Scott Brown Targeted For Tax Cut Vote In New Ad

Progressive group The Agenda Project has gotten an early start to the 2012 campaign season with a new ad targeting junior Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) for his recent vote against lowering taxes for Americans making less than $1 million a year.

"Scott Brown said he was like us -- he said he would be our Senator. He said he would lower our taxes. But 'Mister I drive a truck' is totally full of it," says the ad's narrator. "Looks like Mr. I'm-Just-Like-You drove his truck to Washington and turned into Senator I'm-Just-Like-Them. Tell Mr. Tough Guy to start acting like our senator or come 2012 he won't be."

Senate Democrats unveiled their version of a compromise over the weekend designed to ensure that the tax cuts for people making over $1 million annually weren't extended. The measure was defeated in a bipartisan vote.

Roll Call reports that the spot cost $20,000 to run on a couple Massachusetts-area cable stations.

"He is particularly vulnerable -- being up for re-election in 2012 in a traditionally blue state," Agenda Project founder Erica Payne told Roll Call.

Still, the spot is hardly the harshest strike from the group. Earlier this year they released a "F*ck Tea" clothing line.

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Comments

[timej31]

12:05 AM on 12/19/2010

I never see these ads.

[murphysgirl]

03:22 PM on 12/12/2010

Oh I can't wait for more ads like these!!

[bluntobject]

01:40 AM on 12/12/2010

Two words: No Sympathy.
 
This man is utterly disingenious. Shame on the people of Mass for electing this clown.

[moneyman1]

06:10 PM on 12/13/2010

I'm from Mass and I can't wait to vote this clown out.

[bluntobject]

04:01 AM on 12/14/2010

Thank you sir! I knew there were some folks back in Mass who still had some sanity left!
 
:)

[VOTER]

12:36 AM on 12/12/2010

Great Ad.
Kudos and keep them coming.

[fatback65]

12:17 AM on 12/12/2010

Toast.

[magnoliabird]

06:40 PM on 12/11/2010

The Repubs and the Tea Party thought they would get more?...same ol same ol. How could they even for a minute think anything would change. Politicians say what they think their supporters want to hear but that is as far as it goes.

[Rick Goodner]

04:57 PM on 12/11/2010

HA! I love it :-)
Take that you 88ers :-)

[Billar]

04:00 PM on 12/11/2010

I hope the people of the Mass. vote out this spandex boy in 2012.

[Terypat]

05:53 PM on 12/11/2010

That's pretty much a done deal. Scott Brown was just a flash in the pan and is poised to become a peculiar footnote of history.

[oldgrendel]

02:09 PM on 12/11/2010

It seems the Tea Party has been relatively quiet on this whole issue. And now their one-time poster boy is feeling the heat, will the party that was going to "take over America" going to take a position, or just collect their Main Street money and K-Street advisers?

[habenae23]

06:22 PM on 12/12/2010

the latter, unfortunately

[girlsparky]

01:27 PM on 12/11/2010

I can't wait to see ads pointing this out all over the country in time for the 2012 elections.

[Michael Shanahan]

01:23 PM on 12/11/2010

Dream on. Scott Brown is the most popular elected figure in MA by any poll. This just a leftie group who apparently got a chance to spend other peoples money on a really bad commercial on a cable channel and couldnt resist.

[girlsparky]

01:25 PM on 12/11/2010

Thee ad speaks the truth and maybe some of the ill informed baggers in MA will see it. It always helps to try to get the truth out.

[blueshift]

03:40 PM on 12/13/2010

Brown wan't elected by tbaggers. he was elected by democrats as a memo to obama. not repubs (never mind tbaggers) in mass. to elect a town selectman.

[Rick Goodner]

05:01 PM on 12/11/2010

HA! you Teabagging-88ers are being shown that you were played for fools... how does it feel Ginger? Or being an 88er are you unable to understand the mistake you made?

[castleblanca]

10:58 AM on 12/11/2010

I see at least this seat being picked up by the Dems in 2012.

The writing is on the wall.

[fruity]

01:00 AM on 12/11/2010

I just watched that ad tonight. Mister-I-drive-a-truck. It just reeks of disdain. I LOVE it

[ConservativeCapitalist]

11:02 PM on 12/10/2010

Brown is going to have a tough reelection campaign. He is going to get attacked from the right in the primary and from the Hard Left in the general. That said, it is always tough to beat an incumbent senator.

The State of Massachusetts is a sad state; look at who they send to the House and look at the other Senator.

[Bostontru2u]

04:50 PM on 12/11/2010

Conservative Capitalist are the worse things on the face of the earth. Greedy buggers.

[Rick Goodner]

05:12 PM on 12/11/2010

Capitalist don't understand that (like in the movie The Highlander) "There Can Only Be One" Capitalist must destroy and master all others in the end. That is why they started this class warfare and they are attacking the Mid-class and poor. The TeabaggingRepubGOPers-88ers can't understand (due to their low IQ = 88 or below) that they are the target in a class war of which they are losing.

[dragonladywaltham]

10:11 PM on 12/10/2010

If it's Brown, flush it down.

[EastTraveler]

11:00 AM on 12/11/2010

OMG... That's a classic!

[johndab]

12:25 PM on 12/11/2010

Where can I get the bumper sticker!