Scott Brown Voted Against Assistance Now Helping Haiti
State Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), the Republican candidate for the special U.S. Senate election Tuesday, voted against a bill to provide financial assistance to 9/11 rescue workers who had volunteered to rush to the site of the twin towers after the terrorist attack in 2001. The measure, which was opposed by only two other legislators in addition to Brown, provided paid “leaves of absence for certain Red Cross employees participating in Red Cross emergencies.”…
Asked yesterday by ThinkProgress why he opposed the 2001 measure for rescue workers, Brown stated that he had his “own priorities first” at the time.
Isn’t it funny how the Republican’s claim to support something when it’s working or helping someone but when it came time to vote for such assistance, they are whole 100% against voting for it?
Just as Rep. Tim Johnson of Illinois voted against the stimulus bill in 2009, but now wants to claim credit for helping get the FutureGen project to Mattoon, Illinois. The same goes for State Rep. Chapin Rose who was against the stimulus bill from ever being passed; he’s now claiming it could have saved jobs at the University of Illinois.
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