WRENTHAM — Scott Brown is at the stove, preparing bacon and cheese omelets, tossing eggshells into the sink with scarcely a glance, each one a perfect shot. Gail Huff is at the breakfast table, reminiscing about her early days as a TV reporter, talking up her husband’s cooking. But the star of the show is the fridge.
A standard issue side-by-side model, nearly every inch of its face is plastered with snapshots and magnets, children’s drawings and certificates of achievement, ticket stubs and local press clippings. The collaged photos show daughters Ayla and Arianna through the years — Girl Scouts, Little League, prom night, college — but there are glimpses of Brown and Huff, too.
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I can't believe the subject and length of this puff piece. With all the serious issues facing our country, we should be reading about Brown's policies and proposed solutions to significant problems. Rather, we are subjected to the Browns interactions over breakfast and the progress of Ayla's singing career with the compulsory mention of American Idol thrown in. This is the very core of what's wrong with politics. It's about popularity contests, gender roles, fluff and looks over substance, as Brown's TV commercials confirm.
...this PR piece just makes me feel so good about about this family man and I feel like i now want to vote for this guy. That was the purpose, right?
Scott Brown has a nice family and a loving relationship with his wife according to his advertisements. I will give him the benefit of the doubt on that unlike his uncalled for criticism of his opponent's family and her physical appearance. He sort of fails in the being a gentleman department. He redefines "rock throwing" as proper differences over substantive issues. He also defines well respected Harvard professors with major academic contributions to the country as elitists. He acts as if they live in some netherlands when they are in fact taxpayers and have families just like the rest of us. Since he will not speak publicly about his vision for this country, a perusal of his website gives some hints of what direction he favors for this country. He is deeply embedded in trickle down theory and will cut taxes with more upside for the wealthiest, and slash programs for the elderly, the poor, and those who are down on their economic luck through no fault of their own. He wants a big military budget, wants to buy unneeded military hardware, wants to continue and enhance subsidies to ethically challenged financiers(the ones that don't understand what harm they do or simply don't care) and highly profitable oil companies. His foreign policy is hawkish with an over dependence on the military instead of statesmanship. He feigns interest in health insurance reform but gets strong backing from for profit insurers and of course Wall St gamblers who want to ensure the unseemly gains of the for profit health insurance companies. He will have a vote for a Supreme Court Justice although this is not mentioned on the website, but his is an unsure vote for that high office. We have already seen he favors employers's whims over the real health needs of people, especially women and is no friend of working people. In short he seems to be believe the policies of a more ancient world should trump present realities. The Commonwealth is a prosperous, highly educated state(third and first respectively) that has a strong tradition of moving in the direction of broadening opportunity for all its citizens. His votes in Congress have sided with Mitch McConnell 75% of the time showing he is no bipartisan, but a dyed in the wool conservative(thankfully not radical) Republican who make getting ahead in this country an unwarranted obstacle course. This country voted for change but obstructive Republicans legislators stood in its way. Sen Brown was part of that crowd and then his campaign misleadingly says, "He's for us." His record does not match this self serving political rhetoric. If I'm wrong about all this he can finally face public questioning to clear up what he really stands for.
The Globe can't even do a puff piece on Sen. Brown with out resorting to some king of innuendo. "After visiting a Dorchester construction supplier for a small business round-table, he toured a Canton brewery , when his unfiltered comments to a reporter and breezy driving after a taste test would later stir controversy". What were the unfiltered comments? It would be nice to make up my own mind about controversial. Is the breezy driving comment a reference to the accident that the senator was involved in? If I remember the story correctly a man delivering food for a pizza shop cut off the suv that the senator was a passenger in the senator WAS NOT DRIVING HIS AIDE WAS. Or is the Globe by Innuendo trying to imply that the junior senator of this state was drunk driving?
Actually- I liked this piece. I would like to see a similar one done on Liz Warren. What does her house look like? What is on her fridge? Does her husband fold the clothes? Who cooks in her house? Where does she live? Cambridge ,near Harvard? Who is her family? I have not seen any family photos. Let's face it- you run for office, your family runs for office. Where are they? Do they support her? Nice piece Globe- Now do it for Warren.
Again the Globe runs an unpaid political ad for Brown. Political fluff instead of serious analysis. Or even semi-serious analysis. I justbdo notninderstand why the Globe feels it has to pander like this. There are serious, important issues tomexplore and realities to describe. Why not try that for a change?
Scott seems to spend way more time on his image than he works for us. I would like a refund.
I think these Scott Brown ads have unsettled Democrats. if you were unaware that the candidate was Republican, you'd swear from the tone of the ads that he was Democrat.
