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Scott Brown’s Radical Senate Candidates Stand With Akin to Redefine Rape

 

 

Scott Brown has donated thousands of dollars to fellow Republican candidates after they sponsored legislation to redefine rape as “forcible rape”


BOSTON – As Rep. Todd Akin’s despicable comments on “legitimate rape” rightfully provoke outrage, the Massachusetts Democratic Party reminds voters that Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown has given thousands of dollars to other Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate who would redefine rape as “forcible rape” and threaten women’s rights if, with Brown, they gain control of the U.S. Senate.
 
Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan also supports the bill.
 
Brown’s PAC, SCOTTPAC, has made campaign contributions to four House members, including three U.S. Senate candidates, after they cosponsored the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.
 
Scott Brown is supporting a Vice Presidential nominee and three of his fellow senate candidates who want to redefine rape, excluding protections to victims of violent sexual assaults. Brown donated to current Senate candidates Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), and Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND), as well as Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA). The Republican nominee for Vice President, Paul Ryan, also cosponsored the bill.
 
“Scott Brown is supporting Republicans with a dangerous agenda for women throughout the Commonwealth and across the country,” said Massachusetts Democratic Party Executive Director Clare Kelly. “Brown is doling out his campaign cash to aid extreme conservatives who want to redefine ‘rape’ and roll back critical protections for women – and they will, if they gain control of the Senate and the White House.”
 
Scott Brown has made campaign contributions to the following supporters of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act that would redefine rape:
 
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $5,000 to Jeff Flake for US Senate Inc[OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]
 
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $10,000 to Montanans for Rehberg [OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]
 
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $5,000 to Berg for Senate [OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]
 
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $10,000 to Denham for Congress [OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]

A complete list of cosponsors can be found here.  

ron johnson

4:54 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Just what I love a campaign in trouble starts with the mudslinging.

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Massachusetts Democratic Party

4:55 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

There's no mudslinging here, Ron. Please let me know if there is anything in this post that you think is untrue.

-KF

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ron johnson

5:04 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

That is not the point, when you can't run a campaign on the facts that pull this stuff. I can respond with Elizabeth Warren is asking for federal subsidies to pay her overblown salary at Harvard. Why should I pay for someone else's kids to go to school when I pay for my own. The reason why student debt is out of control is schools like Harvard charge upwards to 55,000 a year, sit on their 33 billion dollar endowment and pay their professors 500,000 a year. Seems just like the subsidies that Ms. Warren has such a problem with. The abortion issue is just one issue. Brown condemned the comments. Warren is unhappy because she could not get out ahead on this, so let's try to tie him in anyway.

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Massachusetts Democratic Party

5:07 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Everything in this post is factual. This is based on facts. It may be an issue you don't want to discuss and it may paint a negative picture of a candidate you like, but that doesn't make it mudslinging.

-KF

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ron johnson

6:43 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Why not respond to what I said and I do ot accept that it means anything. The canditdate spoke out against the comment. Since your candifate could not get out aheaed of it, she is using your group to try to connect Brown to the comment anyway. Again, I am quoting your candidates ads and I find her position totally hypocritical. Why should tax payers pau her salary and allow a college to sit on its 33 billion dollars. They could reduce tuition across the baord by 20,000 and not make a dent in the endowment.

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ron johnson

8:18 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012

I spent more time looking at the site you pointed to and came away with a big deal. The pac is supporting republicans. I could make the same statement about your candidate who supportts the pac that ran the ridiculous ad trying to tie Bain to the woman's death despite the many factual errors. By the way I am still waiting to hear a good argument as to why we as tax payers should somehow make it easier for college students to borrow or being granted money to pay for inflated college costs driven by bloated salaries and fat cat schools sitting on 33 billion endowments.

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Lisa Blanchard

9:07 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012

Warren's salary would pay for 15 students to attend Harvard. 1 tenured professor costs Harvard 1 million dollars a year. Reduce college costs by changing the system and eliminating tenure. That is why Phoenix University is unexpensive - no tenured professors.

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Paul Tress

7:16 am on Friday, August 24, 2012

The campaigns at all levels, from the President to local representatives have become an exercise in guilt by association.

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Stumpgrinder

2:02 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I have watched as Elizabeth Warren and the Mass. Democratic Party has tried, in vain, to smear Scott Brown. Everyone should note that they placed a non-functional link at the bottom of this story. It was non-functional 30 minutes after it was written. Why would it be non-functional?

Perhaps, the anonymous author did not want you to know that there were 227 co-sponsors of this bill. Brown, allegedly, contributed to 3. That is barely over 1%: a number just a little bit higher than Elizabeth Warren's percentage of her American Indian bloodline. While she hopped in her SUV on Martha's Vineyard, and counted her $7,000.00 paycheck for the week, Brown was out in his old pickup (OK, it's been a great propoganda tool, but it says that he's watching his, and hopefully my pennies) and doing some old fashioned stumping. I have yet to hear his side smear Warren; which is all I have seen & heard her side spend their money on.

What is she bringing to the table? What is she going to do? Is she better than Brown because she says she is? If she is just figuring out that she has to offer something other than the fact that she is a 1%er disguising herself under the Democratic banner, she is nothing more than the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing.

Massachusetts: where if you are not a Democrat, you are subject to smear and deception by your opponent.

Here's the link that works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Taxpayer_Funding_for_Abortion_Act

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