Senator Brown has a fire to put out

Now the bizarre attacks on Kathleen Vinehout, the Democrat running against State Senator Ron Brown, are starting to make sense. There is polling out there that shows Brown has a fire in his district that will take more than the fire truck he drives in parades to put out.

The people of the 31st Senate District are not happy with Brown. He will have to spend a lot of money to break fifty percent at this point. Vinehout almost beats him already in the head-to-head match up; and when voters are given information about both candidates, she beats him outright.

Vinehout is a great candidate and she has a story to tell that many people will find familiar. Her family struggles to pay for health care and when she saw her state senator doing little to help people like her, she decided to run against him. Brown's response so far on health care has been to whine that it's not his fault and hope people don't look too closely at his voting record.

And that's a strategy I hope he continues for the next couple of weeks.