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Senate Hopeful Once Had Centerfold Spread

By Robert J. Ambrogi

Scott Brown, a lawyer running as a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, has achieved much in his career. He has been a Massachusetts state senator since 2004 and before that he served three terms as a state representative. For 30 years, he has been in the National Guard, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in homeland security after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and was named Public Servant of the Year by the United Chamber of Commerce in 2004. And as if all that wasn't noteworthy enough, he even saw his daughter make the top 16 in the 2005-2006 season of American Idol. But around the halls of Boston College Law School, from which the Senate-hopeful graduated in 1984, Scott Brown may always be remembered for something else -- his nude centerfold spread in Cosmopolitan Magazine. As the BC Law student blog Eagleionline recounted in a post last March, then-3L Brown was featured in a photo shoot as the first-place winner of a Cosmo centerfold contest. He used the money he made to help pay his law school tuition....

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).