Jan
21
2010
To follow up on our last post, Tuesday's surprise was that Republican Scott Brown was elected to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts. Brown took 52 percent of the vote in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, an upset over Democrat Martha Coakley. Brown, a state senator, became known for driving around in a pickup truck and cast himself as the "people's" candidate, especially on issues related to the economy. The election, of course, speaks to public satisfaction with the Obama administration, but from where we sit, it eventually will speak to the status of tribes and tribal sovereignty in Massachusetts and across the country. 