Red Cross financial aid Scott Brown voted to kill assists Massachusetts relief efforts in Haiti

[BeyondGeography]

State Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), the Republican candidate for the special U.S. Senate election Tuesday, voted against a bill to provide financial assistance to 9/11 rescue workers who had volunteered to rush to the site of the twin towers after the terrorist attack in 2001. The measure, which was opposed by only two other legislators in addition to Brown, provided paid “leaves of absence for certain Red Cross employees participating in Red Cross emergencies.” Despite Brown’s efforts to kill the legislation, it passed along overwhelmingly bipartisan lines and is now helping to compensate Massachusetts Red Cross employees currently deploying to Haiti to provide emergency assistance after the devastating earthquake. Asked yesterday by ThinkProgress why he opposed the 2001 measure for rescue workers, Brown stated that he had his “own priorities first” at the time. As ThinkProgress reported, during the same period that Brown opposed the financial aid to 9/11 rescue workers, he sponsored a bill to provide a tax-subsidized bond to build a golf course in his district, and voted for across the board corporate tax subsidies.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/17/brown-kill-haiti-aid/

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Shouldn't that be headlines in the NY Times and Washington Post?

[malletgirl02]

2. Yes, you are right.

You are right that it should be front page of the NY Times or the Washington Post, but hell would freeze before that would happen.

[laughingliberal]

3. Yeah, it should but I think the media is trying to get this asshole elected

Makes better headlines for them.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. who owns them?

[valerief]

4. In a just world, yes. nt

[TicketyBoo]

5. And the Boston Globe?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. I expect we should call the ed and dare them to print it large and bold

[TexasObserver]

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