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GOP’s Brown Gets Massachusetts Senate Boost as Card Bows Out
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Sep 12, 2009 09:25pm |
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| Category | Endorsement |
| Author | Emily Cadei |
| News Date | Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Scott P. Brown, one of the handful of Republicans in the Massachusetts Senate, announced Saturday afternoon that he is a candidate for the state’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. And his bid for the GOP nomination received a boost late Friday night when Andrew Card — former chief of staff to President George W. Bush — revealed that he will not run in the upcoming special election to replace the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Brown, speaking at the Omni Parker Hotel in Boston, acknowledged the long odds he faces in strongly Democratic Massachusetts. But he said that the Democrats’ dominance in the state is itself an argument for his candidacy.
“Does Massachusetts need another elected official to merely rubber-stamp the policies of one party or administration?” Brown asked. “Massachusetts needs someone who is an independent thinker, who does not take his or her orders from the Washington insiders, or from Harry Reid or Deval Patrick .” Reid, a Nevada Democrat, is the Senate majority leader from Nevada, and Patrick is the Democratic governor of Massachusetts.
Brown is in his third term in the state Senate — a 40-member body in which he is one of five Republicans — after serving three terms in the Massachusetts House. Still, he signaled he will run as an outsider. “I am not part of the Beacon Hill insider club,” he declared, referring to the location of the state Capitol in Boston. He pledged to bring fiscally conservative principles to the Senate. |
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