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Troubling News From Fitchburg, Mass.: If Scott Brown’s Lost Josh Romano . . .

Posted on | April 26, 2010 | 4 Comments

In his new gig writing for the Examiner, Pete Da Tech Guy finds trouble at the corner market for the “41st vote”:

We now know Brown’s price; $354,000.

That’s a local voter’s reaction to this Boston Herald article:

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown – the upstart GOP maverick who has threatened to filibuster the Democrats’ move to rein in Wall Street – raked in hundreds of thousands from investment banks blamed for the economic meltdown – including Goldman Sachs, according to a Washington, D.C. watchdog. . . .
Wall Street firms were Brown’s second-biggest donors, dishing out $354,000 to his campaign, including $5,500 from Goldman, according to the D.C. group.

“Party of the rich,” blah blah blah. The financial regulation bill is a phony load of crap, and no sensible person has to be bribed to oppose it, so there is no basis for the insinuation that Scott Brown is merely doing the bidding of Corporate Amerikkka. And I’m betting Chris Dodd and Barney Frank have gotten a lot more Wall Street money than Brown has.

Congratulations to Da Tech Guy on his new gig — it doesn’t pay all that much, but he’s already got an Instalanche on one of his articles. Meanwhile, his famous “Have Fedora, Will Travel” offer is still available, if you get the urge to hit his tip jar, as you certainly should.

Category: Da Tech Guy, Massachusetts, Tea Party

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4 Responses to “Troubling News From Fitchburg, Mass.: If Scott Brown’s Lost Josh Romano . . .”

  1. Roxeanne de Luca
    April 27th, 2010 @ 5:58 pm

    Am I the only one who wonders if people can do math? Brown raised $1.3 million on the day of the debate, with an average donation amount of $78. That his second-biggest donors, over the course of his entire campaign, gave Brown about 1/4th of what he got in a single day is NOT newsworty.

    I would be more concerned about the $600 million that our commander-in-chief got – which is about 200 times the amount that Brown’s opponents are getting their panties into a twist over. Just saying.

  2. Roxeanne de Luca
    April 27th, 2010 @ 12:58 pm

    Am I the only one who wonders if people can do math? Brown raised $1.3 million on the day of the debate, with an average donation amount of $78. That his second-biggest donors, over the course of his entire campaign, gave Brown about 1/4th of what he got in a single day is NOT newsworty.

    I would be more concerned about the $600 million that our commander-in-chief got – which is about 200 times the amount that Brown’s opponents are getting their panties into a twist over. Just saying.

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