In a campaign season when most Republicans are steering clear of invoking the abortion debate, Senator Scott Brown has released a new advertisement highlighting his support for abortion rights.
The Brown campaign did not issue a press release announcing the ad was airing, as is customary. But Emily’s List provided a link to the ad from a broadcast during the news on NECN. Emily’s List, a Democratic campaign group that supports candidates who favor legalized abortion, including Elizabeth Warren, called the ad “shockingly dishonest.”
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So finally we have Sen Brown speaking to the public. Only problem is it does not jive with his voting record. For too long he has run away from it and he is still going. It is one thing to have the courage of your convictions and say what you are for and what you are against. It is another to say it with words and carefully select votes on substantial issues important to women and down on their luck working people that does the opposite. His votes against several bills important to assuring women's rights tells us where he really stands. Stay tuned his record in the Senate will soon see the light of day and present a stark contrast to what he will present in his ads. Not only has he voted against half his constituency he is dishonest about it. Color him untrustworthy to hold a Senate seat.
Scott Brown's new ad on Friday touts the candidate's "pro-choice" values and support for equal pay, despite the fact that Brown has voted in favor of anti-birth control legislation and against the Paycheck Fairness Act. The ad is misleading. Scott Brown voted with his GOP colleagues to block the Paycheck Fairness Act in June. He supported the controversial Blunt amendment, which would allow any employer to deny contraception coverage its to workers, and he was recently endorsed by Massachusetts Citizens for Life. According to Huffington Post, Scott whas been "crystal clear" he will vote against the Democrats' plan to preserve the Bush-era tax cuts just on income under $250,00o Brown has insisted he would vote only for extending the Bush tax cuts in their entirety, including those for the 2 percent of Americans earning more than $250,000. That is part of his voting record that he keeps very quiet . It is up to us--and to Elizabeth Warren in her ads--to get out the truth on Scott’s voting record. He won’t.
If Brown is pro-choice that's great, but largely irrelevant, since his party is clearly on record as staunchly anti-choice, and when the chips are down, when his vote matters most to me, he votes with his party, a party currently dominated by what look to me like right wing fanatics. Sorry Scott, but your party in DC carries far too many regressive positions to be trusted.