June 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Scott Brown, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who formerly served as the United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, has thrown his hat into the ring to represent New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate. Brown announced Wednesday that he’s seeking the Republican nomination. Scott joined Dan as he kicks off his campaign!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on w BZY, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We welcome back everyone number two here on Nightside. Thanks
very much, Stan walk Ins. I'm delighted to welcome back.
It's been a while since we have talked with former
US senator hopefully I think in Scott's mind, future US
Senator Scott Brown. Hey Scott, welcome back to night Side.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah. Thanks great to be on. Well, I've been busy
with grandchildren for sure, and obviously, you know, just just
doing my part to you know, make a living. Quite honest, how.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Many grandchildren do you? I'll start with one of the
easy questions. How many grandchildren do you? And my great
friend and colleague Gail Huff.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now, yeah, we have four four, Ala has two boys,
and Ariana, who's up in Portsmouth here with us. It
is two girls, yeah, four, two and a half, one
and a half and one.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That makes it an active household.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And you have no idea. It's truly. People who have
grandchildren understand it. You know, we watched them on Wednesday,
two of them and it's like, oh my goodness, honey,
where's the bottle of you know what we are going
to start drinking?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I hear you, well, you have decided to throw
your hat back into the ring. Jean Sheheen, longtime US
Senator from New Hampshire Democrats, said she's not running for
your election. In twenty twenty six, you, I know, had
been in conversations with former New Hampshire Governor Kristanunu, and
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he decided that he was not going to run. I
certainly hoped that the two of you would not have
had to have run against one another for nomination. How
did those conversations, God, was there sort of an understanding
that one one would get in and one wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
No, no, no, listen, We've been friends for a while.
I have a lot of respect for the governor. You know,
thank god we have him, and we have now senator
now Governor Ao, and you know that's the beauty. They're
fighting very hard, you know, to make New Hampshire basically great.
You would have the Executive Counsel of the House and
Senator Republicans, and they're fighting to protect that New Hampshire advantage.
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And the Federal delegation is just you know, out between
the high taxes, the gosh, the spending, the wokeness, the
open borders, protecting illegals, giving away benefits, you know, more
and more regulations. So you know, we're lucky to have him.
And Chris is a good guy. And listen, I would
have certainly supported him a thousand percent if he decided to.
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But he's been a governor for eight years, and you know, respectfully,
he needs to go and do some things that he
really wants to do with his life. He's young enough,
he can always come back. He did an amazing job.
So yeah, a look, he's.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
A great friend of mine. I said, and I said
many times that, as far as I was concerned, the
best governor in the United States of America, not only
the best, but the friendliest, easiest to deal with. He's
somebody like you who do not look at people on
the other side as bad people, just as people whose
ideas you disagree with. And I'm sure that I don't
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know who the Democratic nominees nominee is. I believe that
they suspect that one of the members of the delegation,
the congressional delegation, will probably be the person you're gonna
run against. Let's talk about Scott Brown, and let's talk
about what Scott Brown will bring to the race for
the people of New Hampshire. Why should New Hampshire voters say, look,
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let's have this guy as one of our two state
senator to us senators, he was a Massachusetts senator. I
think I mentioned to you yesterday. The only other guy
who's been a senator both from Massachusetts in New Hampshire
is Daniel Webster. If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, well that's I think we're getting a little ahead
of ourselves. Daniel Webster. I actually had his portrait in
our official residence in the dining room. I have a
great amount of respect for his oratory and legal skills
for sure. But yeah, listen for folks who don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I was born at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. My dad
was an airman at Peas and my mom was in
Portsmouth and they met, they fell in love, they had me,
and we lived in Islington Street and Portsmouth for a
couple of years till my parents got divorced. Then we
moved to Wakefield with my grandparents and for that support
that she obviously needed being just a high school graduate.
It's different times back then. You know, the women, you know,
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they didn't have the opportunities that many women have now.
So I had an amazing life, and you know, treasure
every moment I spent there, certainly with my friends and
family and raising our girls. But you know I was
always coming back. I mean, my sister's here, my daughter Ariana,
the veterinarians here, and my grand two of my grandchildren
are here. And it's a different feel. You know that
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lived for your diamontality is real. No income tax, no
sales tax, no bottel bill, carry a gun or not,
where a motorcycle, helmet or not. You know, almost a
libertarian type of feel, just kind of leave us alone,
will fall the lall. We'll do our best to you know,
be great members of society and and just let us
do our thing. And that's being challenged by, quite frankly,
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our delegation. As I said in the beginning, you know,
they're putting in these onerous regulations, these onerous taxes. They're
they're just saying no, no, no, no, no anything President
Trump's doing, even to save a dollar. You tell me
you can't join with them on one thing, really, and
that just doesn't make any sense. I'll just give you
an example on what happened in Iran. Right, I remember
(05:40):
when President Obama, you know, got bin laden. I was
in the White House and I said, sir, you got
big balls. Congratulations, you know, a great job. And you
know he appreciated that honesty and directness, and he was
embraced by both parties doing a job. Well done it.
But he also dropped twenty six thousand bombs on different countries.
President trum Okay basically took away a threat that's not
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only been killing our citizens and supplying surrogates with deadly weapons,
you know, roadside bombs. IED's everything. And and and you
know he does it whether I was it thirty four
missiles and and he they're they're trying to impeach him.
They had an impeachment vote. It's so upside down. And
then you have most of the Democrats, including the ones
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in mass they can't say, oh my gosh, what a
great job are our men and women serve with the
B two bombing pilots and the crews did can't do
any of that. And so what's happened to that? Ronald
Reagan tipp O'Neil philosophy of you know, Battle of my Day,
based on facts, getting along and figuring it out. It's
just it's totally upside down. Well, I also do better
to answer your question. To answer your question, that's what
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I can do better, you know, I you know you.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Absolutely did it. And and just talking about the Democratic Party,
I don't know. I'm sure you saw what happened in
New York City last night. Yeah, the Democrats nominated a
guy that is so far out of the mainstream. Now,
maybe who get elected in New York, but good luck
with that. If New Hampshire Democrats don't recognize what's going
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on to the Democratic Party nationally, I mean, they're in
disarraceed gun and they're looking for leadership from an avowed socialist.
Did you see some of the comments this guy made
in the wake of October seven?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, listen, this is the modern Democratic Party though, and
you know they want to impeach President Trump rather celebrate them,
as I said. And you know that New York City
there's a lot of people there who live there who
are now questioning whether they're going to live there because
what are we going to have. We're having Russia type
grocery stores now, and free this and free that. You're
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going to tax the rich even more. I mean New
York is one of the highest tax cities in the world.
So you know, people are nervous, and you know it's
not over till it's over. But you know, hey, listen,
when you're not working and you're living on the government
and you have a lot of people there that you know,
really just want want to just kind of get free stuff,
and they'll vote for somebody like that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean, I think that the next move that this
guy should make there should be free tickets to the Giant.
Well they count do that because they were in New Jersey,
but certainly free tickets to the next the Rangers, the Mets,
the Yankees. I think that's the next obvious thing that
this guy is going to do. Or maybe every New
Yorker should be able for one game to sit in
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the Yankee bullpen wearing the Yankee uniform and have his
name on the roster. I think that's fair. I mean,
this guy is a nut job, Scott.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I mean, yeah, well, you know, these are the types
of people that Chris Pappis, who's the congressman, and others
are supporting. I mean, we just said Adam Shiff support
Chris Pappis. I mean, Adam Shiff of all people, is
like what do you want that you want that orsement.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That is a blessing, That is an absolute blessing. I
hope that Steve Garvey will come up there and endorse you,
because man, a great guy, a great guy. And look
at what happened to Seth Moulton when he expressed some concern.
You have two daughters who were very athletic and played
in sports. He has a couple of young girls, and
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he had the temerity to say that he wasn't looking
forward to seeing his daughters competing on the soccer pitch
or on the basketball court against transgender males, and they
were ready to ride him out of town on a rail.
The Democratic Party Seth Moulton.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Well, I actually sent him an email supporting him and
said good for you, because he's right. You know, listen,
I certainly have been athletic my whole wife. I mean,
just me doing a triathlonics sixty five years old. There's
no way another sixty five year old woman is going
to beat me. You know, it's all day and women
and men are made differently. I'm sorry. It's a question
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of fairness. Even Caitlin Jenner says that it's a question
of fairness and you know you have, you know, men
and boys and women and girls' locker rooms and sports.
