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Tea Party Express Endorses Scott Brown
Rachel Slajda | January 7, 2010, 10:07AM
MA Senate candidates Martha Coakley (D) and Scott Brown (R).
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The Tea Party Express, a group run by GOP political consultants, has endorsed Scott Brown, the Republican candidate in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
The Tea Party Express has been attacked by other tea party groups for being corporate-controlled and inauthentic, and TPMmuckraker reported last month that most of the money raised by the group went right back into its creators' coffers.
In announcing its endorsement, the group said it will begin running TV ads supporting Brown early next week.
The special election will be held Jan. 19. Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, is campaigning against Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
A poll released this week shows Coakley leading Brown 50%-41%.
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kenga
January 7, 2010 12:35 PM
"Mr. Brown - do you propose returning the country to the tax rates that President Kennedy ran on and implemented?"
Follow ups if he smiles and gives an answer only suggesting that taxes are too high:
- Are you aware that the taxes President Kennedy spoke about were over 90% - 3 times higher than today?
- Did you mean for you ad to be so misleading?
- Isn't it irresponsible for a fiscal conservative to call for reducing taxes in the face of huge deficits and gigantic public debt?
- Have you or your businesses ever used special tax loopholes?
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Frank from Franklin
January 7, 2010 7:20 PM in reply to kenga
It's nice that you want to ask future US Senator Brown these questions while his opponent is hiding. She refuses to date him on television, one-on-one. She's pathetic and another typical Massachusetts hack. No experience, no record, just a "D" next to her name. Unions members will reject her and the rest of the morons in Washington trying to impose Universal UnhealthyCare on the nation and tax those with good healthcare into the stone age!
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kenga
January 7, 2010 8:40 PM in reply to Frank from Franklin
No experience, no record, just a "D" next to her name.
You really don't know what you're talking about, do you?
You see the D, and the programming just takes over.
There's even a Wikipedia page, you know ...
I don't see a lot of legislative experience, but she has both experience and a record.
Reminds me of Kerry's record, to be frank, what with the District Attorney stuff.
I'd certainly like to hear her answers to the same questions.
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jsdc007
January 7, 2010 1:08 PM
This proves the point that the Teabaggers are basically just a fringe group of the GOP, paid for and managed by such GOPers as Dick Armey. It's basically political management of your fringe elements and using them to create political noise that gets picked up the mainstream press.
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Frank from Franklin
January 7, 2010 7:23 PM in reply to jsdc007
Fringe group? Paid and managed by Dick Armey? Keep denying the fact that Americans are sick and tired of this year long assault by Pelosi, Reid and Osama (Obama...ooops) spending us into bankrupcy, taking their eye off defending us and trying to shove an unwanted healthcare bill down our throats!
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supermattzor
January 22, 2010 12:25 PM in reply to Frank from Franklin
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS THE BEST ADMINISTRATION! Who cares about recovering a crumbling nation when you can have religion, fear and stupidity? AMIRITE?
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mommom
January 7, 2010 8:21 PM
Scott Brown posed nude for money in Cosmopolitan a few years back.He is supported for office by the same people who believe Sarah Palin's almost soninlaw Levi Johnston should be stripped of his parental rights for the same thing.
Boggles the mind.
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Tosh
May 21, 2010 4:58 AM
It's nice that you want to ask future US Senator Brown these questions while his opponent is hiding. She refuses to date him on television, one-on-one. She's pathetic and another typical Massachusetts hack. No experience, no record, just a "D" next to her name. Unions members will reject her and the rest of the morons in Washington trying to impose Universal UnhealthyCare on the nation and tax those with good healthcare into the stone age!
cialis lovegra
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