The Scandalous Scott Brown Lawsuit No One Told You About

[DesertRat]

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?

In 2000, Scott Brown was a freshman state representative in Massachusetts. A few years earlier, he'd served on the Wrentham, Mass. Board of Selectmen. Jennifer Firth, a local mortgage banker who was elected to the Board of Selectmen in 1999, filed a civil defamation suit against Brown in July of 2000, alleging that he had harassed her when she worked on his campaign in 1998, and then tried to smear her reputation around town with forged letters and emails.

According to Firth's complaint, Brown engaged in "offensive" conduct that caused her to quit his campaign; he then tried to "defame and humiliate" her by spreading rumors to her colleagues that she "had made sexual advances" towards him during his campaign. She also alleged that Brown told several people that he'd had an "intimate relationship" with her and that he had a stack of sexually explicit letters that Firth had sent him. In her suit, Firth says that she'd never been sexually intimate with Brown, nor did she ever send him the aforementioned letters. A 2000 article in the local paper, the Sun Chronicle reported that Brown had denied the charges; for her part, Firth said she felt that filing the suit was "the only way I could stop this."

The case then took a strange turn. Two days after the lawsuit was filed, Jennifer Firth's lawyer, Harvey Schwartz, filed a motion to withdraw as her counsel, saying that "to the best of knowledge, information and belief, the above allegations are not supported by 'good grounds.'" The next day, Jennifer Firth withdrew her suit. It was dismissed with prejudice, which means it can never be re-filed. Brown told a local newspaper that her lawyer had decided to withdraw after he was presented with letters and e-mail messages that proved she'd been harassing Brown. The day after she dropped her suit, Firth claimed she'd done so because "her lawyer told her she was unlikely to win it."

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-scandalous-scott-brown-lawsuit-that-no-one-told-you-about-2010-3

[gateley]

1. Read the last paragraph -- this isn't going anywhere. Sounds like Jennifer didn'

have a valid case.

[Richardo]

2. Appears there's a good reason for that: "...the...allegations are not supported by 'good grounds.'"

Attorney withdrew.
Dismissed with prejudice.

Weak weak weak.

The only story here is that 12 years later, it's a story.

[dsc]

3. the conspiracy monger in me says check her bank account

A great way to settle a suit like this would be to give her money and have her instruct her lawyer to file that motion.

[DesertRat]

4. Interesting thought

and the cynic in me says that if he was a Democrat, Faux News and right wing radio would have ripped him to shreds.