{"id":3170,"date":"2010-01-12T12:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2010-01-12T12:18:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:18:35","slug":"scott-brown-its-the-peoples-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/scott-brown-its-the-peoples-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown: It&#8217;s the People&#8217;s Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn right&#8230; It is the people&#8217;s seat&#8230; There a reason why the race to fill the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts\u00a0 is apparently to close to call. This video clip from last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2010\/01\/coakley_brown_j.html\" target=\"_blank\">debate<\/a> between Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley and Independent Joe Kennedy demonstrates it pretty clearly.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OJEEQHOnI2Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the people&#8217;s seat&#8230; Not Ted Kennedy&#8217;s, not Martha Coakley&#8217;s and the Democrats&#8230; This race is as close as it is Martha Coakley and Democrats arrogantly assumed they owned the seat. They don&#8217;t, the people do, that&#8217;s something both Democrats and Republicans would do well to the remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn right&#8230; It is the people&#8217;s seat&#8230; There a reason why the race to fill the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts\u00a0 is apparently to close to call. This video clip from last night&#8217;s debate between Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley and Independent Joe Kennedy demonstrates it pretty clearly. It&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[956,810,955,185,959],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-martha-coakley","tag-massachusetts","tag-scott-brown","tag-senate","tag-special-election","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-P8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3185,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/massachusetts-miracle-scott-browns-wins\/","url_meta":{"origin":3170,"position":0},"title":"Massachusetts Miracle: Scott Brown Wins!","author":"Jeff","date":"January 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I have to confess I haven't paid close attention to the special election in Massachusetts to fill the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy... 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