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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA favor to ask.
I endured Scott Brown's successful campaign against Martha Coakley in 2010, and his existence as a Senator from Massachusetts.
I endured Scott Brown's unsuccessful campaign against Elizabeth Warren in 2012, and believed I was shut of him.
I moved my family from Boston to to New Hampshire in August of 2013.
Scott Brown did, too.
So, listen, I know you're busy. We're all busy; it is a Monday, after all.
But I have a favor to ask.
If it isn't too much trouble, I was wondering if you could pop on over real quick and kill me.
Just fucking kill me.
I can't tell you how much I'll appreciate it.
Scott Brown's Campaign Mocks His Opponent As A 'Senator From Massachusetts'
TPM
Eager to shed his identity as a former senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown's campaign is now apparently deriding his opponent as the "third senator from Massachusetts."
As he kicked off his Senate campaign in New Hampshire last week, Brown received assistance from the state's former Republican governor, John H. Sununu.
Sununu didn't steer clear of Brown's biggest impediment as a candidate in the Granite State. Instead, the former White House chief of staff who served as one of Mitt Romney's most confrontational surrogates in 2012 projected that weakness right onto Brown's Democratic opponent, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
(Shaheen) votes with Elizabeth Warren. She votes with [Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed] Markey. She is the third senator from Massachusetts, Sunnunu said at Brown's Portsmouth, N.H. rally, according to Yahoo's Chris Moody. Scotts happiest days as a young man were in New Hampshire.
So its going to be great to have a senator that was born virtually in the state of New Hampshire. Jean Shaheen, by the way, was born in Missouri!
The rest: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scott-brown-jeanne-shaheen-senator-from-massachusetts-john-sununu
...every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Rec worthy just for that.
BTW, I don't think you meant to write that you moved from Boston in August 2014...
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)I am corrected.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Whoever came up with that line should be shot after a thorough waterboarding.
I had no idea where one was born was a gray area.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,839 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)But I've been to Oklahoma
And they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter?
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)And he's never been to Idaho either.
The virtual New Hampshireite. Whooooboy! I lived in Portsmouth for a year. Maybe I should throw my carpetbag into the ring!
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I should be able to make it back in time to eat, once I perform the deed you have requested.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)better pull yourself together, man. Teh stupid has only just begun.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)I'll donate a few bucks to Jeanne Shaheen. If I can't get liberal Dems elected in AZ, I can at least do something help them get elected elsewhere.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I'm sorry you can't get away from that HUGH d-bag!!1!
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Voice to text messes us up. I've done it too.
MADem
(135,425 posts)And in that context, he meant precisely what he wrote.
"SERIES!1!!1!" is Wingnutspeak for "Serious!" or sometimes "Seriously!"
"Moran" is "moron" - as in that famous sign "Get a brain MORANS!"
"Hugh" is "huge."
It's another language, but one can learn it by reading Tea Party signs and wingnut comments on message boards.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I guess these classic Freeperisms aren't used as much satirically anymore on DU in recent years, but they used to be standard.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Sorry, I'm such a moran. That one zinged right by me.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)but that's true of everybody.
They cannot seem to get rid of Branstad.
Not to worry though, Brown's invasion will fall to the Green Mountain Boys just like Simon Fraser did.
Oh wait. that's Vermont isn't it?
I guess you are doomed then.
You might as well move to Kansas then. On this side of the Missouri we've got Brown's back and we're hoping to ship him off to New Hampshire, if not Siberia.
ananda
(28,865 posts).. you still don't have Ted Cruz.
If it makes you feel any better ...
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)Kinda sorta, anyway. I live in the district where Cory Gardner swapped races with Ken Buck. Gardner is now going against Mark Udall for that Senate seat. Buck, on national television, equated being gay with being alcoholic; he also refused to prosecute a rape case claiming that the victim was merely suffering from 'buyer's remorse' (nevermind that the rapist confessed), and he got spanked by the state supreme court for raiding a tax prep office to browse through thousands of files in an illegal hunt for undocumented immigrants. Buck also failed against Sen.Michael Bennet last time, and is being challenged in the primary by a carpetbagger, a secessionist, and a theoxenophobe.
We have Vic Meyers, a terrific candidate for the congressional seat, but we're swimming upstream against a roiling river of tea.
