Community | December 28, 2010 | 11 comments

Tea Party Targets Scott Brown for DADT Vote

source: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/12/28/Tea_Party_Targets_Scott_Brown_for_DADT/

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Conservative Republicans and Tea Party advocates are on the hunt for a primary challenger for Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown after his reaching across the aisle to support several pieces of legislation this year, including the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell."

Brown, a Republican, was chosen in a special election in January to assume the seat held by late Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died in 2009. He is up for full election in 2012.

Aside from his vote to repeal the military's ban on gay and lesbian service members, Salonreports Brown has drawn the ire of conservatives for his support of the New Start treaty, Wall Street reform over the summer, and a jobs bill earlier this year.

"I think that there will be a primary challenge," Christen Varley, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party, told the Boston Globe last Friday. "There’s enough of an underground movement in the Tea Party movement as seeing him as not being conservative enough. There probably will be multiple people who attempt to run against him."

Brown is still popular in his state, and polling stronger than senior Sen. John Kerry, according to the report.
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11 comments // Tea Party Targets Scott Brown for DADT Vote

  • noxidereus
    • 0
      noxidereus  

    • The story starts out, "Conservative Republicans and Tea Party advocates".

      They can go back to just saying "conservative republicans" now. The tea party [bowel] movement is dead. I thought they were all about taxes. There's no difference between them and any other conservative republican. They were just meant to think there was -- to energize them and get them out to vote [stupidly].

    • 1 year ago
  • bike10
  • jubal
    • +5
      jubal  

    • Tea Party is not that relevant anymore...their handpicked candidates are just as corrupt as the ones they are voting out. They all get corrupted by the Benjamins.

    • 1 year ago
  • tommic
    • +4
      tommic  

    • Comical, I live in Massachusetts and Scott Brown Knows full well his chances of being re-elected rest with independent and democratic voters in this state. He won a special election as a quirk but knows to get re-elected he must march down the center left. MORONS

    • 1 year ago
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
    • +5
      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  

    • Excellent. They will slice their voting block even thinner once they put up a true Tea Party Candidate. They took a beating in the last state election so I have no idea what they are smoking to make them think they can replace Scott Brown with someone even further to the right. The Tea Party was never good with numbers or logic so this will be fun to watch.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • +5
      littlwarrior  

    • He is the representative of Massachusetts of course he voted to repeal dadt, if he didnt there would have been a mob out for him from his home state. The tea party can bark and growl all they want but if the last election proved anything it was that they are far weaker than they make themselves out to be.

    • 1 year ago
  • TimALoftis
  • CarlosIsDown
  • postlapsaria
    • +4
      postlapsaria  

    • so they stand on their soapbox of being fiscal conservatives (even though the things they want will raise our defecits) but now they want him out because he wants to fix wall st., give gay people their "god given" civil rights, and the ability to keep tabs on the biggest holder of nuclear weapons in the world's arsenal (besides us)?

      So the tea party is just a bunch of anti-taking care of america homophobes?

      That or they're stupid and just do whatever the opposite of democratic party policy is?

    • 1 year ago
  • MizPiz
    • +2
      MizPiz  
    • postlapsaria:

      The tea baggers are running on the delusion that:
      1) America can become a Leave It To Beaver fantasy (with segregation and xenophobia included).
      2) They actually have a chance to become multi-billionaires just like the real leaders of the right.

    • 1 year ago
  • TimALoftis
    • +4
      TimALoftis  

    • I don't think Brown has to worry to much about the Tea Party in Mass. Sadly, the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against the repeal of DADT will wish for a 'Do Over' on their votes in about 20 years from now.

    • 1 year ago
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