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The Massachusetts Senate race took a bit of a sharper turn Wednesday, when Sen. Scott Brown (R) accused Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren of harboring an "elitist attitude" by way of communicating her policies.
Following a speech on the need for bipartisanship in Washington, in which Brown emphasized his work across the proverbial aisle, the senator took one of his toughest shots personally at Warren.
Asked about a release by his campaign, which labeled Warren an "elitist hypocrite" for declining to pay a slightly higher income tax rate in her Massachusetts filing, Brown told reporters:
"Listen, the bottom line is the way that she's approaching things, knowing better than others how to do things. The federal government can do things better than individual businesses and individuals, I think there is an elitist attitude there in the way that she's communicating to us as citizens and telling us how to do things, who should be taxed, who should not be taxed. I'm going to continue to do what I've always done and that's find solutions.”
That marks a bit of a nastier turn in this race, in which both candidates have emphasized good governance and reformist policies versus each other.
Brown also defended his own solicitation of donations from the Wall Street and financial services community, pointing to the large concentration of that sector in Massachusetts. But he also took a shot at Warren for raising money from liberal heavyweights, too.
"I'm raising money like every other member of the delegation," Brown said. "The president has taken more money than anybody, as you know, and I have raised money on Wall Street and from financial services industries. As you know, we have the 2nd highest financial industries in the country in Massachusetts. And she's raised money from Wall Street and from George Soros who's a convicted felon, an insider trader. So I have to chuckle at that.”
Matt Loffman contributed.
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I'll take a latte sipping, arugula eating, college educated snob any day over the cast of clowns the GNOP is offering up this year!
Chuckle away Scooter - how much $$$ have you pocketed from the Koch Brothers?
Give him hell Lizzie!
Not a big fan of Injun Lizzy.
But she's better than the alternative. At least she has direction.
Scotty's beginning to sound like a Democrat. Must be something about Mass. that makes GNOPer's want to flip flop.......Brown seems to be Mitten's Mini-Me.....
Liz - 2012
Pretty Boy Brown, like Romney, has gotten ahead how? And Warren with her middle class academic background is an "elitist," I guess because she's actually smart and has worked hard to earn everything she has in her life?
Brown talks about Liz and her tax filing....what does he have to say about the Presumptive Nominee, Willard, and his tax filing?
Brown, the hypocrit, want to repeal the ACA, while he keeps his 23 year old daughter on his policy courtesy of the US Senate and all taxpayers!
That is RICH considering Brown (R) and Ryan (R) are the most heavily funded by Wall Street in Congress, last I heard.
It's OK to be educated, folks. It should be a given for everyone.
Is Scott Brown saying you can't be a Leader in the U.S. UNLESS you are ineducated?
Another interesting story -- Scott Brown's daughter is on his health insurance thanks to Romneycare. Yet Brown argues that such benefits should NOT be enjoyed by others in the nation.
True Patriot,
Here it is, Scott Brown hypocrisy at its finest:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/01/474099/scott-brown-aca/
"But yesterday, this Tea Party champion and great opponent of Obamacare admitted something astonishing:
his 23 year old daughter is one of the 2.5 million young Americans who are benefiting from a regulation that allows young people to stay on their parents' health care plan until age 26:
Ah chilled - a 1%-er is a 1%-er.
Then again looky at TruePatriot. Dude finally gets it:
And Warren with her middle class academic background is an "elitist," I guess because she's actually smart and has worked hard to earn everything she has in her life?
Nice job buddy. But be careful - you libbies seem to demonize all who have earned a lot, regardless of how hard they have worked.
Now for fun, let's apply Warren's little mis-adventures with heritage. Or is it she's just the low man on the totem pole?
Besides, I know you libbies are super happy about paying for Brown's kids health care, right?
Backhouse,
ZING! lol
Didn't his daughter benefit from Obama care ? Being allowed to stay on his current health insurance?
PSC,
Swivel yore eyeballs to #1.7 and #1.6 -
Feisty,
Zing, Zat, Zowee!
There's something creepy about some of the name's the same.
Like Scott Brown, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, Rick Snyder, Rick Perry..........
..I gotta wonder why...and they're all radical, extreme. ...lol
chilled,
Dontcha know Romney's two middle names are - Scott and Richard?
(Hey my turn to dish out the FAUX, I always have ta do the FACTS on here.)
Maybe they're hatching from alien pods, sent here to destroy us.......
Suggest that to Willard, Backhouse...He'll jump right at it...for votes of course.
"Alien pods", GT.....Now, that really is funny.
Scott Brown...you just need to 'stuff it'. You are an insufferable ingrate, you are trying to latch on to the President, while presenting yourself as a republican, just so you can garner a few votes. You got lucky in 2009/10, you play both sides to try to hold onto your job. With Elizabeth we know who we are getting, and now we find out you are taking advantage of the Affordable Health Care Act with your daughter, yet you voted against it........hypocrite, like all republicans.
