Scooter Brown: Sexy as a center fold, loser as elected official! 

Scott Brown to become a law school dean

By The Associated Press

Posted Nov 8, 2019

BOSTON — Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown will become a law school dean when he completes his time as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

The Boston Globe reported that Brown and New England Law Boston announced Friday that he’ll become president and dean of the law school in December 2020 when he’s finished serving as an ambassador.

Brown, a Republican, lost his Senate seat in 2012 to Democrat Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, then unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 2014 in New Hampshire.

While living in Wrentham, he was previously a state senator, holding the seat now held by Becca Rausch, D-Needham.

Brown, 60, became an ambassador in 2017.

He told The Globe in a phone interview from New Zealand that the law school position is exciting because he went to law school, worked as a solo practitioner and wrote laws as a state representative, state senator and U.S. senator.

Kinda makes one wonder if New England Law Boston did any review of Scooter's history or if they were that desperate.

Scooter's check for the Ambassadorship raised red flags. 

Below are just several articles...you get the point!

Scooter Brown? You're kidding?

Koch Sock Puppet Scooter Brown in New Hampshire???

Help Defeat the Koch Sock Puppet, Scooter Brown in New Hampshire!

Massachusetts Voters quickly recognized that Scooter Brown was ALL FLUFF AND NO SUBSTANCE.....well.... Scott Brown is nothing more than a Koch Sock Puppet!

Massachusetts voters had the common sense to toss Scooter out of office and elect a NEWCOMER who represents her constituents and ALL Americans, just like Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

At the top of this page is a 'SEARCH' feature and one can find the pathetic tales of Scooter's historic BAD JUDGEMENT that didn't just begin. You'll find the details of Scooter's connections to the New England Compounding Center that killed, sickened and injured so many across the nation because they were UNREGULATED.

Scooter, like a loyal Koch Sock Puppet favors deregulation.

Scooter returned from Washington to lobby for his BEST BUD, Sticky Fingers Piontkowski, caught with his fingers in the till at Plainridge.


Were it not for the flood of KOCH $$$$, this Carpet Bagger wouldn't be taken seriously.

Charles Pierce | The Fear, Like the Cruelty, Is the Point

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- MEANWHILE IN NEW ZEALAND: "'Red flags' raised about US ambassador to NZ during vetting - US media report," RNZ: "Red flags were raised about US ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown during vetting for positions in the Trump administration, US media report. Nearly 100 internal Trump administration vetting documents have been leaked to the US news site Axios. The documents were put together by the Republican National Committee to assess potential administration officials. They show a series of red flags for top-ranking officials who went onto get jobs in the US government."

'Red flags' raised about US ambassador to NZ during vetting - US media report

 27 June 2019 

Red flags were raised about US ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown during vetting for positions in the Trump administration, US media report.

Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King

Nearly 100 internal Trump administration vetting documents have been leaked to the US news site Axios.

The documents were put together by the Republican National Committee to assess potential administration officials.

They show a series of red flags for top-ranking officials who went onto get jobs in the US government.

The documents outline how Mr Brown was criticised for not getting a lot done during his 11 years in the Massachusetts House and Senate, and that he was disinterested in policy.

His suggestion in 2008 that President Barack Obama was born out of wedlock was also noted.

He attracted controversy in 2001 when he said the idea of gay partners having children was not normal - something he later apologised for.

And he once had to apologise for making crude comments about his former Democratic senate rival Elizabeth Warren.

Mr Brown was also identified as a supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques for terror suspects, including water boarding.

A spokesperson for Mr Brown said in a statement that the leaked documents were were largely compilations of old news stories from his time as a politician in the US.

They said for the past two years Mr Brown has had "the best job in the world" and was entirely focused on fostering the relationship between the two countries.

Axios said the documents shed light on the slap-dash way the Trump administration filled its cabinet and administration, and foreshadowed future scandals that have affected his government.

Top appointments also red flagged

The vetting forms show red flags were also raised about a number of current and former Trump administration officials like Scott Pruitt, Tom Price, Mick Mulvaney and Rex Tillerson.

Scott Pruitt, who ultimately lost his job as EPA Administrator because of serial ethical abuses, had a section in his vetting form titled "allegations of coziness with big energy companies".

The first red flag for Rex Tillerson, who became Trump's first Secretary of State, was about Russia: "Tillerson's Russia ties go deep".

Mick Mulvaney, who became Trump's Budget Director and is now his acting chief of staff, has a striking assortment of "red flags," including his assessment that Trump "is not a very good person".

And according to the documents, the Trump transition team was so worried about Rudy Giuliani, in line for Secretary of State, that they created a separate 25-page document titled "Rudy Giuliani Business Ties Research Dossier" with copious accounting of his "foreign entanglements."

In response to the leaked documents, principal deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told Axios the breach does not detract from Trump's many accomplishments as president.

"President Trump has assembled an incredible team throughout the federal government who ... has accomplished undeniable successes like tax cuts, record employment levels, a booming economy ... rebuilding the military and crushing [Islamic State].

"President Trump has done more to improve the lives of the American people in two years-than past presidents have done in eight-and no disgruntled, establishment, DC swamp creature's cowardly leaks can change that."

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