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Scott Brown
Scott Brown To Campaign Team: No More Anonymous Twitter Feeds, Guys
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA)
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) has told his staff to lay off the anonymous negative campaigning a day after adviser Eric Fehrnstrom admitted to being behind a Twitter feed that attacked one of Brown's potential reelection rivals.
"While it's clear Eric was seeking to inject a little levity into politics on his own time, I wasn't aware of what he was doing," Brown told the Boston Globe in a statement. Brown said to the paper he's "made clear to everyone on or associated with my team that this type of thing is not to happen again."
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Eric Fehrnstrom
Scott Brown Adviser Admits He's Behind Dem-Mocking Twitter Feed, Refuses To Apology
Romney campaign advisor Eric Fehrnstrom
Eric Fehrnstrom, the adviser to Scott Brown and Mitt Romney under fire from Democrats today, admitted to the Boston Globe that he is in fact the man behind the anonymous Twitter feed that's been mocking Democratic Senate candidate Alan Khazei.
But despite the calls from Khazei camp for an apology, Fehrnstrom is showing no remorse.
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MA-SEN
Khazei Calls On Scott Brown To Apologize For Fake Twitter Feed
Alan Khazei
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alan Khazei isn't letting the revelation that Sen. Scott Brown's (R-MA) campaign team is behind a fake Twitter feed that's been attacking him pass without making some political hay.
"Sen. Brown should denounce these tactics, immediately close the fake Twitter account and apologize to the citizens of Massachusetts," Khazei Chief of Staff Emily Cherniack said in a statement.
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Eric Fehrnstrom
Scott Brown Spox Apparently Outs His Dem-Mocking Twitter Feed
Romney campaign advisor Eric Fehrnstrom
It's time to write the next chapter in the growing political tome, "The Trouble With Twitter."
Eric Fehrnstrom, adviser to both Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), apparently outed himself as the man behind @CrazyKhazei, a Twitter feed that mocks Alan Khazei, the former City Year executive and founder of Be The Change who's running to take on Brown in next year's election. (Readers may know the race as the one progressives really want Elizabeth Warren to run in.)
Fehrnstrom, it appears, sent a tweet intended for @CrazyKhazei from his personal account, thus making him the latest person to press the wrong button on a Twitter app and find himself, er, exposed.
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MA-SEN
Today: Massachusetts Picks Dem Nominee For Senate -- And Effectively The Next Senator
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Today is a big day in Massachusetts, with voters headed to the polls in the Democratic primary for the special Senate election -- and in a heavily Democratic state, this will be tantamount to electing the successor to Ted Kennedy.
The four main candidates are state Attorney General Martha Coakley, Rep. Mike Capuano, City Year founder Alan Khazei, and businessman and Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca. The favorite for the Republican nomination is state Sen. Scott Brown, against frequent GOP candidate Jack E. Robinson.
Unfortunately, there's been surprisingly little public polling on this race. The last survey was a Rasmussen poll from two weeks ago, which put Coakley ahead with 36%, Capuano at 21%, and Khazei and Pagliuca at 14% each. In addition, special elections are inherently difficult to predict with their low and irregular turnout patterns and heavy reliance on get-out-the-vote efforts. So while Coakley is viewed as the frontrunner, anything could have happened in the last two weeks, and anything could happen today.
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MA-SEN
New Massachusetts Senate Race Ads Play Up Kennedy Legacy
Three of the candidates in the Massachusetts special election for Senate have new ads out -- with a lot of invocation of the late Ted Kennedy.
The primary is being held this Tuesday -- in a state where the Democratic nomination is tantamount to election -- with state Attorney General Martha Coakley currently in the lead in public polls. The race is a once-in-a-generation event for Massachusetts. The last time they had an open-seat Senate race was in 1984, and before that the last time was 1966.
Rep. Mike Capuano talks about the lessons he's learned from the Kennedy. "I'm proud to have voted in favor of health care reform, keeping Ted's dream alive," says Capuano -- a shot at Coakley's attacks against the bill due to the Stupak Amendment.
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MA-SEN
Senate Candidates In Massachusetts Announce Fundraising Hauls
Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Martha Coakley (D)
Candidates in the Massachusetts Senate special election have announced their fundraising totals, in a race that will quickly come down to a December 8 Democratic primary.
• State Attorney General Martha Coakley, the current frontrunner in the available polls, has announced that she raised $2.1 million for her campaign in September. The campaign's press release said that this was double her original goal of $1 million.
• Rep. Mike Capuano has raised $300,000. Federal records show he also had $1.2 million on hand in his Congressional account, as of June 30.
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