Scott Brown is worried – he said so himself

david   |   Tue, Sep 20, 2011 3:44 PM EST

Don’t you love stuff like this?  TPM reports:

A Hill staffer, who spoke with TPM by phone, sends this dispatch from the Senate side in the wake of today’s PPP poll showing former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren leading Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA):

“Just walked passed Senator Brown’s office and in the hallway was the man himself, lamenting into his cell phone, ‘I don’t understand how she can be down 20 points one week and is now up 2. What is going on?’”

Memo to Senator Brown: the walls have ears.  But, to answer your question, “what is going on” is that the people of MA have wised up.  A barn jacket and a truck won’t do it this time around.  They expect a record of accomplishment from their Senators, and that’s something you can’t deliver.

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  1. And speaking of panic,

    check out the latest, from the ever-hilarious MA GOP:

    The Massachusetts Republican Party is asking Harvard University to reconsider paying Elizabeth Warren a salary while the law school professor runs for US Senate.

    “By restoring her to the faculty, even though she has now formed a federal election committee and is actively campaigning, the university is establishing a bad precedent for academic appointments,” Nate Little, executive director of the GOP, wrote in a letter to Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust.

    “Of equal concern is that Harvard runs the risk of jeopardizing its tax-exempt status. As a non-profit charitable institution, Harvard is prohibited from taking a position on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate. Your payment of a salary to Professor Warren causes reasonable-minded people to conclude that Harvard is supportive of her candidacy,” Little wrote.

    BAHAHAHAHA!! Really, is this not one of the most pathetic sights you’ve ever seen? The state GOP, obviously panicked by today’s poll showing Warren leading their golden boy and flailing about for something to do, starts telling a private institution how it should manage its internal affairs. I guess Republicans are all for letting private institutions do their thing, except when they’re not.

    david   @   Tue 20 Sep 4:08 PM

    • Glen Johnson makes a good point

      From the same article:

      During the special election campaign, Brown continued to accept his taxpayer financed salary as a state senator. He also has not expressed any plans to give up his federal salary while running for reelection.

      long2024   @   Tue 20 Sep 6:25 PM

    • Harvard should just follow whatever paid leave policy it has.

      As for the MAGOP, whiny press releases seem to be their stock in trade.

      christopher   @   Tue 20 Sep 7:38 PM

  2. Encouraging of couse

    It is always disconcerting to see R-MA. I am confident that in January 2013 it will be an isolated anomaly.

    kate   @   Tue 20 Sep 4:56 PM

    • In this Environment...

      …I agree.

      That said, if we still had GOPer like Edward Brooke around it would not be so bad. I never liked Scotto, and probably never would vote for him (I certainly didn’t the first time), but after filibustering lots of good bills including some he eventually signed onto, filibustering unemployment benefits, and then that God awful Clean Air vote, I knew we weren’t dealing with anything close to a moderate. I think that Susan Collins may be the last sane, if imperfect GOP Senator. On a good day he can pile on Olympia Snow, Lisa Murkowski and even Mark Kirk. But that’s about it.

      mski011   @   Tue 20 Sep 5:07 PM

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