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Lawyer: Man Inspired by Sen. Scott Brown Reports Abuse at Camp
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA man inspired by Massachusetts' U.S. Sen. Scott Brown's disclosure earlier this year that he was sexually abused as a child at a Christian summer camp on Cape Cod has come forward to report that he, too, was molested there as a camper, his lawyer said. The 35-year-old man, who lives in the Boston area, said he was repeatedly molested at age 10 in the summer of 1985 by an employee who held various titles, including assistant director and counselor, his lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, told AOL News, without identifying either man. "He said Scott Brown inspired him to come forward," Garabedian ...
Scott Brown: 'That Life Made Me the Man I Am Today'
By Michele McPhee - AOL NewsSen. Scott Brown gave the first copy of his memoir, "Against All Odds," to his mother, Judith, weeks before news broke that he was sexually abused as a child by a camp counselor, the Massachusetts Republican told AOL News. It was also the first time his mother would learn about the physical attacks allegedly inflicted on him by her husbands -- childhood traumas he had never shared with anyone. "I told her, 'I think you need to read this, Mom.' I gave a copy to my sister [Leeann], and she tried to get her to read it too,'' Brown said. "She didn't. She was dealing with some health issues, and ...
Scott Brown: Could Erin's Law ('Get Away, Tell Today') Have Helped?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAs a child, I learned how to duck and cover in case of a nuclear attack. My mother told me not to run with scissors, lest I "put out" my eyes. And instructional films, similar to this one, warned me not to walk off with strangers. Why these strangers were coming around in the first place, or what could happen to me if I succumbed to an invitation, I had no idea. Erin Merryn aims to change all that with a simple, memorable phrase: "Get away, tell today." Merryn, who testified before the Illinois Legislature in 2010, states her case eloquently: Currently in the state of Illinois, schools ...
Sen. Scott Brown Says He Was Sexually and Physically Abused as a Child
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIn a stunning revelation, Sen. Scott Brown tells 60 Minutes he was sexually abused by a camp counselor as a child but never told anyone about the "traumatic" experience, not even his mother, because he didn't think anyone would believe him. "That's what happens when you're a victim. You're embarrassed, you're hurt," he said in an interview airing Sunday with CBS News' Leslie Stahl. "Fortunately, nothing was ever fully consummated, so to speak, but it was certainly back then, very traumatic." Brown, a Republican, gained the national spotlight when he won a special election in 2010 for the ...
Facebook Users in Survey Say Republican Pols Handiest With Social Media
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyRepublicans Sarah Palin, Scott Brown and freshman Sen. Marco Rubio get high marks from Facebook users for their social media skills in terms of staying in touch with supporters and constituents in 2010. Facebook, the wildly popular social networking site, asked its members this week to rank politicians and government agencies for their facility in using its pages. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, Sen. Brown (R-Mass.), Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) were rated highly for their regular but unobtrusive use of Facebook, the Washington Post said. More than 2.5 million have ...
Year in Review: Top 12 Political Surprises of 2010
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe predictions game was hard to play in 2010. It was a year of upsets, comebacks and feats of survival. In rough chronological order, here are a dozen developments that we didn't expect this year: Massachusetts miracle: Republican state Sen. Scott Brown wins the U.S. Senate seat held for 47 years by liberal lion Ted Kennedy. State Attorney General Martha Coakley, Brown's lackluster Democratic opponent, is not the only victim of the year's first "shellacking." President Barack Obama and his party are stunned by the loss of their 60-vote super majority, and their ambitious health care agenda ...
DADT Vote Today: Do the Dems Have the Votes for Repeal?
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today will bring up a proposed repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for a final vote for the year. Reid said he will hold a procedural vote later today on repealing the policy, which forbids homosexuals from serving openly in the military. The Democrats need Republican support to garner the 60 votes needed to break a GOP filibuster, and it's still unclear how many Senate Republicans are in favor of the repeal, the New York Daily News reported. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is one such senator, joining at least three other GOP senators ...
Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Unclear After Brass Asks Senate for Time
By David Wood - Politics DailyProspects for Senate repeal of the ban on gays in the military appear uncertain after three of the four military service chiefs testified Friday that repeal would harm combat effectiveness -- unless they were allowed time to implement the change. But at least one member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, after two days of hearings this week, announced a surprising endorsement of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'' Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown, who won the seat left open by the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy, said Friday he would support repeal. Last spring he voted against ...
Can Scott Brown Win Again in Massachusetts? Poll Suggests He Can
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMassachusetts Sen. Scott Brown stunned the White House and the Democrats when he won the seat held for half a century by Democratic stalwart Edward Kennedy in a special election last January. He has to run again in 2012, and this year's midterm elections, which produced big victories for the GOP, were a reminder that he will be seeking re-election in a state that bucked the national trend by re-electing all of its Democratic House incumbents. That has raised the question of whether Brown's win was a combination of running in a year of disgruntled voters and against a Democratic candidate, ...
GOP Senators Targeted in Six-Figure DREAM Act Ad Buy
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA coalition of labor and advocacy groups has launched a "six-figure" ad campaign aimed at Republican senators whose votes are needed to pass the DREAM Act before the current session of Congress runs out. The AFL-CIO said Tuesday that the ads will run in print publications and on radio all this week in Maine, Boston, Miami, Houston and Las Vegas. The GOP lawmakers being targeted are: Florida Sen. George LeMieux; Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe; Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown; Nevada Sen. John Ensign; and Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Most of them voted for the ...
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