That's nice. Now how about he does something for women who are not related to him? Oh, right--never mind. We already know what he thinks about the rest of the women in Massachusetts. He supported the Blunt Amendment that would allow employers to deny contraception coverage. He shot down equal pay. But maybe if he just makes me pancakes and folds my clothes...
Eric Moscowitz, what were you thinking? Did they make you write this article? What a waste of time and effort at such an important time. Front page news, indeed!! American Idol. I just can't believe it. Please spare me the follow up about Elizabeth Warren's hairdresser. Is this the campaign? Vote for Brown because his wife and kids love him and he makes scrambled eggs. Don't vote for Warren because she is smart, worked hard all her life, and understands public policy issues. I have read the Gloce all my life. What a disgrace. P.S. Do you know where she gets her hair cut? I do love it.
We have the Equal Pay act, it's been law since 1963, how many more do we need. If we enforce the laws already on the books it would mean less new legislation. This war on women is nothing more than a political ploy to get the vote, not hard to see through it. The republican swill use this same tactic to inform people about the largest TAX increase in the history of our country, over and over and over again.
The Globe once was a paper of consequence....sad decline.
My mistake on my previous comments. The story was not referencing the accident the senator was in. Thank you pencilthinmustache for pointing out my error.
I guess Scott Brown realized that the "barn coat and pick-up truck" populist strategy from his last campaign is not going to work this time so he thinks he'll use his family this time, because what the country needs right now is a good husband that knows how to cook. He can't run a campaign on his record because it clearly shows where he really stands, an agenda to protect big banks, big oil companies and not the middle class.
Do my fellow posters object to puff pieces about Michelle Obama planting organic gardens or the President walking the dog? I doubt it. You are simply perplexed that Senator Brown is portrayed as a human being instead of a GOP vampire.
Enough is enough with the Scott Brown puff-pieces. A better use of your front-page space would be to let more readers know how hard he worked to ensure that our government helps more predators like Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase lose OUR money rather than their own. Or to explain again the Blunt Amendment that he SPONSORED would have hurt EVERY working woman. This fawning garbage is nauseating.
I am perplexed that the Globe helps Scott Brown HIDE his voting record, while working hard to reinforce the messaging of his most recent ad campaign. If Eric Moskowitz worked for the Scott Brown campaign, this would be fine. Last time I checked, Mr. Moskowitz has a different employer.
Michelle Obama is the wife of the president. Big difference- She is not voting against woman and for big banks and Wall St. Brown is and it is his record we need to explore--not more "I'm so pretty" pieces.
I have no objection to him parading his family around, but he's the one running for the Senate, not them. Whatever his wife and daughters say and do has nothing to do with the issues of the campaign. I definitely think his wife is in a conflict-of-interest situation, though, whether she acknowledges it or not. People involved in political campaigns should not be in the news gathering business. It's a little worrisome that Senator Brown can't see that conflict.
I think these Scott Brown ads have unsettled Democrats. if you were unaware that the candidate was Republican, you'd swear from the tone of the ads that he was Democrat.
Wonder if Scotty-boy cooked up an omelet or two for those kings and queens and prime ministers he claimed to be secretly hobnobbing with. Was his buddy Jeff Perry waiting table and doing the dishes afterwards? Wow, this is great stuff and we can only guess at just how important Little Scotty must be to mingle with all those royal elites...dunno if that points to the average-Joe status that Scotty claims, buy hey, he's a Republican and The Mittster already told us it was perfectly OK for Republicans to lie. Who knew?
We're not electing a good father, husband or centerfold. We need a candidate w/ ideas. I don't care about Brown's family. His votes in Congress do not represent me. I'll vote for Elizabeth Warren and avoid these puff pieces.
Scott Brown is the real deal; Elizabeth Warren has lost her credibility. Martha Coakley thought just repeating Republican Scott Brown..... would work well with the many democrats in Mass. It did not, won't work for the fake indian either. Can you say Senator Brown for 6 more years!
Does Scott Brown have a political philosophy? A record? Or is he hoping we will vote for him because he's a minor celebrity (the nude photo, the news-wife, the half court shot, etc.)? Once again, the Globe enables Brown's shallow, substance-free campaign.
I am stunned at the STUPID campaign Scott Brown is running. I DON'T CARE if he does the laundry!!! I care that he voted for the Blount Amendment and against unemployment benefits. I loathe that he voted to rein in the banks & then tried to gut all the new rules. He is an empty barn coat, an opportunist and bad for Massachusetts & the country.