Brown Justifies Denying 9/11 Rescue Worker Aid: ‘We Had To Take Care Of Our Own Priorities First’

[jefferson_dem]

Brown Justifies Denying 9/11 Rescue Worker Aid: ‘We Had To Take Care Of Our Own Priorities First’

As the Plum Line reported yesterday, State Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate special election on Tuesday, voted on October 17, 2001 to deny financial aid to Red Cross rescue workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts. As a state representative at the time, Brown was one out of only three legislators who had opposed the overwhelmingly bipartisan measure.

At a campaign rally today in Hyannis, ThinkProgress caught up with Brown for comment on why he voted against the measure:

TP: In 2001, you voted against 9/11 recovery workers, giving them aid, do you have any comment on this story?

BROWN: Yes, it was a time when our budget was down. We had a lot of cuts unfortunately, and we had to take care of our own priorities first.

Watch it:

During the same month Brown was voting down efforts to support 9/11 rescue workers, he was pushing a bill to appropriate a tax-subsidized bond to build a golf course in Norfolk, a city in his district. “Priorities,” indeed.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/16/justify-denying-911aid/

[Peacetrain]

1. Amazing..and to think that teabagger is running for Teddy's seat..

[bigdarryl]

2. The more scarier thing is you have people who call themselves Progressives who are

thinking about voting for this piece of shit.Is this story getting any major local media play in Mass.