BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who recently announced she would not seek another term, has formally endorsed fellow Republican Scott Brown for re-election in Massachusetts.
In a statement released Thursday, Snowe credited Brown for his bipartisan approach. She called Brown “a much-needed breath of fresh air” in a Senate that Snowe said had become “characterized by gridlock and partisanship.”
Snowe cited those frustrations in her decision to leave the Senate.
Brown’s chief Democratic rival is Harvard Law School professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren.
Snowe is totally wrong on this one. Elizabeth Warren will be a breath of fresh air in the senate. Imagine, a senator who actually believes that our elected representatives need to be held accountable for their financial digressions when in office. Imagine a senator who actually believes that it is time for the wealthiest Americans to pony up and do their patriotic duty to help dig us out of the hole that they dug us in to.
Warren will be a much reviled senator by the status quo politicians who are fighting progress and fairness with every vote they cast. They will also spend a small fortune in their attempt to defeat her.
Elizabeth Warren took home more than $700,000 in compensation from teaching and
consulting fees over a two-year period from 2010 to 2011, according to
her her most recent financial disclosure form. she also collected a total of $192,722 for leading the congressional panel
that oversaw the US bank bailout. That government salary covered a
period that began before her latest disclosure report, spanning from
November 2008 through September 2010. She earned about $165,300 from September 2010 through August 2011 as a special adviser to President Obama Yea she is just getting by.
Let me get this straight…….in defense of a candidate who is in the pockets of the plutocrats and will continue to fulfill their wish to extract America’s wealth for their own selfish ends, you are pointing out that his opponent is not poor? I love irony.
Let me get this straight, how does what I wrote in anyway defend this candidate, she is a hypocrite.
What you wrote were facts, and that really confuses them. I wouldn’t take it personal. I agree with you; Snowe is right.
I think what Snowe is trying to convey by this endorsement is Brown’s williness to cross the aisle on a number of bills. Democrats cry foul about partisanship, yet they want candidates who vote party lines.
Brown has shown he is moderate….and yes, he is a breath of fresh air. Independents, like myself, will definitely favor someone like Brown.
No, ihuntandfish2’s ‘facts’ are not factual.
By attacking Ms. Warren, you are defending Scott Brown and the status quo. Senator Brown is part of the problem. Elizabeth Warren will be part of the solution.
You forgot the key word, She EARNED that money.
So?
So ? Why do you not look to her record and learn where she stands and what she has accomplished ? And by the way she comes from very meager beginnings and has worked her way thru all of her schooling.
Surely Sen. Snowe has by this endorsement put herself into the finalist category for the next round of John F. Kennedy Library “Profiles in Courage” awards. Of course she might have to share it with Sen. Collins for going along with her fellow conservative Republican Senators in trying to pass the Blunt Amendment the other day to deprive women of access to birth control should their employer, whether religious or secular, decide not to provide it on “religious grounds.”
Back up. This is about Obama trying to tell religious groups to do things against their beliefs. If he succeeds you can bet there will be a plethera more of this type of regulation.
The religous organisations can do whatever they like, just STOP taking federal tax dollars. They want to suckle the taxpayer teet, then decide how that money will be spent according to their “morals”. You can’t have it both ways!
In reply to Bartneally: the Blunt Amendment wasn’t restricted to religious groups but was open to any organization with any supposed ideological position. Sen. Collins revealed her actual pseudo-feminist values in voting for it. As for intrusions in people’s lives, the GOP surely takes the cake here–no govt. intervention unless it involves the most intimate issues that most Democrats would allow the individual citizens or their families/friends to decide for themselves. Remember Terry Schiavo? Was that “hands-off” govt.? I think not.
I admit to listening to all advice coming coming from the un-convicted War Criminal
Snowe Job. But I never act on it, eh?
And you think you live in a Democracy….LOL
Leonard Gates was committing voter fraud for the FBI in Cincinnati
see http://www.thelandesreport.com/Donsanto.htm
and now this
Elections – POLITICS
Former West Virginia sheriff, county clerk plead guilty to attempting to steal election
By Eric Shawn
Published March 07, 2012
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/07/former-west-virginia-sheriff-county-clerk-plead-guilty-to-attempting-to-steal/?test=latestnews
Granny Warren?
Baby Brown?
Once upon a time, I respected and admired Snowe for possessing the independence and courage of conviction to vote for the greater good, rather than follow a straight party line. Repeatedly, over the past several years, however, she has demonstrated that she no longer has the courage to do much other than cave to the pressure of the extreme right. Finally, she simply lost all courage and grace and announced her retirement. It’s easier to give up than put up with peer pressure. I say, “Good enough, you no longer represent my interests.”
I wish that we had a clone of Elizabeth Warren here in Maine so that I could vote for her, too.
Sorry, Chellie decided not to run.
What Snowe’s endorsement shows is that even in her ‘retirement’ she is still a shill for the Republican Party.