Scott Brown questions Edward Markey’s state residency in jab at possible opponent
Source: Boston Globe
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.
Brown has hinted he would compete in the special election but not made a formal commitment to a race, while Markey has said he will run if Kerry is confirmed as President Obamas second-term secretary of state.
Ill tell you what; Theyre making it awfully tempting. You got Ed Markey: Does he even live here any more? Brown said with a laugh as he called into the Jim & Margery Show on WTKK-FM.
Youve got to check the travel records. Ive 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 - ever, Brown added.
Read more: http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2013/01/02/scott-brown-questions-edward-markey-state-residency-jab-possible-opponent/paDWfROkl6NIsopnm8dpIO/story.html
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)This shows once again that Brown has nothing to show for his 2 years as Senator and thus he'll go negative just to win.
Also a trip from Washington DC to Boston on Amtrak is about 6 hours, perhaps he took the train instead?
MADem
(135,425 posts)Fucking hypocrite!
unblock
(51,974 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I have family and interests in MA, and have had for all my life.
I regularly "made the trek" from DC to MA. Quite often, by CAR.
It's nine hours, tops. If you leave in the still of the night you can make very good time.
Further, you can every so often get a "log" flight to Bedford, if you know how to play it.
If he keeps bringing this shit up, then it's only natural that we ask about HIS living arrangements. His WIFE is employed in DC. And if we're going to get down and dirty and start talking about people's living arrangements, let's talk about their pasts, too...he's opening up cans of worms in a rather self-destructive way.
Check the video at this link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/scott-browns-wife-music-v_n_431632.html
No wonder Gail wasn't perturbed by "Cosmo Boy."
elleng
(130,126 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)DC area.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)Make everyone think you're MORE of a prick. Surely that will get you back in the Senate!
Mass
(27,315 posts)wife there, exactly what he reproaches to Ed Markey (well, I do not mean Markey found a job for his wife. Just that she has been working in and around DC for a long time).
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)to decide who to vote for.
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Not the State residency thing again!! We already know how subjective those little things can be. Just ask Mittens. He's written the book on it.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Scott Brown showed his leadership as a Senator with his cliff vote...wait to see what everyone else is doing, pick the best possible political move and vote with the majority. For weeks he was quiet how he would vote. He spent the election saying "no way" to any tax increases and when it came time to vote found the wind blowing in one direction and he followed right along. I can't stand him and his frat boy sense of humor.
MADem
(135,425 posts)For someone whose wife has been working OUTSIDE Massachusetts, in DC, for two years, now, he's doing a lot of shooting off his big fat mouth. What, is she living in a trailer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Huff
Huff works as a television reporter for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C..,[1] after seventeen years for WCVB-TV, Channel 5, the ABC network affiliate in Boston.[2][3]...in 2010, she took a position with WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C..[1]
What a fucking idiot the guy is...let's call attention to HIS living arrangements! Break out the tax returns, too--let's see how Gail filed...!!!
warrior1
(12,325 posts)it worked out so well for you last fall
rgbecker
(4,806 posts)What, couldn't he find an Indian or Kenyan in Markey's Ancestry.com file?
I can't believe I'm going to have to listen to this guy for one minute more in my lifetime.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)Anyone remember who won when he attacked Senator-elect Warren on not being Native American enough?
obama2terms
(563 posts)Remember his heritage attacks towards Elizabeth Warren turned off voters and he's falling into the same trap ahahahahahahahah
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Don't be fooled for one second by this loser, MA!
Yavin4
(35,355 posts)Didn't want to take a chance that you'd get all nude on the flight.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)Scott Brown is now a KNOWN knuckle-dragger Republican, no matter how much lipstick he may apply.
Massachusetts voters won't be fooled again.
NHDEMFORLIFE
(489 posts)This is his opening salvo? Really?
"I haven't seen Markey sitting on the same plane with me, so he never comes home."
Outside of Howie Carr (Boston Herald political nitwit), the blowhards on Boston's right-wing talk radio and the wingnuts who pay attention to them, this won't have the slightest impact on anything.
Rider3
(919 posts)But now that he wants that senate seat, he'll invent questionable circumstances. Remember the GOP motto, keep repeating the lies until the masses believe them. I wish Brown would squirm away like the worm that he is.
ladym55
(2,577 posts)Scott Brown brings up residency??? In the state where Mittens was governor??? Where Mittens voted for Scott based on residing in his son's basement???
Not an issue I'd want to bring up if I were him. Just sayin'.
polmaven
(9,463 posts)Nine
(1,741 posts)"Please proceed."