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The election results are not yet certified but news organizations are already calling the election since 89% of the vote has been counted, only 11% remains and nobody in their right mind believes that 60% of the remaining vote will go to Martha. This has to be said because Misplaced Pages cannot report predictions as fact. However, it can say that news organizations have declare him the winner based on the results returned so far.


== Early life and non-political career == == Early life and non-political career ==

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Scott P. Brown
United States Senator-elect
from Massachusetts
Assuming office
SucceedingPaul G. Kirk, Jr.
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
from the Norfolk, Bristol & Middlesex district
Incumbent
Assumed office
March 2004
Preceded byCheryl Jacques
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 9th Norfolk district
In office
1998–2004
Preceded byJo Ann Sprague
Succeeded byRichard J. Ross
Member of the
Wrentham, Massachusetts
Board of Selectmen
In office
1995–1998
Personal details
Born (1959-09-12) September 12, 1959 (age 65)
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Political partyRepublican
SpouseGail Huff
ChildrenArianna Brown
Ayla Brown
ResidenceWrentham, Massachusetts
Alma materTufts University
Boston College Law School
OccupationLieutenant Colonel in the Army National Guard, Politician, lawyer
Websitewww.ScottBrown.com

Scott Philip Brown (b. September 12, 1959) is the Republican Senator-elect from Massachusetts. On January 19, 2010, he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley with a 52% to 47% victory. Pending his resignation to enter the United States Senate, he remains the Republican Massachusetts State Senator representing the Norfolk, Bristol & Middlesex District since 2004. He was the Republican candidate in the 2010 U.S. Senate special election to fill the remaining three years of the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy. While initially trailing Attorney General Martha Coakley in polling by large numbers, Brown closed the gap in January 2010, leading or running even with Coakley in recent independent and internal polling and won the election as the first Republican to be elected to a US Senate seat in the state since 1972.

Brown is a graduate of Wakefield High School (1977), Tufts University (1981), and Boston College Law School (1985). He is a practicing attorney specializing in family law.

The election results are not yet certified but news organizations are already calling the election since 89% of the vote has been counted, only 11% remains and nobody in their right mind believes that 60% of the remaining vote will go to Martha. This has to be said because Misplaced Pages cannot report predictions as fact. However, it can say that news organizations have declare him the winner based on the results returned so far.

Early life and non-political career

Brown grew up in Wakefield, Massachusetts. His father, C. Bruce Brown, served as a city councilor in Newburyport; Scott later recalled memories of holding political signs for his father from an early age. His father and his mother, Judith A. Brown,divorced when he was about a year old. Both his parents have since remarried three times.

During various periods of his childhood, Brown lived with his grandparents and his aunt. Brown has said that he "didn't grow up with all the advantages in life" and that his working mother needed welfare benefits for a short period of time. In an interview with The Boston Globe, Brown discussed his childhood circumstances and revealed that at the age of twelve he was arrested for shoplifting record albums in Salem. The 12-year-old Brown went before Judge Samuel Zoll. In chambers, Zoll asked Brown about his interests and if his brothers and sisters looked up to him. Brown said they did. The judge said, “How do you think they'd like to see you play basketball in jail?” The judge asked Brown to write a 1500 word essay on that question as his punishment. Brown said, “That was the last time I ever stole, the last time I ever thought about stealing. . . . The other day I was at Staples, and something was in my cart that I didn’t pay for. I had to bring it back because . . . I thought of Judge Zoll.’’

Brown graduated from Wakefield High School in 1977 and then earned a Bachelors of Arts from Tufts University, in 1981. He received a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1985.

He joined the Army National Guard when he was 19, near the end of his junior year at Tufts. He received his basic training, which took about two months, at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Brown has said the rescue efforts of Guard members during the blizzard of 1978 left a lasting impression on him. He attended ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) at Northeastern University. He has been active with the Guard for about 30 years and holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He currently serves as Army Guard’s head defense lawyer in the New England states. He also assists the Judge Advocate General’s Corps out of Milford.

Brown has been deployed to Kazakhstan and Paraguay. He has said, "I go where they order me to go... I’m just proud to serve and be part of the team." He wishes to stay in the Guard in the future, but he will be unable to do so given the service's mandatory age retirement rules at age 50. He has expressed disappointment at this rule, remarking that "I’m probably one of the most qualified soldiers in the entire Massachusetts" Guard and "I have enlisted service, I have infantry, quartermaster, JAG, I’m airborne qualified, I’ve been to all the courses". Brown received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in homeland security shortly after the 9/11 attacks.

Political career

Brown began his political career in 1992, when he was elected to be an assessor in Wrentham, Massachusetts. In 1995, he was elected to the Wrentham Board of Selectmen, and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 9th Norfolk District in 1998.

