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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 12:47 PM Apr 2014

A favor to ask.

I endured Scott Brown's successful campaign against Martha Coakley in 2010, and his existence as a Senator from Massachusetts.

I endured Scott Brown's unsuccessful campaign against Elizabeth Warren in 2012, and believed I was shut of him.

I moved my family from Boston to to New Hampshire in August of 2013.

Scott Brown did, too.

So, listen, I know you're busy. We're all busy; it is a Monday, after all.

But I have a favor to ask.

If it isn't too much trouble, I was wondering if you could pop on over real quick and kill me.

Just fucking kill me.

I can't tell you how much I'll appreciate it.

Scott Brown's Campaign Mocks His Opponent As A 'Senator From Massachusetts'
TPM

Eager to shed his identity as a former senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown's campaign is now apparently deriding his opponent as the "third senator from Massachusetts."

As he kicked off his Senate campaign in New Hampshire last week, Brown received assistance from the state's former Republican governor, John H. Sununu.

Sununu didn't steer clear of Brown's biggest impediment as a candidate in the Granite State. Instead, the former White House chief of staff who served as one of Mitt Romney's most confrontational surrogates in 2012 projected that weakness right onto Brown's Democratic opponent, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

“(Shaheen) votes with Elizabeth Warren. She votes with [Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed] Markey. She is the third senator from Massachusetts,” Sunnunu said at Brown's Portsmouth, N.H. rally, according to Yahoo's Chris Moody. “Scott’s happiest days as a young man were in New Hampshire. … So it’s going to be great to have a senator that was born virtually in the state of New Hampshire. Jean Shaheen, by the way, was born in Missouri!”

The rest: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scott-brown-jeanne-shaheen-senator-from-massachusetts-john-sununu

...every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.







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A favor to ask. (Original Post) WilliamPitt Apr 2014 OP
LOL @ the gifs. NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #1
You are correct WilliamPitt Apr 2014 #3
But he was born virtually in the state! pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #2
Born in New Hampshire, if one defines "New Hampshire" as "Maine." Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2014 #5
Well, I've never been to heaven, Art_from_Ark Apr 2014 #26
This isn't his first rodeo, ya know! Generic Other Apr 2014 #28
Can I get supper lined up first? Frustratedlady Apr 2014 #4
Oh, geez, and the "Democrats For Brown" haven't even started up yet. Zorra Apr 2014 #6
I'm there WilliamPitt Apr 2014 #7
Ouch. Please, don't move to Arizona. He would probably get elected here. Zorra Apr 2014 #22
OMG Scott Brown is STOCKING you!!11!1! SERIES!!1! Arugula Latte Apr 2014 #8
stalking is what you meant, I think. Duppers Apr 2014 #23
He isn't using voice to text. He's using Wingnutspeak. MADem Apr 2014 #27
heh heh Arugula Latte Apr 2014 #34
oh, me bad. Duppers Apr 2014 #36
you should be glad you don't live in Iowa hfojvt Apr 2014 #9
A perspective.. ananda Apr 2014 #10
Ya that's bad! Generic Other Apr 2014 #29
I feel your pain. madamesilverspurs Apr 2014 #11
Gardner's never gonna win our state Timez Squarez Apr 2014 #12
I want to see his virtual birth certificate mcar Apr 2014 #13
Maybe some of us from blue states oldandhappy Apr 2014 #14
We all have our problems; mine are named No Vested Interest Apr 2014 #15
Evidently, you are cursed, sir The Traveler Apr 2014 #16
That's what you get for leaving ... meegbear Apr 2014 #17
Personally I think Scott Brown is stalking you - perhaps he has a crush on you... LynneSin Apr 2014 #18
Sure--if you'll do me a favor... First Speaker Apr 2014 #19
I feel ya VelmaD Apr 2014 #20
Feeling your pain. Not only did I have to Ilsa Apr 2014 #21
Look on the bright side. You get to vote against him. Jim Lane Apr 2014 #24
You Could Always Move To California... The Weather Is Here... Wish You Were Beautiful... WillyT Apr 2014 #25
What a piece of work that charlatan is... 2naSalit Apr 2014 #30
Well, you might like this.. "Scott Brown Returns To Dickhead Mountain" by Charlie Pierce. Bam. Cha Apr 2014 #31
Great read! Thanks for the link.... Rowdyboy Apr 2014 #32
You're welcome, Rowdyboy~ :) Cha Apr 2014 #33
At least you dont have to run into him all the time. bunnies Apr 2014 #35
Gonna have to ask to see the birth certificate. Orsino Apr 2014 #37
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. LOL @ the gifs.
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 12:55 PM
Apr 2014

Rec worthy just for that.

