Two months before a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy was implicated in a nationwide meningitis outbreak, Senator Scott Brown signed a letter with 10 other senators calling for looser regulations on the distribution of certain drugs that would have opened the way to more bulk sales to doctors.
The industry has come under heavy scrutiny after a Framingham compounding pharmacy was linked to the outbreak that has killed 14 people and sickened at least 170.
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QUID PRO QUO. $10,000 in campaign donations to Scott Brown in return for trying to weaken the regulations concerning these compounding pharmacies. That's the way it works here in America. Businesses buy off those politicians who can influence their regulators. Brown says there is no connection, but then he has given the $10,000 to some charity to try to wash his hands of it. He seems to think that there is a connection. We wonder how the people who have contracted meningitis and those who have lost family members to this company feel about the donations and about Scott Brown for helping this company evade oversight. Shame on you, Scott Brown. How many other quid pro quos are there like this that we don't know about?
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