Will Sen. Brown please stand up?
With all the fuss about the truck-driving, Cosmo-posing Republican senator from Massachusetts, there’s been some confusion surrounding the fact that there are now two Sen. Browns on Capitol Hill.
The other Brown is, of course, Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. And since Scott Brown came to Capitol Hill, Sherrod Brown’s already busy mailroom has gotten even busier.
“Now, our office is receiving even more mail with an influx of letters intended for Sen. Scott Brown,” Sherrod Brown’s spokeswoman Meghan Dubyak told Yeas & Nays.
Another incident occurred when, even though it was clearly labeled “Sen. Sherrod Brown,” a few of Sen. Scott Brown’s fans entered the other Brown’s weekly constituent breakfast at the Capitol Visitor Center asking for the Republican.
… Awkward.
On a better note, Sherrod Brown still wins the Google war. When typing “Sen. Brown” into the search engine, the Ohio senator’s Web site comes up first, though Scott Brown’s official Senate site still hasn’t been posted.
And, as time goes on, Dubyak is confident the flow of “Sen. Scott Brown” mail will slow to a trickle. In addition, if staffers for the Sens. Brown need a lesson on how to handle this bit of a mess, they have a place to turn.
“We’re down the hall from both the Sen. Nelsons, so there are plenty of people to turn to for advice,” Dubyak told Yeas & Nays.