BTW, I don't think you meant to write that you moved from Boston in August 2014...

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
2. But he was born virtually in the state!
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 12:59 PM
Apr 2014

Whoever came up with that line should be shot after a thorough waterboarding.

I had no idea where one was born was a gray area.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
26. Well, I've never been to heaven,
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 10:08 PM
Apr 2014

But I've been to Oklahoma
And they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter?

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
28. This isn't his first rodeo, ya know!
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 10:37 PM
Apr 2014

And he's never been to Idaho either.

The virtual New Hampshireite. Whooooboy! I lived in Portsmouth for a year. Maybe I should throw my carpetbag into the ring!

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
4. Can I get supper lined up first?
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 01:22 PM
Apr 2014

I should be able to make it back in time to eat, once I perform the deed you have requested.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
6. Oh, geez, and the "Democrats For Brown" haven't even started up yet.
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 01:24 PM
Apr 2014

better pull yourself together, man. Teh stupid has only just begun.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
22. Ouch. Please, don't move to Arizona. He would probably get elected here.
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 05:41 PM
Apr 2014

I'll donate a few bucks to Jeanne Shaheen. If I can't get liberal Dems elected in AZ, I can at least do something help them get elected elsewhere.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
27. He isn't using voice to text. He's using Wingnutspeak.
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 10:32 PM
Apr 2014

And in that context, he meant precisely what he wrote.

"SERIES!1!!1!" is Wingnutspeak for "Serious!" or sometimes "Seriously!"

"Moran" is "moron" - as in that famous sign "Get a brain MORANS!"

"Hugh" is "huge."



It's another language, but one can learn it by reading Tea Party signs and wingnut comments on message boards.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
34. heh heh
Tue Apr 15, 2014, 10:54 AM
Apr 2014

I guess these classic Freeperisms aren't used as much satirically anymore on DU in recent years, but they used to be standard.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
9. you should be glad you don't live in Iowa
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 01:41 PM
Apr 2014

but that's true of everybody.

They cannot seem to get rid of Branstad.

Not to worry though, Brown's invasion will fall to the Green Mountain Boys just like Simon Fraser did.

Oh wait. that's Vermont isn't it?

I guess you are doomed then.

You might as well move to Kansas then. On this side of the Missouri we've got Brown's back and we're hoping to ship him off to New Hampshire, if not Siberia.

madamesilverspurs

(15,792 posts)
11. I feel your pain.
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 02:35 PM
Apr 2014

Kinda sorta, anyway. I live in the district where Cory Gardner swapped races with Ken Buck. Gardner is now going against Mark Udall for that Senate seat. Buck, on national television, equated being gay with being alcoholic; he also refused to prosecute a rape case claiming that the victim was merely suffering from 'buyer's remorse' (nevermind that the rapist confessed), and he got spanked by the state supreme court for raiding a tax prep office to browse through thousands of files in an illegal hunt for undocumented immigrants. Buck also failed against Sen.Michael Bennet last time, and is being challenged in the primary by a carpetbagger, a secessionist, and a theoxenophobe.

We have Vic Meyers, a terrific candidate for the congressional seat, but we're swimming upstream against a roiling river of tea.

 

Timez Squarez

(262 posts)
12. Gardner's never gonna win our state
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 02:44 PM
Apr 2014

Because the PPACA that Colorado wisely expanded are favoring heavily towards the Dems... and Gardner is just being an ass.

Have you seen Coloradopols.com lately?

 

The Traveler

(5,632 posts)
16. Evidently, you are cursed, sir
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 03:07 PM
Apr 2014

I'm not sure what a writer is supposed to do when followed by shadow and dark cloud like this. This is beyond the scope of science, sir. You will have to resort to woo and hope for the best. Frail reed though that may, it is all you have to lean upon.

