Brown Says He's Unfamiliar with Tea Partiers;
Campaign Pix Say OtherwiseJosh Marshall | January 13, 2010, 11:36PM
On Wednesday, Republican senate candidate Scott Brown told reporters in Massachusetts that he was "unfamiliar" with the "Tea Party movement," despite receiving the endorsement of a key national Tea Party group which is currently raising money for his campaign to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
But Brown's claim to be unfamiliar with the Tea Party movement is belied by photographs produced by his own campaign.
Late this evening, TPM Reader NM alerted us to the fact that Brown's official campaign Flickr stream contains photographs of the candidate addressing Tea Party groups on the campaign trail only months ago.
One picture, uploaded on September 8th, 2009, is titled "Sen. Brown addressing the Worcester Tea Party."
This just shows how problematic its going to be for the GOP to both court the teabaggers and the Republican moderates at the same.