To: President Donald Trump
Tell President Obama Not to pick Sen. John Kerry as Secretary of State
President Obama: Please do not appoint Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Although deserving, Senator Kerry's leaving the U.S. Senate would provide an opening for Republican Scott Brown to run again for the open seat. Although perhaps bi-partisan in his first term, his failed re-election campaign was in good part funded by Karl Rove's Crossroads SuperPac and other outside right wing Republican groups, and he will be much more beholden to them in a second term if he is elected.
Why is this important?
If Sen. Kerry is nominated as Secretary of State to succeed Hillary Clinton, it would leave Massachusetts with an empty senate seat to fill and the the US Senate one seat closer to losing its democratic majority. Scott Brown's campaign machinery is still in place and although he failed to beat Elizabeth Warren for re-election, it was a close contest. His mean-spirited campaign was funded in large part by outside the state right wing SuperPacs, most notably Karl Rove's
Crossroads. That means, if he ever was bi-partisan in his first term, he is going to be beholden to
far right Republicans if he succeeds in regaining a Senate seat. All of us who worked hard to defeat
Scott Brown and elect Elizabeth Warren would have an uphill struggle to do it again for a brand new
democratic candidate in such a short period of time, given his campaign machinery is likely still in
place just waiting for this opportunity.
Crossroads. That means, if he ever was bi-partisan in his first term, he is going to be beholden to
far right Republicans if he succeeds in regaining a Senate seat. All of us who worked hard to defeat
Scott Brown and elect Elizabeth Warren would have an uphill struggle to do it again for a brand new
democratic candidate in such a short period of time, given his campaign machinery is likely still in
place just waiting for this opportunity.