"Scott Brown's daughter is on his health insurance thanks to Romneycare."
If she's in college and 23 than she's covered by her parents insurance. Nice try there TP. Any other BS you like to throw out there?
Must be painful for all you libs to realize that Warren makes almost 4times more than Brown.
She was only raking in $310k teaching law, oh that must be one of those colleges that the dems are saying kids cant afford. Wonder why tuition is so high.
Scott Brown (R-MA) is funded and owned by Wall Street.
Ms. Warren is emphatically not. If she hadn't been blocked by Republicans in Congress, she might have headed up our Consumer Protection Bureau.
Apples and Oranges, even though Scott is trying to appear what he is not.
http://articles.boston.com/2012-05-02/metro/31521301_1_fund-raising-financial-regulatory-overhaul-joint-venture
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/02/1088180/-Scott-Brown-double-dips-on-massive-Wall-Street-campaign-donations-
Elizabeth Warren is a liar and fraud. Every drop of money and every award she has earned while claiming to be Cherokee, when they had to go back to her great great great grandmother to find a drop of indian blood in her, should be taken back. She should go to jail for falsifying job applications. My great grandmother was Apache, and when trying to get government grants for college I was told that wasn't enough to qualify for minority status. So as usual its okay for someone like Warren to lie, but us working folks can't get away with it.
Being supportive of Native American folks is a great thing.
Americans like to tout their heritage....especially Irish or Scots, don't they?
Well, there's pride in having First Nations ancestry as well - and a wish to connect as Warren did. Especially if you care about people, as Warren does.
While you are busy extolling the virtues of parents being able to cover their children on insurance until age 26, it became a necessary concession when our government decided that regardless of a student's actual independence (e.g. living on their own, being self supporting, paying their own taxes, working, being eligible to vote and enlist in the army, being old enough to drink alcohol, etc) was not going to make a difference in the student's evaluation for financial aid....parents income and assets are held against students until age 24....so why don't we be honest and admit that the government wants us to nanny our children, keep them out of the workforce, well beyond the legal age of majority.
2012 Mass. Republican = 1960's version of a Mass. Democrat.
...so what's the big surprise?
There are more than a few questions unanswered here. First, if you click on the link to Brown's campaign release, it points out something I didn't know, that Massachusetts residents can VOLUNTARILY decide to pay 5.85% on their state taxes instead of the standard rate of 5.3%. So if it's voluntary, how is he claiming that Warren is telling anyone who should or shouldn't be taxed by the government? Okay, so he goes on to quote something she said about the wealthy having a "moral obligation" to pay more - that's still not the government telling you how much to pay. And perhaps most surprising of all, the Brown statement indicates that 2000 good Massachusetts citizens voluntarily CHOSE to pay the higher amount in 2008 (hey, good for them!) but then he accuses her of "refusing" to say if she was one of them or not - without offering any evidence to suggest that he himself made the same choice.
"Silly season" is rapidly turning into "WTF???" season.....
P.S. - Okay, so what are the good citizens of Massachusetts officially known as, anyway? Massachusans? Massachusettites? Pat in Boston, where are you when we need you? :)
As a native of the Boston area, , I have been called many things,...your crude friend Feisty even calls me a "vagina"
But as to Mass. natives , we are called BayStaters, or Bostonians...
In New Hampshire, they called me a "flatlander"...
Never "Massachusetts-er" or 'itee' ... too lengthy
And here, we just call you "Ass-Hole"
Hey - it fits - keep on sticking you probe into my life & I will call you MUCH worse @!$%#!
Feisty,
keep it up, we thank you ...the more the crude moonbat extremists like you attack Governor Bob McDonnell, the higher his approval ratings climb !
God, how lucky did Massachusetts get and how unlucky for VA.
You too, are insufferable opinionated twerp, a mysoginist and a bully and thankfully you no longer sully the terrain of the great state of Massachusetts unfortunately you are now giving a bad name to Virginia......v.p Bob.
To: Feisty and her cronies (you know whom you are) who said:
"Hey - it fits - keep on sticking you probe into my life & I will call you MUCH worse @!$%#!".
How disgusting are the insults from you Feisty. Both of this candidates should be voted for what the work they have done and both have made mistakes. But the biggest mistake here is why MSN allows this kind of crap from both the left of the right. Comment like this should not be posted and should be deleted.
A war on woman, how pathetic Feisty!!! go ahead and insult me since I'm of the same gender but not the same Ideology.
I, too, have expressed wonder at the use of blatant vulgarity instead of reasoned discussion, and its continued toleration. And the liberal posts seem to go unchallenged while the more conservative views are collapsed by the community. Exactly who is the community? And while we are railing about the idea of people being told what to do, then why collapse a comment at all, as it is the same as telling me what I should and shouldn't read.