The crushing the dreams of our young female athletes. And
it's just wrong, period. It's no, it's just wrong. You know.
Get your own league happy to support it, you know,
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but don't crush the dreams of our young ladies who
have been trying for so long.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I have said for a long time that they can
have in a lot of schools. Now, if you don't have,
let's say, I'll be able to pull together a hockey
team or a football team at one school. You can
join with some regional schools. They should. They could be
transgender leagues, you know, if they're you know, look, there's
there's plenty of options here. Anyway, Scott, I want you
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to take some questions from some of my listeners. I
want to give them an opportunity to talk to you.
Anyone up in New Hampshire, if you'd like to talk
to Scott Brown. He will be a very serious candidate
in a very serious race, in a very closely watched race.
This is what's called an open seat in New Hampshire.
No incumbent running for the seat, and there's probably only
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three or four seats every Senate election cycle, because it's
only a third of Senators who are up. There's one
hundred senators and they serve six year terms. So every
year about thirty two or thirty three of those senators
stand for reelection. The other two thirds are not up
for reelection. This year one of the most important races
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in the country is in New Hampshire. Scott Brown, I
suspect is are there any other Republicans who have announced?
By the way, Scott, or are you No?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I don't know of anybody else.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Is known, and I think they'd be crazy to jump in.
I mean, if they want to waste their time, that's fine,
but we'll be back with Scott Brown six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Bring the questions on, particularly New Hampshire listeners. This is
an opportunity for you too. He's gonna he's gonna jump in.
He is in, He's in. Uh. It's it's a Maria.
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That's not a sprint. Talking about a year and a
half between now and November of twenty twenty six. But
if it ends the way Scott Brown wants, it'll be
Senator Scott Brown with NH after his name, as opposed
to m A. Back on night Side right after this
with questions and calls for Scott Brown. Six one seven,
two five thirty or six one seven, nine three one
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ten thirty. My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside,
coming right back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All right on with Scott Brown. Let's go to phone calls.
Jerry on the Cape. Jerry on Cape Cod You're next
with Scott Brown. Go right ahead, Jerry, or your first
tonight with Scott Brown.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Hey, Dan, faithful listener to night Side. Hello, Senator, I
hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, doing well. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I hope that you know, number one, you get elected
and you do great things for the Hampshire. But as
you look at you know, I'm here in Massachusetts and
it's your look at the New England Congressional delegation. Other
than hurling insults at the President and members of his administration,
that might get some great headlines in the press, but
people are hurting and they want economic opportunity, and not
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just in the Hampshire but the whole region of New England.
You know, we have higher ed and life science, and
the defense industry, energy and agriculture. But this congressional delegation
that we have now, the makeup of it all Democrats.
They don't even have a seat at the table. They
can't advocate. So my hope is when you get to
d C that you'll be that honest broker that backpartisan,
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independent voice and really deliver not just for the Hampshire
but for the entire New England region because people are hurting,
businesses are hurting, and right now New England is just
completely out of step with the rest of the country.
The only people we're in step with is likes of
Gavin Newso and out in California.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, well, first of all, thank you for calling, and
you know, good points.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I've always been an independent voter and thinker. Is you know,
I read the bills, one of the few ones that
I think actually reads them. I see how they affect
our state, our country, our det and depths in and
vote and as you may or may not know, I mean,
you know, I believe in that. I said it earlier
in the show that tip O'Neil, Ronald Reagan floss. So
you can battle, you can fight, You can do it respectfully,
do it with class, and then you know, grab a
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Scotch or a beer and figure it out and then
come back and do the people's business. And you know, yeah,
there's only one federal officeholder that Susan Collins up in
Main and she handles a lot of the issues for
the entire New England area. Yes, I'd certainly like to
be there to help her. And you know, she's one
of the hardest working people that I've ever met.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
She has the record for the most consecutive votes during
her term. And yeah, this and the life sciences, obviously aerospace, defense, energy.
There's so many different opportunities in New England, in New
Hampshire in particular. You know, we have needs, we have
some great innovation here. We have obviously tourism very similar
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to Massachusetts, but we could do better. And the regulations,
the lack of becoming energy independent is hurting our citizens
as we want to be paying for those bills in
the wintertime for the high cost of energy. They do
everything they can to throw up roadblocks so we can't
get the pipelines or the natural gas or oil that
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we need. I mean, that's just one thing. And then
you just that the Party of No. You can't tell
me that one elected official can't find and work with
the president or his team to find one dollar of savings,
whether it's on any of the social service programs, any
of the entitlement programs, or any of the things that
we just kind of scratch our head and say, you
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can't join the president on that. Really, you can't thank
our b two bombers who did this heroic Like I
was reading a brad Thorpe novel, it was incredible. You know,
you can't say thank you. You can't stand up for
a kid who has ten surgeries and he wants to
be a cop. Really, but you're going to go to
you know, L Salvador and go and get a you know,
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get a gang banger out or Venezuela, whatever the heck
he was. You know, it's it's like it's just upside down.
So yes, I want to get there. I want to
And that's one of the reasons I'm running. You know,
Dan and Jerry listen, I've had plenty of titles. I've
been a you know, a coach, a father, a soldier,
a grandfather, an ambassador, senator. I don't need any more titles.
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Chris Pappus wants a new title. But what I want
is a stronger America and I want a stronger New
Hampshire and a stronger New England. So yeah, I'm excited.
If people want to get involved in go to Scott
Brown dot com right now. The donation lines and volunteer
lines are open. We've had a very very successful first
day and we're going to continue to continue to go on.
So if you want to help, you know, whether I
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don't care if you're in New England or around the world,
you know, get on the get online and go to
Scott Brown dot com. Period.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You know, Scott, the Democrats often love to talk about
public service. I'd love to see the record public service
record of your opponents. Not only did you serve as
a US Senator and an ambassador, but as you mentioned,
as a member of the military for a long.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Time, almost forty years.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, I mean a long time, and your service your
public service. People can disagree with you politically, but they
have no right to disagree with the amount that you
have done and contributed to this country. And I think
that is a very strong suit in this election. The
other thing, Jerry, which I want you to know is
that when Scott was Ambassador to New Zealand, he was
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amongst a group of very select US ambassadors who had
access to information. Just talk a little bit about that
group of five Scott that that's.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
US, Great Britain, Australia in New Zealand, US Canada, Great Britain,
Australia and New Zealand. You know what they do is,
you know, we share any and all information regarding trends,
human drug and child trafficking. It could be weather events
that are going to affect you know, obviously the island nations.
It could be the terrorist threats that are happening and happen,
cyber attacks, things like that. We had the christ Church massacre,
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you know, which you know President Trump was very helpful
in helping get immediate resources there. And you know, because
we had Americans, we had the White Island volcano, which
they did a Netflix show about, and then we did
trade deals. We pushed back against China every single day.
So yeah, there are plenty of things that we did
and do as a result of that relationship. That's one
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of the reasons I chose to go there because I
wanted to be where the action was. I wanted to
push back against China and their expansionism and basically abuse
of those Pacific island nations, and it worked.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah. Again, that's something that should be people should understand
when they're sending somebody to the United States Senate. Experience
matters and public service matters, and also positions on issues
truly does matter because a lot of the votes are
just so incredibly close the Senate right now fifty three
forty seven. Jerry. I know you're down in the Cape,
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but maybe a couple of trips to New Hampshire in
the next year or so might be on your agenda
to help out, Scott Brown.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I've got family and friends, Dan, and they'll be contributing
and helping out. Thanks for the opportunity to speak with
the Senator.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You're right, You're welcome, Jerry. Thank you very much. We
got to take a quick break here. I got some
New Hampshire callers on the line, Scott, I'd like to
get more for you, whether they're from New Hampshire or
anywhere else. Anyone who is listening around the country tonight,
if you'd like to speak to former US Senator, former
US Ambassador Scott Brown for those of you who might
not realize that he announced this morning that he is
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now a candidate for Senate in New Hampshire. If he
has the good fortune to be elected, he'll join a
very select company, Daniel Webster being the only other American
patriot who had served as a senator in both Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. And again, if I'm wrong on that, Scott,
let me know. I believe I'm correct on that one.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I yeah, whatever, it doesn't matter, you know, I know, no,
I know it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But it does show that it's been done before.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
And uhh yeah, listen there, it's been done before, certainly,
and you know, but I am definitely not Daniel Webster.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No, I get it, no problem not. You're Scott Brown.
