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Brown aide calls ancestry issue test of Warren’s integrity

US Senator Scott Brown has turned questions over Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry into a key strategy, to the exclusion of nearly all others, in his bid to retain his Senate seat. Almost every day for more than two weeks, the Brown campaign, or a Republican surrogate, has highlighted the latest bit of news to emerge on the subject, often citing articles on conservative websites in a bid to coax more coverage from the mainstream media.

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