Brown's latest Democratic endorsement comes from Central Massachusetts.
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Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren will sit down with MassLive.com readers on Friday, Aug. 3 at 12:30 p.m. to take questions on any topic, as she aims to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown in the November election.Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is getting a boost from another former Massachusetts mayor who carries a "D" after her name.
Konstantina "Konnie" Lukes, a Worcester city councilor and former Democratic mayor of the city, stumps for the junior senator in a new TV ad aiming to sway independent voters to Brown's graces over his Democratic challenger, Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren.
Lukes, a conservative Democrat who crossed party lines and endorsed Brown in April, uses her time in the ad to push Brown's carefully-crafted bi-partisan image.
"I am impressed by Scott Brown's independence, his ability to work with people on both sides of the aisle," Lukes said. "I think we need more Scott Browns. He cuts through all those party alignments."
The ad comes on the heels of a similar TV spot featuring Ray Flynn, a former Democratic mayor of Boston. And as Flynn has backed Republicans in the past, so has Lukes, who was once removed from the Worcester Democratic City Committee for throwing her support behind Paul Cellucci for governor in 1998.
Brown's new TV ad featuring Lukes is airing statewide on cable as well as in the Boston, Springfield, Providence, R.I. and Albany, N.Y., broadcast television markets.
Check out the other endorsements Brown and Warren have racked up here on MassLive.com.
