Breaking: GOP’s Scott Brown: “I accept the findings of the report and support repeal”
This is big, really big news. Just minutes after Senator John McCain, the chief “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal opponent, said, “I will not agree to have this bill go forward. Neither, I think, will 41 of my colleagues,” Massachusetts GOP Senator and thirty-one year veteran Scott Brown said, “I accept the findings of the report and support repeal.”
Breaking with the letter signed by all forty-two Republican Senators, including himself, Brown is the first Republican Senator to agree to support repeal. The consequence of his support is amplified by his service on military committees: Committee on Armed Services, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
No response yet from Senator McCain, the ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services.
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