SCOTT BROWN
OUR OPINION -- It started with Scott Brown 
Scott Brown’s election in January brought the Democratic Party to its moment of truth.
The party’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge that fact helped generate Tuesday’s results.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , November 02, 2010
POLITICS: Minnesota Legislature hits rough spot ... Honoring Olympians ... Farmers unhappy ... more
The chances of a smooth Minnesota legislative session appear to be dwindling, if there ever were a chance. Democrats were livid late in the week after Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed a bill restoring a health program for the poor that he ended last year in the name of fixing a budget deficit.
By Don Davis , February 21, 2010
Kennedy won’t seek re-election, marking end of era
Congress without a Kennedy. It's been 60 years.
By Andrew Miga and Michelle R. Smith , February 12, 2010
Massachusetts certifies GOP's Brown as Kennedy successor
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has certified the results of Scott Brown's upset Senate election win, clearing the way for the Republican to succeed the late Democrat Edward Kennedy.
By Associated Press , February 04, 2010
Pawlenty PAC pulls in $1.3 million in opening months
UPDATED 11:35 A.M.Papers Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's federal Freedom First political action committee intends to file this weekend show most of that money remained in the bank heading into a crucial 2010 election year. Pawlenty, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, is using the money to help candidates in races around the country.
By Brian Bakst , January 29, 2010
Genealogist: Obama, Massachusetts Sen.-elect Brown distant relatives
Genealogists said today the Democratic president and the newly elected Massachusetts senator, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins.
By Associated Press , January 29, 2010
Biden's son won't seek U.S. Senate seat
Beau Biden's decision makes the Democratic-held seat vulnerable as the Democratic Party and its leader, Obama, are licking their wounds following Republican Scott Brown's victory last week for the Senate seat in Massachusetts once held by Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy; the GOP upset ended the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
By Randall Chase , January 25, 2010
Democrats begin discussing smaller health bill
President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are conceding for the first time that they may have to accept a less ambitious health overhaul bill than the massive one they've struggled for a year to assemble.
By Alan Fram , January 21, 2010
- Obama, Dems consider pared-back health care bill
- One year into his presidency, hope harder to come by, Obama finds
- Advocates of health care reform to meet today in Jamestown, N.D.
- OUR OPINION: Start over on health care reform
- With the Republican U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts, what's your opinion about the fate of health care reform in Congress?
OUR OPINION: Start over on health care reform
It’s time to scrap the health care bills in both the House and Senate, take a break and then start fresh, without rushing a bill and with an eye to winning genuine bipartisan support.
There is no other way forward that can bring the country closer together rather than widening our partisan divide.
January 20, 2010
Democrats see Massachusetts message: Jobs, jobs, jobs
Wounded in Massachusetts, frustrated Democrats on Wednesday urged the White House to focus on jobs and the economy — not the health care overhaul that’s now at risk — and pressed President Barack Obama to more forcefully make their case against Republicans ahead of potentially disastrous elections this fall.
By Liz Sidoti , January 20, 2010
Epic upset in the East
GOP's Scott Brown wins Massachusetts Senate raceAddressing an exuberant victory celebration Tuesday night, Brown declared he was "ready to go to Washington without delay" as the crowd chanted, "Seat him now."
By Glen Johnson and Liz Sidoti , January 19, 2010
U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts watched closely
UPDATED 12:30 P.M.A large voter turnour is expected in an election that could tip the Senate balance toward the Republicans and away from Obama. Martha Coakley and Scott Brown are vying for the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat.
By Steve LeBlanc , January 19, 2010
ANALYSIS: Voter ire evident in Massachusetts U.S. Senate race
"It's going to be a hard November for Democrats," Howard Dean, the Democratic Party chairman in the 2006 and 2008 elections when the party took control of the White House and Congress, told The Associated Press in an interview. "Our base is demoralized."
By Liz Sidoti , January 16, 2010
Pawlenty seeks donations for GOPer Brown in Mass.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's political action committee is asking for donations backing the US Senate campaign of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown.
By Associated Press , January 11, 2010
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