says. Last month he flew to D.C. twice in one week to be at signing ceremonies at Obama's side, after begging and prodding to be invited. Brown also staked out his seat on the aisle at the State of the Union hours in advance to make sure he could be seen on TV with Obama.

Obama is very popular in Massachusetts, and Brown couldn’t be any clearer about how much of a drag he thinks his very close personal friend Mitt Romney is on the ticket. It’s pretty difficult in a Presidential Election year to run with the opposite party’s candidate while running away from your own party’s standard bearer—especially when that standard bearer happens to be your longtime friend and political mentor. In fact, Brown is facing a terrible dilemma: spending so much time trying to associate with Obama, while continuing to trash him in fundraising appeals, creates a very big problem for him. Add to that the fact that Obama and Warren are actually close allies, and Brown is in a bind.

 Obama with his new best friend Scott Brown, who like gum on his shoe.

The last thing he wants to do is drive home in that miserable truck

Scott Brown says daughter insured under health law - Boston.com

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One young person on her father's government insurance, as her father fights to take away insurance from freeloaders like her. She should just go out in the private market and make the best deal she can get.

Senator Scott Brown, who won office vowing to be the 41st vote to block President Obama’s health care law and who has since voted three times to repeal it, acknowledged Monday that he takes advantage of it to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan.

“Of course I do,’’ the Massachusetts Republican told the Globe.

Brown is insuring his daughter Ayla, a professional singer who is 23 years old, under a widely popular provision of the law requiring that family plans cover children up to age 26.

Brown said the extended use of his congressional coverage is not inconsistent with his criticism of the federal law, enacted over his objection after he won a special election in 2010, because the same coverage could be required by individual states.

On the campaign trail this year, Brown has said he still wants to repeal the law, which he argues is inferior to the health care law enacted by Massachusetts in 2006.

“I’ve said right from the beginning, that if there are things that we like, we should take advantage of them and bring them back here to Massachusetts,’’ the senator said.

As to whether the federal law should be repealed or rewritten, Brown replied: “I’ve already voted to repeal it. You know where I stand on this. This isn’t news.’’

His political opponent said that Brown is being hypocritical.

Daily Kos :: Scott Brown plays the regular guy again while trolling for votes in Massachusetts,(last time was last election)

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Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) knows what cohort of voters he has to win to be reelected in November: white, blue collar Democratic and independent men, and he's focusing all his efforts there. That's how he undercuts all of the actual work Elizabeth Warren has done to champion working families, and brand her as an elitist. So that's how you get this kind of performance:

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- On opening day of Little League season, Republican Sen. Scott Brown helps out a coach by picking up an equipment bag and carrying it to a ball field here in this town 20 miles west of Boston. The ball-capped kids sitting on the benches may not recognize the lawmaker, wearing a blue dress shirt and a Red Sox tie with tiny blue B's on it—but many of their parents do. [...]

[...] Brown is running a locally focused campaign, hoping that working-class and conservative Democrats and the growing number of independents in the Bay State see him . . . as an everyman who can legislate in Washington but come home to catch a game and throw back a cold one.

And, for some voters, it's working.

"I'm undecided but I'm leaning towards Brown," says Joe King while watching his children play. “He seems like a regular good guy; he seems like someone who comes down to a field, or someone who, if you saw him at a bar, you’d have a drink with him, you know?” King says he plans to vote for President Obama in November, but he also considers himself more of a conservative Democrat and Brown a moderate Republican.

Scott Brown: stealth Republican. While campaigning back home among these voters, he's the guy willing to cross the aisle and work with President Obama. The guy who will have a beer with anyone (depending on whether or not this is a day he's not drinking beer). But when he's his true self, in emails to national Republican donors, he's all tea party and obstruction:

"I know there are several other GOP campaigns to support, but this race is THE battleground for the United States Senate—the only sure hedge to a potential second term for President Obama," Brown wrote in the appeal.

And just like every other ordinary Joe at the Little League field he end the year struggling to get by with only 13 million in the bank

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Massachusetts politicians better know their Sox history

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Mitt cheering with the rabble. I thought this was horse dancing.

Republicans Mitt Romney and Sen. Scott Brown both got a small taste of that this week, leading up to Fenway's 100th birthday. Romney is, of course, there.

"It was probably the first time he's been there," said former Massachusetts governor and 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. "In jeans of all things," the Democrat said with a sigh.

Romney in jeans most Red Sox fans can probably overlook, but this?

Earlier this week Red Sox season-ticket holder Mitt Romney gave a national network interview at Fenway Park. This led someone to bring to my attention that Romney, who was governor at the time, was there at Fenway Park for the historic championship-clinching Game 4 of the 2004 World Series. Or at least, he told an Air Force pilot he was:

When he told me he was Massachusett's governor, I politely asked him to leave the flight deck, declaring the cockpit off limits to all Red Sox fans. He laughed and made a few cracks my way, regarding the Yanks, and we hit it off pretty well. I asked him if he was at Fenway when the Sox finally won the World Series, and with a huge boyish grin he replied, "Yes I was."

No, he wasn't. I could go to a lot of trouble proving to you that Romney was actually in New Hampshire campaigning for George W. Bush that day, but it doesn't really matter because—as every New Englander has been screaming while reading this post—Game 4 was played at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.

There's Romney pulling a Romney, one of those bizarre lies—in this article David Bernstein calls them the "Zelig" lies after the Woody Allen character, desperate to fit in—that he must think makes him relatable to people.

Then there's Scott Brown, whose grasping for Red Sox credibility took a big beating this week. First, there was his radio ad commemorating Fenway's centennial and praising the team for staying put when other powerful forces were trying to shut down the park and move the team outside of Boston. What Brown failed to mention, of course, and which every media outlet in town gleefully brought up, was that he was one of the people pushing for a new stadium from his position in the state senate. Oops.

Not as big of an "oops," perhaps, as his subsquent and unapologetic acceptance of the maximum possible campaign contribution from head of  the enemy camp, Randy Levine, president of the New York Yankees. His excuse was as bad as the donation itself:

“We’re happy to accept Randy Levine’s donation,” Brown campaign spokesman Colin Reed said. “The way Scott Brown looks at it is, this is their way of paying us back for Babe Ruth.”

Really? Scott Brown is just like Babe Ruth? That'll go over well with the crowd.

Who can tell the difference?

The bats probably aluminum at that