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FLORIDA: "Sheldon Adelson, the gambling magnate who pretty much kept Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign in business, wrote a $250,000 check to Gov. Rick Scott's "Let's Get to Work" political action committee last week, records show," The Tampa Bay Times reports.
MASSACHUSETTS: "Sen. Scott Brown hit Elizabeth Warren where it hurts Thursday by questioning his Democratic challenger’s integrity and accusing the Harvard professor of lying about her Native American heritage. Asked about Warren’s recent claim that Brown is cozying up to Wall Street executives by trying to weaken financial regulations and create loopholes, the Massachusetts Republican charged that Warren has failed to demonstrate to voters that she is an honest candidate. “It’s funny, when you’re running for elective office, especially high elective office, you really — you have to pass a test. And the test is about truthfulness, credibility and honesty,” Brown said on “Fox & Friends.” “And quite frankly, she’s failed that test as evidenced by her claiming to be a Native American and checking the box and making misrepresentations to not only Harvard but Penn.” The first-term senator added, “It’s no different here. She can rewrite her own history but she can’t rewrite mine,”" POLITICO writes.
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Woah. Scott Brown sounds like a real jerk.
Scott Brown would not know the truth if it jumped up and hit him between the eyes. Many of us have Native American ancestry, some are proud of it, some are not, some claim it on government forms, some do not. Our family does not, however, we will be celebrating Custer had it comming day all weekend long starting Friday afternoon! if you don't celebrate it, then your family is probably not one who embraces that heritage, regardless of anything marked on a piece of paper.
Worse, the truth means nothing to Scott "Centerfold" Brown -- Only personal glory, and of course lots of money from Wall Street.
What does Brown expect, anyone with a drop of Native American blood in them should go around wearing buckskin and feathers? Many of us have Native American heritage and proud of it. Because our ancestors assimilated into the white society, by choice or not, we don't consider ourselves Native Americans in the sense of First Nation, redskin, aboriginal people but Native Americans in the sense that someone born in America is a Native of America or a "Native American". Whether one wears this on their sleeve is up to them. My French heritage in North America is long with ancestors dating back to 1597 and ancestory from Scotland, Ireland, England, Denmark and Germany. So which of these do I claim as heritage.....All of them. Like most Americans whose ancestors came a century or more ago I am a mutt, a mixture of many and proud of it because that makes me loyal to the one country, the country in which I was born, The United States of America. I would highly resent anyone who took any part of my heritage from the earlist First Nation peoples to the most recent immigrants from Germany or anyone inbetween to try and define who I am. Brown may be a biggot thinking, somehow that it is important to know one's ancestory, I for one do not find it important. It is not who one's ancestors were but who one is today that is important.