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Sunday, October 14th, 2012

Quotation
He has gone to Washington and he has had some good votes… but he has had exactly one chance to vote for equal pay for equal work. And he voted no. He had exactly one chance to vote for insurance coverage for birth control and other preventive services for women. He voted no. And he had exactly one chance to vote for a pro-choice woman, from Massachusetts, to the United States Supreme Court. And he voted no. Those are bad votes for women. The women of Massachusetts need a senator they can count on, not some of the time, but all of the time.
— Elizabeth Warren, criticizing Scott Brown’s voting record. Warren is running to reclaim Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts for the Democratic Party.