And guess what, every every person, uh is sometimes the
right person for the time. You know, Ronald Reagan was
very much the right person for the time. Scott Brown
is very much the right person for the very kind
We will take a break. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten
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thirty will be back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Back to the phones, we go for Scott Brown. Let's
go next to Bernie. Uh no, Bernie, hold on, I'm
going to get to you Fred and Nashville in New Hampshire. Fred,
you're number two, Go right ahead, Fred, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Hey Dan, Hey, ambassador, how are you?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And I think I'm pretty well. I'm working hard. How
are you doing well?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Got a Nashville related question for you, mister ambassador. So
I work in HVAC and I've been following this story
of Non Foo Springs buying that bottling plant. And you know,
just for the listeners awareness, non Who Springs is the
largest bottling company in China, and so what they did
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is kind of under the radar, purchased this huge bottling plant,
and there hasn't been a lot of pushback from local
leaders here in Nashville. So, Ambassador, I guess my question
is a little twofold. First part of the question is
what are you going to do and what can you
do as senator to make sure a company like non
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Foo can't access our domestic water supply and make sure
China more broadly can't access our domestic water supply. And
then what are you going to do to curb Chinese
and here in the United States.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Well, first of all, by the time I get there,
if I'm lucky enough to be elected, that issue will
be long gone. Sadly, I think the question you should
be asking is what has your delegation done? What is
our delegation done on this issue themselves, which is nothing.
I did speak to some state reps and state senators
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in that area the other day, and obviously they told
me about it, and the other thing that's troubling is
they paid a larger amount of money than it potentially
is actually worth. So the question is why why are
they there? Why Nashville?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Why?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
You know? So there are a lot of questions, and
you know, the mayor obviously and the local legislature and
city council should be asking those questions. And I'm not
sure if they did. Obviously I'm in Rye. It's been
something that's come up over you know, recently for me
and others. You clearly are more knowledgeable about it. But
my question, just listening to your question, is why didn't
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like Papa Shaheen Hassen and good Land do anything? Why
didn't they raise the arm? Because I have always felt,
because I dealt with in New Zealand, I saw what
China does. They built the militarized islands, change the law
of the air and see that's been in place for
hundreds of years. They overleverage Pacific island nations and when
they can't paiy, they take a port that we built
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in World War two, or an airstrip which we built
in World War two, you know, as collateral. And you
know they're manipulating the currency, they're you know, stealing our
intellectual property. So to think that they're not looking at
our sensitive areas in Arizona in particular, why did the
governor veto the legislature and allow them to purchase things
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around our air and military bases. Yeah, listen, I can
assure you if I'm elected, I will absolutely work with
other senators to make sure that we can stop that stuff.
They wouldn't allow us to do it in their countries.
No country would, So why are they allowed to do
it here? It's because it's a lack of leadership with
our present delegation. That's one of the reasons I'm running Fred.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
By the way, this is Dan Ray. I'm not sure
if you're aware, but in the state of Maine, China
is running marijuana farms up there. There's been some great
work done by journalists in the state of Maine. And
if it happens in Maine, the next place is going
to happen and will be New Hampshire. And this is
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marijuana that is not controlled by the US government, so
you have no idea what its potency is. You have
no idea they're bringing in to market. There's a bank
down in New York City which lends money to these
uh Chinese nationals who are in our country and they're
they're they're literally they have these marijuana growhouses up and
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made that all they do is grow grow marijuana indoors.
It's a huge problem in the state of Maine. And
the officials in the state of Maine and to including
the governor up there, are totally asleep on that Governor mills.
So you have identified fred a really important problem. And
I think that you'll get some action from Scott Brown
if he's if he's fortunate enough to be your next
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US center.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
I hope so, Dan, And it's just it's very suspicious
about what's going on in Nashua. They you know, the
Chinese purchased the former Daniel Webster College, which is right
next to the airport right next to an FAA telecommunications facility.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Oh yeah, this site.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
They've gone after farm land in North Dakota, next to
military installations in North Dakota. There's a former Boston Brewin
hockey player, Brian Bochnsky, who was the mayor out there.
He was the one guy that stopped it, a Republican
mayor in North Dakota.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
I do.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I don't get it. Why why so many of our
politicians have not been interested in these issues. But I'm
telling you, you heard what Scott Brown said. This is
an issue that he will be that he will be on.
You need to let your neighbors know that.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Excellent.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
We'll do and appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Thanks, thank you, thank you, thank.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You much to keep well. And they're going to go
now to Bernie in New Hampshire. Hate Bernie, welcome back
on with Scott Brown. Right ahead, Bernie.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Hey, how are we doing tonight?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
We're doing just great. And by the way, Scott, Bernie
has a son who's in the US military. Is basic
training over yet for that? Bernie?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Yeah? The number one thank you Scott for a service
politically and militarily.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
My son he joined on the delay entry program BETURE,
and we were we were second guessing if the other
person got elected about him actually entering the military, and
the person that he wanted to get elected got elected.
He and he felt good about that. And I feel
as so that our president is an isolationist with his
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troops well being at hot and that that's kind of
important to me and my wife. And he went to
Stasic and he went to ai T and he he
went mangineering, and he wants to be a SAPA. And
I didn't tell his mother what a sapa is.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He'll be he'll be well trained. And where did he
do his basic?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
So he did his basic at Jackson. Then he wants
to go for for engineering and now he's at Benning.
He wants he's throwing a rasp, he wants to We
were sitting out getting them another pair of boots. They
go to a what a pair of boots? A benny.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I know, I got my, I got my did my
officer basic infantry basic there and one thing I remember
is ticks, chiggers and snakes, you know, and by day
it's like a thousand degrees. By night you're freezing. And
he needed a Parker.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, and uh. The woman that when he was starting
his boots on, she says, what do you want to
do and he says, well, you know I want to
do asked, and I want to go to rent. Then
I want to get my ranger to have and then
I want to be a sapa. And she looked at
him and she said, you're a baby.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
He just turned eighteen. And my wife's got a quiet
and she's like, yeah, that's my baby. The people don't
understand it, the sacrifice set the mothers made.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, no, I'm.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Real proud of them. And I just want to know, like,
I'm sure that we can count on your support for
the military.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And of course I served almost forty I served almost
forty years. I started as an enlistedman after the Blizzard
of seventy eight and made it up to Colonel will
ask for it the Pentagon. So of course you can conomy.
And I don't care where I live if your son
needs me. And I have a great story I can
share sometime with the folks. Happy, happy to help, Thank you, sir,
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Thank you, thank.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You, Bernie. I'll tell you I know you're up in
New Hampshire. I know you have a lot of friends.
This is an important race, you.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Know what it is?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Then?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
And the problem with New Hampshire, and I'm a transplant.
I grew up the mess and I wanna raised my
kids with and we'll here so is that when you
get closer to the border, it's it's heavily Democrat. But
you know what, the state itself is conservative.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I'll tell you if the Democrat.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Harried Republicans seventy five percent.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You know what, Bernie, if the Democrats keep electing guys
like the guy that looks like he could be the
next mayor of New York, Democratic Party is falling off
the edge. And I'm telling you right now this this
this twenty twenty six could be a pretty good year
for the Republicans. And if that is so, it'll be
Senator Scott Brown from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Well, thank you, Bernie. Where do you live in Where
do you live in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
I'm in Knoxville.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
I'm in Lockville. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Cool, Well listen, go to Scott Brown dot com, get
your friends and let's get involved. It's time. You know,
we have a choice here. Somebody who's never served in
the military, has never been a senator, has no international experience,
hasn't taken a tough vote in his life, and you
know he wants to. He wants to get a promotion,
he wants an title, and he should doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Bernie, appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thanks. Bertie's Bernie's one of my regular listeners. Scott, he's great,
a great family. I think you can count on his repard.
We've got to take a quick break at lines here
only one line opened six, one, seven, four, ten thirty.
We'll try to get everybody for Scott Brown. Appreciate you're
kicking off your campaign with us tonight. Scott. I know
you announced it early this morning. I thought that the opening,
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uh introduction if you will, or reintroduction video that you
had was stupendous. I don't know who worked on that
with you, but it really did, in my opinion, capture
who you are, who you've been, and who you want
to be. Is that video available on your website for
people to look at and case?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did that in forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You kidding? Really?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Twenty five minutes or under the guy and I had
to do things with family things and yeah, I literally
went down to you know where you could see where
I was born and and I just banged it out.
