{"id":183646,"date":"2013-01-02T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/02\/stay-classy-scotty-brown\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T01:44:00","slug":"stay-classy-scotty-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/02\/stay-classy-scotty-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Classy Scotty Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, the last campaign was about Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s belief (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2012\/09\/15\/elizabeth-warren-family-has-mixed-memories-about-heritage\/o9oXvDiUMcXiipkyuinU5M\/story.html\">probably accurate<\/a>) that she had some American Indian ancestry, and this time, he&#8217;s running again, and he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/politicalintelligence\/2013\/01\/02\/scott-brown-questions-edward-markey-state-residency-jab-possible-opponent\/paDWfROkl6NIsopnm8dpIO\/story.html\">leading with an attack on Ed Markey&#8217;s Massachusetts residency<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senator Scott Brown today took on a possible opponent in a special election to succeed his colleague John F. Kerry, questioning whether US Representative Edward J. Markey is actually a resident of Massachusetts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Markey later hit back, hinting at a reprise of the political nastiness that permeated Brown\u2019s recent election battle against Democrat Elizabeth Warren.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Brown has suggested he would compete in the special election that will be triggered if Kerry is confirmed as President Obama\u2019s second-term secretary of state, but he has not made a formal commitment to a race. Markey has already said he will run.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what; They\u2019re making it awfully tempting. You got Ed Markey: Does he even live here any more?\u201d Brown said with a laugh as he called into the \u201cJim &amp; Margery Show\u201d on WTKK-FM.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got to check the travel records. I\u2019ve come back and forth (from Washington to Boston) every weekend, almost, for three years, and I see, you know, most of the delegation, and I have never seen Ed on the airplane &#8211; ever,\u201d Brown added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Markey, a Democrat born and raised in Malden, long called his childhood bedroom in his parents\u2019 house as his Massachusetts residence, even though his wife, Susan Blumenthal, was a doctor at the National Institutes of Health in suburban Washington and the couple owns a home in Chevy Chase, Md. Blumenthal is now a health care consultant.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, another episode of, &#8220;Of course she&#8217;s not Indian, look at her?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Really<\/span><\/b> do not get this.  His primary asset is his appearance of likability, and he&#8217;s coming across like an entitled frat boy from the movie <i>Animal House<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just nasty, it&#8217;s <b>stupid<\/b> nasty.  I do not get it.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/brown-knocks-potential-campaign-rival-markey-over-residency\">TPM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, the last campaign was about Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s belief (probably accurate) that she had some American Indian ancestry, and this time, he&#8217;s running again, and he&#8217;s leading with an attack on Ed Markey&#8217;s Massachusetts residency: Senator Scott Brown today took on a possible opponent in a special election to succeed his colleague John F. Kerry, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}