Scott Brown Apologizes For Accusing Widow of Cancer Victim in Warren Ad of Being an Actor
Source: Crooksandliars.com
Anyone who has watched a loved one die of cancer knows how awful it is. A person with an operating sense of empathy would feel for these people and their grief and ongoing sense of loss. But then there's Scott Brown:
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) sunk to a new low when he suggested at a campaign stop that the family members of asbestos victims who were in a campaign commercial for Elizabeth Warren were actually paid actors:
During a question and answer session, one firefighter commented that both campaigns are publishing advertisements featuring family members of victims of asbestos-related illness. He asked Brown how Warren gets the victims' family members to go on her commercial. "A lot of them are paid," Brown said. "We hear that maybe they pay actors. Listen, you can get surrogates and go out and say your thing. We have regular people in our commercials. No one is paid. They are regular folks that reach out to us and say she is full of it."
Guess what? They aren't actors. And they're pretty damn offended too.
Read more: http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/scott-brown-apologizes-accusing-widow
One of the ads, titled "Ashamed," features Kingston resident Ginny Jackson, whose husband died of mesothelioma after working at a Quincy shipyard that was filled with asbestos.
Reached through the Warren campaign, Jackson responded to Brown's comments, calling them offensive.
"What Scott Brown said today is so offensive to me and my family after what we went through," Jackson said. "He's sunk to a new low."
Jackson said going through her husband Sam's sickness and death from mesothelioma was one of the most difficult situations she ever endured.
"Sam and I were childhood sweethearts and we had been together since I was 15 years old," Jackson said. "I came forward in this campaign because Massachusetts voters need to know the truth about what Elizabeth Warren did to help families like mine who were affected by asbestos poisoning, rather than Sen. Brown's misleading attacks."
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WHAT A DOUCHE
Raster
(20,998 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)Maybe stretched across the back of his famous Pretty-boy pickup truck?
Hey, I know Martha Coakley screwed up. She got complacent because she thought she had it in the bag, and went on vacation DURING CAMPAIGN SEASON, allowing Pretty-boy to campaign all over everywhere in her absence, and catch up and then pass her. And I have been offended by that ever since. Frankly, I'm just as offended at HER for dropping the ball like that. She didn't just drop the ball, she THREW IT DOWN.
But as a Democrat, as a Catholic Democrat, and yep - still a Kennedy lover, I have to say this - my parents LOVED JFK and I'm old enough to remember some of it. And it just hurts to the core - the very idea that a republi-CON would have taken the Senate seat that Ted Kennedy held for all those years. OR that Massachusetts would have fallen for him and given it to him. WTF??????? I feel the same way about that - that I do about women voting for republi-CONS. There's no good, logical, sensible, rational, ethical, OR moral reason to do so!
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)To send Elizabeth Warren to sit in Kennedy's seat, instead the vapid Brown.
Tho' I'm in northern MI I'll be watching this race as closely as any other on election night and when that win is announced, we'll all be with/in MA in spirit for the moment.
On to victory!
Julie
tanyev
(42,636 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Ugh.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)Assholes are USEFUL. I use mine almost daily! Scott Brown is nowhere nearly as useful. Indeed, he's been a part of the Senate Sphincter in spasm, resulting in legislative toxicity due to impaction.
Trailrider1951
(3,415 posts)my life has been too long sucky with not much funny. Muchas gracias!
valerief
(53,235 posts)Dem2TheCore
(220 posts)You can't unring that bell!
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)meegbear
Why bother say hi is sorry for it - when the damage is already been doing?.. Mr Scott Brown should be ashamed of himself.. And just leave national scene now... But I guess, it is something he will not do. And the only think he is "sorry" because he got taken out on it.. Republicans tend to be full of lying..
Diclotican
meegbear
(25,438 posts)LBN rules state you must use the exact title.
QED.
beac
(9,992 posts)Brown's too-little-too-late attempt to walk back his vile accusation--- as in "Why bother to apologize when it's clear you don't care how you have to lie or cheat to get elected? Why not just go ahead an own your villany?"
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)meegbear
I know .. Don't worry I got "it"
Diclotican
Buzz505
(92 posts)Brown is a looser.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)budkin
(6,722 posts)Good riddance
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...and he's a dick.
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)And of course we know Repooplicans have no need to do that.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)for the widest shaming coverage.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)He'll need them when he becomes a lobbyist next year.
Zambero
(8,974 posts)He has run a terrible campaign and his problems are 100% self-inflicted. He will not be missed.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)and not processed through the 'GOP Spin-O-Matic'
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I forgot to add that to my previous post.
Two peas in a pod!
We People
(619 posts)that I can't vote for Elizabeth Warren myself!
dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)I'm telling you again folks, the man who has berated Elizabeth Warren for her lack of Native American features, has had a nose job. Now who's really the deceitful one?
Before nose job.
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After nose job:
You can clearly see the bridge is higher and the nose is less bulbous.
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chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)to trot out is wife and daughters in an ad to attack Elizabeth Warren. He used one of his daughters in the race against Coakley to say that Coakley gives woman a bad name and no wonder the don't want to run for office. That ad was an attack on Coakley for going after him on right to choose. And, lo and behold, another one this go round calling Warren and liar and Brown is pro h(who, I might add, is endorsed by MA Right to Life). Using spouses and their children in attack ads (without any clips of the candidate himself) is very rare but this guy loves them.
Qutzupalotl
(14,337 posts)Observe:
Brown later apologized in a statement, saying he was wrong to have jumped to those conclusions.