{"id":670,"date":"2010-01-14T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-01-14T23:01:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:01:53","slug":"why-im-not-voting-for-scott-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/why-im-not-voting-for-scott-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m Not Voting For Scott Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

So on Tuesday Massachusetts will have its first open Senate election since 1984. \u00c2\u00a0A 26 year wait, and this is the best crop of candidates we can come up with? Kinda depressing, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

The candidate I’m most passionate about is Scott Brown – and why he should never be a US senator.<\/p>\n

First and most is what he thinks about gays. \u00c2\u00a0He thinks that gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, and he thinks that the states should vote on the question. \u00c2\u00a0Vote on it? I’ll let him vote on my marriage as soon as he lets me vote on his.<\/p>\n

I’m equally inflamed by his preferred policy regarding high school gay support groups. \u00c2\u00a0He thinks that students should get parental permission<\/a> before attending the groups! \u00c2\u00a0Whatever your position on gay marriage, just think about some poor scared teenager who doesn’t know what the heck is going on – and Scott Brown thinks that poor kid needs parental permission before getting help from a peer group. \u00c2\u00a0Brown might as well give the kid a teen suicide how-to guide with the permission slip.<\/p>\n

I know there are a lot of conservative voters out there who don’t care about the social issues but see Brown as a voice of fiscal sanity. \u00c2\u00a0The thing is, Brown isn’t a fiscal conservative. \u00c2\u00a0He’s a big-government, big-regulation, tax raiser. \u00c2\u00a0He may even be more dangerous because he claims to be fiscally conservative.<\/p>\n

If you’re thinking about voting for Brown because of his fiscal chops, please consider the following:<\/p>\n