“I didn’t go through his congressional record or roll call. I don’t have time for that. People don’t have time for that. I am interested if the guy is honest, that he has personal integrity.” How disappointing that the former Mayor of Boston doesn't think a Senator's votes are worthy of consideration. Brown's behavior in the campaign speaks volumes about his lack of integrity.

Most people today don't know who Ray Flynn WAS, or care.

RAY - SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!

Ray Who?

Ray Flynn is  DINO.  

 

Flynn cant get over his bromance for any male politician challenged by a strong woman.  He has a point about not being about 'party' ... he is all about men in control.  Bush, the Pope ... oh, and reproductive rights ... women should know their place which, for this has-been pol, is serving men.

Pathetic.

Very bad judgement call for Brown. Flynn is as stable the Long Island Bridge in Quincy.

Did I read this right?  Did Ray Flynn really admit that he never met Warren and knows nothing aout her? Isn't the point for anyone much less a pulic figure to get to know both candidates before making an endorsement.   I used to respect Flynn as a champion for the average working person.  If only he had done right by the citizens in getting to know both candidates equally before endorsing one or the other.  Sad and dissapointed in Ray Flynn.  He is revealing an ignorance that is stunning.  Has he no sense of the issues?  ...the economy?  ...equality?  The good 'ol boy networking is alive and well!  

 

So, Flynn admits he isn't even aware of the issues; he's just endorsing Brown because he's a "regular guy." Well, now I know why Flynn became irrelevant a long time ago; the man is clueless regarding the middle class and the struggles it is having with paying for education, health care, and finding decent employment for its young people graduating from college. Flynn's a guy that constantly needs attention. But when he emerges back on the scene every few years all he does is embarrass himself. Brown must be desperate if he's hanging with Flynn.

Interesting last line of the article there.   Hey Ray..  Maybe you should meet the lady and figure out whose street sweeper you want to hitch a ride on.  

Other commenters have already underlined Flynn's self-admitted ignorance and his apparent inability to deal with a competent woman. The similarities with Al Smith are interesting too. Once was the time Mr. Smith was a champion of Catholics and all hard working people struggling for a way out of their difficult circumstances. But he lost an election and the luster of his heroism began to fade. Roosevelt assumed the progressive mantle and actually did what Smith had promised to do. So Smith, embittered that no one continues to kiss his shrinking ring decides that he is against Roosevelt, against the New Deal, against everything that would benefit those he once championed. It is a sad story...as is Flynns's. A man once admired for his principles becomes a faded, shrinking presence who can say without a trace of self-awareness, Elizabeth Warren? The Democratic candidate? I don't know a thing about her...but I'm against her. Ignorance has become his proud calling card.

I didn't know Ray Flynn was still alive. 

Must be a South Boston thing.  All I see, living outside Boston, is an old punch-drunk politician whose time has come and gone, best remembered for his pub presence and constant cameo appearances on Boston TV before he became mayor.  Brown must see something different, or the same; pictures of dead people before they expire, STOCK bill that he thinks he wrote and memories of secret talks with Kings and Queens.  Usually Brown projects his failing reputation/image on exemplary people so that he can bask in the glow of their accomplishments, so different from his own, so this gambit sort of escapes me.

Criticise Flynn if you must, but this kind of cross party endorsement sure looks more like the seeds of bipartisanship.  There have been several other local Democrats endorsing Brown.  Interesting to watch the reactions.  "what is it?" "Bipartisanship! It looks like Democrats and Republicans agreeing in some areas".  "we have to kill it before it spreads.  First lable any of the apostats as turncoats, then we begin the character assasination.  Hopefully, we can stop this kind of getting along before it spreads into the Senate".

Flynn has never been aware of the issues even when he was in office.  It's obvious why he likes Brown, he's a white guy.  He's probably voting for Romney for the same reason.

Parade o' dinosaurs. Linking his campaign with these oldsters underscores that Scott Brown is another nostalgia candidate, preaching that we CAN turn back the clock to the good ole days, when life was so much simpler. Only it really wasn't like that in truth, to lots of people, especially women and minorities. Notice Brown doesn't have any commercials with currently elected Democrats saying, "Heck, yeah, vote for Scott." No, they can see through Barncoat Brown, unlike the cataract-crusted eyes of the Ray Flynns of the world. And of course, Flynn, dreaming of his "legacy", relishes this ego-driven chance at "one more hurrah", just like he dreams of a Southie that's been gone for decades. Sad, truly sad.

In 1989 when workers from New England Telephone were on a 4-month strike to preserve their medical coverage, Flynn had a staff member at city hall who was on the payroll of the telephone company. Naturally, Flynn supported NET. Forget the working-class South Boston stuff. Flynn had no integrity then and he has none now.

 

This is the same Ray Flynn who backed Cardinal Law through the abuse scandal If Flynn ever had any credibility it was lost then. His endorsement is worthless.

It took me almost ten minutes to read that article and alas, I'll never get that time back. Wasted into the dust of eternity.

