Scott Brown On The Issues
Scott Brown Would Endanger Granite Staters’ Access to Health Care
- Brown supports repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would strip coverage from over 62,000 Granite Staters and eliminate protections for more than 572,000 people with pre-existing conditions.
Scott Brown Is Ready To Cut Social Security
- Brown has long supported cutting Social Security and Medicare, calling it a “mandate” to go after earned benefits – putting nearly 334,000 Granite Staters who rely on Social Security at risk.
Scott Brown Works For Donald Trump, Not New Hampshire
- Brown applauded veterans being fired.
- Brown applauded extremists like anti-vax conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. and unqualified Trump loyalist Pete Hegseth – boasting that he even “prepared” Hegseth for the job.
- As a Trump ambassador, Brown was investigated for inappropriate behavior and formally counseled on his conduct.
Scott Brown Represents Special interests, Not New Hampshire
- Behind the scenes, Brown is funded by Big Tech interests to fight antitrust laws, while publicly hawking sketchy diet pills to unsuspecting consumers.
- Brown promoted climate denial, falsely claiming the science “is not proven.”
POLITICO: Brown Pays Own Daughter To Sing
On February 3, 2012, POLITICO reported:
he Brown campaign made three payments to Ambient Entertainment, the company that represents Ayla Brown, since the end of 2010 — $5,000 on Dec. 3, 2010, $500 on Oct. 5, 2011 and $4,000 on Dec. 7, 2011, for a grand total of $9,500, according to 2010 and 2011 FEC filings.
Boston Globe: Scott Brown’s Daughter Was Paid $9,500 To Sing At Campaign Events
On February 3, 2012, the Boston Globe reported:
Family members often help out on campaigns, stuffing envelopes, making phone calls, and smiling on stage. Usually, it’s for free. Senator Scott Brown’s campaign has spent $9,500 since December 2010 to pay his daughter to sing at three campaign events, including a pair of Christmas parties.
Boston Globe: Senator Scott Brown’s Crass Warfare
On January 18, 2012, Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory wrote:
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?
POLITICO: Mitt Romney and Scott Brown: Too close for comfort
On December 2, 2011, POLITICO reported:
Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have plenty in common, most notably that they’re Republicans from Massachusetts. But they also like to tell similar jokes about how the other one is cuter and more popular.
iWatch News: K Street, Wall Street line up behind Sen. Scott Brown in his race against Elizabeth Warren
On December 2, 2011, iWatch News reported:
Financial service lobbyists and other K Street advocates have for weeks been working hard to help the freshman senator win his high-stakes battle for re-election against Elizabeth Warren, a liberal Harvard law professor. Warren is anathema for many finance-sector lobbyists and Wall Street leaders who abhor the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau— a centerpiece of the financial services overhaul—of which Warren was the intellectual architect.
Huffington Post: Scott Brown Held Bank Of America Stock While Advocating For Big Banks
On November 17, 2011, the Huffington Post reported:
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) positioned himself as a clean-government advocate this week, co-sponsoring the STOCK Act, which is designed to halt insider trading-like activity by members of Congress. But Brown's financial disclosure records show that he has been a large investor in Bank of America, GE and Exxon-Mobil throughout his time in the Senate -- even as he secured lucrative legislative protections for the nation’s biggest banks, trading houses and oil companies. What's more, under Brown's new good-government legislation, this type of activity would still be permitted...
VIDEO: Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch
As you surely saw yesterday, Scott Brown's allies released a video titled "Matriarch of Mayhem" seeking to tie Elizabeth Warren to the most extreme elements of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
If Massachusetts Republicans believe speaking approvingly about a large movement's underlying values ties someone to that movement's most extreme elements, they should have no problem with this video we just put together.
Here is American Bridge's newest video: "Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch."
Boston Globe: Senator Scott Brown branded ‘Tea Party Patriarch’ by liberal group
On October 28, 2011, the Boston Globe reported:
"A day after a Republican video mocked Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren as the “Matriarch of Mayhem” for claiming significant credit for the Occupy Wall Street movement, a Democratic leaning political action committee has released “Scott Brown: Tea Party Patriarch.” The liberal video uses similar production techniques as the conservative video -- splicing images of Brown, a Republican senator, making sympathetic comments about the Tea Party movement, with footage of the movement’s most radical elements played over ominous music. [...] The video is being released by American Bridge 21st Century. It’s president, Rodell Mollineau, said in a statement that the video is “a warning that unfair, inflammatory, and inaccurate attacks will not go unanswered.”
Boston Globe: Brown stumps for cash in Texas
On October 26, 2011, the Boston Globe reported:
Senator Scott Brown sought help from the deep pockets of Texas earlier this week to raise money for what is expected to be a tough and expensive reelection campaign. On Monday, two prominent Houston GOP boosters hosted a reception and dinner for Brown and Texas Senator John Cornyn, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Yesterday, Brown held a luncheon at the San Antonio Country Club. Brown’s campaign declined to provide details about his visit to the Lonestar State...
Huffington Post: Scott Brown’s Campaign Pays Operatives With History of Bareknuckle Politics
On October 19, 2011, the Huffington Post reported:
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is paying tens of thousands of dollars to campaign consultants and fundraisers with histories of playing hardball, a review of the senator's federal election filing reveals.