I'm considering a move to Oregon.

Please. Don't move there. At least, not until this curse has been properly exorcised.

In deepest sympathy, I remain

Trav

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
18. Personally I think Scott Brown is stalking you - perhaps he has a crush on you...
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 03:29 PM
Apr 2014

I'm just saying....

Can anyone here prove that Scott Brown does NOT have a cross on Will Pitt?

VelmaD

(18,270 posts)
20. I feel ya
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 03:45 PM
Apr 2014

I moved almost 1400 miles across the country and the Texas politics followed me to North Carolina. Every whacked out thing that was happening when I left home...I got about two semi-good years here before it all started again.

Re-districting/gerrymandering - check.
Voter disenfranchisement - check.
Anti-woman abortion restrictions - check.
Anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment - check.
Republican Governor who doesn't have two brain cells to rub together to spark off a thought and was inserted in office to funnel money to his rich cronies - check.

It's not quite as hot here in the summer. There are more pine trees. Those are the only real differences I can see. *snort*

Ilsa

(61,687 posts)
21. Feeling your pain. Not only did I have to
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 03:52 PM
Apr 2014

Put up with W* for 8 years, I had to watch him as my stinking pathetic excuse for a governor for 6 years before that. Sadly, he was more familiar than some of my family. It sucks living under that cloud.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
24. Look on the bright side. You get to vote against him.
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 10:01 PM
Apr 2014

When Warren ran, I thought about changing my legal residence to my parents' house in Massachusetts just to vote in that election. It would have been fraudulent but, as a freelancer who doesn't report to an office every day, I could certainly have gotten away with it.

You, on the other hand, can savor the prospect of voting against Brown -- for the third time, no less -- without even any hanky-panky. I'm jealous.

2naSalit

(86,289 posts)
30. What a piece of work that charlatan is...
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 11:52 PM
Apr 2014

Aside from claiming that he has secret meetings with kings and queens every day... such a busy guy... he has the gall to call Senator Shaheen a carpet-bagger when she was governor of NH for several terms (and I realize that the senile lump of oatmeal. Sununu actually said it, Brown with repeat it several times a day)

Early political career

A Democrat, she worked on several campaigns before running for office in 1990, when she was elected to the state Senate. In 1996, 1998 and 2000 she was elected governor of New Hampshire.

In April 2005, Shaheen was named director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, succeeding former U.S. Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.
Governor of New Hampshire

Shaheen's original decision to run for New Hampshire Governor followed the retirement of Republican Governor Steve Merrill. Her opponent in 1996 was Ovide M. Lamontagne, then chairman of the State Board of Education. Shaheen ran as a moderate. Her campaign centered on the problems of New Hampshire's schools and her pledge to expand kindergartens so that more children statewide could benefit from them. She defeated Lamontagne by 57 to 40 percent.[3]

In 1996, Shaheen was the first woman to be elected governor of New Hampshire. (She was not, however, the first woman to serve as New Hampshire's governor; Vesta M. Roy was acting governor from December 30, 1982 until January 6, 1983.)

In 1998, she was overwhelmingly re-elected by a margin of 66 to 31 percent.[4]

In both 1996 and 1998, Shaheen pledged to veto any new broad-based taxes for New Hampshire, which taxes neither sales nor its residents' earned income. A school-funding crisis, however, pressured the state's reliance on property taxes.[5]

Running for a third term in 2000, Shaheen refused to renew that no-new-taxes pledge, becoming the first New Hampshire governor in 38 years to win an election without making that pledge. Shaheen's preferred solution to the school-funding problem was not a broad-based tax but legalized video-gambling at state racetracks—a solution repeatedly rejected by the NH legislature.[6]

In 2001 Shaheen tried to implement a 2.5 percent sales tax, the first broad-based tariff of its kind in history of New Hampshire. Unlike neighboring New England states New Hampshire does not have a sales tax. The state's legislature rejected her proposal.[7] She also proposed an increase in the state's cigarette tax and a 4.5 percent capital gains tax.

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


I feel for you William, I lived in NH many years ago when it was still primarily rural... Stay where you are, with any luck the fine folks of NH will boot his sorry patoot out.

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