Or, rather, the Tea Party Republicans at Fox who control Brown’s important decisions made the announcement in as many words. Globe:
Fox News today terminated its contract with Scott Brown, yet another sign that the one-time Massachusetts senator is preparing to run for the US Senate in New Hampshire.
“Scott Brown’s contributor agreement was officially terminated today once he notified FOX News of his intention to form an exploratory committee to run for US Senate in New Hampshire,” Bill Shine, executive vice president of programming at Fox News, said in a statement.
Now that the money matters have been straightened out, less important details like the actual announcement can come in due course.
Inquiring minds wonder if Brown will once again draw on his rich understanding of ethnicity to make personal ancestry the overrriding focus of his campaign. To me, Jeanne Shaheen looks like the “only woman in U.S. history to be elected both a Governor and a United States Senator” and a former “Director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government” but there is almost no telling what Brown’s eyes see:
You can donate to Shaheen here
jconway says
To lose an election in two states. Mondale’s lost in all 50 so Brown has a long way to go.
Christopher says
…though I believe it was close, plus of course DC.
fenway49 says
Conway then said Mondale lost a subsequent election in Minnesota in 2002, when he stood in for the late Paul Wellstone and lost narrowly to Norm Coleman. (For absolute shame, Minnesota.) So he did lose in all 50 states, though as I pointed out he was a perfect 3-0 on the ballot in DC.
Christopher says
I’m also embarrassed that I completely forgot that Mondale was again a Senate candidate as recently as 2002.
fredrichlariccia says
P.S. And James if memory serves me I believe Fritz Mondale won his home state of Minnesota in 1984. 🙂
Fred Rich LaRiccia
Former intern to the greatest Senator in America’s history !
P.P.S. Bring it on, Scottie boy. There’s nothin’ this old boxer like’s better than a good fight !
jconway says
But lost to Coleman in MN in 2002.
fenway49 says
Walter “I never lost an election in the District of Columbia – 3 and 0! – Mondale.
fenway49 says
didn’t have so many elections to worry about here in 2014.
I remember Mondale took Minnesota and DC, that’s it. I was just a little kid but pretty depressed.
bluewatch says
It was fun to beat Scott Brown in 2012. It will be fun to beat him again in 2014! Elizabeth Warren is asking people to help Jeanne Shaheen now.
Give $25 or any amount.
Contribute here.
methuenprogressive says
He thinks we have short memories?
Patrick says
Of all the stuff from the past election, I think this will end up haunting him.
ramuel-m-raagas says
Remember when our late Carl Sagan eagerly put in his own
viewership to the closest up images ever depicting our
neighboring planet Mars? Finding no life of any form,
just a little cold uninhabited water, the search came out
empty. I hope that Scott P. Brown’s exploratory committee
finds no good grounds to pursue a run for our US Senate
any further. We might not have a bluenegroup.com domain
to easily cross-post our criticisms of Brown into the territory
just up North, but we can perhaps bring new life to a Born Again
or Renaissance / Rinacimento of @HalfTermSenator as had been the project
of Bob Massie’s campaign for national office.
davemb says
It’s been a bit moribund since the last election, but I and some others post both there and here. It’s of some use in coordinating efforts, and of great use to outside agitators from MA who want to be up to date on NH issues.
There will be lots of opportunities for MA people to volunteer in NH if that’s what they choose to do. I’ve spent my even-numbered autumns, and the early winter of 2008, in Cheshire County, on the theory that my footwork has more influence there on the national scene. Looks like I will be there again this fall…
Christopher says
…Blue Hampshire was looking for someone to take over the site and the editor said the site would be archived if nobody were found.
jconway says
That would give me something to do
JimC says
Not sure about the archiving though. I think it’s an evolving discussion.
hoyapaul says
Is a northerner who moves further north to try to advance his political career still considered a carpetbagger?
Christopher says
…especially when he’s of the party increasingly identified with the South:)
JimC says
Carpetlander.
kirth says
Flatbagger
SomervilleTom says
I think Mr. Brown has been a yahoo all along, and sincerely believes he is simply returning home. The real question, in my mind, is whether New Hampshire is or is not the yahoo state that Mr. Brown assumes.
