I <3 Sherrod Brown. In the 90’s, he was the Representative for the congressional district my parents live in until it was redrawn, moving them in Republican Ralph Regula’s district. Anyways, now he’s my Senator (I don’t count Voinovich), and he made me proud of that fact today when he dropped the hammer on McCain:
- “It is not so much his economic proposals but his economic record. His main adviser is Phil Gramm — he was his mentor in the Senate — and you just tie it all together. Of course John McCain supported the oil industry, he has oil lobbyists working for him. Of course John McCain supported these trade agreements, he has got Wall Street people working for him… It is all wrapped up together. John McCain is a creature of these interest groups in Washington. He is no maverick and, from the Keating Five on, his ethics have been questionable. He’s not a maverick and Barack has got to just keep hammering on that.”
- “I think Sarah Palin is not really the issue. It is John McCain. I just wonder about John McCain’s judgment and about his commitment to the future of this country when he chose someone that was so unqualified to be a heartbeat away.”
- “On every major issue John McCain supports the wealthiest groups in Washington and Barack Obama fights for the middle class. Elections are simple and it’s as simple as that.”
- “John McCain is talking a good game today and he sounded like the populist that you would like. But you got to look at his record. He supported every step of the way this reckless deregulation that really is the culmination of Bush economic policies. Just imagine if Bush and McCain had had their way and privatized Social Security. People would have seen their private social security accounts just disintegrate the last two days. And imagine what that would mean in rural America, urban America, suburban America and small town America?”
Fun Fact: Sherrod’s brother Dwier Brown played Kevin Costner’s father in Field of Dreams*
*may or may not be true
Apparently just because two people have the same last name, they are not related.
