{"id":12235,"date":"2012-09-01T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2012-09-01T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T23:45:35","slug":"report-boxer-micky-ward-cancels-planned-endorsement-of-scott-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/09\/01\/report-boxer-micky-ward-cancels-planned-endorsement-of-scott-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Boxer Micky Ward cancels planned endorsement of Scott Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HoneyM suggested the <em>Boston.com<\/em> story <a title=\"boston.com story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/politicalintelligence\/2012\/08\/31\/report-boxer-micky-ward-cancels-planned-endorsement-scott-brown\/PbrbEtkRDhlP5tTvgkmaDL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Report: Boxer Micky Ward cancels planned endorsement of Scott Brown<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That story links to the original story in <em>The Lowell Sun<\/em> <a title=\"The Lowell Sun blog item\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lowellsun.com\/thecolumn\/2012\/08\/31\/the-fighter-bails-brown\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-fighter-bails-brown\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u2018The Fighter\u2019 bails on Brown<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reached on his cell, Ward said he admired Brown\u2019s spirit and respected the way he could \u201cgo out there and listen and talk like a guy who is positive and wants to do right by us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fingers struck keyboard and within minutes a brief story about Ward\u2019s endorsement of Brown was ready for The Sun\u2019s Friday edition and\u00a0 lowellsun.com.<\/p>\n<p>But hold the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly a half-hour after Ward confirmed he was backing Brown, \u2018The Fighter\u2019 called back. He said he had given his endorsement a little more thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t support Scott Brown,\u201d Ward said. \u201cI just can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within 30 minutes, Ward either did some Googling or someone close to him reminded him about where Brown stood on some hot-button political topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found out Scott (Brown) is anti-union and I\u2019m a Teamster guy,\u201d said Ward. \u201cI found out he\u2019s also against gay marriage and I say if you love someone you should have the same rights no matter who you are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In our canvassing, phone calls, and other contacts with voters, we find that a lot of Brown supporters just do not understand Brown&#8217;s record in the Senate.\u00a0 They even find it hard to believe when I tell them about some of the bills he voted for and some that he voted against.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Brown voted against equal pay for equal work.\u00a0\u00a0 He also voted for the Blunt amendment to limit women&#8217;s access to birth control.<\/p>\n<p>If people can just get over the Brown campaign&#8217;s smear tactics against Elizabeth Warren, they find that she is more in tune with their issues than Scott Brown is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HoneyM suggested the Boston.com story Report: Boxer Micky Ward cancels planned endorsement of Scott Brown. That story links to the original story in The Lowell Sun \u2018The Fighter\u2019 bails on Brown. Reached on his cell, Ward said he admired Brown\u2019s spirit and respected the way he could \u201cgo out there and listen and talk like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12237,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions\/12237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}