{"id":8100,"date":"2012-06-20T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2012-06-20T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:48:29","slug":"scott-brown-a-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/scott-brown-a-coward\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown a Coward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I must say that I was looking&nbsp; forward to see Elizabeth Warren, Main Street champion, and Scott Brown (R-MA), Bankster butt buddy, to debate.&nbsp; Sadly that will not happen.&nbsp; Brown has refused to debate Warren and made some very questionable excuses for that refusal.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"20Brown\" border=\"0\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20Brown.jpg\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"20Brown\" width=\"360\" \/>U.S. Sen. Scott Brown said he will not participate in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/sen_scott_brown_joins_elizabet.html\" target=\"_blank\">debate proposed by Vicki Kennedy<\/a>, the widow of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, after debate organizers called his demand that Kennedy refrain from endorsing a candidate &ldquo;unprecedented&rdquo; and &ldquo;inappropriate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We respect Vicki Kennedy&#39;s decision but we regret that we cannot accept a debate invitation from someone who plans to endorse Scott Brown&#39;s opponent,&rdquo; said Brown campaign manager Jim Barnett. &ldquo;The Kennedy Institute cannot hold itself out as a nonpartisan debate sponsor while the president of its board of trustees gets involved in the race on behalf of one of the candidates.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Vicki Kennedy had invited Brown, the Republican incumbent, and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren to participate in a debate sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Sept. 27. Warren <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/vicki_kennedy_invites_sen_scot.html\" target=\"_blank\">accepted the invitation<\/a> last week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/sen_scott_brown_joins_elizabet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barnett said on Monday<\/a> that Brown would accept the debate invitation, but only if Kennedy pledged to remain neutral and not endorse a candidate for the remainder of the Senate race. The seat was held by Kennedy&rsquo;s husband, Democrat Edward Kennedy, from 1962 until his death from brain cancer in 2009&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/us_sen_scott_brown_will_not_pa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mass Live<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Martha Coakley was right.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a shame that she was such a weak candidate for the seat, because MA Democrats took toe seat for granted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow explored Brown&rsquo;s InsaniTEA.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc73310b\" target=\"_blank\" width=\"592\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=47883631^0^367334&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"launch=47883631^0^367334&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" height=\"346\" name=\"msnbc73310b\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"592\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The reason Brown is refusing to debate is obvious. Elizabeth Warren would kick his arse. Teddy Kennedy&#39;s Senate seat has become foully polluted. Support Elizabeth Warren.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must say that I was looking&nbsp; forward to see Elizabeth Warren, Main Street champion, and Scott Brown (R-MA), Bankster butt buddy, to debate.&nbsp; Sadly that will not happen.&nbsp; Brown has refused to debate Warren and made some very questionable excuses for that refusal. U.S. Sen. Scott Brown said he will not participate in a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/20\/scott-brown-a-coward\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}