Who is this guy, anyway? Voting against assistance to people who volunteered to go help the Red Cross on 9/11? Greg Sargent:
One month after the September 11th attacks, Scott Brown was one of only three Massachusetts State Representatives to vote against a bill to provide financial assistance to Red Cross workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts, we’ve learned….
The bill was initially filed before 9/11, and after the attacks, it was made retroactive to 9/11, covering the time spent by state workers who’d assisted with 9/11 recovery work for the Red Cross. Brown’s vote against the measure came a little more than a month after the attack.
You can read the bill and the roll call right here.
Brown spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom justified the vote by pointing to the state’s fiscal straits. “At the time, the state was in a fiscal crisis and facing a deficit, and there was no money to spend on additional pay and benefits for state employees,” Fehrnstrom emailed.
Nice. What would Rudy 9iu11ani say?
nodrumlins says
The link from Sargent’s original post is corrupted. Here is the working link.
ray-m says
I am sending this to as many people as possible. This is absolutely digusting
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Spec…
ray-m says
Alan colmes just picked up on the link I sent him
topper says
The din from the left is getting increasingly shrill… Bloggers must be working Google round the clock to find anything. Looks desperate folks, if not pathetic.
david says
actually, it’s perfectly legitimate. This stuff isn’t made up. It’s Brown’s record. It’s especially ironic, given how incredibly thin Brown’s actual legislative record is, that this is part of it.
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p>You think there’s something wrong with people knowing who they’re voting for?
topper says
Actually, it still comes across as shrill and desperate but keep looking and talking yourselves into a lather…
huh says
It’s all in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
topper says
Martha has a Facebook page? Does anyone know this?
sabutai says
Are you going to contribute anything to this website since you’ve joined, or are you here just to stick your tongue out at people smarter than you?
bob-gardner says
That’s just finding out about this now. This should have been the first press release out of the Coakley campaign on the day after this primary.
bean-in-the-burbs says
No one was paying attention over the holidays.
topper says
And it sure allows us to keep using the word “actually” over and over
kennedy86ma says
The vote says nothing about Red Cross workers as a whole, only about Massachusetts state employees. I’m sure many of which had big hearts, and some probably did indeed go down there. Essentially the bill would function as retroactive pay for those volunteers.
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p>Volunteers who already get vast pensions, job security, union protection, and other benefits that we non-commonwealth employees do not receive.
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p>This is not “financial assistance,” it is back pay for state employees who went down to help in the aftermath of 9/11. Private persons who helped out would receive zero benefit from this bill. Your characterization is misleading.
the-editors says
Noted, in lockstep with the Dear Leader.
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p>Always amusing to see teabaggers attempting to reason their way through problems.
ray-m says
If there is a huge fire that requires multiple cities or town firefighters…they get paid..and the assisting town gets reimbursed by the assisted. How would this be any different if one of our COPS or FIREMEN went to NYC.
gregr says
The right wing “outraged” about a stock photo used in a DSCC ad. It turns out that if you freeze the shot, you can see one of the World Trade Center towers off to the right.
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p>But in attacking the Coakley campaign for it, they post the most offensive crap I’ve seen in a very long time.
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p>http://www.freerepublic.com/fo…
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p>OMG.
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p>It’s good to see who supports Scott Brown.