Scott Brown: Truck or Wall St. Limo?

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Americans for Financial Reform, a group putting the heat on Republicans for blocking the Senate’s Wall St. overhaul, has a new ad out today in the Boston area targeting Scott Brown, the junior senator from Massachusetts who won the late Ted Kennedy’s former seat and took away the Democrats’ senate 60-vote supermajority. In the past two days, Brown has twice voted against beginning full debate on the Senate floor on the financial regulatory bill, joining GOPers in stalling an inevitable vote on reform. In the ad, AFR highlights the fact that the financial services industry was a major donor for Brown (the finance, insurance, and real estate, or FIRE, sector was the largest giver to Brown’s campaign at $972,800, according to the Center for Responsive Politics), and says, “The Wall Street banks got their money’s worth with Senator Brown and bonus checks are no doubt in the mail.”

Here’s the ad in its entirety:

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