Scott Brown carries the weight of great GOP expectations to D.C.
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 23rd, 2010 5:35 am by HL
Scott Brown carries the weight of great GOP expectations to D.C.
Scott Brown left the truck back in Massachusetts. At 9:30 on Thursday morning, the Republican state senator arrived by US Airways shuttle at Reagan National Airport, though he rode a GMC-driving everyman image and a wave of Tea Party-stoked, establishment-financed frustration into the U.S. Senate…
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