Massachusetts Republican Party pays people to say they support Scott Brown

People who didn't have to be paid to support Warren.

People who didn't have to be paid to support Warren.

This is one way of showing you have cross-over political appeal.

The Republican Party in Massachusetts has found a way to get black voters to campaign for Sen. Scott Brown — pay them $8 an hour.

The state GOP’s MassVictory program is funding a group called “Obama Supporters for Brown” to campaign for Brown in an inner city Boston neighborhood that strongly backs his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren. [...]

Benjamin Thompson, a black former city elections commissioner, told The Herald he pays about 20 campaign workers a per diem that “works out to” about $8 an hour.

At least four of the 20 or so volunteers are homeless, Thompson admitted.

Of course, making a show of having black voters support you isn't exactly the same as having the support of those voters. That's particularly true when word gets out that you're paying them to for it.

The Brown campaign has thus far made no comment on the story. Can't imagine why.

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