"Scott Brown warns staff over war whoops"

[No Elephants]

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/09/26/Scott-Brown-warns-staff-over-war-whoops/UPI-57811348683620/


This headline is typical of what Warren has been up against.



In case you don't have the background:


Warren's employment history shows that, somewhere along the line, she told Harvard Univ., her employer, that she was part Native American. Geneaologists who have looked into it say they cannot find evidence for that. (Lack of written evidence would not surprise me, but that is another issue.)

So far, Scott Brown has had only two things for which to attack Warren, namely being a Harvard professor,

1. being a Harvard professor; and

2. allegedly having lied intentionally about her denes in order to usurp some affirmative action advantage from someone with Native American heritage.

Obviously, being a Harvard professor is shameful only if you think that being well educated and being good enough to be hired by one of the top-rated universities in the world is shameful.

True, Republican politicians, who get the best educations for themselves and their kids that money can buy, have somehow convinced a segment of their voters that uninformed and uneducated is preferable. Still, that segment is not large enough to get Brown re-elected in Massachusetts.

The second one, however, if true, would turn fair minded people of any political party against her.

She has said over and over that these were the things her family members told her and that she believed them. The people who hired her at Harvard have said they had no idea that she claimed Native American ancestry.

Still, Brown harps on this like nobody's business because it is his very best shot at attacking her peronally. He has demanded that he release ALL her employment records to clear this up, a demand that is ridiculous on its face. Obviously, he wants her records because he has so little and is desperate to dig to see if he can find anything else in her personnel file with which to attack her.


End of background.

Anyway, outside a recent Warren forum were a Brown Senate staffer (paid with our tax dollars, but it was after the work day), and a Republican Party employee, doing the worst imitation of Native American sounds (best word I can think of) to lead a group in an effort to embarrass Warren and persaude people attending the forum that she is a low down affirmative action usurper. A Native American called it "downright racist." I would add incredibly oafish and not worthy of political discourse.

Warren said, if anyone in her employ had done anything like that, there would be consequences, though she intentionally avoided saying she would fire those involved. (Guess she did not want to appear to demanding that Brown fire his staffer.)

When questioned, Brown said he would tell them not to do it again. (Oh, the humanity! Please, Senator Brown, think of what the Constitution says about cruel and unusual punishment! Spare them! Spare them!)

And then he added that Warren was not innocent, either, though. And used what should have disgraced him as another opportunity to claim that Warren had been the first to use race inappropriately. ("Checked a box" is the phrase he uses again and again, so I am guessing someone in Harvard showed him her employment application with both white and Native American checked, because he has mentioned the white bit, too, though not anwyhere near as often.)

Given one of "leader" was his employee and the other one was a Republican Party employee and this is the one personal attack issue Brown seems to think will work, it seems highly likely that Brown was, at a minimum, aware of this racially disgusting incident before it occurred.

It would have been even more disgusting if the two jerks had been better at it. As it was, you could barely make out what they were supposedly doing, other than they were seeking to disrupt. (Think of how much like pimp O'Keefe looked in a woman's vintage Persina lamb stole or whatever the hell piece of female clothing he donned.)

Yet, somehow, the headline is about Brown being a good guy to both Warren and Native Americans. And, as studies show, a lot of people read only headlines of many stories, not the stories themselves (the reason why I get so mad at misleading headlines).

And this is the kind of thing Boston media does to her every day throught the day, and more on Sunday, especially the station at which his wife worked, whose news programs are popular in Massachusetts. (Don't even ask what his wife was like as a reporter. Makes Willard seem animated and "really on the ball," as my mother in law might say. Is there a serial embalmer out there targeting Republicans?)

So, if you want to know how it could possibly be that Warren has been behind the Brown turd, or in a dead heat, for months, things like this are why.

[Enthusiast]

1. I continue to send

Elizabeth Warren the occasional small donation. I sure hope she can replace the empty headed pretty boy.

[No Elephants]

2. Me too, but money does not seem to be her problem.

She's not a poor woman and, so far, her campaign has outraised his.

They've agreed to something wherein any PAC ad that runs costs them a fine. The fine is not stiff enough, IMO. She has not had to pay a fine; Brown has paid two so far. Still, I have never seen a PAC ad for either of them.

He knows how to campaign; she doesn't. He's a Massachusetts native; she isn't. He's slick and deceptive. She isn't. He's an incumbent; she isn't. He has media, especially local media on his side; she doen't.

But, unlike his first run, this is a Presidential election, not a special election. If there is good turnout, especially in greater Boston, she'll take it.

Ditto if he keeps up racist tactics or keeps harping on the "Fauxchahontas" issue, as Republicans call her. At some point, he'll just look as though he is missing the point of this electon and being a bully.

As the story says, the current Chief of the Cherokee nation (he is 1/16 Cherokee)asked Brown to apologize to Warren over his (Brown's) racist campaign tactics.

Also, she put out a good ad on the issue after the debate, about how her parents eloped because her father's family objected to her mother's Cherokee and Delaware heritage. It ends "Scott Brown can keep attacking my family. I'll fight for yours."