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News Economy Thursday, Jan 19 2012

Boston Globe: Senator Scott Brown’s Crass Warfare

Jan 19, 2012

On January 18, 2012, Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory wrote:

An “elitist hypocrite,’’ senator? Really?

Scott Brown is always agitated over something these days, though rarely anything having to do with, say, the miserable economy, or inequitable tax rates, or the total inability of our federal officials to actually get anything done.

Now he seems to be fuming that his main Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, has done pretty well for herself financially.

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If I’m correctly reading Brown’s bizarre logic, Warren is guilty of being a class traitor? She shouldn’t be able to make money because she grew up relatively poor? Or once she did make money, she should have become an advocate for the rich?

Read the full column here.


Published: Jan 19, 2012

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