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In this file photo, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., speaks during a media availability, on Capitol Hill. Brown, who was defeated in his re-election bid, said Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 that he will not run for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, who was named secretary of state.
Updated 1:51 p.m. - Former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown, won't look to reclaim a spot in the Senate in this summer's special election to replace outgoing Sen. John Kerry.
Brown decided against running in the special election, a Republican official told NBC News on Friday. The decision strengthens Democrats' chances of holding the seat in the special election in the June 25 special election.
"I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time. And I know it’s not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me," Brown said in a statement. "That is why I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate in the upcoming special election."
The special election would have been Brown's third since his initial January 2010 election to the Senate, when he bested Democratic favorite Martha Coakley in an election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Brown's election came at the height of the fight over health care reform in Congress, and his victory was seen as the advent of the political influence of the Tea Party movement.
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Brown styled himself as a relative moderate during his time in the Senate, breaking with Republicans to approving an overhaul of financial regulations and repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," among other issues. A former state senator, Brown was seen as the relative favorite to win re-election during a full term in this fall's general election until Democrats managed to convince Elizabeth Warren to enter the race. Warren beat Brown, 54 to 46 percent, in November.
Brown was seen as having an advantage had he decided to attempt to reclaim a Senate seat. A number of Democrats have endorsed Rep. Edward Markey for the Senate nomination, though Rep. Stephen Lynch will challenge Markey in the primary. Republicans maintain the discord in the Democratic primary could improve their chances of winning the election.
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Dems are funny. ..When obamacare kicks in and explodes the federal deficit to 1.8 trillion in 2014, we will see how many of you folks are gonna wanna raise taxes. Yep, cant wait for that. Your gonna see a dem gutting of congress in both houses the likes+ you have never seen before. No rich to blame that on or bush. 50 million consumers at 5 grand a pop buying expensive private health care. 1.38 plus 400 gets you exactly where we need to be.
We don't want to raise taxes! We want to get rid of the loopholes that allow lazy elites, who refuse to serve this nation in the military, or in deeds, to hide their amassed fortunes in the Cayman Islands, doing absolutely nothing to repair the broken bridges that the rest of us build and pay for, or help the poor, who work for the lazy elites, who refuse to pay them living wages, with which to pay their healthcare premiums, without requiring government support!
Poor Jolly. The Dow just busted 14000 and he still insists the President's policies are not working. "Just you wait...blah, blah, blah...."
(Oh well. What goes up will come down. Then the well to do can all blame Obama as they count their profits for the next run.)
Your name says it all, reading your post I can only imagine the lack of intelligence you posses. I have read the ACA and I fail to see what taxes your speaking of. The only increase in taxes will be for private firms in the medical field no private citizen will have their taxes raised. These firms are prevented from passing along those taxes to the public by law.
Think your right!
Who, in their right mind, would want to re-join the Republican Party, just to become a rubber stamp for Rush Limbaugh and the Koch Brothers? I am a liberal and applaud Brown for his actual acceptance of reality, the way it really is!
Of course, since he served one term, he can now retire, get his pension, and millions of dollars to support a staff to serve him, for as long as it takes him to author his memoirs. Hell, he can tour the country in his pick-up truck. He has it made! Maybe he can even get an offer to join Dancing With The Stars, as another Republican has-been, who needs a few million more dollars to enjoy! Hollywood, Here I come!
"Republicans maintain the discord in the Democratic primary could improve their chances of winning the election."
Dream on, it is Massachusetts. And more broadly, when the Dems have internal division it is between people of stature, like Obama and Clinton. The GOP just isn't used to that though. When they have internal division, it is usually between dumb and dumber.
Really, I mean really, did you tea baggers really think Brown would run? He is smarter than most of the tea baggers. He has seen the handwriting on the wall. The GOP is going down, UNLESS it does make major changes to their party.
I know, you say I'm wrong. Well, why did you lie to the american people when you said Obama would be a one term President. Why did you lose to Obama in the first place? Why did Mitt lose to Obama this last election? Does it take someone to smack you all along side the head with a 2x4 before you see the light? Must be, as your comments kind of prove it.
