At least two Republican staffers, including a member of Scott Brown’s US Senate office, apparently mocked Elizabeth Warren’s claims to Native American ancestry by making tomahawk chops and war whoops outside one of Brown’s campaign events in Dorchester, according to a video filmed by the state Democratic Party.
In the video, filmed by a Democratic tracker on Saturday outside a Brown event at the Eire Pub, the staffers can be heard whooping and seen making the tomahawk motions amid a crowd of boisterous supporters of both candidates. The state Democratic Party identified the staffers as Brad Garnett, who works for the Massachusetts Republican Party, and Jack Richard, a constituent services lawyer in Brown’s US Senate office.
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Scott Brown is a slick willie BS artist who tells you what you want to hear>
As opposed to the layer of the intellectual foundation for OWS... oh wait, she denies that now.
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Here is the link
Scott Brown staffers do “Indian war whoop”, “tomahawk chop Blue Mass Group | Scott Brown staffers do “Indian war whoop”, “tomahawk chop” – YouTubehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2012/09/scott-brown-staffers-do-indian-war-whoop-tomahawk-chop-youtube/
Is this Scott 's defining moment?
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Subordinate behavior flows from the top.
Does this apply to the president as well?
Uh oh, will all Warren's followers make a mockery of affirmative action?
Brown has responded: "The real offense is that (Warren) said she was white and then checked the box saying she is Native American, and then she changed her profile in the law directory once she made her tenure." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/scott-brown-elizabeth-warren-native-american_n_1912920.html
Very good point!
Brown has responded: -- "The real offense is that (Warren) said she was white and then checked the box saying she is Native American, and then she changed her profile in the law directory once she made her tenure." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/scott-brown-elizabeth-warren-native-american_n_1912920.html
How true.. Thank you for pointing that out to everybody.
It is a legitimate issue, but the news media hasn't mentioned Browns racist remark during the debates, made at least twice, pointing out to the audience that Warren doesn't look like an American Indian. The war whoops and tomahawk chops are further evidence of his insensitivity.
Sensitivity is about having good manners and civility, and it costs nothing.
Warren "my grandfather had high cheekbones, like all the Indians do".
That would be acceptable because she was talking about herself and her family.
The difference was that Brown was using a racist comment to ridicule someone who may indeed have an American Indian heritage. There has been no proof, but likewise there has been no disproof. That means people can think what they want, or reserve judgement as I have.
I'm still a supporter of Senator Brown but he really needs to let this issue go. It's getting old and should remind us that the old addage "if you can't outsell the other 'guy', undersell 'him' ". He'll lose ground with his base. Drop this and sell what you have done and will do, Scott. Don't become a muck raker.
I'm an independent who will be voting for Senator Brown and I think its very important to pursue this issue. She lied to advantage herself and has given nothing but lame excuses ever since she was outed. Her first claim was that she wanted to meet others just like her but when members of the Cherokee nation wanted to meet with her to discuss her heritage, she denied them twice. The #1 qualifier for anyone running for public office should be INTEGRITY and she has failed miserably.
Another commentator said (and I agree) that anyoner this issue was important to, on either side, has already made up their mind because it's nothing new. I think he's wasting time and money with it.
A disclaimer: I will likely vote for Warren because my political views are somewhat liberal and I definitely don't want Republicans controlling the Senate. If the Senate wasn't at stake, I would consider Brown a legitimate choice.
I agree that this issue has run its course. The issues of middle class and working class people having their benefits messed with by Warren's lawyering should be enough of a reason not to vote for her.
Just saw the video. Two sign holders are "staffers" who are supposed to define Brown and the campaign? As I said - the issue is not as important as others - but to characterize someone as racist from two sign holders. I doubt they are part of the campaign strategy committee.
It's not just the situation. It's Scott Brown's reaction that she had it coming to her. What a jerk.
This happened outside a Brown event, and Warren people were there? Pretty mild stuff.
It's not about the confrontation. It's about what it reveals about the campaign. The ture, really not very nice Scott Brown, is coming to the front. We saw it first in the debate, then in the liawatha ad, now this. Way overplayed.
Has he really done so little that THIS is the focus of his campaign? It appears so.
Well when his oponent has done so little, and has no on anything except claiming she is a native american, what else can he focus on? She has no record of anything except promoting herself falsely.
Dastardly conduct. They should be scalped. Call the PC police.
Dastardly conduct. They should be scalped. Call the PC police.
Nice! "Scalped", however I am not sure many of the posters will get it..
Dastardly conduct. They should be scalped. Call the PC police.
What's appalling is that Elizabeth Warren has the nerve to complain about this when she lied about being Native American in order to secure a $350,000 Ivy League teaching job! Leave it to the mainstream media to be in collusion with the Warren campaign: No mention of the fact that the dozens of hired gun Warren protestors were disrupting a Brown event, shouting some pretty offensive comments of their own. By all means, let's distract from Warren's shameful record of sticking it to asbestos victims and coal miners by feigning shock at this routine campaign trash talk. Here's a tip, Ms. Warren: If you don't want to be ridiculed, don't engage in behavior worthy of ridicule.
