Wednesday, January 20, 2010
That'll be my congressional district. Should be an interesting new dynamic. Via RedMassGroup: SCOTT BROWN ENDORSES BILL HUDAK FOR RACE AGAINST TIERNEY
DANVERS, MA - Today, Senate-elect Scott Brown lends his name to Bill Hudak's race to replace John Tierney in Congress. Hudak, the Republican candidate, is a small businessman and attorney that has made news for challenging Tierney to a number of townhall events to talk about health care, taxes and out of control government spending.
"Bill was with us from the beginning and is the representative the people of the sixth district need. Bill is not beholden to special interests and will help me bring the voice of the people Washington," said Brown.
"I have been working side-by-side with Scott Brown for months with the same message. The people don't care about our party affiliation. They care about a government out of touch, out of control and badly in need of reform," comments Hudak.
"Tierney embodies everything that is wrong with Washington. Tierney voted to raise taxes ninety-seven times, voted for a government-run health care system that would tax Massachusetts people to provide health care coverage for those in other states, and Tiereny votes 99% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership in Congress regardless of the consequences to people here in his district. It is clear that John Tierney is out of touch," continues Hudak...
Let's see if the Brown Effect carries.
They are already being called Brownshirts.
michael moore should be a contestant on NBCs "The Biggest Loser", for several obvious reasons.
I hope the "Peace Quilt Circle" is beside themselves over the election of Scott Brown.
Just be careful with those quilting needles.
*snort* MY congressman is Barney Frank. I'd love to replace him in November, but the guy is already hedging his bets.
If the 2008 financial crisis -- for which he's as responsible as anybody -- wasn't enough to unseat him then, I'm not confident about him being unseated now. But "hope and change" is in the air, right?
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
I should note that Brown's people now deny he endorsed Hudak. I was waiting for more info on this, and I don't like the "smeary" tone of the posts I've read on this (I don't know Hudak and don't know if any of this is accurate or not), but for the record: http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/birther-candidate-fakes-endorsement-from-scott-brown/
He's Nappy's Congressman too, but Nappy's not anywhere near Brookline. Barney's awfully gerrymandered district -- it makes no sense unless you take into account that in the Democrats' world of divisive identity politics, he's the official Jewish delegate from the heavily Jewish towns, with some other geography thrown in for contiguity.
Nappy hopes for a serious challenger. Earl Scholley who ran against him in '08 was nice enough and with his head and heart in the right place. Nappy met him when Frank Gaffney spoke in the Boston area. But he wasn't that impressive as a candidate, and no one knew he was running. The state Republican party gave him no support -- financially or otherwise. So good on him for stepping up to an impossible task.
So where do Brown and Hudak stand on the H1B and L1 visas that have flooded the country with cheap IT workers at the behest of Micosoft and other corporations? I voted for Brown and I'd like to vote for Hudak too, as Tierney is doing us no good, but who can trust the Republicans on globalization, offshoring and guest visas when the corporations promote all these? So called Hi Tech visas use diploma mill graduates from India for the most part and have dropped rates and salaries for many Essex County residents. If there is such a shortage how come rates and salaries are going down?
Anyway where does Hudak stand, If it's the same boilerplate we get from Tierney, forget it