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The closer we get to Election Day, the more misleading Republican Scott Brown’s rhetoric gets. Facing a large deficit among female voters, Brown is simply Etch-A-Sketching his anti-woman record. Watch and Share our 1-minute video, setting the record straight.
Republican Scott Brown claims to be pro-choice, but he received an 80% ANTI-choice approval rating from the National Right to Life Committee.
Republican Scott Brown claims to support women’s health care, but he co-sponsored the anti-woman Blunt Amendment, which would have allowed a woman’s employer to deny her coverage for basic health care provisions – including contraceptive care and preventive cancer screenings – for effectively any reason.
Republican Scott Brown claims to be for equal pay, but he joined his right-wing Republican colleagues to filibuster and kill the Paycheck Fairness Act. Adding insult to injury, Brown called the Equal Pay measure a “burden.”
Republican Scott Brown can spout all the misleading rhetoric he wants over the next two weeks, but words can’t erase his votes against women. Help hold Brown accountable by: e-mailing the link to the video to your family and friends, Sharing the video on Facebook, and Re-Tweeting the video on Twitter.
Brown voted against Paycheck Fairness twice — once in 2010 and once in 2012. Hard to say you believe in something when you vote against it twice.
Time, again, for one of my favorite political quotes of this election cycle on Scott Brown’s record versus rhetoric (from an August 2012 Globe story):
Cite: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/08/23/leading-antiabortion-group-support-scott-brown-calling-him-senator-who-votes-pro-life/8j60cusmfbgonUFy6RkexO/story.html
what that gooey drivel on the front page of today’s Globe was all about? Are they completely in the tank for the “Cosmo Boy?” And this Sally Jacobs person must have had several sessions on the fainting couch while writing this empty-headed tripe. People magazine could use her.
Oh I got the few (damn few) subtle jabs toward the end about him being a creature of the marketplace and having an “agenda”, but should THAT be the story?
Honestly, what does Cosmo Boy’s modeling years have to do with crafting good legislation for Massachusetts and the country?
but shouldn’t THAT be the story?
Fluff, yes. Calling out Scott on his blatant misrepresentation of their own front page article? They’ll get to it after about seven weeks.
the Globe’s Stephanie Ebbert recently tweeted out “her latest installment in the lives of the Senate candidates. Family long a bedrock for Elizabeth Warren.”
Globe story is here.
Bitch of the Day Award to former Lowell mayor Rita Mercier, who told a Brown rally “I didn’t even know if she had a family because I didn’t know where they were.” In fact, Warren’s husband has been on the trail regularly (I saw him in Shelburne Falls on Sunday). Her brothers live in Oklahoma and her kids both live in California. Some people don’t pimp out their progeny.
Second prize to the article’s author, who sprinkles the piece with “gotcha” crap like this:
Today’s pap about Elizabeth Warren is just as revolting as yesterday’s about Scott Brown. The Globe buries substantive coverage of real issues deep in the bowels of the A section (or worse), covers its front page with vapid pap, and then editorializes about the shallowness of the debate.
Papers this bad deserve to die, no matter how glorious their history.
Brown is not the pro-choice candidate. That’s why they’re sending this mailer out to voters here in Mass. Here’s the reverse.
I wonder how they’re targeting these (I sure haven’t gotten one) but I can’t imagine Scott wants too many undecided younger women seeing them.