Mathew Helman

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• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 11/2/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Republican Scott Brown is desperate for voters to forget about his Republican affiliation, his close ties to Mitt Romney, and his close ties to an unpopular and increasingly far-right-wing Republican Party.  That's why he's campaigning...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 10/26/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Republican Scott Brown's already-diminished credibility took even more body blows this past week.  Brown appears to be basing his closing arguments to the electorate on dishonest attacks that have already been thoroughly debunked, as well...
• Posted Scott Brown's Record is NOT Pro-Choice to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] The closer we get to Election Day, the more misleading Republican Scott Brown's rhetoric gets.  Facing a large deficit among female voters, Brown is simply Etch-A-Sketching his anti-woman record.  Watch and Share our 1-minute video,...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 10/19/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Man, oh, man.  Did Republican Scott Brown choose the wrong week to have one embarrassingly terrible news story after another, or what?! The week led off with fundraising figures for July through September.  Republican Scott...
• Posted Where's Scotto? to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] While Republican Scott Brown does show up to make dishonest attacks against his opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, and her supporters, Brown has notoriously ducked high-profile events at which voters might question him and attempt to...
• Posted Scott Brown and "Binders Full of Women" to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] At the Presidential debate last night, Mitt Romney defended his lousy record on issues of concern to women in the workplace by insisting (though not completely honestly) that he had "binders full of women" that...
• Posted Mitt & Scott: What's the Difference? to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Tonight is the second debate between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney.  This Presidential debate has profound implications for Massachusetts' 2012 U.S. Senate race.  Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren has proudly touted her ties...
• Posted How Scott Brown Could Fill Fenway Park to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] The capacity of Fenway Park is just over 37,000.  So how could Republican Scott Brown fill (or, at least, nearly fill) the seats at Fenway?  He could simply add up all of the jobs for...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 10/12/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] With less than a month until Election Day, how was Republican Scott Brown described in the last week?  Based on Brown making mudslinging the foundation of his campaign, Republican former Congressman Joe Scarborough noted that...
• Posted Scott Brown Is Keeping Secrets to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Republican Scott Brown is keeping more secrets from you.  And, unlike his "secret meetings" with Kings and Queens, these secrets are actually reality-based.  Two such secrets in particular came into further focus this week. Legal...
• Posted 30 Out Of 32 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] It has been said that the best way to predict what someone will do in the future is to look at what he has done in the past.  This maxim holds true for Republican Scott...
• Posted Republican Scott Brown: Bay State Birther to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] "Senator Brown has turned into a Bay State Birther, for goodness' sake!"-Gov. Deval Patrick We're all well aware that Republican Scott Brown has made divisive attacks and mudslinging the centerpiece of his campaign, opting for...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 10/5/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] As Republican Scott Brown continues to offer Massachusetts nothing besides divisive attacks and mudslinging, he has painted himself further and further into a corner.  This held true over the last week. The most notable event...
• Posted Scott Brown's "Model" Justice, Antonin Scalia to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] By now, we all know that Republican Scott Brown cited the Supreme Court's most extreme right-winger, Antonin Scalia, as his "model" Justice.  But what does that mean?  What is the Scalia record that is so...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 9/28/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Last week, Republican Scott Brown essentially declared that he can't run for re-election on his real record, so all he has to offer the people of Massachusetts is divisive mudslinging. Republican Scott Brown's paid media...
• Posted Who's Winning the Big Insurance Primary? to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] "Now, I don't know anybody who's hired by an insurance company that was actually working for the victims." -Republican Scott Brown, 9/21/12 Republican Scott Brown has been working very hard to misrepresent the role that...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 9/21/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Could this have been the worst week of 2012 for Republican Scott Brown, politically speaking?  Polls, policies, party politics, the debate, endorsements, and campaign finance all displayed a politically wounded Brown. Normally, polls are not...
• Posted #BothWaysBrown to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] On the campaign trail, Republican Scott Brown calls himself a "jobs crusader" despite voting against tens of thousands of jobs for Massachusetts.  Brown calls himself "pro-choice" despite an 80% anti-choice voting record.  We would have...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 9/14/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] A significant portion of Republican Scott Brown's media strategy has relied on his ability to coast on charm and superficial likeability, and to never, ever get called out for anything.  Well, awfully bad news has...
• Posted Happy Lehman Brothers Day, Scott Brown to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] This Saturday marks the anniversary of a very inauspicious occasion. the Sept. 15, 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. It's worth noting that the retrospectives we might see of that anniversary could further the narrative that...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 9/7/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Last week was a week of subtle (and not-so-subtle) reminders for Republican Scott Brown. Republican Scott Brown's Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, gave an extremely well-received and rousing defense of the middle class and small businesses...
• Posted Scott Brown: Wall Street's Fighter to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] You may recall that, last week, Republican Scott Brown's anti-union, anti-equality policies led him to lose out on an endorsement from legendary Lowell boxer Micky Ward, who was immortalized in the Oscar-winning film "The Fighter." ...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 8/31/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Republican Scott Brown had another rough go of it last week, tiptoeing around the Republican National Convention, chatting with Karl Rove, seeing a much-hyped endorsement slip away, and having his own words come back to...
• Posted Scott Brown's Republican Convention Care Package to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Republican Scott Brown is reportedly going to show his face at the Republican National Convention today.  After all, Brown's endorsed candidate for President, Mitt Romney, is accepting the Republican Party's nomination for President tonight; and,...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 8/24/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Last week was about one thing and one thing only for Republican Scott Brown: convincing Massachusetts to forget about his lousy record and rhetoric on women.  Every cynical political move Brown made toward this effort...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 8/17/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] This past week was one in which Republican Scott Brown reminded us that he is: lacking in substance, beholden to Wall Street, and unresponsive to Massachusetts. In what was supposed to be the highlight of...
• Posted The Reviews Are In: Republican Scott Brown Lacks Substance to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Yesterday, Republican Scott Brown delivered remarks that were billed in advance as a "major policy speech."  Given that Brown's campaign has repeatedly faced charges of lacking substance and seriousness, a "major policy speech" could have...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 8/10/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Last week was one in which Republican Scott Brown did himself no favors, and no favors were done for him. First off, be sure to visit www.WhoIsScottBrown.com to play the new web game "Who Is...
• Posted Play "Who Is Scott Brown?" to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] Republican Scott Brown has worked very hard to keep many aspects of his record as quiet as possible, including his repeated efforts to water down Wall Street regulations, his anti-woman votes and rhetoric, and his...
• Posted Weekly Scott Brown-d Up, Week of 8/3/12 to ProgressMass
  [Cross-posted on Blue Mass Group.] In a relatively quiet week, Republican Scott Brown still managed to accumulate a few warning flags. For instance, Republican Scott Brown has been accused in the past of running a campaign featuring little substance.  (Remember...