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Brown stands by supporting a tax-subsidized golf course over 9/11 rescue workers.
Posted: Jan 19, 2010
State Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate special election on Tuesday, voted on Oct. 17, 2001 to deny financial aid to Red Cross rescue workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts. As a state representative at the time, Brown was one out of only three legislators who had opposed the overwhelmingly bipartisan measure. As ThinkProgress reported on Saturday, at the same time Brown was voting against the 9/11 rescue workers bill, he sponsored House Bill 4423, a measure to provide a tax-subsidized bond to build a golf course in Newport, a town in his district. Brown, earlier this weekend, told ThinkProgress that he opposed the rescue worker money because of the state’s fiscal condition and because he had his own “priorities.” Given the revelation that Brown fought for a golf course over the rescue worker aid, ThinkProgress again approached Brown for comment today:
;TP: Mr. Brown, in 2001 when you voted against financial aid for 9/11 rescue workers, you were pushing a bill for a tax subsidized golf course in your district. Can you explain that?
BROWN: I’m not sure what you’re referring to. [...]
TP: Are you going to explain that vote?
BROWN: Number two, we were in a financial difficulty and we couldn’t afford it unfortunately.
TP: But you could afford a tax-subsidized bond for a golf course?
BROWN: We had to obviously take care of the people of Massachusetts who needed to stay employed.
The remainder of the article and accompanying video can be found at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/18/brown-golf-911/
Newport golf course - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Did he extend a lifetime gold membership to Rush? Sheesh. How could Olbermann have missed this in his irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees description?
Real nice. Your labeling is so typical. - Also, that stuff you guys said
[ In Reply To ..]about him turning away women from hospitals... blah blah("supporter of violence against women" as said above)... was an outright lie! I looked into this, and you twisted into something it was not at all. Figures, anything to win, even lying... must have learned it from Obama.
Ummm....what labeling. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]The comments were made by Olbermann. Don't shoot the messenger. I was just curious about how he could have missed it. He is usually meticulous and thorough in his commentary.
Voting records tell truths about the candidates that are very difficult to spin. Scott supported a tax-funded golf course in his hometown. Rush and Brown sound like birds of a feather with their contempt for the Red Cross. No labels needed.
Hope NJ does not mind if I copy her post from yesterday, which applies here:
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true..." MLK
If you respect Olbermann, that says a lot. Also, the left - has plenty of hate to go around, always.nm
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I respect fact over denial and not defending - the indefensible. nm
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Ha Ha Ha -as if Olbermann has anything to do with facts.nm - Fargo
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Excuse me, but the left severely "spinned" Brown's - record and lied. You gonna defend it?
[ In Reply To ..]He never agreed on turning away women who were raped. BIG FAT LIE! --totally distorted, but you would be fine with that, I suppose.
It is Brown supporters job to defend his voting record. - Not mine.
[ In Reply To ..]He voted yes on golf courses and no on Red Cross funding for 9/11 first responders. The King Phillip Regioal High School F-bomb incident was a tacky display of immaturity. The video of his supporting the t-bag curling iron statement speaks for itself, as does the hypocrisy of defending SP's unwed mother while making disparaging statements about Obama's mother and his behavior when confronted by reporters with these types of questions. Caught on tape. Dontcha just hate it when that happens?
I am not interested in tit-for-tat match. All I am saying is that the guy is not as clean and he would have us all believe.
Seems to be your job to trash his record, then? - Just keep hating, he may win anyway.nm
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He did it. I posted it. - This is not rocket science. nm
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you're right. It's just distortion.nm - mtt22
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Sure wish the likes of the folks at MSNBC - would follow the MLK quote
[ In Reply To ..]i.e., Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Schultz, et al, in all their ugliness, vile and extreme hatred, and it has been getting worse over the last few days.
No wonder their viewership is so poor. No one wants to hear it. As Joe Scarborough said about Olbermann's tirade, it is "sad and pathetic."
How come the liberals on this forum never point things out like this?
Yep, let them just keep digging their own graves. - Dallas
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And that goes double for Faux news! - Colleen
[ In Reply To ..]Personally,I would like to see ALL of the news stations stick to the news instead of all the pot-stirring and fear-mongering that goes on all over. Go back to the days where just reported the facts. Problem is, that means more companies owning the different stations instead of just 2 or 3 owning all of them, which would be just fine with me.
Objective reporting challenges us to make up our own minds. - Yes indeed. Those were the days.
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I dont watch Faux news. I do watch Fox news.nm - Dallas
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I have tuned in in the past just to see what the - Colleen
[ In Reply To ..]"other side" was saying and see if I could gleen any actual "facts" from it. Don't even try to go there with me. I watched for as long as my stomach could handle it, and more than once, and then I saw that they were just getting worse and worse, not better. Can't stand the stench so I do not watch it anymore. Probably as I imagine you do with MSNBC. One big difference is I admit that MSNBC is a more liberal station, while most people who watch Faux on a regular basis try and say that they are indeed "fair and balanced." You would have to be absolutely delusional to actually believe that. Deal with it, Dallas (or watcher,AzRain, AZMT,jlk or whoever you are. Don't much care)
This is Brown's tax supported golf course and withholding RC funds. - No comment?
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