It was it was like two takes. It was great,
and I think sometimes that's the best way.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So what is what is the website that people can
can go to? We'll give it again at the end of.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
The next round dot com dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, all right, we'll be back on Nightside with Scott
Brown of Scott Brown dot Com here on Nightside. Right
after this, we have Steve and Merrimack coming up next,
Mark and Woburn and billion Effort coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, roll with Scott Brown, candidate for US Senate,
and the election is next November. It's going to be
a long marathon. And Scott Brown starting off tonight with us.
Let's go next to Steve in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve,
you are next on Nightside with the man who would
like to be your next US Senator. Go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Hi, Dan, thanks for taking my call, and Sat it
was nice talking to you earlier today.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
I only wish that.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Against Lube, Warren and Kahan and I think you're getting.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
A little muffled on as Steve here. I don't know
if you're talking into the mouthpiece or not.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
I'm talking, I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
I wish that you were more successful against Lousey Warren
and Senator Shaheen in both those campaigns. You would have
been a far better senator than either one of them.
But I just came up with a question that relates
to the big beautiful bill, all these cuts that they're doing,
especially to Medicaid, snap and research. I was wondering how
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you feel about that, Senator. Do you think that they've
gone too far or not enough or where do you
stand on that?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, first of all, thank you. You know, all votes
in all elections that you want to lose have consequences,
and had I not lost, I never would have had
the opportunity to be the ambassador in New Zealand and Samoa.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
With regard to Medicaid, you know, obviously I want met
de caaid for people who need it, and that usually
is for lower and middle class income people who are disabled,
you know, who just plain can't work. But I absolutely
don't agree with the fact that you have people who
are here illegally on Medicaid. I'm not before that, and
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I like Bill Clinton respectfully, I think that people who
are able bodied, and I'm not talking about anybody who
has any disability, who has who clearly can't work. We
know people like that and they absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
But for the people who are.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Able bodied and should, they should be able to volunteer
or work for twenty hours a week. They just should.
And so I like Bill Clinton, would support that initiative.
Obviously I'm not there. I I'm not participating. But when
I tried to work to rescue the post Office, I
intimately got involved. When the Inside of Trading was happening,
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I help write the Inside of Trading bill which passed,
and when I left, they weakened it.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
So there's a whole host of things in there, and
the so called Big Beautiful Bill. For example, there no
tax on tips, no tax on overtime. The President made
that pledge. He also made a pledge to extend that
the twenty seventeen tax cuts. If we don't do those things,
then the economy, respectfully, especially the tax cuts, will be
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in very serious in dire straits. The tax on tips
and overtime that's going to help lower middle class income people,
and I think that's a good thing. There are a
lot of good things that actually benefit New Hampshire in there.
But on the thing the medicaid, for example, that you referenced,
I would work very hard to make sure that nobody,
absolutely nobody who was deserving of that. The argument is
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also a by oh there's too much paperwork, Well, no offense.
Have you tried to fill out an insurance claim. Have
you tried to fill out a credit card application, or
go down to the registry and sell a home, a
sell a boat or a car, or go to to
a closing and sell a home. I mean this paperwork, Okay,
figure it out, and if they can figure it out,
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then let's make sure we have people there to help them.
So I hope they answered your question.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
All right, Steve, great question, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I just want you to know I think he's absolutely
right that money is there. I pay taxes, you pay taxes.
I wanted there to help the right people who need
the help. I'm not looking to give my money or
have the government take money from me and give it
to people don't deserve it.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Simple and just one other thing. I mean, Chris Patters
in the entire delegation. They just want to do nothing.
And if they do nothing, then it's going to run
out of money.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
And then the people who really need the money will
have real problems.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Great point, Thank you, Steve. Let me go to Mark
in wilber Mark. You were next on nice that with
Scott Brown. Got a couple more behind your Mark.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Go right ahead, I'll be quick, and being a centerfielder
is the best job ever, except for being.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
A rock star or a talksno host.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Anyway, Senator Brown, thank you for your service. My question
is about entitlements, particularly workers for McDonald's, Walmart, and Amazon,
companies that have had record profits that I've done well
with as an investor, openly tell their employees how to
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sign up for food stamps and other benefits that the
government gives out. And I see this as a huge
corporate supplement because that money isn't being translated necessarily to
dividends but to executive bonuses, and that's a subsidy in
my eyes, from the US government to the corporations. How
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do you plan on addressing issues where the working poor
who are told by McDonald's and literally given pamphlets on
how to get social program benefits. How are you going
to address that?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Okay, that's great question, Coy.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
First of all, my mom is on welfare. I remember
getting those blocks of cheese and powdered milk. Okay, if
there's a safety.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Net, for sure, I grew up on wealth there myself.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So respectfully, this is the first time I've heard that,
you know, so I appreciate your bringing it up. I've
never heard that before. I've heard that our military because
a lot of our enlisted people, the E one, Z
two Z threes don't have enough money and they actually
have to go out and go to food banks and
get food stamps and SNAP and things like that. When
I was a US Senate, I supported SNAPPED. I think
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it's there. Once again, it's a safety net. But once again,
I don't think that anyone who's here illegally is entitled
to those types of benefits. They're just not well.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I'm not talking about I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Mart Mark. I got a couple other calls. It can
make a suggestion you, Mark, if you have some information
on that sformation.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Man, I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Get that. Okay. I'm just telling you, if you want
to make something you made a great point, Well, Scott
Brown dot com, get that information to him. You may
have just given him a campaign issue that he can
use in this campaign and actually improve things. So I
think I agree with resolutely. Thanks Mark, Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Have a good night.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
All Right, let me get real quickly in here if
I can. I'm going to try for two Billy and Everett.
You've been waiting twenty minutes, so you got to go first.
Can you do it like in about thirty seconds for me? Bill?
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes, Scott Brown. In twenty twenty one, you openly came
out and said that Donald Trump was responsible for the
Capitol riots. Are you going to ask Donald Trump for
your support? And how do you think he would react
if you asked them for this is support?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well, first of all, as you know, I served as
as ambassador, and I agree with us a lot of
things he's doing right now. But if we're going to
talk about what happened, I think the American publics already
spoke on that. They overwhelmingly elected him. He got the
popular vote in the electoral college. But if we're going
to talk about that, let's also talk about Joe Biden.
And how the Democratic Party and many people around the
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country that he was in great shape, he could run
circles around everybody, and they lie. If we're going to
talk about that, which quite frankly has been you know said.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Voting him in, do me a favorite, Bill.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
You know, Bill, you're trying to talk over and it
just doesn't work. He's trying to answer the question. Scott,
give you the final word on his question.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Go ahead, Oh I thought I answered. If you know,
that's been discussed and it's been answered by the public.
They voted for him overwhelmingly at a mandate. And if
we're going to talk about those types of things, we're
going to talk about Joe Biden as well, and the
fact that the Democrats lied about his physical and mental
acuity when I called it five years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
All right, thanks appreciated, Bill.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
I have one more New Hampshire caller here. I'm going
to see what I can do with TJ. TJ. Are
you there, I'm here, TJ. I give you ten seconds.
I'm telling you I'm out of time. If you can
do something in ten seconds, go.
Speaker 10 (39:57):
All right, quick, real quick. So New Hampshire has a
long stand stition of responsible gun ownership. So Senator Brown,
my question is, how will you defend Second Amendment rights
at the federal level, especially when we have neighboring states
that have imposed stricter gun laws as well as the
opposing party.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Go ahead, Scott, I'm a gun owner. I've already spoken
on this issue. I'm going to support and file and
push to make sure that we have the reciprocity bill pushed.
I've already spoken to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on this issue.
There is a House bill. I think it's House Built
thirty eight if I'm not mistaken, that's being pushed through.
So I'm going to work on that issue, that reciprocity issue,
because there's no way that a laura abiding citizens should
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be good driving to Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine and get
in an accident and then have to, you know, go
to jail because they have their gun on them. It's
not right. I support that, And you know, I had
the endorsement of the Londondary Fishing Game Club and a
whole host of other people on the two A issues.
And I'm going to hire a two A person on
my staff to address and guide me in the things
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that does the previous call, I talked about McDonald. I
didn't know what he was talking about. I don't know
every you know certain things, so I'm going to hire
an expert to give me that guidance and.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Health perfect TJ. Thank you very much, Scott, thank you
very much. We went a little long. It's Scott Scott
Brown dot com. Check it out. Scott, thanks so much.
