Scott Brown screws up his filing application for NH Senate

[Statistikhengst]

Scott Brown, pick a party

Former senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was so busy picking a new state that he forgot to pick a party.

Whoever filled out Brown’s formal statement of organization for his campaign exploratory committee left blank the small gray box asking for the candidate’s party affiliation.

The Brown committee received a letter from the Federal Election Commission on Friday with a gentle reminder that Brown needed to select a party. As of Monday morning, his file on the FEC Web site did not have him listed as a Republican.

Brown’s campaign said it was an “administrative oversight that will be fixed when they drop ‘exploratory’ from the committee name on Thursday.” On Brown’s statement of candidacy form he is listed as a Republican.

Electoral vote is commenting on this:

ElectoralVote

Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown has filed to run for the Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Only on the form, he was supposed to say which party's nomination he wants and he left that field blank. The Federal Election Commission sent him a polite letter gently inquiring which party he belongs to. He is going to have to admit it is the Republican Party, even though, by and large, New Hampshire is a blue state and Shaheen is quite popular.

It is not unprecedented for a person to serve as senator from more than one state. James Shields certainly holds the record though. He first represented Illinois in the Senate starting in 1849, even though he had not been a citizen for the nine years prior to his election (which the Constitution requires). This detail led to the Senate to refuse to seat him, creating a vacancy and a special election. This time around he had been a citizen for 9 years and he won the special election. After losing reelection, he moved to Minnesota and was one of the state's first senators. Later he moved to Missouri and won election to the Senate there. None of this is going to help Brown though. He is going to be labeled a carpetbagger from today until the election and it will probably be enough to defeat him since residents of New Hampshire definitely have a clear identity of themselves and do not think of New Hampshire as North Massachusetts. At least three polls taken this year give Shaheen a double-digit lead over Brown. Although Shaheen was born in Missouri, she has lived in New Hampshire for 41 years, so she is pretty much immune to being called a carpetbagger. Also, before she was senator, she was elected governor of New Hampshire three times, so she has deep roots in the state.

But before Brown even gets to face Shaheen, he first has to win a very contested Republican primary where he will face former senator Bob Smith and tea party favorite Karen Testerman.

FYI...

 

[g4racer]

The Constitution defines the job for members of Congress. Members of Congress are not doing their job; but have extremely good job security. For not doing their job they have a 6 digit income, a staff, a great expense account and perks that never end. Getting to know the right people is the biggest one. I don't know why they are complaining about people being on welfare as they are on the best welfare program in existence. Scott Brown couldn't make it in MA so he comes to NH. Is he doing it for himself or the state?

 

[whitehall]

The only success Scott Brown ever had was (temporarily) taking the seat long held by the Kennedy dynasty. He wasn't a real republican but it didn't matter at the time, republican in name was good enough. The fact that he didn't indicate political party affiliation in his carpet bag adventure says two things. Number #1 he isn't endorsed by the Republican party and #2 he doesn't give a shit.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Scott Brown is donesky

 

[Bush92]

Hope he wins.

 

[pismoe]

think that ' brownie ' is a rino or worse .

 

[LiberalMedia]

Electoral vote is commenting on this:

ElectoralVote

Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown has filed to run for the Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Only on the form, he was supposed to say which party's nomination he wants and he left that field blank. The Federal Election Commission sent him a polite letter gently inquiring which party he belongs to.

The FEC was interacting with his campaign committee's treasurer, not Scott Brown. The treasurer forgot to fill in that box, the treasurer was sent the letter from the FEC, and the treasurer corrected it. There is no proof in the FEC records that Scott Brown had input in any of these actions.

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This is the website for Brown's treasurer, Paul Kilgore. Unlike on most campaigns, where volunteers run the show, Kilgore is a paid professional. His company is specifically geared towards things like filling out government campaign finance forms correctly to ensure that nobody goes to jail or gets in trouble, and he botched the most basic one.

Take a look at that page I linked to. Kilgore's clientele includes over a dozen sitting U.S. Representatives, three U.S. Senators, and 8 PACs. All of the individuals he represents are Wrongpublicans, and all of the PACs are conservatarded in nature and geared towards helping one or more Wrongpublican candidates.

Wrongpublicans, conservatards, and libertardians would do well to learn the underlying lesson here: The free market will not fix our every problem, because the free market is fucked beyond belief. As the FEC form Kilgore filled out incorrectly alludes to, Kilgore could be charged with a crime and fined heavily for the omission of Brown's party affiliation, but instead of jailing him and seizing his assets, our wonderfully benevolent government simply sent him a letter asking him to correct his error. If this were a private corporation, you'd better believe there would be an error notice fee, a correction processing fee, and a correction verification fee, not to mention the immediate forfeiture of any deposit collected.

This occurrence proves that government is the solution, not the problem.