Posted on 01/13/2010 8:35:09 AM PST by mnehring
“American Idol” starlet Ayla Brown morphed into campaign pit bull yesterday for GOP dad Sen. Scott Brown as she tore into Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley for plunging the U.S. Senate race into the gutter.
“Martha Coakley’s new negative ad represents everything that discourages young women from getting involved in politics, and as a young woman, I’m completely offended by that,” said the 21-year-old Brown. “She even spelled Massachusetts wrong in her original ad which is very embarrassing, I must say as a young woman.”
The former Idol contender and Boston College senior sought to further boost her father onto the national political stage as the race intensified amid polls showing it tightening.
“This past campaign season I’ve really seen him evolve,” Brown told the Herald. “I think he has an incredible shot at winning if they just get out there and vote.”
The singer, who belted out “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” during her “American Idol” audition, slammed Coakley for striking a sour note in a new television ad that she said misrepresents her father on the issues.
The spot shows images of a distraught woman at the bottom of a stairwell as a voiceover details a legislative amendment filed by Brown that would have allowed some facilities to deny emergency contraception to rape victims.
“Her attack on my dad is completely inaccurate and misleading,” Brown said as she defended her doting dad. “I’m here today to say that Martha Coakley should take down her negative ad.”
Coakley’s campaign stood behind their ad but didn’t respond directly to the college hoopster’s sharp elbows.
“We take issue with the regressive legislation that Scott Brown sponsored. Today, he has continued to try to back away from it because of the devastating impact it would have had on women’s health. But he cannot run away from his record,” said Coakley spokesman Corey Welford in a statement.
Ayla broke her silence on the campaign trail in the last stretch of the heated battle to fill the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat. But Brown, standing next to her 19-year-old sister Arianna, said she wasn’t “dragged into the campaign.”
“We are very willing to play a part in my dad’s campaign,” Brown said.
Brown told the Herald Coakley’s inflammatory ad prompted her to speak out. “For our family, especially me being on ‘Idol’ but (also) my dad being in politics, there are always so many people who have something negative to say,” Brown said. “The minute it’s sponsored and the people really believe in false accusations, that’s where we had to draw the line.”
Get You're Coaklee for Senater Lawn Sine!!!
She needs to stop ending every sentence in “as a young woman” this or “as a young woman” that. It reminds me too much of the rambling SC beauty queen saying “US Americans”.
I did not know that was her father. I was rooting for her on American Idol when she was on. I am 100 percent serious. Go Brown...you raised a great daughter.
Woof.
Why is it that so many
women named Hillary can't
understand normal thinking?
EVERYONE needs to stop doing that. It drives me nuts. Not “as a man.” Not “as a college graduate and business owner.” Not “as a supporter of her father.”
What you are should be contextual. What Coakley did in her ad was simply not true. Why is it so PC not to call someone a liar? Coakley did not tell the true, ergo, she is a liar. Seems pretty simple to me.
We need to start calling “BS” on the phrases people use, and on the way they don’t say what they mean.
People who can spell Massachusetts will vote for Brown. Those who can’t spell will vote for Coakley. We will soon know whether we want to stay in the same union with Massachusetts.
Not Guilty!
Reminds me of the turning point in the recent Christie campaign. He was accused of not wanting insurance to pay for mammograms.
His wife took to the air in a very straightforward ad speaking the truth about Christie’s position on mammograms.
I’m proud of this young woman.
As a middle aged man with onion breath and a gas problem, I take offense to Martha Coakley’s ad as well.
Ayla Brown “Come Together”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQs1Ht56Js&feature=related
Legs. Lotsa legs.
Let me get this straight - Brown sponsors a religious exemption to keep people and Catholic hospitals from being forced to provide birth control and abortion, but now he is running away from it to get elected?
Not a whole lot of conservative fortitude IMHO.
Wowsers!
Here is her AI questionaire:
http://www.americanidol.com/archive/contestants/season5/ayla_brown/
ROTFLMAO!!!
A greater contrast would be to post along with the bitter & butch Martha Coakley.
Timing is everything. Dad has momentum, Coakley & Company would screw the pooch if they go after the kids now. With that said, the girls can go out and campaign for dad and maybe garner some of the 18-35( ?) vote. These vote pickups as they would say in ECON 101 "around the margins" could help cement his victory.
Brilliant I say, Brilliant.....
I suspect the reason is they were named by people after a Kiwi beekeeper. Some had parents who could predict the future; others did not. Both groups apparently tried to make their daughter’s queen bees but failed. The best they were able to do was to insert a bee under their daughters’ bonnets. Many of those bees migrated down the girls’ backs and then up their butts. As anyone who has been stung by a bee knows, you really want to stop the venom from getting to your brain, so after the bee migrated...well, I am certain you can fill in the rest.
Why should anyone learn to spell Massachusetts nowadays? All you need is MA for the address.
He is NOT running away from that position. The objection is how it was portrayed on the opposition’s ad. Brown was on the radio last night expanding on his vote, explaining how it was to be sure Catholic Hospitals did not have to violate their religious convictions and be forced to perform abortions.
He is NOT running away from that position. The objection is how it was portrayed on the opposition’s ad. Brown was on the radio last night expanding on his vote, explaining how it was to be sure Catholic Hospitals did not have to violate their religious convictions and be forced to perform abortions.
Boston College 88 NC State 66
Oh, snap!
Why should anyone learn to spell Massachusetts nowadays?Because abbreviations are not allowed on form 4473.
Not having form 4473 online sounds like an “infringement” which is forbidden by the second amendment. James Madison wouldn’t be pleased.
Not having form 4473 online sounds like an “infringement”...Actually, I think the 4473 is an infringement -- do the background check and shred the forms...
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