Sayhill to off my friend Gail. Okay, thank you much.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
We come back on to talk about a little issue
dealing with the Karen Reid trials. Stay with us,
It's night Side with Dan Ray on w BZY, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We welcome back everyone number two here on Nightside. Thanks
very much, Stan walk Ins. I'm delighted to welcome back.
It's been a while since we have talked with former
US senator hopefully I think in Scott's mind, future US
Senator Scott Brown. Hey Scott, welcome back to night Side.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah. Thanks great to be on. Well, I've been busy
with grandchildren for sure, and obviously, you know, just just
doing my part to you know, make a living. Quite honest, how.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Many grandchildren do you? I'll start with one of the
easy questions. How many grandchildren do you? And my great
friend and colleague Gail Huff.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now, yeah, we have four four, Ala has two boys,
and Ariana, who's up in Portsmouth here with us. It
is two girls, yeah, four, two and a half, one
and a half and one.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That makes it an active household.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And you have no idea. It's truly. People who have
grandchildren understand it. You know, we watched them on Wednesday,
two of them and it's like, oh my goodness, honey,
where's the bottle of you know what we are going
to start drinking?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I hear you, well, you have decided to throw
your hat back into the ring. Jean Sheheen, longtime US
Senator from New Hampshire Democrats, said she's not running for
your election. In twenty twenty six, you, I know, had
been in conversations with former New Hampshire Governor Kristanunu, and
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he decided that he was not going to run. I
certainly hoped that the two of you would not have
had to have run against one another for nomination. How
did those conversations, God, was there sort of an understanding
that one one would get in and one wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
No, no, no, listen, We've been friends for a while.
I have a lot of respect for the governor. You know,
thank god we have him, and we have now senator
now Governor Ao, and you know that's the beauty. They're
fighting very hard, you know, to make New Hampshire basically great.
You would have the Executive Counsel of the House and
Senator Republicans, and they're fighting to protect that New Hampshire advantage.
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And the Federal delegation is just you know, out between
the high taxes, the gosh, the spending, the wokeness, the
open borders, protecting illegals, giving away benefits, you know, more
and more regulations. So you know, we're lucky to have him.
And Chris is a good guy. And listen, I would
have certainly supported him a thousand percent if he decided to.
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But he's been a governor for eight years, and you know, respectfully,
he needs to go and do some things that he
really wants to do with his life. He's young enough,
he can always come back. He did an amazing job.
So yeah, a look, he's.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
A great friend of mine. I said, and I said
many times that, as far as I was concerned, the
best governor in the United States of America, not only
the best, but the friendliest, easiest to deal with. He's
somebody like you who do not look at people on
the other side as bad people, just as people whose
ideas you disagree with. And I'm sure that I don't
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know who the Democratic nominees nominee is. I believe that
they suspect that one of the members of the delegation,
the congressional delegation, will probably be the person you're gonna
run against. Let's talk about Scott Brown, and let's talk
about what Scott Brown will bring to the race for
the people of New Hampshire. Why should New Hampshire voters say, look,
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let's have this guy as one of our two state
senator to us senators, he was a Massachusetts senator. I
think I mentioned to you yesterday. The only other guy
who's been a senator both from Massachusetts in New Hampshire
is Daniel Webster. If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, well that's I think we're getting a little ahead
of ourselves. Daniel Webster. I actually had his portrait in
our official residence in the dining room. I have a
great amount of respect for his oratory and legal skills
for sure. But yeah, listen for folks who don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I was born at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. My dad
was an airman at Peas and my mom was in
Portsmouth and they met, they fell in love, they had me,
and we lived in Islington Street and Portsmouth for a
couple of years till my parents got divorced. Then we
moved to Wakefield with my grandparents and for that support
that she obviously needed being just a high school graduate.
It's different times back then. You know, the women, you know,
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they didn't have the opportunities that many women have now.
So I had an amazing life, and you know, treasure
every moment I spent there, certainly with my friends and
family and raising our girls. But you know I was
always coming back. I mean, my sister's here, my daughter Ariana,
the veterinarians here, and my grand two of my grandchildren
are here. And it's a different feel. You know that
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lived for your diamontality is real. No income tax, no
sales tax, no bottel bill, carry a gun or not,
where a motorcycle, helmet or not. You know, almost a
libertarian type of feel, just kind of leave us alone,
will fall the lall. We'll do our best to you know,
be great members of society and and just let us
do our thing. And that's being challenged by, quite frankly,
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our delegation. As I said in the beginning, you know,
they're putting in these onerous regulations, these onerous taxes. They're
they're just saying no, no, no, no, no anything President
Trump's doing, even to save a dollar. You tell me
you can't join with them on one thing, really, and
that just doesn't make any sense. I'll just give you
an example on what happened in Iran. Right, I remember
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when President Obama, you know, got bin laden. I was
in the White House and I said, sir, you got
big balls. Congratulations, you know, a great job. And you
know he appreciated that honesty and directness, and he was
embraced by both parties doing a job. Well done it.
But he also dropped twenty six thousand bombs on different countries.
President trum Okay basically took away a threat that's not
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only been killing our citizens and supplying surrogates with deadly weapons,
you know, roadside bombs. IED's everything. And and and you
know he does it whether I was it thirty four
missiles and and he they're they're trying to impeach him.
They had an impeachment vote. It's so upside down. And
then you have most of the Democrats, including the ones
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in mass they can't say, oh my gosh, what a
great job are our men and women serve with the
B two bombing pilots and the crews did can't do
any of that. And so what's happened to that? Ronald
Reagan tipp O'Neil philosophy of you know, Battle of my Day,
based on facts, getting along and figuring it out. It's
just it's totally upside down. Well, I also do better
to answer your question. To answer your question, that's what
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I can do better, you know, I you know you.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Absolutely did it. And and just talking about the Democratic Party,
I don't know. I'm sure you saw what happened in
New York City last night. Yeah, the Democrats nominated a
guy that is so far out of the mainstream. Now,
maybe who get elected in New York, but good luck
with that. If New Hampshire Democrats don't recognize what's going
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on to the Democratic Party nationally, I mean, they're in
disarraceed gun and they're looking for leadership from an avowed socialist.
Did you see some of the comments this guy made
in the wake of October seven?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, listen, this is the modern Democratic Party though, and
you know they want to impeach President Trump rather celebrate them,
as I said. And you know that New York City
there's a lot of people there who live there who
are now questioning whether they're going to live there because
what are we going to have. We're having Russia type
grocery stores now, and free this and free that. You're
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going to tax the rich even more. I mean New
York is one of the highest tax cities in the world.
So you know, people are nervous, and you know it's
not over till it's over. But you know, hey, listen,
when you're not working and you're living on the government
and you have a lot of people there that you know,
really just want want to just kind of get free stuff,
and they'll vote for somebody like that.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean, I think that the next move that this
guy should make there should be free tickets to the Giant.
Well they count do that because they were in New Jersey,
but certainly free tickets to the next the Rangers, the Mets,
the Yankees. I think that's the next obvious thing that
this guy is going to do. Or maybe every New
Yorker should be able for one game to sit in
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the Yankee bullpen wearing the Yankee uniform and have his
name on the roster. I think that's fair. I mean,
this guy is a nut job, Scott.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I mean, yeah, well, you know, these are the types
of people that Chris Pappis, who's the congressman, and others
are supporting. I mean, we just said Adam Shiff support
Chris Pappis. I mean, Adam Shiff of all people, is
like what do you want that you want that orsement.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That is a blessing, That is an absolute blessing. I
hope that Steve Garvey will come up there and endorse you,
because man, a great guy, a great guy. And look
at what happened to Seth Moulton when he expressed some concern.
You have two daughters who were very athletic and played
in sports. He has a couple of young girls, and
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he had the temerity to say that he wasn't looking
forward to seeing his daughters competing on the soccer pitch
or on the basketball court against transgender males, and they
were ready to ride him out of town on a rail.
The Democratic Party Seth Moulton.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Well, I actually sent him an email supporting him and
said good for you, because he's right. You know, listen,
I certainly have been athletic my whole wife. I mean,
just me doing a triathlonics sixty five years old. There's
no way another sixty five year old woman is going
to beat me. You know, it's all day and women
and men are made differently. I'm sorry. It's a question
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of fairness. Even Caitlin Jenner says that it's a question
of fairness and you know you have, you know, men
and boys and women and girls' locker rooms and sports.
The crushing the dreams of our young female athletes. And
it's just wrong, period. It's no, it's just wrong. You know.
