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Video- Elizabeth Warren V. Scott Brown: Bad Votes For Women

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Wow. Transcript via.

I have no doubt Sen Brown is a good husband and a good father to his daughters, but this is an issue that affects ALL of our daughters and our granddaughters. And what matters here is how Sen. Brown votes.

So he’s gone to Washington and he’s had some good votes. But he’s had exactly one chance to vote for equal pay for equal work, and he voted no. He had exactly one chance to vote for insurance coverage for birth control and other preventive services for women. He voted no. And he had exactly one chance to vote for a pro-choice woman — from Massachusetts — to the United States Supreme Court, and he voted no.

Those are BAD votes for women.

The women of Massachusetts need a Senator they can count on not SOME of the time, but ALL of the time. I want to go to Washington to BE THERE for ALL of our daughters and ALL of our granddaughters.

This one really matters. There is a LOT at stake here…

… And I want to be blunt. We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work and access to birth control in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago until the Republicans brought them back.

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Poll-itics: Elizabeth Warren still leading Scott Brown in Massachusetts

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Western New England University Polling Institute: Elizabeth Warren leads Scott Brown in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race, 50-45%.

Via The Hill:

The findings show Warren ahead by roughly the same margin as in the same poll taken in early September, but this latest survey shows voters largely making up their mind with just a short while before the campaign season ends — only three percent of those polled said they were still undecided.

Fingers crossed. We need Elizabeth in the U.S. Senate.

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BLUNTweets

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As regular readers know, I produce an online video series called “BLUNT” in which anyone can concisely and civilly speak their minds for 30 seconds and be heard, as in my latest one on the 47 percent.

I get hundreds of tweets every day that are astute, funny, insightful, and worth more exposure, so today I put out the word that I’d post some of them here at TPC. Sort of a Twitter version of my videos, BLUNTweets.

Some came by Direct Meessage (private emails from Twitter), so I can’t link to them. Others came in tweets that are linkable. Here’s a sample, and many thanks to those who contributed:

Via @KingDavidLane: If voter ID protects election integrity why aren’t we fingerprinting all voters instead. You can get a fake ID.

@gottalaff OK. thanks. here it is: “The GOP hates AMTRAK but loves to give highways money. what’s up with that?”

— Jon Hartmann(@jonhartmannjazz) September 25, 2012

 

@wwwRepAmINFO said, in an extended tweet:

@GottaLaff #TPC Romney on the uninsured -The emergency room: 41 med srvcs you CAN’T get at the ER. Romney said, “…they don’t sit in their apartment and die.” Well, they do: http://t.co/wHT02o7t

You CAN get treatment at the ER. But don’t get cancer… you can’t get chemo there.

You can’t get radiation therapy; home health care or durable medical equipment; a prescription refill; primary care; follow-up care; treatment for anything that doesn’t present serious impairment to your bodily functions; treatment for anything that doesn’t present serious jeopardy to your health; treatment for anything that doesn’t threaten serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part; preventive care; a cancer screening; an appointment for routine care, kidney dialysis (unless you’re dying); treatment for osteoporosis; a liver transplant; treatment for muscular dystrophy; treatment for HIV/AIDS; treatment for Alzheimer’s disease; treatment for Parkinson’s disease; cataract surgery; treatment for hyper- hypothyroidism; hormone replacement therapy; treatment for Addison’s disease or Cushing’s disease; treatment for anorexia nervosa or bulimia; genetic testing to confirm cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs disease, or Huntington disease; treatment for age-related macular degeneration; treatment for alopecia, treatment for arteriosclerosis; a bone marrow transplant; reconstructive breast surgery; treatment for chemical dependency; treatment for colorectal polyps; hip or knee replacement surgery; lumbar spinal fusion; prenatal care; cardiac pacemaker surgery; treatment for multiple sclerosis; radical prostatectomy, smoking cessation services; spinal cord rehabilitation; treatment for an undescended testicle; physical therapy; respiratory therapy; or occupational therapy

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VIDEO: Scott Brown takes the racial low road

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Earlier today, Paddy posted a video of Sen. Scott Brown staffers caught on video chanting Indian war whoops, making tomahawk chops. Classy.

Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted a segment to Scott Brown’s insistence on taking the racial low road. She noted that there wasn’t much attention being paid to his oddly persistent attacks and attention to her Native American heritage, so she rightfully pushed it to the forefront. Will anybody listen?

Apparently, this is a priority for him, this is how he thinks he can attract voters, other more urgent issues be damned.