After incumbent Democrat Cheryl Jacques resigned, Brown was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in a special election on March 2, 2004, against Angus McQuilken, a top Jacques aide. Brown was re-elected as state senator on November 2, 2004, and again on November 7, 2006 without opposition. He also won re-election in November 2008, defeating Democratic candidate Sara Orozco by a 59 - 41 percent margin.

In the Massachusetts Legislature, Brown serves on the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure, the Joint Committee on Education, Joint Committee on Election Laws, the Joint Committee on Higher Education, the Joint Committee on Public Safety, and the Homeland Security Joint Committee on Veterans & Federal Affairs.

In February 2007, Brown was invited to speak at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham, Massachusetts, as part of a debate on gay marriage. During the presentation, Brown defended himself against several attacks by King Philip students, who had launched a Facebook group against him and his daughter Ayla. During his appearance, Brown directly quoted several of the vulgar statements made against his family and announced the names of King Philip students who had written the statements.

U.S. Senate campaign

Main article: United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010

On September 12, 2009, Brown announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate seat that became vacant on the death of Ted Kennedy, saying the state "needs an independent thinker". Brown has been characterized by self-described conservative columnist Kathleen Parker as a moderate New England Republican with socially moderate and fiscally conservative views, but has also been criticized by the Sun Chronicle editorial page for "his extreme positions on choice, gender, and other social questions". Assistant Professor Boris Schor of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies has described Brown as a liberal Republican by national standards, but well suited for his Massachusetts constituency.

On December 8, 2009, Brown won the Republican primary. In the general election in January 2010, he faced the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Martha Coakley, and Libertarian Joseph L. Kennedy (no relation to the Kennedy family). A week before the general election, Brown raised $1.3 million from over 16,000 donors in a 24-hour money bomb. His campaign office stated it raised $5m US over the period from January 11-15. CQ Politics currently rates the election as a "Tossup." The Rothenberg Political Report changed its rating from "Tossup" to to "Lean Takeover" on January 18. Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report stated on January 17 that he would put his "finger on the scale" for Scott Brown as the favorite. The Rothenberg Political Report released a statement that "the combination of public and private survey research and anecdotal information now strongly suggests that Republican Scott Brown will defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in tomorrow’s race.” As of January 18, 2010, Brown led Coakley in the Intrade prediction market by an 8 to 2 margin. Suffolk University's polling of three bellwether counties on January 18, had Brown leading Coakley by double-digit margins. Nate Silver of the political statistics blog FiveThirtyEight.com projected on January 18 that there was a 75% chance that Brown would defeat Coakley—part of the euphoria which Reuters attributed as driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 to a 15-month high on the afternoon of the Tuesday election. Brown won the January 19 election, performing well in traditional Republican strongholds and holding rival Coakley's margins down in many Democratic precincts.

Political positions

Brown presented himself as an independent conservative counterweight to Massachusetts' current all-Democratic, 12-member Congressional delegation. Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne has called Brown "an insurgent who was somewhat disconnected from the national Republican Party". Brown has said, "I’m going to be the only person down there who is going to be the independent voter and thinker" and "I’ve always been the underdog in one shape or form". Brown's views are in the libertarian mold, which he describes as "fiscally conservative and socially conscious."

Brown opposes a proposed multi-billion dollar tax on banks and prescribing bank executive compensation. Brown, discussing the proposal through a spokesperson, said that "he is opposed to higher taxes, especially in the midst of a severe recession". He also opposes it on the grounds that the tax would likely be passed onto consumers in the form of higher service and ATM fees.

Coakley ran advertisements attacking Brown over an amendement he sponsored in 2005, which, according to The Boston Globe, "would have allowed a doctor, nurse or hospital to deny rape victims an emergency contraceptive if it 'conflicts with a sincerely held religious belief.'" Brown's daughter Ayla called the Coakley advertisement "completely inaccurate and misleading", and Brown criticized Coakley for running what he described as "attack ads". Brown supported the overall bill that required emergency rooms to provide the contraceptives to rape victims. FactCheck.org also criticized Coakley's ad as "misleading" because it did not mention that contraception could still be administered by other personnel. Brown is filing a claim of defamation in court in response to a Massachusetts Democratic Party mailer reading "1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away."

Brown argued that his military experience gives him a wider perspective on national security issues. He supports President Barack Obama's decision to send more troops to fight in Afghanistan, saying "he mission is not over". He has also cited Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's recommendations as a reason for his support. After Martha M. Coakley stated in their campaign debate that she opposes sending more troops because terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda "are gone" from the country, Brown, along with a group of veterans, attacked her statement . Brown advocates that suspected terrorists be tried in military tribunals and not civilian courts.

Brown supported the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform, which requires all residents to purchase health insurance. He opposes the bills approved in late 2009 by the Democratic-lead House and Senate as fiscally unsound. He has remarked, "Our taxes are going to go up dramatically... It’s not good for Massachusetts individuals and businesses." In an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News, Brown argued that the two reforms are very different since the Massachusetts program is a "free market enterprise" designed to help individuals purchase their own health insurance plans. In an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News, Brown stated that the Congressional reforms would "cut half a trillion for Medicare and then cut tri-care for military people and then have higher taxation about $1 trillion plus".

