New Hampshire Senate race turns ugly already

 Last week the Scott Brown campaign accused Jeanne Shaheen’s campaign of illegally coordinating with Harry Reid’s Super PAC in a recent campaign commercial and the NHGOP filed a complaint with the FEC. Three days later the Shaheen campaign responded to this by filing its own complaint against the Brown campaign with the FEC.

  The gist of the Shaheen complaint goes something like this: in a recent interview Scott Brown admitted that when he talked to his wife on Valentine’s Day he made up his mind to run for the Senate. However he did not form an exploratory committee until a couple of weeks later and then officially made the announcement in April. The Shaheen campaign believes that he should have filed campaign finance forms after he made his decision on Valentine’s Day and not after he made his candidacy known to the voters of New Hampshire.

    I do not know whether either of the complaints are legitimate or not and that is not the point of this post. The point of this post is simple: here we can see two big name candidates who have lost focus of what really matters in the race and have begun going after each other instead of debating the issues and their policies. This race has already devolved and Scott Brown still has not won the primary.

  This in my opinion favors Jeanne Shaheen for with Barack Obama’s popularity falling on a daily basis, and with Jeanne Shaheen tied at the hip with the president’s policies, I am sure she welcomes such a diversion for it is a distraction from her voting record. However, at the same time this takes the focus off of some of Scott Brown’s record and that is a plus for him as well because some conservatives do not trust him.

  While these two candidates play sophomoric games perhaps it is time to look at an adult who will stay focused on what should be truly important to the voters of the state of New Hampshire instead of choosing between two establishment candidates. There are two other candidates out there without the name recognition and without the establishment money and their names are Karen Testerman and Jim Rubens.