Sorry for multiple posts; kept getting error messages!
If you're going to say something libelous and racist, might as well keep repeating it. That way there's no question what you are....
What's appalling is that Elizabeth Warren has the nerve to complain about this when she lied about being Native American in order to secure a $350,000 Ivy League teaching job! Leave it to the mainstream media to be in collusion with the Warren campaign: No mention of the fact that the dozens of hired gun Warren protestors were disrupting a Brown event, shouting some pretty offensive comments of their own. By all means, let's distract from Warren's shameful record of sticking it to asbestos victims and coal miners by feigning shock at this routine campaign trash talk. Here's a tip, Ms. Warren: If you don't want to be ridiculed, don't engage in behavior worthy of ridicule.
Do you have any evidence at all that what you say is the case? Otherwise it's called libel.
I do love that Brown supporters are all about the racism now. Those minorities are just asking for it, right?
Libel is what people are going to do.... ie they are "libel" to vote for Scott Brown.
What's appalling is that Elizabeth Warren has the nerve to complain about this when she lied about being Native American in order to secure a $350,000 Ivy League teaching job! Leave it to the mainstream media to be in collusion with the Warren campaign: There's no mention of the fact that the dozens of hired gun Warren protestors were disrupting a Brown event, shouting some pretty offensive comments of their own. By all means, let's distract from Warren's shameful record of sticking it to asbestos victims and coal miners by feigning shock at this routine campaign trash talk. Here's a tip, Ms. Warren: If you don't want to be ridiculed, don't engage in behavior worthy of ridicule.
Fantasy and really pathetic.
THe only thing that is pathetic is that "Pocahontas" Warren tried claimed to Native American to further her career
Lizzie honey, you're not even a Native American so why should you care?
So, you're saying racism is OK if it's not aimed at you? Nicely played!
p.s. I love that you manage to be both sexist and racist in one post. You Brown supporters are just super classy.
Really Ms. Warren? Serious consequences? Your Dem friends have been all over Romney and his religion, where are the consequences?
Harry Reid falsley accused Romney of not paying his taxes - where are the consequences?
You practice law in MA without a license - where are the consequences?
Care to provide an example of Ms. Warren attacking Romney's religion? Or a prominent Dem, for that matter.
Stealing Native American heritage and claiming it as your own --- What are the consquences?
I think we know what that secret meeting between Scott Brown and Karl Rove was about now.
Scott "Birther" Brown has shown his true racist colors -- "look at her, she's not a minority." Brown is competing with his apparent mentor, The Donald, at being the best mudslinger he can be. Watching his campaign implode will not be pretty, but I think his time on the Senate stage is just about up. Elizabeth Warren will be a great U.S. Senator.
The only racoist is Elizabeth Warren. She stole her race... Native American that is..
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As attorney Joseph Welch said to then Senator Joseph McCarthy, 3/16/1954, "Senator.......Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" Scott Brown, Mr Nice Guy, by excusing this disgusting behavior as somehow OK because Warren has claimed something that he doesn't believe, descends down to the level of Todd Akins, of legitimite rape notoriety. Brown and his Tea Party Republicans should be careful for what they wish for.
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The behavior in the video is very much an example of 'taking the low road', and I would expect someone who is both an incumbent Senator and a Colonel in our Armed Forces to demand a higher standard. 'Appalled' is a bit of an over-reaction, but I can understand the impulse on both sides to milk things. I have yet to be convinced that 'none of the above' isn't the best choice in this campaign.
Brown staffers act stupidly, Brown says he disapproves. Warren 'rigs the system' of affirmative action, denys a spot to actual minorities, cooperates with Harvard to falsify Federal diversity documents, lies to us all. No comparison.
She has no record except for her self promotion. She has no issues except calling out his voting record, which he has no apologies for and shouldn't.. It is clear that she will lose. Only desperation from her camp at this point.
Brown staffers act stupidly, Brown says he disapproves. Warren 'rigs the system' of affirmative action, denys a spot to actual minorities, cooperates with Harvard to falsify Federal diversity documents, lies to us all. No comparison.
Elizabeth Warren abusing native americans, by stealing their heritage and big government that she so wants to enlarge responsible for their decimation. I think there is a theme here.
Nowhere in The Globe's, ah, report does the vital information appear that, while this had been a Brown campaign event, opposing demonstrators from the Warren camp has gathered outside the bar and had become quite, um, vocal. I happened to see TV news and it was clear that the two forces were interacting on the street. Had the Warrenites not crashed the party, there would surely have been no whooping and chopping. But it does make good partisan theatre for a highly partisan newspaper. "Warren stunned." But then isn't that how she always looks?