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Analysis backs Scott Brown’s bipartisan claims

Senator Scott Brown has a new piece of evidence to bolster his argument that he is more than willing to cross party lines in the Senate.

Brown, a Republican who is locked in a tough reelection battle with Democrat Elizabeth Warren, is pointing to an analysis that found that, when the parties have split in the Senate, he has voted with Democrats 53 percent of the time since January 2011.

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Arlen Spector was hailed as a biparisan, but Brown gets pummeled....

Brown votes with Democrats on inconsequential matters, but Republican on the important things.

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and Warren will vote lockstep w/ Harry Reid.

I do not usually read Howie Carr, but happened to see and read this yesterday:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061167516

A great take down of Warren

more intolerance from the left (but you will not see it reported here)

Via Boston Herald (

 

A group with the startling moniker “Obama Supporters for Brown” showed up in Dudley Square yesterday — and were hit with an apparent racist slur from a group of Warren backers — while organizers acknowledged they were paying modest “per diems” to homeless people and others to wear the T-shirts in an area where civic leaders have come out strong for Elizabeth Warren.

Benjamin Thompson, 65, a former city elections commissioner under former Mayor Raymond L. Flynn — who recently endorsed Brown — is running “Obama Supporters for Brown” out of a storefront on Blue Hill Avenue.

“We want to let black people know that they actually have an option. This state is controlled by the Democrats to the extent that before we came here on Thursday the Warren office was closed every day,” Thompson said….

Last night, people held Warren signs across the street from the Brown campaign office, and one shouted: “You know those field people and those house people. This election is about that.”

Thompson, who is black, commented, “Sometimes it gets nasty.”

The man, holding two Warren signs, refused to identify himself. Warren’s campaign condemned the man’s statements….