Timez Squarez
(262 posts)Because the PPACA that Colorado wisely expanded are favoring heavily towards the Dems... and Gardner is just being an ass.
Have you seen Coloradopols.com lately?
mcar
(42,334 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)could just move to NH for a few years and take care of the situation!
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Kasich, Portman, and Wenstrup.
The Traveler
(5,632 posts)I'm not sure what a writer is supposed to do when followed by shadow and dark cloud like this. This is beyond the scope of science, sir. You will have to resort to woo and hope for the best. Frail reed though that may, it is all you have to lean upon.
I'm considering a move to Oregon.
Please. Don't move there. At least, not until this curse has been properly exorcised.
In deepest sympathy, I remain
Trav
meegbear
(25,438 posts)enjoy the derp.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I'm just saying....
Can anyone here prove that Scott Brown does NOT have a cross on Will Pitt?
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...don't move to Connecticut, OK?...
VelmaD
(18,270 posts)I moved almost 1400 miles across the country and the Texas politics followed me to North Carolina. Every whacked out thing that was happening when I left home...I got about two semi-good years here before it all started again.
Re-districting/gerrymandering - check.
Voter disenfranchisement - check.
Anti-woman abortion restrictions - check.
Anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment - check.
Republican Governor who doesn't have two brain cells to rub together to spark off a thought and was inserted in office to funnel money to his rich cronies - check.
It's not quite as hot here in the summer. There are more pine trees. Those are the only real differences I can see. *snort*
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Put up with W* for 8 years, I had to watch him as my stinking pathetic excuse for a governor for 6 years before that. Sadly, he was more familiar than some of my family. It sucks living under that cloud.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)When Warren ran, I thought about changing my legal residence to my parents' house in Massachusetts just to vote in that election. It would have been fraudulent but, as a freelancer who doesn't report to an office every day, I could certainly have gotten away with it.
You, on the other hand, can savor the prospect of voting against Brown -- for the third time, no less -- without even any hanky-panky. I'm jealous.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)Aside from claiming that he has secret meetings with kings and queens every day... such a busy guy... he has the gall to call Senator Shaheen a carpet-bagger when she was governor of NH for several terms (and I realize that the senile lump of oatmeal. Sununu actually said it, Brown with repeat it several times a day)
A Democrat, she worked on several campaigns before running for office in 1990, when she was elected to the state Senate. In 1996, 1998 and 2000 she was elected governor of New Hampshire.
In April 2005, Shaheen was named director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, succeeding former U.S. Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.
Governor of New Hampshire
Shaheen's original decision to run for New Hampshire Governor followed the retirement of Republican Governor Steve Merrill. Her opponent in 1996 was Ovide M. Lamontagne, then chairman of the State Board of Education. Shaheen ran as a moderate. Her campaign centered on the problems of New Hampshire's schools and her pledge to expand kindergartens so that more children statewide could benefit from them. She defeated Lamontagne by 57 to 40 percent.[3]
In 1996, Shaheen was the first woman to be elected governor of New Hampshire. (She was not, however, the first woman to serve as New Hampshire's governor; Vesta M. Roy was acting governor from December 30, 1982 until January 6, 1983.)
In 1998, she was overwhelmingly re-elected by a margin of 66 to 31 percent.[4]
In both 1996 and 1998, Shaheen pledged to veto any new broad-based taxes for New Hampshire, which taxes neither sales nor its residents' earned income. A school-funding crisis, however, pressured the state's reliance on property taxes.[5]
Running for a third term in 2000, Shaheen refused to renew that no-new-taxes pledge, becoming the first New Hampshire governor in 38 years to win an election without making that pledge. Shaheen's preferred solution to the school-funding problem was not a broad-based tax but legalized video-gambling at state racetracksa solution repeatedly rejected by the NH legislature.[6]
In 2001 Shaheen tried to implement a 2.5 percent sales tax, the first broad-based tariff of its kind in history of New Hampshire. Unlike neighboring New England states New Hampshire does not have a sales tax. The state's legislature rejected her proposal.[7] She also proposed an increase in the state's cigarette tax and a 4.5 percent capital gains tax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Shaheen
I feel for you William, I lived in NH many years ago when it was still primarily rural... Stay where you are, with any luck the fine folks of NH will boot his sorry patoot out.
Cha
(297,275 posts)Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Is their a box for "virtual birthplace"?