Brown stated that he personally believes that marriage is between a man and a woman, but refers to the currently legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts as a settled issue, which he does not wish to change. Earlier in his career, he favored an amendment to the state constitution barring same-sex marriage and allowing the provision for civil unions. During a State Senate debate in 2001, Brown referred to the decision of his lesbian Democratic opponent, Cheryl Jacques, to have children as "not normal". He also described her parenting role as "alleged family responsibilities." Brown apologized for the remarks and commented that his view is the same as President Obama, both anti-gay-marriage and pro-civil-unions. He opposes ending the Defense of Marriage Act, and generally favors leaving the issue to the states to decide.

Brown supports legalized abortion and Roe v. Wade, calling it "the law of the land". He endorses restricting or banning intact dilation and extraction, known by its opponents as partial-birth abortion, and favors creating parental consent laws for minors who seek an abortion. He opposes a "litmus test" on abortion-related issues in Supreme Court confirmations. He also opposes federal funding for elective abortions in accordance with the Hyde Amendment. The Boston Globe has described his positions on abortion as "nuanced".

Brown voted for a regional cap-and-trade system, and he later commented that he regretted the vote. He opposes putting up a wind farm on Nantucket Sound, remarking that "t's like putting turbines on Boston Common". He supports expanding solar power, wind power, nuclear power, and offshore drilling exploration as a means to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.

Brown's work in the Hidden Wounds of War Commission focuses on improving the access to mental health services available to veterans. In 2007, Brown wrote a law establishing a check off box on State income tax forms to allow a filer to indicate if he or she is a veteran of the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Known as the “Welcome Home” bonus, the measure was passed with bipartisan support.

Organizational associations and honors

Brown is a 30-year member of the Massachusetts National Guard, in which he currently holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. Brown was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in homeland security following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. LTC Brown has also completed Airborne School and been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.

A member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Brown is also involved in the Wrentham Lions Club, United Chamber of Commerce, North Attleboro/Plainville Chamber of Commerce, Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce, and USA Triathlon Federation. He serves as a Board Member of the 495/MetroWest Corridor Partnership Inc., and serves on the Hockamock YMCA Board of Incorporators.

Brown has received the "Public Servant of the Year" Award from the United Chamber of Commerce for his leadership in reforming the state’s sex offender laws and protecting the rights of victims. Additionally, Brown and his family have helped raise funds for such organizations as The Horace Mann Educational Associates, Wrentham Developmental Center, Charles River Arc, and the Arc of Northern Bristol County, all for the care and support of those with developmental disabilities.

He has also been recognized by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) for his work in creating an environment that encourages job growth and expansion in Massachusetts.

For the 2010 Senate race, Brown was supported by the Greater Boston Tea Party group, which organized a January 2010 fundraising breakfast for him in Boston, which he attended. Eleven days later, the Boston Globe reported that Brown claimed that he was unfamiliar with the “Tea Party movement,” when asked by a reporter. The Tea Party Express has endorsed Brown's campaign.

Personal life

Brown is a champion long-distance runner, bicyclist and swimmer. He has won several awards and trophies competing in triathlons and duathlons, but on account of an intense schedule he cut back from frequent exercising during his 2009-2010 Senate campaign. He has also played basketball since a young age; he was a senior co-captain at Wakefield High School, earning there the title of Middlesex League MVP, and he continued on in the sport at Tufts University as well. It was at Tufts that he acquired his sports-nickname of "Downtown Scotty Brown, where he was known for his long outside jumpshots."

In June 1982, Brown, then a 22-year-old law student at Boston College, posed without clothes in a Cosmopolitan centerfold as the winner of the magazine's "America’s Sexiest Man" contest. In its interview with him, he referred to himself as "a patriot" and stated that he had political ambitions. Brown has also worked as an actor in his early career, appearing in a variety of television commercials.

Brown is married to WCVB-TV reporter Gail Huff; they have two daughters, Ayla Brown, an American Idol semi-finalist and star basketball player at Boston College, and Arianna Brown, a competitive equestrian and pre-medical student at Syracuse University. The couple owns a 3,000-square-foot primary home, a second home in Rye, New Hampshire home, three small rental units in Boston, and a timeshare on the Caribbean island of Aruba. They live in Wrentham, Massachusetts.

Brown and his family are Protestant Christians, and worship at New England Chapel in Franklin, a member of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. They also have a relationship with an order of Cistercian Catholic nuns at Mt. St. Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham. The Brown family has raised over $5 million for the order, helping to install solar panels, a wind turbine and a candy manufacturing plant that the order operates. Sister Katie McNamara has said of the family, "e pray for them every day".

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