If it is, he will win easily.
If not, then I predict he’ll buy a vacation home someplace more hospitable. I hear Arizona is looking for gubernatorial candidates.
jcteixeira says
Jeanne is not Martha. Mind you, I really like Martha, just not her 2010 campaign. Brown brings so much (carpet)baggage with him to NH that even though he’s nationally known, as of 3/5/14, 46% of NH Republican voters are undecided. Jeanne currently has a 13 point lead on him and the campaigning hasn’t really even started. Koch-funded anti-Obamacare ads won’t help. I wonder if Fox will take him back in January after he’s lost badly to two women?
kbusch says
Since his youth, he thought he was hot —
Posed for photos wearing naught
Then a Senate seat gainfully sought
So good, success seemed his lot.
Perhaps when driving his truck
He missed the ebb in his luck
At Warren, he tried throwing muck
Bootless, for election loss struck.
So northward moved Mr Brown
Who once spoke with prince and with crown
Would changing his state and his town
Help him live the election loss down?
ramuel-m-raagas says
Yeats would be proud of kbusch. I tried reading some 2013 USA poetry, but am not sharp to keep in touch with literature’s developments in lyrical style and significative structure.
blueinsaugus says
Bqhatevwr
danfromwaltham says
Afterall, I was the first to predict Scotto would run in NH, right here on your blog. How luvs ya baby…I do, that’s who.
Seriously folks, save your money and do not bother donating to Jeanne. The heavy artillery is being brought out. Yep, Karl Rove is about to spend $600K in NH. Then the patriotic American Koch Brothers will drop a few million in ads on behalf of Scott. This will easily offset Soros and the unions.
Speaking of unions, ever hear of Unite Here? Bunch of working stiffs like myself, simy trying to stay in the middle class. They released their study on Obamacare and it’s impact on their members. They titled it ‘The Irony of Obamacare: Making Inequality Worse’. Read for yourself, link below. By all means, share with everyone in NH.
http://cdn.ralstonreports.com/sites/default/files/ObamaCaretoAFL_FINAL.pdf
striker57 says
he won’t get through the primary:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2014/03/rivals_pounce_on_scott_brown
JimC says
in the Herald story.
Christopher says
Amherst
Andover
Auburn
Bedford
Belmont
Berlin
Bridgewater
Bristol
Brookfield
Brookline
Deerfield
Franklin
Grafton
Greenfield
Hanover
Haverhill
Hopkinton
Hudson
Kingston
Lancaster
Lee
Lincoln
Littleton
Marlborough
Middleton
Milford
Milton
Newbury
Newton
Orange
Pelham
Pittsfield
Plymouth
Randolph
Salem
Salisbury
Sharon
Springfield
Wakefield
Walpole
Warren
Webster
These are towns that share names with MA communities just to confuse him, though I may have missed a few and deliberately left out a couple where the NH community is better known than MA and a couple that shared names with Boston neighborhoods.
kirth says
You forgot
PolandNew Boston.Patrick says
It confused Michelle Bachmann.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/bachmann-muddles-american-history-puts-battles-of-lexington-and-concord-in-new-hampshire
danfromwaltham says
I thought Bob moved to Florida and left the Republican Party, no?
What you and your union should do is take up a second collection, and help Bob Smith with some seed money, get him on the air and hold signs for him.
The real question is, who will Scott bring in to campaign for him. If Scott wants to win, he will have Rand Paul, front and center. I fear he will stand next to Chris Christie, which will be a mistake. McCain and Mitt for the primary, but Rand whenever he can.
Patrick says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/14/why-guns-and-abortion-should-worry-scott-brown-in-new-hampshire/?wprss=rss_campaigns&clsrd
danfromwaltham says
Washington Post is clueless. This isn’t the same NH Bob Smith represented. NH Republicans are not as dumb as those in Nevada or Missouri, who nominated horrible candidates.
