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Elizabeth Warren for MA | TV Ad: Devastating (Original Post) TroyD Oct 2012 OP
Excellent ad! Thanks for posting TroyD DemsUnited Oct 2012 #1
"He ought to be ashamed!" NBachers Oct 2012 #2
That's going to leave a mark, all right. Indpndnt Oct 2012 #22
excellent fascisthunter Oct 2012 #3
This is great. I saw Brown's ad and I couldn't DavidL Oct 2012 #4
I was an asbestos attorney for 20 years. Mesothelioma is one of the worst cancers and Dustlawyer Oct 2012 #5
There was a watch company... HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #7
This reminded me of the Asbestos Strike in Quebec, polly7 Oct 2012 #10
Thanks for your first-hand testimony. Are you in MA by any chance? Surya Gayatri Oct 2012 #17
I am in Texas. We had a Boston office at one time. I work for Brent Coon & Associates and we Dustlawyer Oct 2012 #19
I thought, if you were an MA resident, you could offer Surya Gayatri Oct 2012 #20
Thanks, I agree. I wish you guys the best luck! Ms Warren is the biggest rising star we have Dustlawyer Oct 2012 #21
That is a great ad. davidpdx Oct 2012 #6
Good for her. I can't believe Scott Brown went there. nt. SunSeeker Oct 2012 #8
Scott Brown ought to be ashamed for lots of things. Great ad catbyte Oct 2012 #9
Is this why Scott Brown is pushing the native American deal. Thinkingabout Oct 2012 #11
Brown's campaign has been despicable and unfathomable. Warren Stupidity Oct 2012 #12
'Who advised him to go after Warren's heritage and her work as a lawyer?' TroyD Oct 2012 #14
Republicans have no shame any more. mnhtnbb Oct 2012 #13
Well done. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #15
Go, Elizabeth! wakemewhenitsover Oct 2012 #16
Scott Brown has no shame, no shame at all. ellisonz Oct 2012 #18
Elizabeth will become a Senator that we can look up to even if we are in another state! Kteachums Oct 2012 #23
 

DavidL

(384 posts)
4. This is great. I saw Brown's ad and I couldn't
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 09:55 AM
Oct 2012

believe it! He put up the most deceptive ad I have ever seen about Warren.

His character attacks on Warren have been relentless, and so untrue.

He's getting desperate, and that doesn't help him at all with the undecided voters.

Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
5. I was an asbestos attorney for 20 years. Mesothelioma is one of the worst cancers and
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 09:58 AM
Oct 2012

worst ways to die there is. I have seen 200 lb. plus men die at 85 lbs. in agony that morphine will not touch. Smoking does NOT cause this disease, only asbestos, that is why you would see the commercials all of the time for these cases. GE is a big asbestos defendant by the way, along with all of the oil companies, oh, and Koch industries too! These companies knew in the 1930's what asbestos did and covered it up for generations because it was cheap! They are the worst examples of capitalism ever known! So when a Republican sneers at you and calls you a communist/socialist, you tell them what a Capitalist is!

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
7. There was a watch company...
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:22 AM
Oct 2012

That employed dozens of young women (at this time women had difficulty getting jobs) for the task of painting watch dials with radium-based luminous paint. The women were instructed to regularly lick the paintbrush bristles to keep them neat. Needless to say, every single women developed severe radiation poisoning, and the entire room was toxic with high radiation levels. The owners and management knew of the danger, ignored it, and stalled the subsequent lawsuits out in court until the last women died, which ended the suits. Fucking criminals.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
10. This reminded me of the Asbestos Strike in Quebec,
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:53 AM
Oct 2012

and how those miners and their families had suffered.

http://asbestos.cattran.ca/asbestos/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Deadly-Secret-Quebec-asbestos-history.pdf

.....The laboratory, with its picturesque location in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains by the crystal-clear waters of Saranac Lake, was an unlikely setting for an industrial cover-up. Although staffed by some of the world’s leading researchers on lung disease, it was severely compromised by its reliance on industry funding. Over the ensuing years, the incriminating slides gathered dust in a carefully concealed file labelled “Quebec Asbestos Workers.”