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Rachel Maddow:

Until this month, he had been running mostly ahead in the Massachusetts polls against his Democratic challenge Elizabeth Warren. Now he’s slipping behind. in four of the five most recent polls in the Senate race, Elizabeth Warren is now beating Scott Brown. … What he’s decided to make his campaign mostly about now is his judgment on Elizabeth Warren’s racial heritage, her family heritage, her race.

He started with a line of attack that he should be the authority on the family tree. He gets tons of national attention. But his argument, Scott Brown running against Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage… did not play with voters in Massachusetts…. 69% of likely voters thought that Ms. Warren’s heritage was not a significant story, and the polls did not much move one way or the other, and the whole thing seemed to fizzle out. … And apparently now that he’s behind, this is what Scott Brown wants his campaign to be about now. …This is the new Scott Brown for Senate campaign.

First of all, he’s declaring himself the authority on Elizabeth Warren’s heritage based on how white she looks to him. Scott Brown is confident just asserting that Warren is not Native American. He can tell. What, can you smell it? But there’s another thing going on here. There’s a reason that Scott Brown wants to make the campaign about who is the authentically white person…. Resenting affirmative action. That never gets old with white voters.

Remember Mitt Romney joking to his donors about how much easier he’d have it if only he were Mexican?… Mitt Romney joking to a room full of rich people how easy the Latinos have it…

...It’s the art of stoking, in particularly working class white voters if you can, a sense that something is being taken away from them. By minorities!

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Video- Sen. Scott Brown staffers caught on video chanting Indian war whoops, making tomahawk chops

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Dumbasses. Hopefully their stupidness will tilt the boat a bit.

BOSTON — Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown chanted Indian “war whoops” and made “tomahawk chops” during a rally for the Republican senator this week in Boston.

In a video posted on YouTube, Brown’s staffers are seen holding campaign signs near the Erie Pub, chanting and making tomahawk chops, presumably in reference to Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Cherokee heritage.

Brown’s deputy Chief of Staff Greg Casey and Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard, and GOP operative Brad Garrett are pictured in the video, NewsCenter 5′s Janet Wu confirmed.

“It is certainly something that I don’t condone,” said Brown when asked about the video. “The real offense is that (Warren) said she was white and then checked the box saying she is Native American, and then she changed her profile in the law directory once she made her tenure.”

Read more: http://www.wcvb.com/news/politics/Sen-Scott-Brown-staffers-caught-on-video-chanting-Indian-war-whoops-making-tomahawk-chops/-/9848766/16727976/-/tj3yi5z/-/index.html#ixzz27Usf55LI

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Poll-itics: Elizabeth Warren now leads Scott Brown by 6 points among LIKELY voters in Massachusetts Senate race

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This is such welcome news. Go Elizabeth! Via MassLive.com:

With 50 days left until Massachusetts voters decide who will represent them in the U.S. Senate for the next six years, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren has pulled ahead of Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, according to a new poll.

The survey of Bay State voters conducted Sept. 6-13 by the Western New England University Polling Institute through a partnership with The Republican and MassLive.com, shows Warren leading over Brown, 50 to 44 percent, among likely voters.

Among registered voters, Warren leads Brown 53 to 41. According to the article, this is a bounce; there’s more Democratic enthusiasm overall since the Dem convention. Not that her speech didn’t help too, but the party as a whole is now “fired up and ready to go”:

Much more here.

You can donate to Elizabeth Warren here.

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Elizabeth Warren pulls in a whopping $8.6 million

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This is part of an email I got from the Elizabeth Warren campaign (bolding is mine):

We just finished our fundraising report, and I wanted you to hear the big news first: we raised $8.67 million from April through June.

We’re not backing down, and we’re not slowing down. In fact, we’re just getting started. [...]

For the past three months, Scott Brown and the Republican Party have done everything they can to rattle our supporters and sink our campaign.

And you know why? It’s not just because they’re scared of Elizabeth. It’s because they’re scared of you — and of what we’ve been able to accomplish together.

I’m proud of the total amount of money we raised this quarter, but I’m even more proud of how we did it:

  • More than 40,500 men and women here in Massachusetts have contributed to our campaign.
  • More than half of all our donations since April 1st have been $25 or less.
  • More than 80% of our donations have been $50 or less.

We’re building a truly grassroots campaign to take on Scott Brown — and to stand up to powerful interests that are lining up to help him.

CNN takes it from there:

(CNN) – The second quarter figure far surpassed her first quarter amount of $1.7 million. She now has $13.5 million cash on hand, according to the campaign. [...]

While Brown’s campaign is not yet releasing its numbers, the incumbent brought in $3.4 million during the first three months of this year and had $15 million in the bank at the end of March.

Keep the momentum going. Please donate to Elizabeth Warren here.

More than half of all our donations since April 1st have been $25 or less.

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