Get your own league happy to support it, you know,
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but don't crush the dreams of our young ladies who
have been trying for so long.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I have said for a long time that they can
have in a lot of schools. Now, if you don't have,
let's say, I'll be able to pull together a hockey
team or a football team at one school. You can
join with some regional schools. They should. They could be
transgender leagues, you know, if they're you know, look, there's
there's plenty of options here. Anyway, Scott, I want you
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to take some questions from some of my listeners. I
want to give them an opportunity to talk to you.
Anyone up in New Hampshire, if you'd like to talk
to Scott Brown. He will be a very serious candidate
in a very serious race, in a very closely watched race.
This is what's called an open seat in New Hampshire.
No incumbent running for the seat, and there's probably only
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three or four seats every Senate election cycle, because it's
only a third of Senators who are up. There's one
hundred senators and they serve six year terms. So every
year about thirty two or thirty three of those senators
stand for reelection. The other two thirds are not up
for reelection. This year one of the most important races
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in the country is in New Hampshire. Scott Brown, I
suspect is are there any other Republicans who have announced?
By the way, Scott, or are you No?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I don't know of anybody else.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Is known, and I think they'd be crazy to jump in.
I mean, if they want to waste their time, that's fine,
but we'll be back with Scott Brown six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Bring the questions on, particularly New Hampshire listeners. This is
an opportunity for you too. He's gonna he's gonna jump in.
He is in, He's in. Uh. It's it's a Maria.
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That's not a sprint. Talking about a year and a
half between now and November of twenty twenty six. But
if it ends the way Scott Brown wants, it'll be
Senator Scott Brown with NH after his name, as opposed
to m A. Back on night Side right after this
with questions and calls for Scott Brown. Six one seven,
two five thirty or six one seven, nine three one
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ten thirty. My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside,
coming right back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All right on with Scott Brown. Let's go to phone calls.
Jerry on the Cape. Jerry on Cape Cod You're next
with Scott Brown. Go right ahead, Jerry, or your first
tonight with Scott Brown.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Hey, Dan, faithful listener to night Side. Hello, Senator, I
hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, doing well. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I hope that you know, number one, you get elected
and you do great things for the Hampshire. But as
you look at you know, I'm here in Massachusetts and
it's your look at the New England Congressional delegation. Other
than hurling insults at the President and members of his administration,
that might get some great headlines in the press, but
people are hurting and they want economic opportunity, and not
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just in the Hampshire but the whole region of New England.
You know, we have higher ed and life science, and
the defense industry, energy and agriculture. But this congressional delegation
that we have now, the makeup of it all Democrats.
They don't even have a seat at the table. They
can't advocate. So my hope is when you get to
d C that you'll be that honest broker that backpartisan,
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independent voice and really deliver not just for the Hampshire
but for the entire New England region because people are hurting,
businesses are hurting, and right now New England is just
completely out of step with the rest of the country.
The only people we're in step with is likes of
Gavin Newso and out in California.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, well, first of all, thank you for calling, and
you know, good points.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I've always been an independent voter and thinker. Is you know,
I read the bills, one of the few ones that
I think actually reads them. I see how they affect
our state, our country, our det and depths in and
vote and as you may or may not know, I mean,
you know, I believe in that. I said it earlier
in the show that tip O'Neil, Ronald Reagan floss. So
you can battle, you can fight, You can do it respectfully,
do it with class, and then you know, grab a
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Scotch or a beer and figure it out and then
come back and do the people's business. And you know, yeah,
there's only one federal officeholder that Susan Collins up in
Main and she handles a lot of the issues for
the entire New England area. Yes, I'd certainly like to
be there to help her. And you know, she's one
of the hardest working people that I've ever met.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
She has the record for the most consecutive votes during
her term. And yeah, this and the life sciences, obviously aerospace, defense, energy.
There's so many different opportunities in New England, in New
Hampshire in particular. You know, we have needs, we have
some great innovation here. We have obviously tourism very similar
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to Massachusetts, but we could do better. And the regulations,
the lack of becoming energy independent is hurting our citizens
as we want to be paying for those bills in
the wintertime for the high cost of energy. They do
everything they can to throw up roadblocks so we can't
get the pipelines or the natural gas or oil that
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we need. I mean, that's just one thing. And then
you just that the Party of No. You can't tell
me that one elected official can't find and work with
the president or his team to find one dollar of savings,
whether it's on any of the social service programs, any
of the entitlement programs, or any of the things that
we just kind of scratch our head and say, you
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can't join the president on that. Really, you can't thank
our b two bombers who did this heroic Like I
was reading a brad Thorpe novel, it was incredible. You know,
you can't say thank you. You can't stand up for
a kid who has ten surgeries and he wants to
be a cop. Really, but you're going to go to
you know, L Salvador and go and get a you know,
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get a gang banger out or Venezuela, whatever the heck
he was. You know, it's it's like it's just upside down.
So yes, I want to get there. I want to
And that's one of the reasons I'm running. You know,
Dan and Jerry listen, I've had plenty of titles. I've
been a you know, a coach, a father, a soldier,
a grandfather, an ambassador, senator. I don't need any more titles.
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Chris Pappus wants a new title. But what I want
is a stronger America and I want a stronger New
Hampshire and a stronger New England. So yeah, I'm excited.
If people want to get involved in go to Scott
Brown dot com right now. The donation lines and volunteer
lines are open. We've had a very very successful first
day and we're going to continue to continue to go on.
So if you want to help, you know, whether I
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don't care if you're in New England or around the world,
you know, get on the get online and go to
Scott Brown dot com. Period.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You know, Scott, the Democrats often love to talk about
public service. I'd love to see the record public service
record of your opponents. Not only did you serve as
a US Senator and an ambassador, but as you mentioned,
as a member of the military for a long.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Time, almost forty years.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, I mean a long time, and your service your
public service. People can disagree with you politically, but they
have no right to disagree with the amount that you
have done and contributed to this country. And I think
that is a very strong suit in this election. The
other thing, Jerry, which I want you to know is
that when Scott was Ambassador to New Zealand, he was
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amongst a group of very select US ambassadors who had
access to information. Just talk a little bit about that
group of five Scott that that's.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
US, Great Britain, Australia in New Zealand, US Canada, Great Britain,
Australia and New Zealand. You know what they do is,
you know, we share any and all information regarding trends,
human drug and child trafficking. It could be weather events
that are going to affect you know, obviously the island nations.
It could be the terrorist threats that are happening and happen,
cyber attacks, things like that. We had the christ Church massacre,
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you know, which you know President Trump was very helpful
in helping get immediate resources there. And you know, because
we had Americans, we had the White Island volcano, which
they did a Netflix show about, and then we did
trade deals. We pushed back against China every single day.
So yeah, there are plenty of things that we did
and do as a result of that relationship. That's one
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of the reasons I chose to go there because I
wanted to be where the action was. I wanted to
push back against China and their expansionism and basically abuse
of those Pacific island nations, and it worked.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah. Again, that's something that should be people should understand
when they're sending somebody to the United States Senate. Experience
matters and public service matters, and also positions on issues
truly does matter because a lot of the votes are
just so incredibly close the Senate right now fifty three
forty seven. Jerry. I know you're down in the Cape,
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but maybe a couple of trips to New Hampshire in
the next year or so might be on your agenda
to help out, Scott Brown.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
I've got family and friends, Dan, and they'll be contributing
and helping out. Thanks for the opportunity to speak with
the Senator.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You're right, You're welcome, Jerry. Thank you very much. We
got to take a quick break here. I got some
New Hampshire callers on the line, Scott, I'd like to
get more for you, whether they're from New Hampshire or
anywhere else. Anyone who is listening around the country tonight,
if you'd like to speak to former US Senator, former
US Ambassador Scott Brown for those of you who might
not realize that he announced this morning that he is
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now a candidate for Senate in New Hampshire. If he
has the good fortune to be elected, he'll join a
very select company, Daniel Webster being the only other American
patriot who had served as a senator in both Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. And again, if I'm wrong on that, Scott,
let me know. I believe I'm correct on that one.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I yeah, whatever, it doesn't matter, you know, I know, no,
I know it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But it does show that it's been done before.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
And uhh yeah, listen there, it's been done before, certainly,
and you know, but I am definitely not Daniel Webster.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No, I get it, no problem not. You're Scott Brown.