Take away: Ray Flynn "from South Boston" endorses "good guy" Scott Brown without ever looking at Brown's voting record, "I don't have time for that," and doesn't "know the first thing about Elizabeth Warren. It's a Catholic thing apparently -the whole wasting your vote based on knowing nothing about nothing. Massachusetts voters are highly encouraged to do the same.

Endorsements are largely meaningless unless the endorser brings votes.  The three voters Raybo may influence were already voting for Brown.  Tommy Menino doesn't like to lose.  He will crush Brown in Boston.  Count on it!  Which endorsement would you prefer?

RAY FLYNN ON ELIZABETH WARREN: "I don’t know the first thing about her."_______ Apparently, sir.

RAY FLYNN? Give us break. He is a non entity. Tomy Menino is the man who runs this city professionally. Ray Flynn ran it into the ground while he was out either jogging or drinking to excess @ JJ Foley's. This guy has NO idea about Liz Warren because he is a dope who has been in a stupor while Liz has been fighting for US in Washington against big money republicans and wall street, who stole our retirement money during George Bush's last 2 years in office. The so called Democrats for Brown are a bunch of folks who live in a fantasy world thinking Brown will help them. He was a do nothing state rep/sen who each time voted against the working class and union members.

So. Flynn is saying that he endorses Brown because has has "character" but can't name any issues and says he knows nothing about Elizabeth Warren.

What kind of character supports the Repub agenda and where is the regular guy in that?  It's as vague,cryptic and deceptive as Romney's campaign.Why would someone who says he's for the regular guy support the Ryan budget plan which would be devastating for regular people.?

Elizabeth Warren has my trust and support even more after seeing these convoluted statements by Flynn and the posing by Brown.Everytime he says "bipartisan" he loses more credubility.Those who have seen his voting record know otherwise and    yes, Democratic control of the Senate is crucial for those of us who care re our fellow Americans.

Thank God for Menino,Dukakis, Frank etc, those who really care and are appropriately alarmed by Repub campaigning.

Ray Flynn-- Cardinal Law's biggest defender during the pedophile crisis, now champions Scott Brown because he's a "regular guy" despite knowing nothing about Elizabeth Warren.  I think Ray Flynn simply knows nothing.

I always thought Ray Flynn seemed a little wonky.

Raybo is about as relevant as a manual typewriter this week: formerly useful but now a relic.

Flynn has been a Democrat in name only for years now;  Scott Brown is welcome to him and his endorsement, and Mike Dukakis is right about this: this is a different guy, a turncoat, no true colors here.

Ambassador to Ireland, my fooT! Endorsed Bush--does he think that makes him some sort of blueblood?

Raybo has suffered mightily and Brown is his chance for revenge.  Don't be fooled, Boston!

Raybo is about as relevant as a manual typewriter this week: formerly useful but now a relic.

Flynn has been a Democrat in name only for years now;  Scott Brown is welcome to him and his endorsement, and Mike Dukakis is right about this: this is a different guy, a turncoat, no true colors here.

Ambassador to Ireland, my fooT! Endorsed Bush--does he think that makes him some sort of blueblood?

Raybo has suffered mightily and Brown is his chance for revenge.  Don't be fooled, Boston!

One has to love famus raymus for endorsing the boy senator. Why? Because as others have written below....flynn has been MIA for decades. The boy senator....desparate for any kind of vote is dusting off relics that no one remembers. And that is the crux of what we have here...a whining, crybaby, amateur trying to pretend he is one of the big boys. One has to wonder who l'il scotty will dredge up next? One guy I would love to have around would be Dapper O'Neill who would not be afraid to give flynn a figurative slap upside the head for this dalliance with a boy who has no business representing our state in Washington.

Getting Ray Flynn's endorsement doesn't take much, does it?  He didn't look into Scott Brown's record, and he _admits_ he doesn't know anything about Warren.  So what on earth is the guy endorsing?

Flynn, a traito to the Democrat party! Take ur Brown BS and Cathloic crap to the Vatican! OHH u already,

did that! U won't review his Congtessional record, BUT he's a god guy?

Flynn go on a Pilgrimage, to Yemen!

Ray Flynn is a has been, the same as Scott Brown being an empty suit.

 

Watch the next 3 debates, and it will become obvious.

Ray Flynn is a has been, the same as Scott Brown being an empty suit.

 

Watch the next 3 debates, and it will become obvious.

im·plic·it /imˈplisit/   Adjective:

1. Implied though not plainly expressed: "implicit criticism".

This is exactly the criticism that has been used against Warren by both Brown and Flynn, since it would be too difficult to find details that would incite voters against her.

what???

Speaking to Boston's 96.9 FM radio program "Jim and Margery" on Monday, Democratic Senate challenger Elizabeth Warren admitted that she is not licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.

According to reports from listeners, she claimed that she does not maintain a law practice. She also "said that she gave up her New Jersey  license because she could not keep up with the Continuing Education requirements," according to one listener who commented on Breitbart's Monday story, "Does Elizabeth Warren Have a Law License Problem?".

Ms. Warren's statement comes as a surprise to the many clients she's provided legal services to over the past decade, including the law firm of Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett, which listed her as "of counsel" in the 2009 brief they submitted to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of their client, Travelers Insurance.