Scott Brown hypocritically attacks Elizabeth Warren over out of state donations
NYT: "As Stars Rally for Candidate, Rival Objects":
Elizabeth Warren may be running for the United States Senate in Massachusetts, but her campaign is getting deep support 3,000 miles away in California, where the other day, Cher was speaking glowingly of Ms. Warren’s candidacy.
“She makes an unbelievable impression,” Cher said in an interview from Malibu, explaining that she had become a fan after watching some of Ms. Warren’s speeches about economic injustice on YouTube. “I’m just thrilled every time I can hear the woman speak.”
Nearly 20 percent of Ms. Warren’s itemized donations (those over $200) in the last quarter of 2011 came from California, where a number of actors and others in the entertainment industry are fired up about her race against a first-term senator, Scott P. Brown, to reclaim for Democrats the seat long held by Edward M. Kennedy.
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Mr. Brown benefited enormously from out-of-state money in his 2010 race against Martha Coakley, the Democratic state attorney general. According to The Boston Globe, nearly 70 percent of the donors who gave more than $200 to Mr. Brown in January 2010, leading up to his Jan. 19 election, were from outside Massachusetts.
And while most of Mr. Brown’s top sources of donations over $200 in the last reporting period were in Massachusetts, he, too, raised a lot of money elsewhere. The Texas cities of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio provided a combined $123,150. He raised just over $50,000 in California (2.2 percent of his total itemized donations). He also got more than $15,000 in contributions from the District of Columbia, West Palm Beach, Fla., and New Canaan, Conn., and he has held fund-raisers recently in Philadelphia, South Florida and New York.
