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TELL US: What Should Scott Brown Do Next?

U.S. Senator Scott Brown will leave office in January. What should he do next?

 

 

U.S. Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, was defeated Tuesday by first time candidate Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat.

Warren will take office as the state's junior senator in January.

She'll replace Brown, who was elected in a special election in January 2010 when he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley.

In his concession speech on Tuesday night, Brown told his supporters that "defeat is only temporary."

As soon as the race was called, analysts began suggesting Brown may run for Massachusetts governor in 2014 or would seek the state's other U.S. Senate seat if Senator John Kerry is named Secretary of State under President Barack Obama in his second term.

What should Brown do next? Tell us in the comments.

Related Topics: Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Governor, Scott Brown, and U.S. Senator

MHH101

12:12 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

How about.....returning to Washington and with his remaining months, doing something constructive, this time, to avoid this country's fiscal cliff.

Continuing to vote with the gang of 6, caused the grid lock and today's mess.

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Susan James

12:21 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

I am sorry Sen. Brown lost. His honesty and understanding of how government should work makes him a valuable asset. I think Scott Brown should run for Governor of Massachusetts. About time we had someone with these attributes.

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Bill

12:38 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Amen - would be nice to have someone in that office who cares about working people instead of the EBT/Illegal Alien crowd

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Beatrice Mendez

4:59 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Scott Brown wants to wipe out the postal service-how is that in any way caring about working people? Thousands upon thousands of working postal employees will lose their job if he gets his way.

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Paul E. Keith

7:47 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Governor? Didn't we already learn a lesson when Mitt was in that office? Like Romney when he was here, Scott Brown tries to model himself as a "moderate" and "independent" Republican. But he also thinks that Scalia is THE model for a Supreme Court Justice. Give Brown a national stage and it will be Romney, redux, but on steroids.

Leonard Nicodemo

12:38 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Scott Brown, unfortunately, WILL run for Governor.

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Meredith Price

12:58 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

If he seeks political office, he will have to prove his honesty in tough issues. Is he or isn't he prochoice? Warren made good hay out of his voting record. Was he or wan't he in favor of the Blunt Amendment?

He is an appealing, good loo9king guy. But what's the inner man like?

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gene

1:06 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Maybe he can return to the Wrentham Board of Assessors

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Temperance Ropple

1:17 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

He should go back to being his wife's wife! After all, he handled that quite well!

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KlassySalem

1:22 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

He should run for Kerry's seat, when Kerry becomes Secretary of State.

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john

1:22 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

He would be better off moving out of the state. MA's ability to elect people like Warren is amazing.

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Susan James

1:24 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Since he has not been re-elected why are you debating this now? And why are you clearly Dems, castigating a truthful hard working man?

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Dave

2:29 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Don't care just so long as he goes away.

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Jay Valatka

2:51 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Replace Tom Bergeron on "America's Funniest Home Videos". What? It's a good paying job!

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Thomas Wilson

5:07 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Maybe he could use some of his surplus campaign money and pay for the record LPs he stole from the now closed Lechmere in Danvers which caused him to be arrested. He writes about it in his autobiography.

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Bull Moose

5:55 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

1. He should sober up. His drunken and rambling concession speech embarrassed his wife and kids, who had to drag him off stage.
2. Apologize to Elizabeth Warren for constantly calling her dead parent liars.
3. Be deployed to Afghanistan. He claimed to have "served in Afghanistan" when actually he used his office to pull enough strings to spend eight days there - in the rear, doing photo ops in a tailored uniform.
4. Run for Governor. it'll be fun watching him get his butt kicked again.

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boston 1

9:10 am on Friday, November 9, 2012

Agree. with Bull Moose...
Additionally he is as intellectually dishonest as anyone I have seen in recent years...Saw him at a public policy forum where he read his comments from a child's school book and refused to take questions...Its amazing how he captured the old boys network...maybe its his abs...At my age and... A 77 YR OLD WOMAN I MIGHT ADD....I look for more in my elected officials...MA is credited with sorting out truth from reality...YIPPEE...BOSTON 1

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Jeanne FitzPatrick

11:12 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012

You Boston 1 and Bull Moose both need to get your eyes checked. You so can see a truly honest man when you see one and Bull Moose so he can identify a truly drunk person when he sees one. I don't know of any drunk people who can stand up and articulate for a half hour or more without slurring their words. You both are obviously Warren supporters, be happy and proud your candidate won and spare the rest of us your divisive and unnecessary comments.

Jeannine Nash

7:42 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

You know what people, it's time to get off your high horses. It is THAT attitude that got us into the mess we are in, and not any particular person or party. If we don't work together, this country is going to hell in a hand basket. Remember, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." ~Abraham Lincoln

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JG

7:59 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

If I was Scott, I would just get out of public service entirely. It's just not worth it. You put your time in working for the "people" and they send you to washington only to lose to a harvard professor who has never run before and his funded by celebrities..

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John Newberry

11:30 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

First, he should set a good example by reaching across the aisle in a bi-partisan effort to resolve the budget stalemate and the impending tax hike. Then he should help cut the defense budget to balance the budget. Third, he should help get rid of Mitch McConnell and lastly, join Bill Weld and Olympia Snowe, and Michael Bloomberg and Colin Powell and retake the Republican Party from the Koch Brothers and the evangelicals.