Since First Read naturally ignores negative facts about liberals, please be aware that Liz Warren fraudulently claimed to be Native American, so she could take advantage of affirmative action policies.
Lizzie "Faux-Cahontas"......Princess “Rides In Limos” Warren
Liberal shill media like MSNBC and the Boston Globe may ignore this story, but it has legs....er, moccasins..
Warren fraudulently claimed to be Native American
V-Bob, Where is the source of that story? I'd like to read it....
Uhh, Bob? First Read already covered this story earlier today:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/02/11501345-more-2012-warren-native-american-controversy-continues#comments
Remember? You were the first one to post a comment on it!!!!!
TeaPeople and their feined concern about native americans.......
.......the states with "papers please" laws no doubt would ask Native Americans for their 'papers' since they may not look like Heidi Klum!
JoAnn, why didnt First Read mention the Native American issue in this story? MSNBC wants to quickly move on , dont they? Shhh...
Meanwhile, they write dozens of stories mocking Newt Gingrich...
Meanwhile, they write dozens of stories mocking Newt Gingrich...
Why would anybody want to mock the great Newt? LOL
Newt does a pretty good job of mocking himself, or rather making a mockery of himself.
Bob, the HEADLINE of the story YOU COMMENTED ON says "Warren Native American Controversy Continues" - for God's sake, how much more "mention" of it do you want???
Good. I can feel your anger. Strike with all of your hatred and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
Couldn't be better news for Ms. Warren. Brown represents a sharp contrast between what the voters want and what they have.
Hey V-Bob
It's funny how the Tea-Baggers were the first to scream about corruption on Wall St. Yet when somebody (Liz Warren) comes along with a good plan to clean it up, they treat her like she's a vile, evil creature. Hmmm, who's really pulling the strings of the TeaBaggers???
Warren - 2012
GT, you are gullible beyond belief.
Limousine liberal Liz Warren isnt part of the solution, she is part of the problem. She is a filthy rich 1% er who gets big bucks from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs...she is a radical who claims she was the founder of Occupy Wall Street! Is she proud of terrorism the Occupy loons were planning?
GT, you are gullible beyond belief.
Limousine liberal Liz Warren isnt part of the solution, she is part of the problem. She is a filthy rich 1% er who gets big bucks from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs...she is a radical who claims she was the founder of Occupy Wall Street! Is she proud of terrorism the Occupy loons were planning?
V-Bob, What's your cheap talking point and opinion have to do with Warren wanting to clean up Wall St.?
Phony Liz Warren wants to "clean up", all right. She meets with Wall Street insiders regularly to get her campaign money!
Her socialist "regulation" will be just like Barney Frank's..ruinous and corrupt.
Just like Obama, who disses Wall Street but his Cabinet is chock full of Goldman Sachs plutocrats, and Obama keeps the massive Wall Street financier thief Jon Corzine bundling his campaign contributions...
VP Bob....where is the link showing she is part of the 1%, as usual you are delusional. Post the dam* link showing what you claim.
"If Warren were to be elected to Congress, she would rank among the 25 wealthiest members of Congress, based on Roll Call’s 2011 “The 50 Richest Members of Congress” list. The House and Senate have a combined total of 535 members"
1%er
Gingerbread All you have to do is a google search. Plenty of evidence. I don't know many middle class people who live in a $5million dollar home.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/elizabeth-warren-wealth-income_n_1237607.html
Egads! A strong ejumucated woman. Thats gotta drive Scott Brown folks nuts. Dang I wish she was running for president.
Brown, need i say more? He is so full of @!$%#, his eyes are brown! Remember this GOTP, and you too Boner, ranting and raving, screaming and hollering will always get you attention! Tho in your cases, much un-wanted attention! It shows your true colors, yellow!
Warren wins big, in 2012!!
Scott Brown and Willard Milton Romney - god help us!
Limousine Lizzy Warren and Barack Obama...two radical failures.
You see V-Bob, Thats my point from my initial post... If she were a GOP, you would love her.......
Sometime these comments get too personal but the good news is that people are involved & interested in who we want in any political office. We could live in a foreign country (not saying which one) in which Putin wins by a different process. We should all be grateful that we can express our views and hopefully all vote for the person that we believe will do the best job. Of course losing Old Newt is a crushing blow (Yuk Yuk) but time marches on.
Anyone endorsed by Obama is highly questionable and one of his tools. Warren lost my support when she became one of Obama's leftist bots. Too bad her intelligence is being wasted for the wrong goals and ideology. Maybe she will wake up from being hypnotized by a fraudulent Prez.
Bob in VA, do you really believe that running a campaign on these pages is going to get your boy elected?
At least scott walker killed less people than ted kennedy. how anyone could reelect a murderer is beyond me.
No Newt...NOOOOOO!