After Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., put out a recent fundraising letter suggesting MSNBC host Rachel Maddow might be his 2012 challenger, the liberal commentator quickly denied the charge.
“Why didn’t they just call me and ask me if it were true before sending out the fundraiser letter?” Maddow asked Tuesday.
But Brown’s people stand by the notion that Maddow was being nudged by Massachusetts Democrats.
“The person most disappointed with Rachel Maddow’s decision not to run must be the chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party,” Eric Fehrnstrom, an adviser to Brown’s political committee, told Yeas & Nays in an e-mail. “His clumsy attempts to coax her into the race were flat-out rejected.”
Maddow said on her show that the strongest evidence of this was the Facebook group Rachel Maddow for MA Senate 2012, jokingly created by a friend, and a post to Twitter by Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh that may or may not have been intended for Maddow.
Walsh did not respond to a request for comment.