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Michael Quinlan

7:42 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012

We have Elizabeth Warren already to raise taxes whenever possible.

louise

11:35 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

What is it in the American psyche that thinks it's acceptable to suggest (& even ask) what someone else should do with their life? I'm sure Scott Brown will decide for himself what lies ahead. Most of these Patch "Tell Us" segments simply invite all Egos to the table &, inevitably, the worst of humanity shows up. Please stop providing a platform for (& inviting) this kind of division & vitriol.

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Lisa Prowse

4:51 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

He has done so much with his life already! I think he should do what ever makes him happy! His candle defintely hasn't burnt out yet!

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Rich

8:31 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Switch party and become a ? and he should win whatever office he wants.

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Bill

10:21 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

These comments confirm Salem and Mass are a lost cause. Pathetic. Never thought I'd see the day when anger, envy and resentment would win an election, but it clearly did along with welfare vote from Salem and Lynn and other cities. You weirdos care more about abortion on demand and gay marriage than having a job. I guess why not, when Uncle Sucker can send you a check.

Hopeless. I am going to sit back and watch Obama and Warren fail and fail big.

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Lee McDonald

10:23 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Lee, I think he should run for Governor.

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Anne Sweeney

10:38 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Rich has the best idea, Brown like Romney ideologically lean more to the democratic party than the Republicans. Philosophically they are more pragmatic as the president is. This is why the democrats won by such overwhelming margins. We need a two party system and when Republicans play the democratic card, that they are moderate or centrist, they lose. Tisei is a great example of this. As I said last year, I knew a lot of Republicans who crossed over and voted democratic this time around. There has to be a legitimate and logical alternative to substantiate voting Republican. We were never given their plan, their strategy or their goals to correcting the economy, taxation, military or social agenda. The democrats never have a plan but it's what we were accustomed to from them.
Hamilton does not bode well with Elizabeth Warren, if you are a wealthy Hamiltonian, prepared to get Hammered ! LIterally and figuratively.

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Sean Ward

10:40 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Become unemployed, get a sec 8 apartment next to Copley Plaza for $25 month, go on MassHealth, pickup food stamps, get a free cell phone and enjoy a life of freedom and recreation paid for by everyone else.

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kerstin locherie

11:51 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Percent of Vote`
for

President Obama
Senator-Elect Elizabeth Warren
Congressman John Tierney
Hamilton
49.5% Obama
41% Warren
42% Tierney
Wenham
45.5% Obama
38% Warren
38% Tierney
Topsfield
45% Obama
38% Warren
38% Tierney
Middleton
42% Obama
35% Warren
37% Tierney
Boxford
40% Obama
33% Warren
33% Tierney

We did it ! Republicans on the North Shore---Defeated ! Yeah !

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pamela boucher

3:41 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

i am happy also it is a democratic state.

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Faith Evans

5:42 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Scott Brown should retire from politics. He is not capable of being honest, or understanding the issues we need help with. He should choose another career, but certainly NOT run for Governor, nor John Kerry's position. would be a waste of his time.

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Rich CC

4:18 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012

If he wants to claim any credibility in places like Somerville where he lost 80% to 20% he would need to distance himself from people like Paul Ryan. Become an independent, repudiate Ryan's view the "rape is just another form of conception," and advocate that the wall street reforms that he had removed from the Frank-Dodd act be reinstated.

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Steve

1:07 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012

He should demand a recount. How can there be so many crazy people in this state that Warren would get elected? Oh wait, never mind, it is Massachusetts.

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Raul Santiago

12:22 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Republicans screwed themselves. Some of you Elephants don't know what to say, when to say, and when to stay quiet. Then what some of you say is soooo ridiculous and you actually expect people to take you seriously? 1) Obama wasn't born in the U.S. This load of crap was made famous by Donald Trump, the Republican rich guy who acts as if he's the richest guy on Earth but is actually quite poor compared to Democrats Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. The only people that ran with this are the ones who didn't like Obama because he's black. Everyone else saw how ridiculous it was and moved on. The way some of you describe Obama as a "food stamp" President, or Obamacare as having "death panels", I don't think you people actually believe this. If you do, your belief is based on some other dislike for the President, rather than his policies. (Yes, I'm implying that you're racist). As long as the Republican party is identified with Rush, Trump, and all the other cooks, we will never win a national election. I supported Obama this time because Romney was simply "full of sh1t".

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Jeanne FitzPatrick

10:06 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Dear Mr Santiago
You use the word ridiculous in your post at least twice and infer that this is your obvious feelings towards Republicans throughtout your entire post. If I were you I would start by rereading your own post before you call anyone else ridiculous. You make generalizations and accuse people of being racists; people you don't even know. Then you go on to try to list several points by enumerating them starting with the #1). If you look at your post you proceeded to ramble on and on and never made a second #2) point; or if you did you neglected to continue with your original train of thought. It seems that this is a flaw that you possess, that you can't seem to get beyond your own inner hostility and nastiness to even make a sensible post. Oh and I assume you meant "all the other kooks" not cooks. Remember Mr Santiago people who live in glass houses should not throw stones, if you can grasp what I mean (I'll help you a little, you seem a little ridiculous yourself).

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