Contact: Ryan Mahoney, ryan@amplifynh.org
ICYMI: Amplify NH Prods NHGOP As MA Career Politician Scott Brown Threatens to Run In NH After Exhausting Other Options
MANCHESTER, NH – This past week, Amplify New Hampshire launched a social media campaign highlighting Scott Brown’s long career as a Massachusetts politician, satirically juxtaposing his out-of-state credentials with Kelly Ayotte’s intense 2024 campaign to protect New Hampshire from Massachusetts. The effort also highlighted Brown’s months of jockeying for several different roles in the Trump Administration, including Homeland Security Secretary and U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (again).
The New Hampshire Republican Party, which ran a statewide campaign on the slogan of “Don’t Mass Up New Hampshire” in 2024, will soon be in the awkward position of campaigning for a politician who has only ever had a 20-year political career representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on a city, state, and national level.
"After pleading with the Trump Administration for several other posts, Scott Brown is intensifying his exploration of a New Hampshire Senate run as his ‘Plan C.’” said Amplify New Hampshire Executive Director Ryan Mahoney. “It’s clear from the time and energy the NHGOP has spent responding that this has struck a nerve. There is absolutely no denying that Brown is a career politician who spent 20 years representing the home state he grew up in and still coaches in - the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. New Hampshire is nobody’s back-up plan, and Granite Staters aren’t buying his grift. Republicans know it, and they are worried.”
“It’s never about how he can serve New Hampshire — it’s about what New Hampshire can do for Scott Brown,” fired Ryan Mahoney, executive director of Amplify NH, a pro-Democratic interest group. “The people of New Hampshire deserve better than to be the backup plan of a career politician from Massachusetts.”
During his first Senate run, Brown repeatedly faced carpetbagger accusations. Last week, a progressive group in New Hampshire took aim at Brown. Amplify NH claimed in a release that "the gentleman from Massachusetts is clawing for another chance at power, framing himself once again as a Senate candidate for New Hampshire."
Last week, a progressive group in New Hampshire took aim at Brown.
Amplify NH claimed in a release that "the gentleman from Massachusetts is clawing for another chance at power, framing himself once again as a Senate candidate for New Hampshire."
On Sunday, the leftwing Democratic activist group Amplify NH announced it’s launching the “Don’t Let Scott Brown Mass Up NH” social media campaign. The effort comes complete with art that echoes the Ayotte campaign’s “Don’t MASS Up New Hampshire” slogan she used [...]
Scott Brown graduated from Wakefield High School in Massachusetts, Tufts College in Massachusetts, and lived in Newburyport where his father was a city councilor for 18 years in Massachusetts, inspiring Brown to run for Property Assessor, Town Selectman, and State Representative in Wrentham, where he served for 18 years in Massachusetts state and local government, after which he ran for for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts and representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for 2 years before being defeated by Elizabeth Warren in 2012. In total, he served a total of 20 years in various government positions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and still has close ties to his home state, where he is currently a high school basketball coach.
Brown has left a trail of controversies in his wake. As a senator, he repeatedly voted against the Affordable Care Act and fought to stop insurance from covering birth control. His embarrassing lack of knowledge about New Hampshire, including his failure to place Sullivan County during his last campaign was an embarrassment to the state. And in 2017, as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, he faced accusations of sexually inappropriate and undiplomatic conduct, putting the U.S. in global headlines for all the wrong reasons, creating a pattern established when a Fox News host accused him of the same thing a year prior.
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