There they remained until South African scholar Gerrit Schepers visited the laboratory as an intern in 1949. Nowninety-six years of age and living in upstate Virginia, he remembers stumbling upon the perturbing data while rifling through the laboratory’s records. Nine miners were listed with lung cancer and two more with mesothelioma, a
rarer and deadlier cancer. Another file contained slides of eleven mice exposed to asbestos dust — the slides revealed that nine of the mice had cancer.

The hidden data was political dynamite. Up in Quebec, trouble was brewing as the province’s francophone asbestos miners began to agitate against their long-hated American and English-Canadian masters. The strife culminated in the 1949 asbestos strike, a bitter dispute based in and around the Quebec mining town of Asbestos. Aware that the product they mined was killing them, one of the miners’ demands was that asbestosis — lung scarring caused by exposure to asbestos fibres — be recognised as an industrial disease.

The strike was essentially an attempt by miners to take control of their bodies. At the beginning of 1949, Montreal’s Le Devoir warned workers that companies had been lying to them about their health. Journalist Burton LeDoux compared asbestosis to a spider spinning its deadly web around victims’ lungs, slowly suffocating them to death. He likened Quebec’s mining towns to concentration camps


http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/featured/asbestos-strike



For the workers, back to work in the dangerous air of the asbestos mines, the strike was no revolution. Their material gains were small. Many were not rehired and little was done to alleviate the working conditions that would take many lives over the next generation. In 1974, Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, the world's foremost authority on asbestos-related diseases, described the asbestos mining towns of Quebec as the most dangerous in the world. The town of Asbestos has a long memory. Even today, when a "scab" passes away, the only people at the funeral home are the priest and a few members of the Knights of Columbus to pray for his soul.
James H. Marsh is editor in chief of The Canadian Encyclopedia.
 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
17. Thanks for your first-hand testimony. Are you in MA by any chance?
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 05:41 AM
Oct 2012

Your personal narrative from the legal point of view might be useful to the Warren campaign.

Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
19. I am in Texas. We had a Boston office at one time. I work for Brent Coon & Associates and we
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 11:35 AM
Oct 2012

have contacts and cases in MA. What do you have in mind?

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
20. I thought, if you were an MA resident, you could offer
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:17 PM
Oct 2012

your first-hand experience to the Warren campaign for ad purposes or for campaign literature.

But, as a Texan, I'm afraid you would only be perceived as a carpetbagger!

In any case, your legal experience of the flagrant disregard by these people for their fellow human beings is very telling.



Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
21. Thanks, I agree. I wish you guys the best luck! Ms Warren is the biggest rising star we have
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 10:39 AM
Oct 2012

and it is people like her that give me hope in an otherwise hopeless country!

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
6. That is a great ad.
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:16 AM
Oct 2012

If you are going to attack someone who is an advocate for people, especially people who are sick, then you get what's coming to you.

catbyte

(34,174 posts)
9. Scott Brown ought to be ashamed for lots of things. Great ad
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:51 AM
Oct 2012

Go Elizabeth Warren! I could only donate a few dollars to her campaign, but I did it and I live in Michigan.





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Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
11. Is this why Scott Brown is pushing the native American deal.
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:11 AM
Oct 2012

This must mean Scott Brown does not have anything positive to run on.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
12. Brown's campaign has been despicable and unfathomable.
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:27 AM
Oct 2012

Who advised him to go after Warren's heritage and her work as a lawyer? He had a potentially winning theme as Mr. Independent in a Truck Nice Guy. That shit is over. He is now a nasty asshole hoping to win by poo-flinging at his opponent.

mnhtnbb

(31,319 posts)
13. Republicans have no shame any more.
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:34 AM
Oct 2012

Hubby and I were just talking about this yesterday.

Look at the debate. Romney stood up and LIED to the face of the President of the United States.
Hubby and I were talking about POTUS response--and his behavior--which actually showed
signs of responding to shameful behavior --which is to NOT look in the eye--to turn away--
and maybe that was an instinctual response.

Anyway, I'm glad to see this ad which actually mentions that Brown should be ashamed.

Romney should be ashamed for lying to the face of the President of the United States.

Kteachums

(331 posts)
23. Elizabeth will become a Senator that we can look up to even if we are in another state!
Wed Oct 10, 2012, 10:47 AM
Oct 2012

Go Elizabeth!!!

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