Gawker:
Did you know that Scott Brown—the new star Republican Senator—was accused of harassing a female campaign worker in 1998? We have the documents to prove it. Did the Democrats blow an opportunity to keep their 60th Senate seat
The suit was ultimately dropped. But Gawker raises a good point:
But why did Democrats and members of the national press fail to even bring up the fact that Scott Brown had once been accused of sexual harassment and defamation in the myriad stories about him prior to Massachusetts' special election in January? Google it. The entire incident is conspicuously absent.
Consider the political stakes. Coakley's loss cost Democrats their 60th Senate seat, endangering a long list of President Obama's political objectives such as health care reform. Yet Martha Coakley, the state's Democratic attorney general who ran against Brown, never mentioned the issue on the campaign trail, as far as we can tell. Did the Coakley campaign look into the case and decide Firth's claims were baseless? Did they miss it entirely?
