Yesterday, Scott Brown voted to block the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which is described as:
a bill that would provide money for medical aid to ailing World Trade Center workers, dealing a blow to those sickened in service to the country.
Republicans had previously stated that they would block legislation until the Bush tax breaks are extended. Scott Brown voted with Mitch McConnell and the Republican leadership in blocking aid. If Scott Brown believes in holding the health care of 9/11 responders hostage until he can secure a 4 percent tax break for millionaires, then his priorities are completely out of whack.
But this isn’t the first time Scott Brown has gone after 9/11 responders. Just one month after the 9/11 attacks Scott Brown was one of only three state representatives to vote against providing financial assistance to Red Cross workers who volunteered in the 9/11 recovery.
TP: In 2001, you voted against 9/11 recovery workers, giving them aid, do you have any comment on this story?BROWN: Yes, it was a time when our budget was down. We had a lot of cuts unfortunately, and we had to take care of our own priorities first.
TP goes on to detail Scott Brown’s priorities at that time.
During the same month Brown was voting down efforts to support 9/11 rescue workers, he was pushing a bill to appropriate a tax-subsidized bond to build a golf course in Norfolk, a city in his district.
Scott Brown’s priorities, millionaires over heroes.
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6 Comments . Leave a comment below.so they must just be trying to scam the system or something. Bunch of blue-collar freeloading union types and sundry bleeding-heart do-gooders. They should have stayed out of the way that day- nobody asked for their help. Their health issues are their own problem, not the country's. Screw 'em. The GOP is naked right now, exposed for what they always have been beneath all their patriotic and/or religious rhetoric. They care about one thing: protecting the old money.
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but securing a 4 percent tax break for millionaires, that's fine. Nice job Scotty, what an asshat.
Maybe some corporation or lobbying firm will offer him $500K a year to shill for them and he can step down. Or a reality show or something.
The more I see of Scott Brown's record in the U.S. Senate, the more astonishing it is to me that the Massachusetts AFL-CIO endorsed him in his 2008 run for the Massachusetts State Senate.
Starting with his first vote in the U.S. Senate, against President Obama's nominee to the National Labor Relations Board on the ground that the nominee was too pro-labor, through his votes in opposition to Unemployment Insurance extensions and now his insistence that the most urgent issue before the Congress -- even more urgent than providing medical assistance to 9/11 responders -- is ensuring tax breaks for billionaires, he's been steadfastly opposed to working class interests.
I'm not surprised. But if the Mass AFL-CIO is surprised, I'd like to know what they expected when they endorsed him for the State Senate.
During the Brown-Coakley race, a lot was made of Brown's appeal to union households, despite the fact that Coakley had won the AFL-CIO's endorsement. Maybe it was his charismatic pick-up truck and barn coat, but maybe it was also that a lot of those households knew that just over a year before, he had won a big union endorsement. In union households he already was, so to speak, the hair apparent.
what was up with all that?
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