Scott Brown in his trademark barn jacket during the Massachusetts Senate race. ASSOCIATED PRESS
What is all of a sudden a tight race for governor is about to have its Orvis moment. Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown will campaign for GOP gubernatorial contender Tom Foley at an Oct. 9 rally in Glastonbury, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers has learned. Brown defied the odds with his upset of Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley in January’s special election to fill the seat of the late Senate lion Ted Kennedy. Foley is now trying to tap some of the populist success of Brown, who made a fashion statement on the campaign trail with his trademark barn jacket. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Foley should be in Brown’s good graces, having donned a barn jacket and jeans in one of his first television commercials called “Let’s Get to Work.”
GOP gubernatorial contender Tom Foley opts for the barn jacket in this February television commercial shot in Hartford.
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You got to love how Foley (worth Hundreds of millions of dollars — made from screwing working people out of money) thinks he can pull off Scott Brown’s “Average Joe” persona. Doesn’t really work when you have a private jet. Just Sayin’…