Scott Brown’s Radical Senate Candidates Stand With Akin to Redefine Rape
The following was submitted by the Massachusetts Democratic Party
Scott Brown has donated thousands of dollars to fellow Republican candidates after they sponsored legislation to redefine rape as “forcible rape”
BOSTON – As Rep. Todd Akin’s despicable comments on “legitimate rape” rightfully provoke outrage, the Massachusetts Democratic Party reminds voters that Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown has given thousands of dollars to other Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate who would redefine rape as “forcible rape” and threaten women’s rights if, with Brown, they gain control of the U.S. Senate.
Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan also supports the bill.
Brown’s PAC, SCOTTPAC, has made campaign contributions to four House members, including three U.S. Senate candidates, after they cosponsored the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.
Scott Brown is supporting a Vice Presidential nominee and three of his fellow senate candidates who want to redefine rape, excluding protections to victims of violent sexual assaults. Brown donated to current Senate candidates Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), and Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND), as well as Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA). The Republican nominee for Vice President, Paul Ryan, also cosponsored the bill.
“Scott Brown is supporting Republicans with a dangerous agenda for women throughout the Commonwealth and across the country,” said Massachusetts Democratic Party Executive Director Clare Kelly. “Brown is doling out his campaign cash to aid extreme conservatives who want to redefine ‘rape’ and roll back critical protections for women – and they will, if they gain control of the Senate and the White House.”
Scott Brown has made campaign contributions to the following supporters of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act that would redefine rape:
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $5,000 to Jeff Flake for US Senate Inc[OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $10,000 to Montanans for Rehberg [OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $5,000 to Berg for Senate [OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]
Scott Brown's PAC contributed $10,000 to Denham for Congress [OpenSecrets.org, Accessed 8/20/12]
A complete list of cosponsors can be found here.
Joseph Phillion
9:48 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
May I ask why this is a headline in a local news site?
Mark Ouellette
10:50 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Hi Joseph,
It's a blog (not news) headline submitted by the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Blogs are opinion pieces, not news stories and they fall under our "Local Voices" section of the website. Had we received one from, say, the Massachusetts Republican Party, we would run their blog as well.
Russ
12:28 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
Clearly the Dem's are hurting puppies. (Thought I'd keep the comment at their level, after all, it is a blog.)
CJDuncan
9:10 am on Sunday, August 26, 2012
Dem's are taking over the Patch... Posting from a blog? Tell me what local Melrose voice this is from? Clearly we have a left leaning Patch editor here.
When I see a post from an NRA blog then I'll change my mind..
Leeroy
10:20 am on Sunday, August 26, 2012
People on the internet tend to lean left. The right is too busy figuring out how computers work still.
mark patterson
3:44 pm on Sunday, August 26, 2012
It's bizarre,isn't it? Liberals are all for killing an unborn living being but don't believe in the death penalty for violent murderers,rapists,and pedophiles. Conservatives,on the other hand, believe that abortion shouldn't be used as a method of birth control and a lot of them believe in capital punishment for violent criminals.Yeah,that's it Democrats,snuff out an unborn life but let violent criminals like Dominic Cinelli out of prison. Definition of hypocrisy ( see dictionary under liberal). By the way MDP,you never got back to me on the Constitutionality of social programs.All you could muster was some BS arguement that the Founding Fathers couldn't have envisioned the Air Force.The 'militia' clause has a lot more leeway than your non-existent arguement above the "welfare of the people".It didn't mean EBT,free phones (which didn't exist in 1776 either), or subsidized housing for illegal immigrants.
Leeroy
4:41 pm on Sunday, August 26, 2012
Go back to your Woburn police state. Looking at your posting history, it's clear that you're a neocon troll rehashing everything you heard on Rush today.
mark patterson
3:47 pm on Sunday, August 26, 2012
Rick,How do I use a computer? Your sentence should read "The right is still to busy figuring out how computers work". It's called proper syntax.Try it sometime.
Stumpgrinder
1:57 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
I have watched as Elizabeth Warren and the Mass. Democratic Party has tried, in vain, to smear Scott Brown. Everyone should note that they placed a non-functional link at the bottom of this story. It was non-functional 30 minutes after it was written. Why would it be non-functional?
Perhaps, the anonymous author did not want you to know that there were 227 co-sponsors of this bill. Brown, allegedly, contributed to 3. That is barely over 1%: a number just a little bit higher than Elizabeth Warren's percentage of her American Indian bloodline. While she hopped in her SUV on Martha's Vineyard, and counted her $7,000.00 paycheck for the week, Brown was out in his old pickup (OK, it's been a great propoganda tool, but it says that he's watching his, and hopefully my pennies) and doing some old fashioned stumping. I have yet to hear his side smear Warren; which is all I have seen & heard her side spend their money on.
What is she bringing to the table? What is she going to do? Is she better than Brown because she says she is? If she is just figuring out that she has to offer something other than the fact that she is a 1%er disguising herself under the Democratic banner, she is nothing more than the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing.
Massachusetts: where if you are not a Democrat, you are subject to smear and deception by your opponent.
Here's the link that works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Taxpayer_Funding_for_Abortion_Act