And guess what, every every person, uh is sometimes the
right person for the time. You know, Ronald Reagan was
very much the right person for the time. Scott Brown
is very much the right person for the very kind
We will take a break. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten
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thirty will be back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Back to the phones, we go for Scott Brown. Let's
go next to Bernie. Uh no, Bernie, hold on, I'm
going to get to you Fred and Nashville in New Hampshire. Fred,
you're number two, Go right ahead, Fred, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Hey Dan, Hey, ambassador, how are you?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And I think I'm pretty well. I'm working hard. How
are you doing well?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Got a Nashville related question for you, mister ambassador. So
I work in HVAC and I've been following this story
of Non Foo Springs buying that bottling plant. And you know,
just for the listeners awareness, non Who Springs is the
largest bottling company in China, and so what they did
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is kind of under the radar, purchased this huge bottling plant,
and there hasn't been a lot of pushback from local
leaders here in Nashville. So, Ambassador, I guess my question
is a little twofold. First part of the question is
what are you going to do and what can you
do as senator to make sure a company like non
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Foo can't access our domestic water supply and make sure
China more broadly can't access our domestic water supply. And
then what are you going to do to curb Chinese
and here in the United States.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Well, first of all, by the time I get there,
if I'm lucky enough to be elected, that issue will
be long gone. Sadly, I think the question you should
be asking is what has your delegation done? What is
our delegation done on this issue themselves, which is nothing.
I did speak to some state reps and state senators
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in that area the other day, and obviously they told
me about it, and the other thing that's troubling is
they paid a larger amount of money than it potentially
is actually worth. So the question is why why are
they there? Why Nashville?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Why?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
You know? So there are a lot of questions, and
you know, the mayor obviously and the local legislature and
city council should be asking those questions. And I'm not
sure if they did. Obviously I'm in Rye. It's been
something that's come up over you know, recently for me
and others. You clearly are more knowledgeable about it. But
my question, just listening to your question, is why didn't
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like Papa Shaheen Hassen and good Land do anything? Why
didn't they raise the arm? Because I have always felt,
because I dealt with in New Zealand, I saw what
China does. They built the militarized islands, change the law
of the air and see that's been in place for
hundreds of years. They overleverage Pacific island nations and when
they can't paiy, they take a port that we built
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in World War two, or an airstrip which we built
in World War two, you know, as collateral. And you
know they're manipulating the currency, they're you know, stealing our
intellectual property. So to think that they're not looking at
our sensitive areas in Arizona in particular, why did the
governor veto the legislature and allow them to purchase things
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around our air and military bases. Yeah, listen, I can
assure you if I'm elected, I will absolutely work with
other senators to make sure that we can stop that stuff.
They wouldn't allow us to do it in their countries.
No country would, So why are they allowed to do
it here? It's because it's a lack of leadership with
our present delegation. That's one of the reasons I'm running Fred.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
By the way, this is Dan Ray. I'm not sure
if you're aware, but in the state of Maine, China
is running marijuana farms up there. There's been some great
work done by journalists in the state of Maine. And
if it happens in Maine, the next place is going
to happen and will be New Hampshire. And this is
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marijuana that is not controlled by the US government, so
you have no idea what its potency is. You have
no idea they're bringing in to market. There's a bank
down in New York City which lends money to these
uh Chinese nationals who are in our country and they're
they're they're literally they have these marijuana growhouses up and
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made that all they do is grow grow marijuana indoors.
It's a huge problem in the state of Maine. And
the officials in the state of Maine and to including
the governor up there, are totally asleep on that Governor mills.
So you have identified fred a really important problem. And
I think that you'll get some action from Scott Brown
if he's if he's fortunate enough to be your next
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US center.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
I hope so, Dan, And it's just it's very suspicious
about what's going on in Nashua. They you know, the
Chinese purchased the former Daniel Webster College, which is right
next to the airport right next to an FAA telecommunications facility.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Oh yeah, this site.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
They've gone after farm land in North Dakota, next to
military installations in North Dakota. There's a former Boston Brewin
hockey player, Brian Bochnsky, who was the mayor out there.
He was the one guy that stopped it, a Republican
mayor in North Dakota.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
I do.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I don't get it. Why why so many of our
politicians have not been interested in these issues. But I'm
telling you, you heard what Scott Brown said. This is
an issue that he will be that he will be on.
You need to let your neighbors know that.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Excellent.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
We'll do and appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Thanks, thank you, thank you, thank.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You much to keep well. And they're going to go
now to Bernie in New Hampshire. Hate Bernie, welcome back
on with Scott Brown. Right ahead, Bernie.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Hey, how are we doing tonight?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
We're doing just great. And by the way, Scott, Bernie
has a son who's in the US military. Is basic
training over yet for that? Bernie?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Yeah? The number one thank you Scott for a service
politically and militarily.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
My son he joined on the delay entry program BETURE,
and we were we were second guessing if the other
person got elected about him actually entering the military, and
the person that he wanted to get elected got elected.
He and he felt good about that. And I feel
as so that our president is an isolationist with his
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troops well being at hot and that that's kind of
important to me and my wife. And he went to
Stasic and he went to ai T and he he
went mangineering, and he wants to be a SAPA. And
I didn't tell his mother what a sapa is.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He'll be he'll be well trained. And where did he
do his basic?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
So he did his basic at Jackson. Then he wants
to go for for engineering and now he's at Benning.
He wants he's throwing a rasp, he wants to We
were sitting out getting them another pair of boots. They
go to a what a pair of boots? A benny.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I know, I got my, I got my did my
officer basic infantry basic there and one thing I remember
is ticks, chiggers and snakes, you know, and by day
it's like a thousand degrees. By night you're freezing. And
he needed a Parker.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, and uh. The woman that when he was starting
his boots on, she says, what do you want to
do and he says, well, you know I want to
do asked, and I want to go to rent. Then
I want to get my ranger to have and then
I want to be a sapa. And she looked at
him and she said, you're a baby.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
He just turned eighteen. And my wife's got a quiet
and she's like, yeah, that's my baby. The people don't
understand it, the sacrifice set the mothers made.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, no, I'm.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Real proud of them. And I just want to know, like,
I'm sure that we can count on your support for
the military.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And of course I served almost forty I served almost
forty years. I started as an enlistedman after the Blizzard
of seventy eight and made it up to Colonel will
ask for it the Pentagon. So of course you can conomy.
And I don't care where I live if your son
needs me. And I have a great story I can
share sometime with the folks. Happy, happy to help, Thank you, sir,
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Thank you, thank.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You, Bernie. I'll tell you I know you're up in
New Hampshire. I know you have a lot of friends.
This is an important race, you.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Know what it is?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Then?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
And the problem with New Hampshire, and I'm a transplant.
I grew up the mess and I wanna raised my
kids with and we'll here so is that when you
get closer to the border, it's it's heavily Democrat. But
you know what, the state itself is conservative.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I'll tell you if the Democrat.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Harried Republicans seventy five percent.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You know what, Bernie, if the Democrats keep electing guys
like the guy that looks like he could be the
next mayor of New York, Democratic Party is falling off
the edge. And I'm telling you right now this this
this twenty twenty six could be a pretty good year
for the Republicans. And if that is so, it'll be
Senator Scott Brown from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Well, thank you, Bernie. Where do you live in Where
do you live in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
I'm in Knoxville.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
I'm in Lockville. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Cool, Well listen, go to Scott Brown dot com, get
your friends and let's get involved. It's time. You know,
we have a choice here. Somebody who's never served in
the military, has never been a senator, has no international experience,
hasn't taken a tough vote in his life, and you
know he wants to. He wants to get a promotion,
he wants an title, and he should doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Bernie, appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Thank you, have a good night.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thanks. Bertie's Bernie's one of my regular listeners. Scott, he's great,
a great family. I think you can count on his repard.
We've got to take a quick break at lines here
only one line opened six, one, seven, four, ten thirty.
We'll try to get everybody for Scott Brown. Appreciate you're
kicking off your campaign with us tonight. Scott. I know
you announced it early this morning. I thought that the opening,
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uh introduction if you will, or reintroduction video that you
had was stupendous. I don't know who worked on that
with you, but it really did, in my opinion, capture
who you are, who you've been, and who you want
to be. Is that video available on your website for
people to look at and case?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did that in forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You kidding? Really?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Twenty five minutes or under the guy and I had
to do things with family things and yeah, I literally
went down to you know where you could see where
I was born and and I just banged it out.
It was it was like two takes. It was great,
and I think sometimes that's the best way.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So what is what is the website that people can
can go to? We'll give it again at the end of.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
The next round dot com dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, all right, we'll be back on Nightside with Scott
Brown of Scott Brown dot Com here on Nightside. Right
after this, we have Steve and Merrimack coming up next,
Mark and Woburn and billion Effort coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, roll with Scott Brown, candidate for US Senate,
and the election is next November. It's going to be
a long marathon. And Scott Brown starting off tonight with us.
