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Senator Scott Brown claimed on Sunday that the financial reform bill would kill up to 35,000 jobs in Massachusetts, but the company that gave him those figures said it was the total number of finance jobs lost in the past three years in the state.

Brown stood by the figures he gave on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, despite criticism that the numbers were made up or inflated, according to today's Boston Globe. He said the estimate was given to him by industry leaders he spoke with, including executives at the Springfield-based MassMutual insurance company.

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MassMutual officials initially said they provided Brown with no such estimate. Yesterday, company officials explained that they had given Brown an estimate of how many jobs have been lost in the Massachusetts financial sector since the recession — which they told him was about 33,000 jobs — and said the current legislation could further exacerbate the problem

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Brown's staff told the Globe on Sunday that the figures had come from MassMutual's chief executive, but Brown himself changed that yesterday to "industry leaders" after the company said it had given no solid estimate.

An economist interviewed by the Globe said the financial reform bill would likely not effect financial sector jobs either way.

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-Also in the Schieffer interview, Brown claimed that there has been "zero" talk of jobs since he arrived in Washington. "Since I've been here, I've heard zero talk about jobs," he said. Um, what about that "jobs bill" you helped pass, Senator?

-When a Boston Globe reporter pressed brown to explain his opposition to the financial reform legislation, Brown brushed off the reporter's question this way: "Well, what areas do you think should be fixed? I mean, you know, tell me. And then I'll get a team and go fix it.''

-Asked how long US troops would need to be in Afghanistan, Brown appeared not to understand the difference between "tactical" and "strategic," although he is a member of the National Guard. "I don’t know what the time frame is," Brown said. "I think certainly for the next couple of years we’ll be in this tactical, strategic effort.”

-After a fundraising letter he sent fanning rumors of a Senate run by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was thoroughly debunked by Maddow, Brown told a radio audience: "I don't care, bring her on."

-He also ran on the conservative mantra of pledging to eliminate unnecessary government spending. The Boston Globe reported yesterday however, that “Senator Scott Brown says he will fight to fund a multibillion-dollar weapons program that could generate jobs in Massachusetts but that the Pentagon insists it does not need, sparking criticism that Brown is breaking his campaign vow to rein in wasteful spending.” It added, “The Pentagon since 2006 has said that the primary engine for the F-35, built by Pratt & Whitney, in East Hartford, Conn., is sufficient, and that producing a backup model will siphon away money that could be spent on other defense priorities.” But, “the Bay State Republican’s support for General Electric’s (of Lynn, MA) bid to build a backup engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter puts the new Senator in the middle of a confrontation over congressional earmarks with the Obama administration, which has threatened a presidential veto.”

-As a state senator, he voted in favor of Governor Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care reform law which is essentially a mirror image of the newly enacted national health care reform law. While campaigning for the US Senate last fall however, Brown suddenly changed his tune and vehemently opposed the national plan so as to garner conservative and Tea-Bagger support for all things anti-Obama.

-On January 2, Brown's Senate campaign hosted a breakfast at the Doubletree Hotel in Westborough, Massachusetts that was sponsored by the group: the Greater Boston Tea Party. According to an invitation obtained by the Huffington Post, attendees were encouraged to donate between $25 and $500, for which they would earn the distinction of being a Patriot, Sons of Liberty, Sam Adams, or American Revolutionary (depending on the size of the donation

On Wednesday, however, the state senator seemed to distance himself from the tea party movement altogether. In an interview with The Boston Globe, Brown claimed that he was unfamiliar with the "Tea Party movement" despite being endorsed by a national Tea Party group.

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