Scott Brown: 'Independent'

Bridget Johnson | 8:38 AM on May 09, 2012

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), facing a challenge from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau special advisor Elizabeth Warren, doesn’t mince words in his first ad — called, simply, “Independent”:

ThinkProgress has its knickers in a twist over this, though, noting Brown voted with the GOP to filibuster “a stunning” 76 percent of the time.

Independents fueled Brown’s victory to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s seat in 2010. President Obama won 57 percent of independents in 2008, but Brown is estimated to have nabbed some 65 percent of independents in his first Senate race.

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.

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Scott Brown: 'Independent'

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