Let's go next to Steve in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve,
you are next on Nightside with the man who would
like to be your next US Senator. Go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Hi, Dan, thanks for taking my call, and Sat it
was nice talking to you earlier today.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
I only wish that.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Against Lube, Warren and Kahan and I think you're getting.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
A little muffled on as Steve here. I don't know
if you're talking into the mouthpiece or not.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
I'm talking, I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
I wish that you were more successful against Lousey Warren
and Senator Shaheen in both those campaigns. You would have
been a far better senator than either one of them.
But I just came up with a question that relates
to the big beautiful bill, all these cuts that they're doing,
especially to Medicaid, snap and research. I was wondering how
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you feel about that, Senator. Do you think that they've
gone too far or not enough or where do you
stand on that?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, first of all, thank you. You know, all votes
in all elections that you want to lose have consequences,
and had I not lost, I never would have had
the opportunity to be the ambassador in New Zealand and Samoa.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Obviously.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
With regard to Medicaid, you know, obviously I want met
de caaid for people who need it, and that usually
is for lower and middle class income people who are disabled,
you know, who just plain can't work. But I absolutely
don't agree with the fact that you have people who
are here illegally on Medicaid. I'm not before that, and
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I like Bill Clinton respectfully, I think that people who
are able bodied, and I'm not talking about anybody who
has any disability, who has who clearly can't work. We
know people like that and they absolutely deserve it.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
But for the people who are.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Able bodied and should, they should be able to volunteer
or work for twenty hours a week. They just should.
And so I like Bill Clinton, would support that initiative.
Obviously I'm not there. I I'm not participating. But when
I tried to work to rescue the post Office, I
intimately got involved. When the Inside of Trading was happening,
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I help write the Inside of Trading bill which passed,
and when I left, they weakened it.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
So there's a whole host of things in there, and
the so called Big Beautiful Bill. For example, there no
tax on tips, no tax on overtime. The President made
that pledge. He also made a pledge to extend that
the twenty seventeen tax cuts. If we don't do those things,
then the economy, respectfully, especially the tax cuts, will be
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in very serious in dire straits. The tax on tips
and overtime that's going to help lower middle class income people,
and I think that's a good thing. There are a
lot of good things that actually benefit New Hampshire in there.
But on the thing the medicaid, for example, that you referenced,
I would work very hard to make sure that nobody,
absolutely nobody who was deserving of that. The argument is
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also a by oh there's too much paperwork, Well, no offense.
Have you tried to fill out an insurance claim. Have
you tried to fill out a credit card application, or
go down to the registry and sell a home, a
sell a boat or a car, or go to to
a closing and sell a home. I mean this paperwork, Okay,
figure it out, and if they can figure it out,
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then let's make sure we have people there to help them.
So I hope they answered your question.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
All right, Steve, great question, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I just want you to know I think he's absolutely
right that money is there. I pay taxes, you pay taxes.
I wanted there to help the right people who need
the help. I'm not looking to give my money or
have the government take money from me and give it
to people don't deserve it.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Simple and just one other thing. I mean, Chris Patters
in the entire delegation. They just want to do nothing.
And if they do nothing, then it's going to run
out of money.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
And then the people who really need the money will
have real problems.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Great point, Thank you, Steve. Let me go to Mark
in wilber Mark. You were next on nice that with
Scott Brown. Got a couple more behind your Mark.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Go right ahead, I'll be quick, and being a centerfielder
is the best job ever, except for being.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
A rock star or a talksno host.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Anyway, Senator Brown, thank you for your service. My question
is about entitlements, particularly workers for McDonald's, Walmart, and Amazon,
companies that have had record profits that I've done well
with as an investor, openly tell their employees how to
(36:17):
sign up for food stamps and other benefits that the
government gives out. And I see this as a huge
corporate supplement because that money isn't being translated necessarily to
dividends but to executive bonuses, and that's a subsidy in
my eyes, from the US government to the corporations. How
(36:40):
do you plan on addressing issues where the working poor
who are told by McDonald's and literally given pamphlets on
how to get social program benefits. How are you going
to address that?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Okay, that's great question, Coy.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
First of all, my mom is on welfare. I remember
getting those blocks of cheese and powdered milk. Okay, if
there's a safety.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
Net, for sure, I grew up on wealth there myself.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So respectfully, this is the first time I've heard that,
you know, so I appreciate your bringing it up. I've
never heard that before. I've heard that our military because
a lot of our enlisted people, the E one, Z
two Z threes don't have enough money and they actually
have to go out and go to food banks and
get food stamps and SNAP and things like that. When
I was a US Senate, I supported SNAPPED. I think
(37:25):
it's there. Once again, it's a safety net. But once again,
I don't think that anyone who's here illegally is entitled
to those types of benefits. They're just not well.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I'm not talking about I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Mart Mark. I got a couple other calls. It can
make a suggestion you, Mark, if you have some information
on that sformation.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Man, I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Get that. Okay. I'm just telling you, if you want
to make something you made a great point, Well, Scott
Brown dot com, get that information to him. You may
have just given him a campaign issue that he can
use in this campaign and actually improve things. So I
think I agree with resolutely. Thanks Mark, Thank you very much.
(38:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Have a good night.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
All Right, let me get real quickly in here if
I can. I'm going to try for two Billy and Everett.
You've been waiting twenty minutes, so you got to go first.
Can you do it like in about thirty seconds for me? Bill?
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes, Scott Brown. In twenty twenty one, you openly came
out and said that Donald Trump was responsible for the
Capitol riots. Are you going to ask Donald Trump for
your support? And how do you think he would react
if you asked them for this is support?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well, first of all, as you know, I served as
as ambassador, and I agree with us a lot of
things he's doing right now. But if we're going to
talk about what happened, I think the American publics already
spoke on that. They overwhelmingly elected him. He got the
popular vote in the electoral college. But if we're going
to talk about that, let's also talk about Joe Biden.
And how the Democratic Party and many people around the
(38:56):
country that he was in great shape, he could run
circles around everybody, and they lie. If we're going to
talk about that, which quite frankly has been you know said.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Voting him in, do me a favorite, Bill.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
You know, Bill, you're trying to talk over and it
just doesn't work. He's trying to answer the question. Scott,
give you the final word on his question.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Go ahead, Oh I thought I answered. If you know,
that's been discussed and it's been answered by the public.
They voted for him overwhelmingly at a mandate. And if
we're going to talk about those types of things, we're
going to talk about Joe Biden as well, and the
fact that the Democrats lied about his physical and mental
acuity when I called it five years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
All right, thanks appreciated, Bill.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
I have one more New Hampshire caller here. I'm going
to see what I can do with TJ. TJ. Are
you there, I'm here, TJ. I give you ten seconds.
I'm telling you I'm out of time. If you can
do something in ten seconds, go.
Speaker 10 (39:57):
All right, quick, real quick. So New Hampshire has a
long stand stition of responsible gun ownership. So Senator Brown,
my question is, how will you defend Second Amendment rights
at the federal level, especially when we have neighboring states
that have imposed stricter gun laws as well as the
opposing party.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Go ahead, Scott, I'm a gun owner. I've already spoken
on this issue. I'm going to support and file and
push to make sure that we have the reciprocity bill pushed.
I've already spoken to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on this issue.
There is a House bill. I think it's House Built
thirty eight if I'm not mistaken, that's being pushed through.
So I'm going to work on that issue, that reciprocity issue,
because there's no way that a laura abiding citizens should
(40:39):
be good driving to Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine and get
in an accident and then have to, you know, go
to jail because they have their gun on them. It's
not right. I support that, And you know, I had
the endorsement of the Londondary Fishing Game Club and a
whole host of other people on the two A issues.
And I'm going to hire a two A person on
my staff to address and guide me in the things
(40:59):
that does the previous call, I talked about McDonald. I
didn't know what he was talking about. I don't know
every you know certain things, so I'm going to hire
an expert to give me that guidance and.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Health perfect TJ. Thank you very much, Scott, thank you
very much. We went a little long. It's Scott Scott
Brown dot com. Check it out. Scott, thanks so much.
Sayhill to off my friend Gail. Okay, thank you much.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
We come back on to talk about a little issue
dealing with the Karen Reid trials. Stay with us,
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