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Scott Brown risks rift with right
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Apr 15, 2010 12:12pm |
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| Author | Manu Raju |
| News Date | Thursday, April 15, 2010 06:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When an aide to Sen. Jim DeMint used her Twitter account to call out Sen. Scott Brown and other Republicans for breaking ranks on a jobs bill, an annoyed Brown confronted DeMint on the Senate floor after privately suggesting he may have been attempting to stir up trouble with the conservative base.
DeMint said it wasn’t so, and the two men are downplaying the spat now.
But the divide between Brown and the Republican conservative base is at risk of growing — as it did this week when Brown joined moderate Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and George Voinovich of Ohio to help Democrats overcome a GOP filibuster on an extension of jobless benefits.
“I assume there will be votes that he’ll throw to the other team to show that he’s the new guy from Massachusetts and not the new guy from Texas,” said Grover Norquist, a leading conservative activist in Washington. “But I just don’t think that spending money is the way to do that.” |
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