Truth be told, Bob Smith will be a net positive for Brown. Smith and his views will make Scotto look moderate, sensible, and most important, electable.
Patrick says
http://nhgop.org/about/platform
Support the unborn child’s fundamental right to life and implement all possible legal protections
Encourage individuals and organizations who provide alternatives to abortion by meeting the needs of mothers through adoption, support, counseling and educational services
Require parental consent for minors seeking abortions, ban the use of public resources to fund or promote abortion, appoint judges who respect traditional families values and the sanctity of innocent life, and support similar efforts at the federal level
Recognize marriage as the legal union between one man and one woman
Maintain the fundamental role and responsibility of both parents in the care, upbringing and discipline of their children
Oppose euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
Oppose expanded gambling because of the negative social consequences
danfromwaltham says
This caught my eye “Work to reduce energy costs and remove New Hampshire from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative”. And this “Reject expanded casino and video lottery gambling as a means to balance the budget or increase spending”. I think Tom would like that one.
“Ensure that public employee benefits are similar to and do not exceed those of the private sector”. Now who put that in the platform b/c he/she deserves a hug.
I never read a party platform before, thanks for the link. One would hope Christopher, that a nominee is not required to believe 100% of their party’s platform. Are you telling me Shaheen believes 100% of the Dem platform, as if it’s a Bible or something?
Christopher says
I didn’t mention the platform, and I don’t believe that candidates will always adhere to it, but they should expect questions about it.
mike_cote says
BMG has been troll free for over a month, and now you go and wreak it. Things have been so calm and polite and productive. Why? Why?
jconway says
Matter a whole lot more to NH GOP voters than they do to MA ones. He will either have to flip flop (again) on one or more of those issues or stick to his guns and spend a lot of money and burn some bridges in the primary. Smith is a very unpopular and unloved former Senator though who lost in a primary to Sununu was their top recruit and plucking Brown from
another state is a sign if desperation . Also why all the trips to
Iowa and South Carolina if he wasn’t going to run for President?
mike_cote says
Pun Intended?
methuenprogressive says
One more loss and his political career is over. He’s positioning himself as a player a NH as a first step for a Presidential run.
jconway says
And not a moment too soon, dispelling the MSM’s crush on Scott Brown with the cold hard data that Shaheen is a clear favorite.
We should still volunteer, donate, and work incredibly hard to protect her, not just because we want to keep Scott Brown in particular and Republicans more broadly from the Senate, but also because she is a great Senator in her own right. But the wind is at our backs and it is up to us to protect this momentum and advantage. But don’t think Brown isn’t beatable-he most certainly is.
Christopher says
…the discussion turned to Brown’s “carpetbagging”. A commenter from MA pointed out that Brown wouldn’t be the only one crossing the border as many of us will follow him up there to make sure he is defeated.
abs0628 says
Previewing Senator Warren’s delightful barbs about Scott Brown at the Boston St. Pats Day breakfast on Sunday, several speakers at Malden St Pat’s breakfast on Saturday got huge & energetic cheers when they mentioned the prospect of going to NH to make sure Scotty loses again. 🙂
Patrick says
It’s been said that Baker needs everyone on board to win. If money and volunteers make their way to NH instead then surely that hurts him.
jconway says
Clearly Brown used the MA GOP and his supporters to advance his own ends. Voted more moderate than they would’ve wanted when he pivoted to the center in 12′ and is now jumping ship (and jumping the shark IMO) to an entirely different state. If I was a sincere MA conservative activist I wouldn’t give a dime or a second of my time to this clown. How would we feel if Deval ran against Ayotte or Collins?
jconway says
Browns presence on this ticket against Markey would’ve benefitted Baker. It’s not like he skipped a winnable race, he was just too lazy to go after Markey in either the special (closest election to the race he won) or in this general. Is be steaming mad if I was in the MA GOP-but all the ditto heads on RMG seem to love it as does our resident troll. They are so far gone they blame the state for their woes instead of looking in the mirror.