Posted on 06/05/2011 3:35:22 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Candidates lob shots during convention
Open season on Scott Brown officially kicked off yesterday with five of the six Democratic candidates seeking to reclaim the peoples seat training their sights and barbs squarely on the freshman U.S. senator during speeches at their partys state convention in Lowell.
When Ted Kennedy went behind closed doors with lawmakers and lobbyists, he always fought for us, Bob Massie, the nonprofit executive who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1994, told some 3,000 Democratic delegates gathered on the floor of Tsongas Center. When Scott Brown goes behind closed door with lawmakers and lobbyists and the Tea Party . . . and all shadowy figures who put him in office, hes fighting for them.
While vowing to defend Medicare and Social Security against Republican attacks and battle for social justice and small business, lobbing salvos at Brown was de rigueur for Democratic Senate hopefuls.
Only one candidate, Salem immigration lawyer Marisa DeFranco, refrained from mentioning Brown by name, instead targeting the right, whom she accused of waging daily a war against the people, and the middle class, and the workers, and small business who keep this country running.
The others, however, launched full-throated assaults on Brown, highlighting his key votes against a summer jobs bill for youths while preserving tax breaks for the countrys big oil companies.
Felix Browne, a spokesman for Brown, who handily defeated state Attorney General Martha Coakley in a special election last year to replace the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, declined to get into a debate over the senators record, saying simply: Senator Brown spent the day in Western Massachusetts helping tornado victims recover from their loss. This is not the time for politics.
State Rep. Thomas Conroy (D-Wayland), questioned whether Brown was a worthy successor to Ted Kennedy and vowed to devote myself day and night to beating Scott Brown and winning back this seat for the people of Massachusetts.
First-term Newton Mayor Setti Warren blasted Brown for not representing the values of Bay Staters by voting along Republican leadership lines 87 percent of the time.
Some say Im too young, Im too new, its not my time, declared Warren, a former aide to U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry and President Bill Clinton. I say that this is exactly the right time to take on the man who held up unemployment benefits for the jobless until millionaires got their tax break, he continued.
Alan Khazei, founder of City Year, the Boston-based domestic Peace Corps, and a former Senate candidate, criticized Brown.
We have a senator now who wants to eliminate Americas service programs. Who wants to cut job training . . . who wants to gut the Clean Air Act . . . all while defending the tax cuts of the wealthiest 2 percent, Khazei said.
Even political neophyte Herb Robinson piled on, telling the delegates that he was the better person to guard the nation from nuclear disaster.
So, who do you want protecting the safety of Main Street America, a photogenic show-off or an engineer who has to know the difference between hair spray and nuclear fallout? said the computer programmer from Newton.
His ADA rating was 20. The ADA-ACU ratings are based on roughly 20-25 votes on key issues in a year; the 87% (if accurate) may be based on all votes.
>>> That’s right, Massachusetts must have total 100 per cent Dems in office.
Well so say many posts on FreeRepublic. The ones that swear RINO Brown MUST be defeated. FUSB!
You read these posts and swear those people shouldn’t be allowed outside without a caretaker.
Put up a more conservative candidate than him, if you can beat his fundraising advantage in the primary; if that candidate somehow makes it to the final, watch them lose 90-10 in the state of Deval, Barney, Tierney etc. Brown could well lose, too, if Dems come out to support Obama in droves. The 2010 fall election did put some GOP folks in state legislature, but the Republicans got skunked otherwise—
a tax rollback question led Dems/hacks to the polls where
just about every office went Dem again. While there are some people in MA upset by hackery, Dem officeholders, etc. they are usually outnumbered by moonbats.
Brown was successful because some of his more moderate opinions brought moderates esp. unenrolleds in, and Coakley
was horrible. He is fairly popular with center and even
maybe left, and with some of the right, though again could be buried by an Obama landslide.
Again, nominate a more conservative candidate in the land of
Barney Frank...get together the money to defeat Brown’s
millions, then hope they can do good in the final vs.
the designated Moonbat. It’s Massachusetts, surely a true
conservative could win... right?
>>Sen Brown's voting record:
Paul Ryans Budget Bill... No. Against Party Lines
Repeal the Affordable Health Care Bill...Yes..... Party line
Keep subsidies for big oil....Yes....Party line
Food Safety Bill .....Yes....Bipartisan
Cut $30 billion from 2010 budget?....Yes....Party line
Amending Oil Company Tax laws...No....Party line
Small Business Lending Fund and Tax Law Amendments....No...Party line
Unemployment Benefits Extension.......No....Party line
Regulation and Oversight of the United States Financial System.... Yes....Against party line
Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements.....No....Party line
Patriot Act Extension.....Yes...Bipartisan
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act.....Yes...Against party line
Prohibiting Earmarks.....Yes...Party line
Treaty with Russia to Reduce and Limit Offensive Arms...Yes...Bipartisan
Aid To States for Medicaid, Teacher Employment, and Other Purposes....No...Party line
Offshore Production and Safety Act....Yes..Party line
Statement of Opposition to EPA Greenhouse Gas Rule...Yes....Party line
Allowing Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officers....No...Party line
Requiring Reports on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Debt...No...Party line
9/11 Health and Compensation Act....No....Party line
Study on Ending the Conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.....Yes...Against party line
Tax Law Amendments...No..Party line...Party line
Employment, Infrastructure, and Transportation Appropriations and Tax Credits ("Senate Jobs Bill.....Yes...Bipartisan
Requiring Afghanistan Troop Redeployment Plan and Timetable...No...Bipartisan
Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act....No..Party line
Payment to Social Security Recipients....No..Party line
These are the major bills that Sen. Brown has voted for and against in The U.S Senate in the years 2010 & 2011.
You can see his total voting record at http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=18919
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