This upcoming election in 2014 will be going to the D's. Want to know why? First, you haven't recanted your war on women, or on all the minorities. You caged so many voters, spent so many of the kock brothers dollars, plus other dollars, and still lost. Even hacking into the machines, and you still LOST.
You promised jobs, but haven't produced one lousely jobs. Yet you keep yelling about the 2% and the trickle down jobs they will create. WHERE ARE THOSE JOBS? Overseas, no doubt, but that isn't helping the voting public here, is it?
The fact is the GOP needs to kick out the baggers, bible thumpers, and the nay sayers, get rid of the old and failed policies they keep trying to push, and really join the 21st Century. Until then you will be labled as LOSERS.
Would like to believe that but the people that backed Mitt didn't just go away. They still have more money than you or I can even comprehend. Guaranteed they will try again to make this country into a third world plutocracy.
Oh well, maybe he can return to making soft core nudies. Or does anyone still want to see him? (Where the repukes find 'em?)
why not??????
Ya, this SOB isn't going into hiding he intends to run for Governor of Massachusetts. His condescending tone in the last election cost him, his arrogance is beyond measure. He actually believes he's entitled to hold the Governors chair. If you knew this man or talked with him for any length of time you'd walk away with the impression that "he" shouldn't have to work hard for the position he's one of "those" people in a class that should be simply worshipped.
Snappa, you mean the GOP actually has people who think they are entitled to things? I though the GOP was blaming the D's for wanting entitled things. Guess that deflection of the GOP just got shot to he##.
Republican Democrat it matter anymore. The are all the same do nothing people! Expect to see Kerry run again in 2016
Republican , Democrat it doesn't matter anymore! Wish there was a Regan type person in the wings!
Reagan was a piece of shiiittt.
Oh yes, just what we need, Ronald Hussian Reagan. My uncle has a bull he named Reagan. He takes large dumps every so often. My uncle explained that was what Ronald Hussian was full of, and this Reagan (the bull) was expelling it where it would help nature, not harm people like Ronald Hussian did.
Anyone who thinks we need another GOP in the White House with their old tired ways need some fast emergency medical help, which includes a straight jacket.
i hope mitt runs
yeah cant we all just come together why so much hate
haha sally ann obama lied he said he would be a one term pres.
hey unions hows the health care looking ....
@tom: Have you been at the spiked kool-aid. Obama never said he would be a one term President. Mitch McConnell and gay Rush Limpdick said they were going to make him a one term President. They, the GOP lied, not Obama.
The unions love the health care, as they are mostly exempt from it, but happy you moochers have to get your own. Will lower the unions health care costs. Thought you would be happey about that Tom, unions do believe in Personal Responsibility you tea baggers keep yelling about.
Dear Friends:
Hard Seat to fill! Perhaps a youthful Kennedy could run! We need another generation of the Kennedy Family! I am serious and respectful not being facetious!
i wouldn't either after i got a shellacking like he did.
Apparently he's smarter than he looks. If he ran for this position, he would have to run for it again next year when the term expires. That would mean four election campaigns in five years. Plus he'd have to run against Ed Markey, who would be a hell of a lot harder to beat than Martha Coakley or Elizabeth Warren. That's a lot of very tough campaigning, and like others have implied, if he lost this one he'd be widely seen as a wash-out. Not that he couldn't win - he has a pretty big following in Mass. - but it's a close one to call and unlike his last losing effort with Warren, he wouldn't be able to get by Markey with his silly personal insults and hollow political rhetoric. Markey would skin him alive on policy and substance, on live TV. And he knows it.
You know, I cannot say that I have disliked his full page spread photo shoots published even in the Boston Globe just prior to the elections.
However, this senator has denigrated what it means to obtain that role of integrity for the nation.
Perhaps he should quit portraying himself as an upright and moral person that he claims to be and fulfill his more than evident wish to become a male model instead, and open up the opportunity in politics for other Americans that intend to advance the place of the US internationally.
His conduct is embarrassing.
The conduct of the entire gop is embarrassing. Name one gop current politician with sense answer you can't they are all idiots. John Huntsman was the best chance they had for moving to the middle, well him and Charlie Christ.
Scottie is washed up. LOL
The Baggers control the No Party moderates..Until they are expelled the No Party is done..McCain should also go...
Good career move by Brown. Why associate yourself with the new radical repubs?